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Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration

… the 20th century. Her groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers!, My Antonia, One of Ours, Death Comes for the Archbishop ) set a …
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Reading Willa Cather: A 150th Birthday Celebration

… Image Willa Cather wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett, c. … HERE Join us for this sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured … overview of her life and work will explore her turbulent biography and uniquely American voice. Sprinkled into the …
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Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… influenced the novels   Sapphira and the Slave Girl   and   My Ántonia . MSV members: $5; all others: $10. Please …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor

… #4: Death Comes for the Archbishop As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed … , and Bellow’s  There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction , also a  New   York Times  Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag,  Debriefing , was published by …
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Book Club Resources

… the historic sites through our website or the Willa Cather app. Otherwise, contact a member of the National Willa …
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Reading Willa Cather with Mary Stuart Masterston & Jeremy Davidson

… Image Willa Cather, Mary Stuart Masterston, Jeremy Davidson, Hailey McAvoy, Jonathan Lawlor, Nomin Sandon … century. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , Death Comes for the Archbishop ) … feature readings from actors Mary Stuart Masterson and Jeremy Davidson , plus musical performances by Hailey McAvoy …
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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… roads "—just as Willa Cather described them in  My Ántonia . In summer and early fall, you can also catch … cemeteries, churches, the Pavelka Farm made famous in  My Ántonia ,   and the Republican River where the Cather … over our heads making slow shadows on the grass. . . ." —My Ántonia Can't visit in person? Take these virtual prairie …
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Pavelka Farmstead

… 4 near Bladen. Restored and managed by the National Willa Cather Center, the Pavelka Farmstead was chosen as one of … My Ántonia at 100 (issue theme) —  Willa Cather Review, Volume 60: No. 3, Winter 2018 New Scholarship on My Ántonia … Plains Quarterly , Spring 1994, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln From the National …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… 1.  In addition to program notes on selections related to Cather’s works, this recent interview reveals more about Red … on a Fulbright and then to Vienna, where she first read Willa Cather’s novel,  The Song of the Lark .  “That is when … heroine is an opera singer. The plot is loosely based on my life growing up on a farm in Nebraska and of Norwegian …
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Novels

… her. It seemed, on the contrary, as she looked out at the yellow desert speeding by, that she had left very little. …
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