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Reading - Fiction/poetry

Van Jensen

Reading/Discussion

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Starts at 5:30 pm
Location: Francie & Finch Bookshop Target Audiences:
UNL and Daily Nebraskan alum Van Jensen will read from his novel GODFALL, a blend of sci-fi and murder mystery. GODFALL was the subject of a Hollywood bidding war, with the rights going to Imagine Entertainment. Academy Award-winner Ron Howard will …
This event originated in English.
Reading - Fiction/poetry

Kurt Andersen

Discusses Edward Hopper’s ROOM IN NEW YORK and his new novel THE BREAKUP

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Starts at 5:30 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art Room: Auditorium Target Audiences:
Originally from Omaha, Kurt Andersen has been documenting arts, culture, and politics in New York City for decades. In the spring 2026 issue of Prairie Schooner, Andersen wrote about Edward Hopper’s ROOM IN NEW YORK, the iconic NYC painting by Edward …
This event originated in English.
Reading - Fiction/poetry

Kazim Ali

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Starts at 5:30 pm
Location: Sheldon Museum of Art Room: Auditorium Target Audiences:
Kazim Ali reads from THE MAN IN 119, his new collection of poetry. The book explores loss and absence alongside the human body and the natural world. Here, the tongue becomes a collaboration between human and glacial current-the self, a “tectonic …
This event originated in English.
Reading - Fiction/poetry

Hope Wabuke

BLOOD ON THE LEAVES, a collection of poetry

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Starts at 5:30 pm
Location: Francie & Finch Bookshop Target Audiences:
UNL English professor Hope Wabuke reads from her new book, BLOOD ON THE LEAVES, a searing and lyrical poetry collection that explores the intimate, haunted relationship between Blackness and the natural world. At once a site of refuge and rupture, …
This event originated in English.
Reading - Fiction/poetry

Michael Lowenthal & Scott Heim

Reading/discussion

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Starts at 5:30 pm
Location: Francie & Finch Bookshop Target Audiences:
Michael Lowenthal will discuss his new book, PLACE ENVY: ESSAYS IN SEARCH OF ORIENTATION, and Scott Heim will discuss the reissue of his classic novel of gay literature, MYSTERIOUS SKIN.
This event originated in English.