Fans of true crime will not want to miss author Debora Harding's talk about Dancing with the Octopus, a memoir detailing her 1978 abduction at the age of fourteen. This title is the 2024 One Book One Nebraska selection. Harding's book also describes meeting her attacker as she processed her traumatic adolescent experience in adulthood. Registration […]
The National Willa Cather Center hosts a discussion of Svoboda’s answer to Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia: Bohemian Girl! Readers will delight in the story of Harriet as she searches for her father in the American West. This event concludes the fourth year of free programming with this last Virtual Author Series of 2024. Registration […]
Karen Russell will discuss her new novel, The Antidote. Set in Uz, a fictional Nebraska town, in the aftermath of Black Sunday, 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 […]
Kick off the 70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference with a talk from Ann Lundberg, English professor and longtime interpretive ranger, about Cather at Mesa Verde. As a professor of American Literature, Ann studies the literature of geological and archeological exploration of the American West in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, and […]
This event is weather-permitting and depends on partly cloudy or clear skies. Join author and tour guide Garrett Peck as he leads a special stargazing program at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie for our second year! As you prepare to participate in this nighttime prairie event, please do the following: Download the Skyview app on […]
The Ollie Webb Center, Inc.'s Art of Imagination program, in collaboration with University of Nebraska Omaha professor and screenwriter Todd Richardson, has created two short films based on excerpts from two Willa Cather novels. The first film, “Tom Outland's Story,“ is from Cather’s novel The Professor‘s House and is about discovering an ancient cliff city. The other […]
Jane Smiley's talk on Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer will mark the conclusion of a year-long celebration of Cather's 1918 novel as a title selected […]
Join Peter Cipkowski for a conversation with Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses of The Kilbanes, the acclaimed musical duo currently adapting Willa Cather's My Ántonia into an original stage musical. Commissioned by Theater Latté Da in Minneapolis, their adaptation reimagines Cather's masterpiece through their distinctive blend of storytelling and music. The panel will explore the […]
Architectural and interior styles, powerful landscapes, and domestic scenes all feature prominently in Willa Cather’s writing. These important backdrops to her novels were illuminated through her gift for idyllic description […]
This event is part of the 71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference on June 4-6, on the theme of "Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250." Click here for more information about the conference. Rebecca Romney's lecture on "Willa Cather, the Archival Chain, and the Making of a Literary Legacy" considers the […]
Renowned author and historian Richard Norton Smith will speak about Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy, and Cather's enduring place in American literature. Registration is required to receive an event link. Richard Norton Smith is an author, historian, biographer, and former director of five presidential libraries, including the Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and […]
