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KELLY JENSEN Don’t Call Me Crazy: Navigating Mental Health with Compassion, Understanding, and Honesty PLEASE NOTE pre-Festival DATE: Thursday, October 17 | 5:00 p.m. Scholfield Hall | UW–Eau Claire | 105 Garfield Ave., Eau Claire, WI 54701 This event is co-sponsored by the Katherine S. Schneider Disability Issues Forum and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Foundation. Captioning and sign language interpreting will be provided by the L. E. Phillips Family Foundation. Sally Webb has provided additional support. Featured book: (Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health Program This is the annual Katherine S. Schneider Disability Issues Forum While roughly twenty percent of Americans live with a mental illness, more than half of those who suffer have gone untreated for the past year. Kelly Jensen, author of (Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health, will talk about her own experiences with depression and anxiety, where and how she decided to get help for myself when she turned 30. Using what she learned from her own experiences, Jensen will discuss where and how to talk about mental health, as well as tools and resources for cracking open those discussions.
Author Kelly Jensen is a former teen librarian who worked in several public libraries before pursuing a full-time career in writing and editing. Her current position is with Book Riot, where she focuses on talking about young adult literature in all of its manifestations. Her books include Here We Are: Feminism for The Real World and (Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health, a collection of art, essays, and words to launch a powerful and important conversation about mental health. It was named a best book of 2018 by the Washington Post and earned a Schneider Family Book Award Honor. Online: https://twloha.com/podcast/7-kelly-jensen/
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ANNA LEE HUBER Mrs. Bond: The True Role of Female Spies During the First World War Monday, October 21 | 7:00 p.m. Altoona Public Library 1303 Lynn Ave., Altoona, WI 54720
Co-sponsored by the Altoona Public Library. Featured book: Treacherous Is the Night
Program When someone mentions female spies, especially during the era of World War I, often the only names they can recall are either the notorious femme fatale, Mata Hari, or the saintly nurse, Edith Cavell. How- ever, the real role of women in espionage was far more varied and prevalent. These real unsung heroes of the Great War formed the basis for Anna Lee Huber’s fictional heroine—Verity Kent—and parts of their tales and exploits have found their way onto the page in her adventures. Huber will explore the fact and fiction behind these female secret agents, the spy rings with which they worked behind enemy lines, and examine their lives after the guns fell silent.
Author Anna Lee Huber, winner of the 2018 Daphne du Maurier Award, is author of the national best-selling Lady Darby Mysteries, the Verity Kent Mysteries, and the Gothic Myths series, as well as the forthcoming anthology, The Deadly Hours. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in music and minored in psychology.
Online: annaleehuber.com
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NEEL PATEL Making the Unseen, Seen: Giving Voice to Diverse Characters in Fiction and Beyond Monday, October 21 | 6:30 p.m. Memorial Student Center Ballroom | University of Wisconsin–Stout 302 10th Ave. East Menomonie, WI 54751
Co-sponsored by the Altoona Public Library. Co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin–Stout Featured book: If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi
Program This program will discuss the importance, in fiction, of turning peripheral characters into primary ones, both its challenges and delights. Gain a better understanding of the impact literature, television, and film have on shaping the identities of people from different walks of life.
Author Neel Patel is an author and screenwriter who grew up in Champaign, Illinois. His writing has appeared in ELLE India, on Buzzfeed, and other publications. His first book, If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick and an NPR Best Book of 2018. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is developing a television series and writing a novel.
Online: neelnpatel.com
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CAROLYN PORTER A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate Please note Ms. Porter has two events: Tuesday, October 22 | 7 p.m. Fall Creek Public Library | 122 E Lincoln Ave, Fall Creek, WI 54742 Co-sponsored by: Fall Creek Public Library
Wednesday, October 23 | 10:30 a.m. Menomonie Public Library | 600 Wolske Bay Rd., Menomonie, WI 54751 Co-sponsored by: Menomonie Public Library
Featured book: Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate Program During the depths of World War II, Frenchman Marcel Heuzé mailed letters to his wife and three young daughters from a labor camp in Berlin. His handwritten letters home carried tender words of love along with testimony about day-to-day survival inside a labor camp. More than half a century later, type designer Carolyn Porter found a bundle of his letters in an antique shop. As Porter began to transform the beautiful, looping cursive into a modern computer font, she became obsessed with finding answers to her questions: Who was Marcel? Why were his precious letters for sale halfway around the world? And most importantly: Did Marcel survive? Discover what goes into the design of a font, learn about a little-known aspect of WWII—the forced labor of ordinary French civilians—and be inspired to pursue your own passion projects.
Author Carolyn Porter is an award-winning graphic designer and type designer based in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. She graduated with a BA in Graphic Design from University of Wisconsin–Stout, which is where she was exposed to typography and the design of letterforms. Her first font, P22 Marcel Script, has garnered four international honors, including the prestigious Certificate for Typographic Excellence from the New York Type Director’s Club. Her nonfiction book, Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, a Paris Book Festival winner, and a gold medal winner, Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Military Writer’s Society of America. FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT Online: carolyn-porter.com www.cvbookfest.org SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, CHECK WEBSITE FOR DETAILS Author Information for Book Groups: Summer 2019
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JOHN HILDEBRAND Through the Heartland River
Tuesday, October 22 | 7 p.m.
Pablo Center at the Confluence
Featured book: Long Way Round: Through the Heartland by River
Program Inspired by a mythic Round River, John Hildebrand set off in a small boat to rediscover his home state of Wisconsin. The result was a journey through a forgotten America, a land of great physical beauty but struggling small towns and divided loyalties. From the hard-working Mississippi to the threatened wilderness of Tylers Fork, Hildebrand searches for the values that connect us—neighborliness, a sense of fairness, and a belief in the common good. The program will combine photographs, discussion, and short excerpts from the book as Hildebrand shares the sense of both wonder and belonging he dis- covered through his travels. Author John Hildebrand is the author of five nonfiction books: the award-winning Map- ping the Farm: The Chronicle of a Family, Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon, A Northern Front: New and Selected Essays and The Heart of Things: a Midwestern Almanac. His latest book, Long Way Round: Through the Heartland by River, will be released at the festival. His articles and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Audubon, Outside Magazine, Sports Illustrated, GEO, Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, and The Missouri Review. Since his retirement from the English Department, he occasionally teaches at the University of Wis- consin–Eau Claire.
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ADAM REGN ARVIDSON Wild and Rare
Wednesday, October 23 | 12:00 p.m. Chippewa Valley Museum | 1204 E Half Moon Dr., Eau Claire, WI 54703 This event is co-sponsored by the Chippewa Valley Museum and will include a ticketed paid luncheon. Tickets will go on sale in late July. The presentation is free. See website for details.
Featured book: Wild & Rare: Tracking Endangered Species in the Upper Midwest Program Adam Regn Arvidson takes a look, not only at the midwest plants and animals on the the endangered species list, but which ones we value, why we value them, and what we take into consideration moving forward. During this interactive discussion and reading about endangered plants and animals in the upper Midwest, you will learn which species are endangered, the history of their conservation and protection in this country, and what you can do to help these fellow inhabitants of our beautiful planet.
Author Adam Regn Arvidson is a landscape architect and writer living in Minneapolis. His written work has been featured in magazines ranging from Landscape Architecture and Metropolis to Michigan Quarterly Review and Utne Reader. He is currently the director of strategic planning at the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. His most recent book, Wild and Rare: Tracking Endangered Species in the Upper Midwest, is a look at the landscape of the upper midwest through the lens of endangered plants and animals. Online: AdamRegnArvidson.com
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DOROTHY CHAN Revenge of the Asian Woman: A Reading with Dorothy Chan Wednesday, October 23 | 6:00 p.m. This event is co-sponsored by the Chippewa Valley Museum and will include a Eau Claire Room | L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library ticketed paid luncheon. Tickets will go on sale in late July. The presentation is free. 400 Eau Claire St., Eau Claire, WI 54701 See website for details. Co-sponsored by the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
Featured book: Revenge of the Asian Woman Program Join Dorothy Chan, the newest Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, as she reads from her newest collection of poetry, Revenge of the Asian Woman. Continuing with the themes of food, sexuality, culture, and fetishes developed in her previous collections, the reading will showcase Chan’s latest work as well as her reverence for pop culture, kitsch, and excess.
Author Dorothy Chan is the author of Revenge of the Asian Woman, Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold, and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, The Cincinnati Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She is the Poetry Editor of Hobart and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.
Online: dorothypoetry.com
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LEIF ENGER The Optimist at Midnight
Wednesday, October 23 | 7:00 p.m. Auditorium | Heyde Center for the Arts 3 South High St., Chippewa Falls, WI Co-sponsored by Friends of the Chippewa Falls Public Library and the Heyde Center for the Arts
Featured book: Virgil Wander
Photo: Robin Enger Program Storytelling is by nature a hopeful endeavor, never more than in times of division and anxiety. Using texts from novelists, poets, and screenwriters, Enger will discuss the Midwestern imagination, the magic of kite- flying, and the power of stories to inspire change.
Author Leif Enger was raised in Osakis, Minnesota, and worked as a reporter and producer for Minnesota Public Radio before writing his best-selling debut novel, Peace Like a River, which won the Independent Publisher Book Award and was one of Los Angeles Times, and Time Magazine’s Best Books of the Year. His second novel, So Brave, Young, and Handsome, was also a national best seller and a Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award Honor Book for Fiction. His latest novel, Virgil Wander was published in 2018. He and his wife Robin live in Minnesota.
Online: https://groveatlantic.com/author/leif-enger/
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KIM BROOKS SMALL ANIMALS: Parenting in the Age of Fear
Thursday, October 24 | 7:00 p.m. Pablo Center at the Confluence
Featured book: Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
Program Changing patterns in family structure, rampant consumerism, and social panics spawned by the 24-hour news cycle have transformed child-rearing from an inherently private relationship into an all-consuming, competitive sport. Building on her own harrowing experiences, Brooks will reveal how expectations of parents have changed over the course of a single generation, and how these expectations—fueled by fear rather than reality—pressure mothers to report one another. She will also share a fresh perspective on parenting and parenthood which shifts the focus away from individual parents to a broader social and historical perspective, highlighting the ways children can benefit from freedom and independence. Author Kim Brooks is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and recipient of numerous fellowships. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Chicago Magazine, and Salon. Brooks has spoken as a guest on CBS This Morning, PBS NewsHour, 20/20, NPR’s All Things Considered, Good Morning America, and The Brian Lehrer Show, as well as podcasts such as Note to Self, Mom and Dad Are Fighting, Femsplainer, and Matt Lewis and the News. Her novel, The Houseguest, was published in 2016. Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear was designated A Best Book of 2018 by National Public Radio.
Online: You can follow Brooks on Twitter and kabrooks.com
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KIM BLAESER AND MARGARET ROZGA The Nadine S. St. Louis Memorial Poetry Conversation: Active Voices: Poetry and Social Justice
Friday, October 25 | 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Congregation | 421 S. Farwell St., Eau Claire, WI 54701 Featured books: Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems by Margaret Rozga and Copper Yearning by Kimberly Blaeser Program Two Wisconsin Poets Laureate, Kim Blaeser (2015-2016) and Margaret Rozga (2019-2020) will read from their recent work and engage in dialogue about their poetry, its sources, and the roles they see it enacting in the world. They will welcome questions and comments from the audience. Authors: Kimberly Blaeser, writer, photographer, and scholar, is the author of three poetry collections—most recently Apprenticed to Justice; and editor of Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry. She served as Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2015-16. Blaeser is Anishinaabe and grew up on the White Earth Reservation. A Professor of English and Indigenous Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Blaeser is also on faculty for the Institute of American Indian Arts Low Residency MFA program in Santa Fe. Her fourth collection of poetry, Copper Yearning, will be published in fall 2019. Online: kblaeser.org
Margaret Rozga, current Wisconsin Poet Laureate, has published four books of poetry, including Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poem. This book, written with support from the American Antiquarian Society, looks at issues of women’s roles, western expansion, and race as they are woven through the life of politically-active and well-connected Jessie Benton Frémont (1824-1902). Rozga also served as editor of the poetry chapbook anthology Where I Want to Live: Poems for Fair & Affordable Housing, a project for the 50th anniversary of Milwaukee’s fair housing marches. She participated in those marches and helped organize 50th anniversary events. Online: margaretrozga.com FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT www.cvbookfest.org SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, CHECK WEBSITE FOR DETAILS Author Information for Book Groups: Summer 2019
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B.J. HOLLARS Things That Go Bump When You Write: On Monsters Martians, and the Search for the Truth in the Strange Friday, October 25 | Evening - Time TBD
Richmond Hall | Lismore Hotel | 333 Gibson St., Eau Claire, WI This presentation will feature food and will be ticketed via the Pablo Center at the Confluence website in mid-summer.
Featured book: Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians and the Weird in Flyover Country Program Part memoir and part journalism, B.J. Hollars’ latest book, Midwestern Strange offers a fascinating, funny, and quirky account of flyover folklore. By confronting monsters, Martians, and a cabinet of curiosities’ worth of strange phenomena in our own backyards, Hollars challenges readers to look beyond their presumptions and acknowledge that just because something is weird doesn’t mean it’s wrong. A little bit X-Files, a little bit Ghostbusters, and a whole lot of Sherlock Holmes, Hollars will describe his efforts to get to the bottom of many of our most tangled tales. Author B.J. Hollars is the author of several books, including his latest, Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians and the Weird in Flyover Country. Hollars is the recipient of the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Nonfiction, the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize, the The Wisconsin Writers Awards’ Norbert Blei/Au- gust Derleth Nonfiction Book Award, and the Society of Midland Authors Award. He is the founder and executive director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild and an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He lives a simple existence with his wife, their children, and their dog.
Online: bjhollars.com
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LORETTA ELLSWORTH Ballrooms and POW Camps
Saturday, October 26 | Time 10:30 a.m.
Eau Claire Room, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, 400 Eau Claire St., EC Co-sponsored by: L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
Featured book: Stars Over Clear Lake
Program Behind every tall tale is a little bit of fact. Many fiction authors find their work is influenced by history or their knowledge of a “real” place. Loretta Ellsworth, author of several Young Adult novels, will share the true history behind her first adult historical novel, Stars Over Clear Lake, which takes place at both the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, and the prisoner of war camp in Algona, Iowa.
Author Loretta Ellsworth grew up in Iowa and is a former teacher and a graduate of Hamline University with an MFA in Writing for Children. She is the author of four novels for younger readers, including In Search of Mockingbird, which won the 2007 Midwest Bookseller’s Choice Honor Award in Children’s Litera- ture, and was named to the 2008 New York Library’s Best Books for Teens list. Ellsworth’s first adult historical novel, Stars Over Clear Lake, is set in Clear Lake, Iowa during World War II. She currently resides in Lakeville, Minnesota. Online: lorettaellsworth.com
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MINDY MEJIA The Heart of Noir
Saturday, October 26 | 1:00 p.m.
Eau Claire Room, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, 400 Eau Claire St., EC Co-sponsored by: L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
Featured book: Leave No Trace
Program Crime fiction readers, particularly readers of heartland noir, know that something lies beneath the typical “Midwestern nice” facade. Some of the most seemingly innocent scenes can be rife with suspense; wheth- er it is a blinding blizzard, peaceful pasture, or wandering woods, there is often no one around to hear you scream. Mindy Mejia will tell the tale of her journey into crime fiction, the inspiration for her books, and why she writes heartland noir.
Author Mindy Mejia’s internationally-acclaimed heartland noir novels have been trans- lated into over twenty languages. She’s the author of The Dragon Keeper and Everything You Want Me to Be, which was a People’s Best New Books Pick and listed in The Wall Street Journal’s Best New Mysteries. Her latest novel, Leave No Trace, was nominated for the Barry Award and was a finalist for the 2019 Minne- sota Book Award for Genre Fiction. A graduate of the Hamline University MFA program, she lives and works in the Twin Cities. Online: MindyMejia.com.
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ART CULLEN Change and Resilience in the Heartland
Saturday, October 26 | 2:15 p.m.
Eau Claire Room, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, 400 Eau Claire St., EC Co-sponsored by: L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
Featured book: Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper
Program The small community of Storm Lake, Iowa, has changed dramatically over Art Cullen’s 30-year career in journalism. Cullen, co-owner of The Storm Lake Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper, recognizes that rural communities are profoundly challenged and that climate change is already hampering food production now. But he has also identified solutions if we can accept changes such as immigration, and a more resilient agriculture. Author Art Cullen is Pulitzer prize-winning editor of The Storm Lake Times in Storm Lake, Iowa. He won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 2017 for a series of editorials on surface water pollution in Iowa causted by agricultural drainage. He is the author of Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper. He owns the twice-weekly newspaper with his brother, John, who serves as publisher. He also works with his wife, Dolores, a photographer, and son Tom, a reporter. He is a graduate of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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ecWIT A Verbal Feast of the Fest, served by ecWIT
Saturday, October 26 | 4:00 p.m.
Pablo Center at the Confluence
Program The ecWIT gals are back by popular demand for a reader’s theater performance of adapted excerpts from a sampling of this year’s festival authors. Without costumes or elaborate props, the stripped-down performance is sure to add a whole new dimension to the characters and stories.
Performers: ecWIT, composed of Debbie Brown, Beverly Olson, Sue Fulkerson, Kathleen Sullivan, Ann Pearson, and Sara Bryan, presents the art form of dramatic reader’s theater, enlivening literature in a variety of genres without sets, costumes, or props. Since the group’s inception in January 2016, they have become a local favorite, having received commissions to perform from Chippewa Valley Learning in Retirement, the Waldemar Ager Association, and the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, to name a few. 2019 will be the third year that ecWIT has participated in the Chippe- wa Valley Book Festival, providing a unique experi- ence of adapted excerpts from the works of festival authors.
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REBECCA MAKKAI The Great Believers: Where Fiction Meets History
Saturday, October 26 | 7:30 p.m. Pablo Center at the Confluence This will be a ticketed event. Tickets will be available in August 2019.
Featured book: The Great Believers
Program Rebecca Makkai’s novel The Great Believers was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the 2018 National Book Award. The book deals in large part with the AIDS epidemic in 1980s Chicago. In this talk, she will read from the book and discuss its origins, stemming from her own experience growing up as a Chicagoan child during the epidemic. Makkai will also delve into the dearth of research on how AIDS affected the Midwest and talk about her approach to gathering personal stories from those who were hit hardest.
Author Rebecca Makkai is a Chicago-based award-winning author. Makkai’s novel The Great Believers, in addition to the Pulitzer and National Book Award nominations, was also the winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence from the American Library Association, the Stonewall Award, and the Chicago Review of Books Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a pick for the New York Public Library’s 2018 Best Books. Her other books are the novels The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, and a short story collection, Music for Wartime. Makkai is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University, and she is artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago.
Online: RebeccaMakkai.com | Twitter @rebeccamakkai.
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BETH DOOLEY Cooking My Way Home
Sunday, October 27 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: Forage | 930 Galloway St., Bldg 13, Ste. 212, Eau Claire, WI
Featured book: In Winter’s Kitchen: Growing Roots and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland
Program How do we become at home in the world? By cultivating a deep relationship with our food, our farmers, our family, and the land. In foraging for goodness we look to traditional foodways as well as innovative technology to create a regenerative landscape which nourishes and delights. Dooley will impart an understanding of and appreciation for the New Agricultural Land Ethic.
Author Beth Dooley has covered the local food scene in the Northern Heartland for thirty years: she writes for the Taste section of the Star Tribune, and appears reg- ularly on local television and radio. She co-authored The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen with Sean Sherman, winner of the James Beard Award for Best American Cookbook. Other titles include: Savory Sweet: Preserves from a Northern Kitch- en, In Winter’s Kitchen: Growing Roots and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heart- land, Minnesota’s Bounty: The Farmers Market Cookbook, The Northern Heartland Kitchen, and Savoring the Seasons of the Northern Heartland, coauthored with Lucia Watson. Online: bethdooleyskitchen.com
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