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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Karen Russell in conversation with Judi M. gaiashkibos - The Antidote
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, April 1st at 5:30 as we welcome Pulitzer finalist Karen Russell! She will be presenting her new novel The Antidote\, “a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town.” You don’t want to miss this exciting opportunity to meet with the author of the bestseller Swamplandia!\, and hear what went into the making of her exciting new novel. We’ll see you there!\nPre-Order a copy of The Antidote HERE\nAbout the Book:\nFrom Pulitzer finalist\, MacArthur Fellowship recipient\, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town.\n\nThe Antidote opens on Black Sunday\, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz\, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a “Prairie Witch\,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece\, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate. \nRussell’s novel is above all a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting—enacting the settler amnesia and willful omissions passed down from generation to generation\, and unearthing not only horrors but shimmering possibilities. The Antidote echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency\, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been—and what still could be. \nAbout the Author:\nKAREN RUSSELL is the author of five books of fiction\, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She is a MacArthur Fellow\, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has received two National Magazine Awards for Fiction\, the Shirley Jackson Award\, the 2023 Bottari Lattes Grinzane prize\, the 2024 Mary McCarthy Award\, and was selected for the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” prize and The New Yorker‘s “20 under 40” list (She is now decisively over 40). She has taught literature and creative writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, the University of California-Irvine\, Williams College\, Columbia University\, and Bryn Mawr College\, and was the Endowed Chair of Texas State’s MFA program. She serves on the board of Street Books\, a mobile-library for people living outdoors. Born and raised in Miami\, Florida\, she now lives in Portland\, Oregon with her husband\, son\, and daughter. \nPraise for The Antidote:\n“In The Antidote\, Karen Russell writes indelible characters who keep choosing messy community over silo’d righteousness\, motion over despair. She presents for inspection America’s most persistent chorus of moral self-defense\, “Better them than us\,” and shows how it rots the minds\, hearts\, and land of all who sing it. Only Karen Russell could write a dust bowl opus with such raucous brio—The Antidote soars with exigent joy and laugh-out-loud scenes\, with memory witches and enchanted cameras and the world’s most lovable sentient scarecrow. It’s magic\, a book doing this big work and also making it propulsive\, eminently readable. Russell has rendered with soul and urgency the vast inexpressible ache at the heart of American gratitude.” —Kaveh Akbar\, author of Martyr! \n“The Antidote is an achingly gorgeous book about dust\, memory\, basketball\, murder\, yearning\, photography\, and the way the land holds both the memory of what went before and the dreams of what may come. Karen Russell is one of our most humane and generous writers; this book is as profound as it is wonderfully strange.” — Lauren Groff\, author of The Vaster Wilds\n\n“This novel swept me up and carried me away\, even while somehow burying me\, and digging up something about the story of this country I didn’t know I needed to know. As with all of Russell’s work\, heaviness and levity are always kept in balance\, and so I was lifted even while being devastated by the book’s many brutal truths and stark beauty. I’d already considered Russell’s vivid and inventive imagination to be endless\, but here exploring a history of Nebraska we get an unearthing of this country’s still relatively untold origin story\, the part about its original people\, and the cost paid in order that this country might be formed. Finishing the book I felt completely covered in the forgotten dust of what too few look back on\, with rare clarity\, not to mention the intricate braid of narratives masterfully woven here. The Antidote is one\, for an all too poisoned American narrative about land and family and belonging.” — Tommy Orange\, author of Wandering Stars
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SUMMARY:First Friday Art Walk - Featured Artist - Kinzee Hillis
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, April 4th for Downtown Lincoln’s First Friday Art Walk! Our featured artist this month is Kinzee Hillis.\nArtist’s Bio\nI have lived in Lincoln\, Nebraska my whole life but I love to travel and see new things. I graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 2020 with a major in studio art. I have focused on using acrylic paint as my medium while emphasizing texture/color. After graduating\, I completed an internship at the Bemis Center for art. I continue to volunteer at The LUX Center for the arts and show my work in local stores\, antique businesses\, and other spaces around the Lincoln area. If I am not working on art I work for Oak Creek Plants and Flowers. My job title is Plant Maintenance which means I water\, replace\, and clean plants. The more I learn about plants the more they have become a part of my life and art.\nArtist Statement\nMy artwork is whimsical and bold but has a depth that rewards close looking. Sometimes it is overwhelming to think about what is going to happen next when we do not have a lot of answers to our questions. Different emotions and anxiety can overwhelm our lives. I make the art I do to create a glimpse of joy. It is important to me that people have something to turn to and get lost in. Something that is not telling them about a diagnosis or receiving bad news. Letting a person just be able to reflect and meditate. Something that is not asking us to do anything but look\, and let our mind wander. \nArtist information obtained from: kinzeehillisart.weebly.com \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Ken Meter - Building Community Food Webs
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, April 16th at 5:30 as we welcome Ken Meter to Francie & Finch Bookshop! Ken studies food systems and economies and is looking forward to signing books and talking with us. We can’t wait to see you there!\nAbout the Book:\nIn Building Community Food Webs\, Ken Meter shows how grassroots leaders across the U.S. are constructing civic networks to create healthier and more equitable food systems. Overturning extractive economic structures\, these inspired food leaders are engaging low-income residents\, farmers\, and local organizations in their quest to build stronger communities. \nNetwork-building takes a variety of forms and arises out of multiple activities. Farmers and researchers may convene to improve farming practices collaboratively. Food banks engage their clients to challenge the root causes of poverty. Municipalities invest large sums to protect farmland from development. \nBuilding Community Food Webs captures the essence of these efforts\, and offers pragmatic insights for community food leaders anywhere. \nAbout the Author:\nKen Meter is one of the most experienced food system analysts in the U.S.\, integrating market analysis\, business development\, systems thinking\, and social concerns. Meter holds more than 50 years of experience in inner-city and rural community capacity building. His local economic analyses have promoted local food networks in 145 regions in 42 states\, 2 provinces\, and 4 tribal nations. He developed strategic regional food plans for 22 regions across the U.S. Meter consulted with the USDA  Agricultural Marketing Service and Colorado State University as one of 14 co-authors of a toolkit for measuring economic impacts of local food development. He is author of Building Community Food Webs\, published by Island Press in 2021. Meter served as co-editor of Sustainable Food System Assessment: Lessons from Global Practice\, published by Routledge (UK) in 2019. He is also a member of the International Economic Development Council and the American Evaluation Association\, invited to speak to leadership groups of both organizations.
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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Deborah Jackson Taffa - Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, April 17th at 5:30 as we welcome Deborah Jackson Taffa\, author of the widely praised and anticipated memoir Whiskey Tender. This work has been regarded as an Oprah Daily “Best New Book”\, a New York Times “New Book to Read\, a Parade “Best New Work By Indigenous Writers”\, and an NPR “Book We Love”!\nOrder your copy of Whiskey Tender HERE\nAbout the Book:\nFinalist for the National Book Award\nLonglisted for a Carnegie Medal for Excellence\nWinner of the Southwest Book Award\nA Best Book of the Year: Washington Post\, Esquire\, Time\, The Atlantic\, NPR\, and Publishers Weekly \nReminiscent of the works of Mary Karr and Terese Marie Mailhot\, a memoir of family and survival\, coming-of-age on and off the reservation\, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance; assimilation and reverence for tradition. \nDeborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe—were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries\, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation\, but as Taffa matured into adulthood\, she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American society: that if she gave up her culture\, her land\, and her traditions\, she would not only be accepted\, but would be able to achieve the “American Dream.” \n\nWhiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl—born on the California Yuma reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico—comes to her own interpretation of identity\, despite her parent’s desires for her to transcend the class and “Indian” status of her birth through education\, and despite the Quechan tribe’s particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories. Taffa’s childhood memories unspool into meditations on tribal identity\, the rampant criminalization of Native men\, governmental assimilation policies\, the Red Power movement\, and the negotiation between belonging and resisting systemic oppression. Pan-Indian\, as well as specific tribal histories and myths\, blend with stories of a 1970s and 1980s childhood spent on and off the reservation. \nTaffa offers a sharp and thought-provoking historical analysis laced with humor and heart. As she reflects on her past and present—the promise of assimilation and the many betrayals her family has suffered\, both personal and historical; trauma passed down through generations—she reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the “melting pot” of America\, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author:\nDeborah Jackson Taffa is a citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo. She earned her MFA at the Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP) in Iowa City and is the director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus\, the Boston Review\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, A Public Space\, Salon\, the Huffington Post\, Prairie Schooner\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and other outlets. \n\n\nPraise for Whiskey Tender:\n“We have more Native stories now\, but we have not heard one like this. Whiskey Tender is unexpected and propulsive\, indeed tender\, but also bold\, and beautifully told\, like a drink you didn’t know you were thirsty for. This book\, never anything less than mesmerizing\, is full of family stories and vital Native history. It pulses and it aches\, and it lifts\, consistently. It threads together so much truth by the time we are done\, what has been woven together equals a kind of completeness from brokenness\, and a hope from knowing love and loss and love again by naming it so.”  — Tommy Orange\, National Bestselling Author of There There \n“In a memoir populated by dreams but legislated by family and culture and reality\, Deborah Taffa suggests that if we are going to heal\, we need to be able to remember our wounds. In a style that is by turns measured\, then biting\, then humorous\, then humble\, then soaring\, Taffa has a personal and moral conversation with an untold history. This story—which centers around being both Native and American at the same time—is a great lesson for how we can hold\, and even embrace\, our divisions and our tensions to create a new mosaic for the future.” – Colum McCann\, National Book Award winner and author of Apeirogon  \nIn this finely drawn memoir\, Deborah Jackson Taffa has written an essential story of America. A meticulously researched and critical look at self and country\, Whiskey Tender breaks your heart and then makes it soar.  –Kelli Jo Ford\, author of Crooked Hallelujah \n“Screaming from the heart\, Taffa’s confiding memoir pierces generations of colonial harm. A mature\, illuminating text that will also appeal to coming-of-age readers. –Cynthia Leitich Smith\, American Indian Youth Literature Award winner for Hearts Unbroken
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/visiting-author-deborah-jackson-taffa-whiskey-tender-a-memior/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:April Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, April 21st at 5:30 as we welcome four esteemed poets to Francie & Finch Bookshop! MC Hyland\, Elizabeth Clark Wessel\, Luis Othoniel Rosa\, and Katie Marya will be reading from their collections. Bring a friend\, enjoy refreshments\, and listen to poetry!\nMC Hyland (she/they) is the founding editor of DoubleCross Press\, a poetry micropress. She is the author of over a dozen poetry chapbooks/artist books and two previous full-length books of poems\, THE END (Sidebrow 2019) and Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press 2010). Her book of short essays\, The Dead and the Living and the Bridge\, is out with Meekling Press this April\, and a book collecting poems from two long-running art practices\, Walks & Weathers\, will be published by Beauty School Editions later this year. Holding MFAs in book arts and creative writing from the University of Alabama and a PhD in English literature from NYU\, MC is a teacher\, scholar\, artist\, and freelance editor/fundraiser\, and lives in St. Paul\, MN with her partner\, Jeff\, and cat\, Dakota. \nElizabeth Clark Wessel lives in Stockholm\, Sweden and works as a translator of Swedish literature. She was born in rural Nebraska and lived for many years in New York\, where she pursued a BA at Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA at Columbia University. In 2010\, she co-founded Argos Books\, which has been publishing innovative poetry books ever since. She’s the author of four chapbooks of poetry\, and her poems have appeared in Fence\, Boston Review\, and the American Poetry Review. None of It Belongs to Me (Game Over Books\, 2024) is her first full-length collection. \nLuis Othoniel Rosa (Bayamón\, Puerto Rico\, in 1985) studied at the University of Puerto Rico and earned his Ph.D. at Princeton. He is the author of the short novels Otra vez me alejo (2012) and Caja de fractales (2017). The last one was translated into English as Down with Gargamel! (2020). He is also the author of the bilingual collection of poems\, Triste la furia / Sadness\, the Fury (2025)\, of the bilingual artisanal book\, Calima (2023)\, and of the scholarly book\, Comienzos para una estética anarquista: Borges con Macedonio (2016; 2020). He is the founding and current head editor  of El Roommate: Colectivo de Lectores and a founding member of The LOUDREADERS Trade School. He is the Associate Director of the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska. To find more\, visit luisothonielrosa.com \nKatie Marya is a writer from Atlanta\, Georgia. Her work has appeared in literary magazines such as Southern Indiana Review\, North American Review\, Guernica\, Waxwing\, AGNI\, Fence\, and on the national poetry podcast The Slowdown Show. Her debut poetry collection Sugar Work was the Editor’s Choice for the 2020 Alice James Book Award. Marya lives in Nebraska where she teaches writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nebraska Author - Mike Theiler - Nikon Road
DESCRIPTION:Congratulations to Arch.Hall.Group Reunion 2025!\nOne of your classmates can’t be there but we know you wish he were!\nCopies can be ordered at 402 781 0459 or info@francieandfinch.com\n \nMike takes us on a photographic journey around the world from the frontlines\, the sidelines\, the VIP sections and inside the ropes…..a Forest Gump experience\, witnessing history\, rubbing elbows with the most famous names and datelines in the world.  His new book\, Nikon Road takes us on a photographic journey around the world from 1971-2021. Magical places visited include the Forbidden City\, Tibet and the Yangtze River.  China was negotiating the future of British Hong Kong.  Indira Ghandi was assassinated in Delhi\,  Vietnam celebrated the 10th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.  President Reagan\, the Love Boat and Mickey Mouse came calling to China.  Mike experienced and photographed the Moscow Olympics\, Pope John Paul II and the Charles and Diana’s wedding in London\, and their honeymoon in Egypt.\nOn January 6th\, 2021\, Mike was at our country’s capitol –  “All my professionalism from 50 years of photography kind of takes over. I started shooting\, knowing deep down that you can’t make a bad picture in a situation like that. There were maybe 20 of the rioters in the hallway and only a handful of police trying to restrain them. That’s when I saw that the guy with a Confederate flag had kind of moved off by himself. I’m thinking in the context of — we’re in this hallowed hallway\, with the gilded framed paintings on the wall\, the bust\, the kind of thing that speaks to anyone who has ever been to the Capitol\, and I kind of isolated him with that in the background.”\nJ\nSigned copies can be ordered at 402 781 0459 or info@francieandfinch.com\nFrancie & Finch Bookshop\n130 S. 13th St\nLincoln\, NE 68508\n  \n  \n\n 
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SUMMARY:Visiting Poet - John Brehm - The Poetry of Grief\, Gratitude and Reverence
DESCRIPTION:Poet and editor of the new anthology The Poetry of Grief\, Gratitude and Reverence\, John Brehm\, will be visiting Francie & Finch on Friday\, April 25th!\nBuy your copy of the book HERE! \nAbout the Book:\nA new anthology from the editor of the bestselling Poetry of Impermanence\, Mindfulness\, and Joy. Explorations on a journey through the darkest and brightest moments of our lives\, the poems gathered here are explorations of loss\, of thanksgiving\, of transformation. Some show a path forward and others simply acknowledge and empathize with where we are\, but all are celebrations of poetry’s ability to express what seemed otherwise inexpressible\, to touch deep inside our hearts—and also pull ourselves out of our selves and into greater connection with the world around us. \nIncludes poems by\nRainer Maria Rilke\, Robert Frost\, Elizabeth Bishop\, Czeslaw Milosz\, Seamus Heaney\, Billy Collins\, Joy Harjo\, Danusha Lameris\, Ada Limon\, Kevin Young\, Arthur Sze\, Ellen Bass\, Li Young-Lee\, Natasha Tretheway\, and many more. \nThe editor also includes an essay on appreciative attention and links to guided meditations for select poems\, offering us a chance to have an even deeper experience of reflection. \nAbout the Author:\nJohn Brehm was born and raised in Lincoln\, Nebraska and educated at the University of Nebraska and Cornell University. He is the author of four books of poetry\, Sea of Faith\, Help Is on the Way\, No Day at the Beach\, and Dharma Talk. He has also published a collection of essays\, The Dharma of Poetry\, which is a companion to his acclaimed anthology\, The Poetry of Impermanence\, Mindfulness\, and Joy. His poems have appeared in Poetry\, Ploughshares\, The Gettysburg Review\, The Sun\, The Southern Review\, Plume\, New Ohio Review\, The Writer’s Almanac\, The Best American Poetry\, The Norton Introduction to Literature\, and many other journals and anthologies. His most recent book is a new anthology\, The Poetry of Grief\, Gratitude\, and Reverence (Wisdom Publications\, 2023). \nTo learn more about John visit his website HERE! \nPraise for the Anthology:\n“John Brehm weaves together timeless wisdom and a deep poetic sensibility.”—Joseph Goldstein\, author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening \n“This beautiful and poignant poetry will reach places in your mind and heart that you didn’t know existed. Your life will be enriched once you’ve cracked open its pages and drunk from its words of beauty and anguish.”— Joanne Cacciatore\, PhD\, author of Bearing the Unbearable\, Grieving Is Loving\, and Bearing the Unbearable: A Guided Journal for Grieving \n“It has been said that of all gateways to the deep mystery that is our true home\, none is so immediate and potent as grief. Grief itself is wisdom\, calling us back to who we really are. The braiding of fine\, moving\, and readable poems gathered in this beautiful new anthology on grief and its sisters—gratitude and reverence—shows us clearly why. Let this wonderful collection\, wisely conceived and beautifully executed\, open up whatever needs to be opened\, and lead us all back to the true home we’ve long been seeking. This is a book to treasure.”— Henry Shukman\, author of Original Love and One Blade of Grass
URL:https://francieandfinch.com/event/visiting-author-john-brehm-the-poetry-of-grief-gratitude-and-reverence/
LOCATION:Francie & Finch Bookshop\, 130 S. 13th Street\, Lincoln\, NE\, 68508\, United States
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SUMMARY:National Independent Bookstore Day
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate Independent Bookstore Day! This national party celebrates independent bookstores across the country online and in-store. It’s a day you don’t want to miss!\nWe will have author signings\, tasty treats\, and 2 free ARCs with a purchase of $30 or more!\nWe will be open extended hours:\nSaturday 4/26\, 10:00-6:00\nSunday 4/27\, 12:00-4:00\n\nGUEST LINE-UP\n4/26\, 10:00-11:30 – J.M. Fleming\nAuthor of “Meet Andy the Goose”\, a picture book about a very special goose! \n4/26\, 2:00 – 4:00 – Heather Dawn Torres\nHeather Dawn Torres grew up on an Iowa farm\, where she spent hours reading books to get out of doing farm chores. She now spends her days in the city dreaming of farm life and creating stories for children. When not rhyming words\, Heather can be found back at the family farm enjoying long walks\, homemade pies\, and tractor rides. Heather currently lives in Nebraska with her husband and their two sons. Visit her online at www.heatherdawntorres.com. \n\nDon’t forget about Lincoln and Seward’s Bookstore Crawl!\nPick up your card at any location and mark them off as you go. Each store has a different deal! April 27th is the last day to turn in your completed card.\nSee below for participating stores:\nChapters Books & Gifts\nA Novel Idea Bookstore\nFrancie & Finch Bookshop\nBadgers Bookshop\nElleinad Books\nSower Books
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