TOM AND KELLEY FRENCH, 7 p.m. Nov. 3 in the Richardson Chapel, Franklin College, second lecture of reading and lecture series of prominent Indiana-based creative writers, titled “The Future is Now: Indiana Creative Writers Read,” Tom French is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the Riley Endowed Chair in Journalism at Indiana University. He is the author of “Unanswered Cries,” “South of Heaven” and The New York Times bestseller “Zoo Story.” Kelley French is a professor of practice in journalism at Indiana University. A former reporter and editor for the Tampa Bay Times, she was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for “Never Let Go,” a series about her daughter, Juniper’s, survival. Tom and Kelley French’s memoir about Juniper’s birth at 23 weeks gestation, “Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon,” was released Sept. 13.
DOWNTOWN FRANKLIN HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 5, downtown Franklin, within a four-block radius of the Courthouse, 35 shops and restaurants are offering special sales and giveaways. Pick up a punch card, visit 10 participating businesses (no purchase necessary), turn in your card that day and be eligible for one of our many gift baskets worth over $150 each in the prize drawing; facebook.com/downtownfranklinholidayopenhouse.
STOUT STORIES, 6:30 p.m. Nov. 7, Shallo’s Antique restaurant Brewhaus, free, discussion of “Big Fish,” by Daniel Wallace; pageafterpage.org.
