We are very honored to be the bookseller for the Morrill Lecture Series. Prior to the lecture, books may be purchased at the store or through our website, and either picked up or shipped to you. If you'd like to purchase your book online and pick up at the event, we will bring your book to the Octogon Barn. Book signing after the event at The Slowpoke Lounge & Cabaret.

 

Nickolas Butler, a favorite author of Arcadia Books, will discuss the frenzied writing of his newest novel GODSPEED, the process of selling the book, and the lessons learned from these events in the days preceding the Covid-19 pandemic.

Nickolas Butler was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. His first novel was the internationally best-selling and prize-winning Shotgun Lovesongs, which has been optioned for film development and has been translated into ten languages. Beneath the Bonfire, a collection of short stories, followed a year later. In 2017, he published The Hearts of Men which was short-listed for two of France’s most prestigious literary prizes even before its American publishing. In 2019, his fourth book, Little Faith was published, and he is already at work on another novel, this one set in the mountains of the American West. Butler is the recipient of many literary prizes and commendations and has published articles, reviews, short stories, and poetry in publications such as: Ploughshares, Narrative, and The New York Times Book Review, to name a few. Prior to publishing Shotgun Lovesongs, Butler worked a long list of jobs including: coffee roaster, liquor store clerk, office manager, hot-dog vendor, author escort, meat-packer, bed-and-breakfast manager, telemarketer, and Burger King maintenance man. He is married and lives with his wife and two children on sixteen acres of land adjacent to a buffalo farm in rural Wisconsin.

 

We are excited to partner with Taliesin as they welcome Chef Peter Hoffman, author of What's Good? A Memoir in Fourteen Courses. 

Hoffman will discuss ‘Food, Planet, and the Important Questions in Between’ with Keefe Keeley, Executive Director of the Savanna Institute and co-author of the Driftless Reader. 

The talk will include audience participation in a format that Hoffman popularized over 30 years hosting thought leaders at Savoy, his Greenwich Village restaurant in NYC. Odessa Piper of Taliesin’s Food Artisan Immersion Program will moderate the discussion.  

There will be a  Cash bar and complimentary snacks.
Following the discussion Hoffman will sign books.

When ordering your book, please use the comments field to specify Event Pick-up, Store Pick-up or Ship To Home.

Register Here:
https://www.taliesinpreservation.org/event/food-planet-and-the-delicious-questions-in-between-with-chef-author-peter-hoffman/

 

This is a virtual Zoom event.
Please register here.

Mary Roach has been called "America's funniest science writer". Her past research topics have been death, the military, sex, the afterlife and the alimentary canal. Funny stuff, right? In Mary Roach's hands the answer is yes, it is funny stuff. In her newest book, Fuzz, Roach explores the conflict between humans and wildlife and lays out a plan for friendly coexistence, even has humans push farther in wild habitats. 

Hilarious! With Fuzz, Mary Roach again takes us into an unfamiliar scientific realm, in this case the science of managing the conflicts between humans and the natural world—lethal leopards, rampaging elephants, jet-downing birds, even killer trees. It’s an ever-widening conflict zone, but one that Ms. Roach gleefully mines for a multitude of bizarre facts that’ll make you snort coffee through your nose. —Erik Larson, bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile