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 is required to receive an event link. Terese Svoboda is the author of nine collections of poetry, six novels, three collections of short fiction, a memoir, and a book of translations from the Nuer people of South Sudan. Her fourteen works in video have won numerous awards and are distributed worldwide. In writing about her work, reviewers have noted her frequent use of humor to address dire subjects, her interest in fabulism, and her lyrical use of language, especially as a poet writing prose. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Granta, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The New York Times, Narrative, Slate, and Paris Review. The New York Post described her memoir, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent as "astounding;" The Washington Post regarded her biography Anything That Burns You as "magisterial."
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First Friday Reading & Book Talk Series (Read More)
This monthly online (Zoom) reading series called First Friday Readings features authors with Nebraska connections, national presence, and a newly published book. The hourlong event, moderated by Larksong director Karen Shoemaker, will include both the author’s reading and Q&A with the audience. The event is free, but registration is required to receive the link. July 5 Daniel Simon, poet and publisher August 2 Anna Monardo, fiction writer, memoirist, and professor September 6 Shanan Ballam, Poet Laureate of Logan, Utah October 4 Terese Svoboda, fiction writer November 1, 2024 William Trowbridge, poet, former Poet Laureate of Missouri
