

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Karen Russell with Adam Johnson
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us to hear bestselling author of "Swamplandia!" discuss her latest epic "The Antidote" with Adam Johnson.About this EventJoin us to hear bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russel discuss her gripping dust bowl epic and National Book Award finalist, The Antidote, about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town.The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. 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 orphan niece, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate.Russell's novel is above all a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting—enacting the settler amnesia and willful omissions passed down from generation to generation, and unearthing not only horrors but shimmering possibilities. The Antidote echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been—and what still could be.About the SpeakersKaren Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, she now lives in the Bay Area with her husband, son, and daughter. The Antidote, a national bestseller and longlisted for the National Book Award, is her second novel.Adam Johnson is the author of Fortune Smiles, winner of the National Book Award and the Story Prize, and The Orphan Master’s Son, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the California Book Award. Johnson’s other awards include a Holtzbrinck Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship; he was also a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. His previous books are Emporium, a short-story collection, and the novel Parasites Like Us. Johnson was born in South Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. He now lives in San Francisco with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Stanford University.COVID SAFETY PROTOCOLS: We strongly encourage attendees to wear masks at our events, although they will NOT be required. We will have masks available for attendees who want them. Do NOT attend the event if you, or any member of your family, have any respiratory symptoms (e.g. cough, runny nose, and/or sore throat), or have had a significant exposure to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.ACCESSIBILITY: We never want cost to be a barrier to admission for our community. Please email events [at] keplers [dot] org if you would like to attend this event but cannot afford a ticket. To request an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for this event, please email events [at] keplers [dot] org at least one week prior to the event.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/menlo-park/karen-russell-with-adam-johnson/100001910561804789
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 11.49, max: 32.49, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: Menlo Park
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Kepler's Books
- **lat**: 37.453569
- **long**: -122.182167
- **full address**: Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, United States

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- **organizer**: Kepler's Literary Foundation (https://allevents.in/org/keplers-literary-foundation/22639584)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, United States
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 11.49 up to 32.49 USD
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Kepler's Literary Foundation
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Karen Russell with Adam Johnson ?
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