It’s almost Halloween, my favorite holiday which so happens to fall on my favorite time of the year.  Maybe I like Halloween because it is in autumn.  Or, maybe I like autumn because it holds Halloween.  Hm.

That’s enough about me.  Here’s what our authors will be doing these next few days leading to and including
October 31.

Africa on Six Wheels‘ author Betty Levitov will be here in Lincoln, NE at the SouthPointe Pavilions Barnes & Noble Booksellers tomorrow, October  25th at 7:00pm. 

Also in Lincoln this week is the Nebraska Book Festival.  Crazy Horse, this year’s featured book for One Book One Nebraska, will be on exhibit at the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center during the festival.  The exhibit opens on October 26.

Alan Palmer, author of Fictional Minds, will be at the Theory of Mind and Literature Conference on October 31.  He will be leading a graduate seminar on Theory of Mind and Literature, which is open to conference attendees. 

Peggy Shumaker (Just Breathe Normally) will be very busy this week.  She will be at the University of Nebraska Lincoln for a graduate seminar and a reading with book signing tomorrow, October 25.  On the 27th at 2:20PM, she’ll be at the Nebraska Book Festival.  Peggy will leave Nebraska for Iowa, and will read at Iowa State University (Ames) on October 29th.  On the 30th, she’ll be in Des Moines for a reading and book signing at Drake University.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, author of the memoir Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer, will also be at the Nebraska Book Festival.  She will make an appearance and read on October 26.

On October 27, editors of The Big Empty Ladette Randolph and Nina Shevchuk-Murray will be joined by Mary Pipher, John Janovy, John Price, Bryan Jones and Lisa Knopp to discuss "The Art of the Essay" at the Nebraska Book Festival, 3:30PM- 4:45PM.

For more information on these events and for all upcoming UNP happenings, please visit our Events pages.