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Bill Ayers Public Enemy: Page 3
Clive Thompson Smarter Than You Think: Page 4
Exclusive Print Guide October 17–20, 2013
Caryl Stern I Believe in Zero: Page 5
Jonathan Alter The Center Holds: Page 8
Stephen Jimenez The Book of Matt: Page 9
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The Wisconsin Book Festival would like to thank the following people and organizations for their contributions to making the 2013 festival possible. We truly couldn’t have put on such a wonderful festival without your support.
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Greg Mickells, Madison Public Library Director Jenni Collins, Executive Director, Madison Public Library Foundation Tana Elias, Digital Services and Marketing Manager, Madison Public Library Katharine Clark, Tom Karls, Cindi Ofstun, Tami Belden, Courtney Davis, Jon Muzzall, Krissy Wick, Jesse Vieau, Trent Miller, Sean Ottosen, Liz Amundson, Jane Jorgenson, Mary Knapp, Lisa Mettauer, Jane Roughen, Molly Warren, Caelin Ross, and everyone on the staff of Madison Public Library, Cricket Redman, Carie Rogers, Michael Sambar, Rachael Smith, Mike Giarratano for his energy and guidance, Sarah Baline for all of her ideas, Jessica Becker, Cynthia Schuster, all of our dedicated volunteers, Ellen Meany, Alison Jones-Chaim, Dena Worzel, Lynda Barry, KT Horning, Sari Judge, Megan Katz, David Maraniss, Willie Ney, Steve Paulson, Ann Strainchamps, Tim Taylor, everyone on the Boards of Madison Public Library and Madison Public Library Foundation for taking on this incredible event.
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WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
Emily Oster
Bill Ayers
Jennifer Ratner Rosenhagen
Steven Nadler
Celebrate books! Thursday ✦ Oct 17 Expecting Better Emily Oster ✦ 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong — and What You Really Need to Know: Expecting Better is about knowing more in order to worry less. Oster has done the hard work for us, sifting through the data and studies with her proven expertise so that we can ask the right questions, make informed decisions, and stop the unnecessary worry that accompanies so many couples through nine months.
Philosophical Portraits: Descartes & Nietzsche Steven Nadler & Jennifer Ratner Rosenhagen ✦ 5:30 to 6:30 PM ✦ Central Library Bubbler
Bill Ayers Meet & Greet 5:30-6:30 PM ✦ Central Library Madison Room Meet the author before the free discussion. Tickets are $25 at wisconsinbookfestival.org, and include reserved seats for the 7 p.m. event. Proceeds benefit the Book Festival.
Public Enemy Bill Ayers ✦ 7 to 8 PM ✦ Overture Center Capitol Theater
In this sequel to Fugitive Days, Bill Ayers charts his life after the Weather Underground, as he becomes the GOP’s flaunted “domestic terrorist.” In the face of defamation by conservative media, Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, stay true to their core beliefs in the power of protest, demonstration, and deep commitment. Ayers reveals how he has navigated the challenges and triumphs of this public life with steadfastness and a “dash of good humor.”
Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy ✦ 7 to 8 PM ✦ Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Britain seemingly should have won the Revolutionary War. Its failure to do so is commonly assumed to be due to the incompetence of commanders and the politicians who are ridiculed in fiction and in movies. Although less crudely presented, such caricatures even permeate scholarly literature. The talk will challenge the stereotypes and offer a very different explanation of why Britain lost the American War of Independence.
Charlotte Zolotow Lecture: Why Picture Books Matter Leonard Marcus ✦ 7:30 to 8:30 PM ✦ Monona Terrace Lecture Hall
Renowned children’s literature historian, Leonard S. Marcus, will Leonard Marcus give a free public lecture on the role of picture books in the modern age, and discuss why they continue to be important to children today. Marcus is the author of many books on the subject of children’s literature, including Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepeneurs, and the Shaping of American Children’s Literature and Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing. The Charlotte Zolotow Lecture is presented by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center.
First Wave Hip Hop Arts Showcase Midwest Spoken Word and Hip Hop All-Stars ✦ 7:30 to 9 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
This spoken word Hip Hop event is hosted by First Wave and features the Midwest Spoken Word and Hip Hop AllStars. Come hear visiting youth poetry slam champions and hip hop artists from cities across the Midwest including Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, and the Twin Cities.
— Conor Moran
Wisconsin Book Festival Director
WISCONSINBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
A historian and philosopher reflect on the lives and afterlives of two thinkers who mark the beginning and end of modern philosophy. Presented in partnership with the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hosted by Steve Paulson with an introduction by Sara Guyer.
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
Following on the heels of the Grand Opening of the new Central Library, Madison Public Library will present the 2013 Wisconsin Book Festival in partnership with Madison Public Library Foundation. This year’s festival will feature local literary talents alongside national voices to create a unique event full of free community programs in keeping with our library’s mission to learn, share, and create. Over four days from October 17th through the 20th, the festival will host more than 50 events incorporating literature, film, art, and performance. The festival is an opportunity for people to come together from across Wisconsin in celebration of books, reading, and ideas. As part of giving the Festival a new home at Madison Public Library, we strove to make this year’s celebration cohesive geographically. More than half of the Festival’s events will take place at the Central Library with the rest of the events hosted at nearby venues. Madison’s new Central Library is truly a remarkable gathering place. We invite you to come for the festival, park once, and stay for many events in and around the library. One of the greatest parts of reading is sharing with others. With so many events in one space, you’ll be able to talk about what you saw, discuss what you’re excited about, and connect with other people who are passionate about what you’re passionate about. We are incredibly excited to have found a way to preserve this marquee Wisconsin event. We look forward to seeing you at this year’s Wisconsin Book Festival.
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WISCONSIN BOOK FESITIVAL ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy and Joseph Salmons
John Holl
Dan Chaon
Clive Thompson
Caryl Stern
Friday ✦ Oct 18 High School Friday First Wave, Library as Incubator, Jessie Garcia ✦ 9 AM to 2 PM ✦ Central Library
High School Friday brings 150 students to the Wisconsin Book Festival for a full school day of book programming. Through meaningful interaction with authors, poets, and peers, students will see themselves as active members of the Madison community. They will gain confidence, exposure, and insight while applying skills in reading, writing, language, speaking, and listening in the real world.
My Life with the Green & Gold: Tales from 20 Years of Sportscasting Jessie Garcia
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✦ 4 to 5 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
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Sportscaster, Jessie Garcia, host of WTMJ‘s “The Mike McCarthy Show,” offers behind-the-microphone insights into the Green Bay Packers and other Wisconsin sports teams and athletes. As one of the first female sportscasters in the Midwest, Garcia brings fans to the sidelines at Lambeau Field, inside the locker room, aboard the team bus, and into the host‘s chair. Green Bay Packer and NFL fans alike will enjoy Garcia’s tales of the green & gold team from her perspective as a Packer fan, journalist, and working mom.
Wisconsin Talk: Linguistic Diversity in the Badger State Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy, & Joseph Salmons ✦ 5 to 6 PM ✦ Central Library Bubbler
Yah, it’s true! Wisconsin is one of the most linguistically interesting and diverse places in North America, with a rich heritage of Native American and immigrant languages and with three major dialects of American English. Highlighting topics such as how maps can convey the stories of language and the diversity of bilingual speakers that enriches our communities, Wisconsin Talk brings together perspectives from linguistics, history, cultural studies, and geography to illuminate why language matters in our everyday lives.
Wisconsin People & Ideas Writing Contest Reading Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters ✦ 5 to 6 PM ✦ A Room of One’s Own
Readings from the winners of the Wisconsin People & Ideas 2013 Poetry Contest: Geoff Collins (Marshall), William Quist (River Falls), and C.E. Perry (Madison); as well as the magazine’s 2013 Fiction Contest: Amy Baker (Blue Mounds), Rudy Koshar (Madison), and Geoff Collins (Marshall). Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine features articles by and about the best scientists, artists, writers, and community leaders our state has to offer, serving as a guide to contemporary Wisconsin culture.
The American Craft Beer Cookbook John Holl ✦ 5 to 6 PM ✦ Great Dane Pub Downtown
John Holl stops by the Great Dane to talk about his latest book, The American Craft Beer Cookbook. Holl, who has been writing about beer and brewing since 1996, collected 155 recipes from brew pubs, craft brewers, and beer lovers across the United States so anyone can make these favorites at home. From pub grub to regional specialties, and breakfast fare to barbecue, many of the recipes contain beer as an ingredient, and all evoke the pleasures of brew pub culture.
Stay Awake Dan Chaon ✦ 5:30 to 6:30 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
In these haunting, suspenseful stories, lost, fragile, searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland. They have experienced intense love or loss, grief or loneliness, displacement or disconnection,and find themselves in unexpected, dire, and sometimes unfathomable situations. Dan Chaon’s stories feature scattered families, unfulfilled dreamers, anxious souls. They exist in a twilight realm, in a place by the window late at night when the streets are empty and the world appears to be quiet. But you are up, unable to sleep. So you stay awake.
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better Clive Thompson ✦ 5:30 to 6:30 PM ✦ Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
It’s undeniable: technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding YES. The Internet Age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence, worthy of both celebration and analysis. We learn more and retain the information longer, write and think with global audiences in mind, and gain an ESP-like awareness of the world around us. Modern technology is making us smarter and better connected and allowing us to think more deeply, both as individuals and as a society. Hosted by WPR’s Steve Paulson.
First Wave Performance Poetry Lemon Andersen, Gia Scott-Heron, Verse Wisconsin ✦ 5:30 to 7 PM ✦ Overture Center Promenade Hall
Poetry and Performance were once a united art, going back to common ancient roots. In the last few centuries, this connection has largely been lost. This event will point to some of the ways back, to bring “page poets” and “stage poets” together across multiple divides: page/stage/class/ race/gender/age. OMAI presenters, Lemon Andersen and Gia Scott-Heron, will provide feedback alongside Verse Wisconsin responders, Margaret Rozga, Ching-In Chin, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, and Andy Gricevich.
Monsters of Poetry Reading Adam Fell, Kara Candito, Christopher Mohar ✦ 6:30 to 7:30 PM ✦ Central Library Bubbler
Monsters of Poetry Reading Series curators Kara Candito, Christopher Mohar, and Adam Fell step up to the mic to read from their work. Monsters of Poetry is a reading series held six times a year in Madison featuring poets, fiction, and non-fiction writers of many different stylistic species from all over the country.
WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
Saturday ✦ Oct 19
Jon Ronson
Library as Art Space Drop-In Workshops
Emma Straub
Library as Incubator Project ✦ 10 AM to Noon ✦ Central Library
Kids in the Rotunda: Return of the Glass Slipper MadCAP ✦ 9:30 AM to 2 PM ✦ Overture Center Rotunda Stage
Fri ✦ Oct 18 continued I Believe in Zero: Learning from the World’s Children Caryl Stern ✦ 7 to 8 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
Stern’s moving and ultimately uplifting memoir paints a vivid portrait of the lives impacted through the efforts of UNICEF around the world, and their mission to reduce the number of children under age five who die from preventable causes from 19,000 each day to zero.
First Wave’s Line Breaks Rewind First Wave Touring Ensemble ✦ 8 to 9 PM ✦ Overture Center Promenade Hall
Lost at Sea Jon Ronson ✦ 8:30 to 9:30 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
The New York Times’ bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes about the dark, uncanny sides of humanity with clarity and humor. Lost at Sea reveals how deep our collective craziness lies, even in the most mundane circumstances. Ronson explores tales with a sense of higher purpose and universality, and suddenly, mid-read, they are stories not about the fringe of society, but about all of us. Ronson writes about our modern world, the foibles of contemporary culture, and the chaos that lies at the edge of our daily lives.
Farm Fresh and Fast Fairshare CSA Coalition ✦ 10 to 11 AM ✦ Central Library Bubbler
The Fairshare CSA Coalition discusses their newest cookbook, Farm Fresh and Fast, highlighting how to put together a locallyfocused cookbook, tips on writing a community sourced book, and how to develop recipes. Hosted by local food author Terese Allen.
Blackout poetry: Make your own poem using words from another text. Use the pages of text in your own Library Workbook (drawn from classic texts, how-to manuals, and other books with interesting language), then highlight the words you want your reader to see to create a poem within the text. Black out the other words, and title your poem! Mapmaking: Maps can tell you where you are, where you’ve been, where you’re going, and how you relate to the world around you. You can make a map for anything that can be connected, not just places. Look through the books and images available at the map table for inspiration, and use the blank pages in your own Library Workbook to draw a map. Lead someone to the new library, your favorite hiding spot, or another world! Tracing: You don’t need to be an artist to draw something cool. Tracing is a great way to engage your brain and explore an image or idea with your hands. Choose from a variety of library books with interesting images and use a pencil to trace away! Once you have the basic image down on the blank pages in your own Library Workbook, you can spiff it up with markers.
Letters Home to Sarah: The Civil War Letters of Guy C. Taylor, 36th Wisconsin Volunteers Kevin & Patsy Alderson ✦ 10 to 11 AM ✦ Wisconsin Historical Museum, 1st Floor
A moving collection of newly discovered letters that captures the range of emotions and experiences of the American Civil War. Forgotten for more than a century in an old cardboard box, these are the letters of Guy Carlton Taylor, a farmer who served in the 36th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment. This remarkable trove, which had been left in the attic of Taylor’s former home in Cashton, was discovered by local historian Kevin Alderson at a household auction. Recognizing them for the treasure they are, Alderson and his wife Patsy painstakingly transcribed the letters and researched Taylor’s story.
Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures Emma Straub ✦ 10:30 to 11:30 AM ✦ Central Library Community Room
The enchanting story of a midwestern girl from Wisconsin who escapes a family tragedy and becomes a movie star. Ambitious and richly imagined, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures is as intimate, and as bigger-than-life, as the great films of the golden age of Hollywood. Written with warmth and verve, it confirms Emma Straub’s reputation as one of the most exciting new talents in fiction.
Library as Incubator: Libraries and artists working together.
Lawyers Who Shaped Dane County Tom Ragatz, Paul Humphrey ✦ 11 AM to 1 PM ✦ Central Library Local History Room
This book sketches the development of Dane County and the significant changes in the practice of law here, from the mid-1800s to the mid-1980s. Profiling the lawyers who became leaders in legal practice and in the community, the book is filled with history, photos and anecdotes, featuring names such as Olin, Tenny, Vilas, Doty, LaFollette, and Fairchild. It also traces the development of the Dane County Bar Association, women lawyers who made their mark, the courthouses, and the influence of the UW Law School. Saturday events continue on page 7
WISCONSINBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
Line Breaks Rewind features selected breakout works and excerpts from the annual Line Breaks Festival, a weeklong space that encourages deepened investigation into contemporary youth narratives toward experimental and contemporary theatre. Features include “Buried Beneath: Bombs and Lattes,” a solo work that weaves poetry, traditional chant, movement and ukelele to tell si dako’ta alcantara-camacho’s family’s queerstory, plus excerpts from “Shock,” the 2012 First Wave Touring Ensemble work on culture shock also featured at the Cultural Olympiad in London and Contacting the World Theatre Festival in Manchester and Corby, England.
MadCAP presents Return of the Glass Slipper, a retelling of Cinderella with a twist, as part of Overture Center’s Kids in the Rotunda series. Audience members will be swept along on a journey to Once Upon a Time in a Land Far Away... where nothing is quite as it should be in the fairy tales we already know. MadCAP’s cast teaches the audience songs, dances, and gives the audience a role in the show. The music is infectious, the dialogue is witty, and the cast dazzles with fancy footwork and physical comedy.
Take part in one (or all) of these workshops as you explore the new Central Library with the team from the Library as Incubator Project.
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WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
Thursday ✦ October 17 5 p.m. Central Library Bubbler
6 p.m.
7 p.m.
8 p.m.
Philosophical Portraits 5:30-6:30PM
9 p.m.
10 a.m.
Central Library Community Room
Hip Hop Arts Showcase First Wave 7:30-9 PM
Monona Terrace Lecture Hall
Zolotow Lecture: Leonard Marcus 7:30-8:30PM
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
The Men Who Lost America 7-8 PM
Central Library Bubbler
Central Library Community Room
Also on Thursday 5:30-6:30 PM
Meet & Greet BILL AYERS
Great Dane Brew Pub: Downtown
I Believe in Zero Caryl Stern 7-8 PM
Lost at Sea Jon Ronson 8:30-9:30 PM
Wisconsin Historical Museum
Also on Friday 9 AM-2 PM Overture Center
2 p.m.
3 p.m.
Central Library Wheel Fever Meet at corner Bike Ride of Mifflin & Henry 10-11AM Writing the Unthinkable: Dan Chaon, Lynda Barry 11AM-2PM
Inside the Food Network: 2:30-3:30 PM
Central Library Jewelweed Community David Rhodes 10-11AM Room
Public Poets Conversation 11:30-12:30
Fantasy Lit G Willow Wilson 1-2PM
Central Library Children’s Section
Golianthis Hercules 11:30-12:30
Saige: Girl of the Year Jessie Haas 1-2 PM
Overture Promenade Hall
Film: Saige Paints the Sky 11:30-12:30
7 p.m.
8 p.m.
9 p.m.
4 p.m.
Sea Creatures Susanna Daniel 5:30-6:30 PM
The Book of Matt Stephen Jimenez 7-8 PM
Humor Writing Showcase 8:30-9:30 PM
The Wisconsin Book Festival is hosted by Madison Public Library in partnership with the Madison Public Library Foundation. Festival sponsors make this event possible through their private support. We’d like to thank your 2013 Wisconsin Book Festival sponsors for their generosity and dedication to the sharing of ideas.
Signature Sponsor
Class A Baseball Lucas Mann 2:30-3:30 PM
Also on Saturday 9:30 AM to 2 PM
Also on Saturday 11 AM to 5 PM
Also on Thursday 5:30-6:30 PM
MadCAP: Return of the Glass Slipper
Madison Print & Resist
Meet & Greet Stephen Jimenez
Overture Center Kids in the Rotunda
Helen C White College LIbrary
hosted by Madison Public Library Foundation in Central Library Art Gallery $25 Tickets Online Proceeds benefit Wisconsin Book Festival
Sons of the Prophet Noon-1 PM
Film: Lemon Lemon Andersen 6-7:30 PM Jane Addams Book Awards 1-2 PM
Civil War Letters of Guy C. Taylor 10-11 AM
Queen of the Air Dean Jensen 1-2 PM
✦ Thu, Oct 17 – Sat, Oct 19 ✦ 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM Thursday & Friday ✦ 10:30 AM to 2 PM Saturday The largest used-book sale in Wisconsin includes literature, history, children’s books, science, art, philosophy, reference texts, foreign language books, and more. Videos, DVDs, CDs, and LPs are available. Open to the public.
Central Library Garage ✦ Thu, Oct 17 – Sat, Oct 19 ✦ Noon to 6 PM Thursday ✦ 10 AM to 6 PM Friday ✦ 9 AM to 2 PM Saturday This is the first big book sale in the new Central Library! Stop by for great deals on used books and other materials. Proceeds support The Friends of the Madison Public Library’s efforts to provide volunteer support and recognition, advocacy, and funds for special projects and collections that the Library could otherwise not afford.
Friends of the CCBC Helen C White College Library Library School Commons ✦ Sat, Oct 19 ✦ 8 AM to 2 PM The sale features hundreds of new and gently used children’s and young adult books at bargain prices.
Passing the Mic Tribute Showcase: Lemon Andersen, Gia Scott-Heron 8-10 PM
Festival Sponsors
WI Poet Laureate Max Garland 4-5 PM Sister Jody LePage 3-4 PM
venue information Central Library 201 W. Mifflin St., (608) 266-6300
Overture Center for the Arts 201 State St., (608) 258-4141
Great Dane Pub & Brewery 123 E. Doty St., (608) 284-0000
A Room of One’s Own 315 W. Gorham St., (608) 257-7888
Helen C White College Library 600 N Park St., (608) 262-3245
Wisconsin Historical Museum 30 N Carroll St., (608) 264-6555
UW Memorial Library 728 State St., (608) 262-3193
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery 330 N. Orchard St., (608) 316-4300
UW Union South 1308 W. Dayton St., (608) 890-3000
Wisconsin Veterans Museum 30 West Mifflin St., (608) 267-1799
bonus events in October & November An Evening with Ruth Ozeki Go Big Read presentation ✦ Monday, October 28 ✦ 7 to 8:30 PM ✦ Union South Wisconsin Union Varsity Hall
Join the Wisconsin Book Festival for the public presentation of this year’s Go Big Read book, A Tale for the Time Being, a powerful story about the ways in which reading and writing connect two people who will never meet. Spanning the planet from Tokyo’s Electric Town to Desolation Sound, British Columbia, and connected by the great Pacific gyres, A Tale for the Time Being tells of a diary, washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox, and the profound effect it has on the woman who discovers it.
An Evening with David Sedaris David Sedaris
The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane Kelly Harms
Night Light Sign Painters Movie Faythe Levine
✦ Monday, November 4 ✦ 7:30 PM ✦ Overture Center Overture Hall
✦ Wednesday, November 6 ✦ 7 to 8 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
✦ Friday, November 8 ✦ 8 to 10 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
America’s preeminent humorist returns by popular demand, following three straight Overture Hall sellouts in the last five years. Sedaris rocketed to stardom (superstardom among public radio types) as a regular on Public Radio International’s This American Life and as author of the vivid and sometimes vitriolic memoir Me Talk Pretty One Day and the brand new Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls. He’s got a talent for turning a big hall into a living room filled with friends. Have a seat!
The HomeSweetHome network’s Free House Sweepstakes has just announced this year’s lucky winner of a brand-new, fullyloaded dream home: Janine Brown of Cedar Falls, Iowa. But is it Janey Brown or Nean Brown that’s won? One, a gentle woman whose only friend is her great-aunt Midge, and the other, a woman escaping her abusive boyfriend both fight for life and love in a dream house in Maine. The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane, the debut novel from Kelly Harms, will charm readers from the very first page.
There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper. Sign Painters, the first anecdotal history of the craft, features the stories of more than two dozen sign painters working in cities throughout the United States. The documentary and book profiles sign painters young and old, from the new vanguard working solo to collaborative shops such as San Francisco’s New Bohemia Signs and New York’s Colossal Media’s Sky High Murals.
Contributing Sponsor
Event Supporters Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission DreamBank Great Dane Pub and Brewing Company Madison Arts Commission
WISCONSINBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
1 p.m.
6 p.m.
Personal Effects Kokie & Podehl 11 AM-Noon
Friends of Madison Public Library
SunDAY ✦ October 20
Central Library Bubbler
Graphics: Barry, Brunetti & Ware 4-5 PM
UW Memorial Library
12 p.m.
5 p.m.
Plutarch’s Essays John D’Agata 4-5 PM
Friends of UW Libraries High School Friday
11 a.m.
4 p.m.
Book Sales
Line Breaks Rewind First Wave 8-9 PM
Smarter Than You Think 5:30-6:30 PM
10 a.m.
Illustration Conversation 2:30-3:30 PM
Jonathan Alter & David Maraniss 1:30-2:30 PM
Conditions of Love Dale Kushner 1-2 PM
A Room of One’s Own
WI People & Ideas Contest Reading 5-6 PM
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
Stay Awake Dan Chaon 5:30-6:30 PM
3 p.m.
Lawyers Who Shaped Dane County: Tom Ragatz, Paul Humphrey 11 AM- 1 PM
Overture Promenade Hall
9 p.m.
Monsters of Poetry 6:30-7:30 PM
Performance Poetry First Wave 5:30 PM
A Room of One’s Own
WISCONSINBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG ✦
8 p.m.
ReGENERATION Rebecca Ryan Noon-1 PM
Central Library Madison Room
American Craft Beer Cookbook 5-6 PM
Overture Promenade Hall
Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures 10:30- 11:30 AM
Central Library Local History Room
Proceeds benefit Wisconsin Book Festival
7 p.m.
2 p.m.
ROY G. BIV Jude Stewart 1-2 PM
10-11 AM
Central Library Teen Section
6 p.m.
Wisconsin Talk: Purnell, Raimy & Salmons 5-6 PM
Central Library Life with the Community Green & Gold 4-5 PM Room
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5 p.m.
1 p.m.
Central Library Fairshare CSA Bubbler Cookbook
Central Library Community Room
FriDAY ✦ October 18 4 p.m.
12 p.m.
Library as Incubator Project 10 AM to Noon
Expecting Better Emily Oster
hosted by Madison Public Library Foundation in Central Library Madison Room $25 Tickets Online
Public Enemy Bill Ayers 7-8 PM
11 a.m.
Central Library Library as Art Space Workshops:
Also on Thursday 11:30 AM-12:30 PM
Overture Center Capitol Theater
SPONSORS
SATURDAY ✦ October 19
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WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
Thursday ✦ October 17 5 p.m. Central Library Bubbler
6 p.m.
7 p.m.
8 p.m.
Philosophical Portraits 5:30-6:30PM
9 p.m.
10 a.m.
Central Library Community Room
Hip Hop Arts Showcase First Wave 7:30-9 PM
Monona Terrace Lecture Hall
Zolotow Lecture: Leonard Marcus 7:30-8:30PM
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
The Men Who Lost America 7-8 PM
Central Library Bubbler
Central Library Community Room
Also on Thursday 5:30-6:30 PM
Meet & Greet BILL AYERS
Great Dane Brew Pub: Downtown
I Believe in Zero Caryl Stern 7-8 PM
Lost at Sea Jon Ronson 8:30-9:30 PM
Wisconsin Historical Museum
Also on Friday 9 AM-2 PM Overture Center
2 p.m.
3 p.m.
Central Library Wheel Fever Meet at corner Bike Ride of Mifflin & Henry 10-11AM Writing the Unthinkable: Dan Chaon, Lynda Barry 11AM-2PM
Inside the Food Network: 2:30-3:30 PM
Central Library Jewelweed Community David Rhodes 10-11AM Room
Public Poets Conversation 11:30-12:30
Fantasy Lit G Willow Wilson 1-2PM
Central Library Children’s Section
Golianthis Hercules 11:30-12:30
Saige: Girl of the Year Jessie Haas 1-2 PM
Overture Promenade Hall
Film: Saige Paints the Sky 11:30-12:30
7 p.m.
8 p.m.
9 p.m.
4 p.m.
Sea Creatures Susanna Daniel 5:30-6:30 PM
The Book of Matt Stephen Jimenez 7-8 PM
Humor Writing Showcase 8:30-9:30 PM
The Wisconsin Book Festival is hosted by Madison Public Library in partnership with the Madison Public Library Foundation. Festival sponsors make this event possible through their private support. We’d like to thank your 2013 Wisconsin Book Festival sponsors for their generosity and dedication to the sharing of ideas.
Signature Sponsor
Class A Baseball Lucas Mann 2:30-3:30 PM
Also on Saturday 9:30 AM to 2 PM
Also on Saturday 11 AM to 5 PM
Also on Thursday 5:30-6:30 PM
MadCAP: Return of the Glass Slipper
Madison Print & Resist
Meet & Greet Stephen Jimenez
Overture Center Kids in the Rotunda
Helen C White College LIbrary
hosted by Madison Public Library Foundation in Central Library Art Gallery $25 Tickets Online Proceeds benefit Wisconsin Book Festival
Sons of the Prophet Noon-1 PM
Film: Lemon Lemon Andersen 6-7:30 PM Jane Addams Book Awards 1-2 PM
Civil War Letters of Guy C. Taylor 10-11 AM
Queen of the Air Dean Jensen 1-2 PM
✦ Thu, Oct 17 – Sat, Oct 19 ✦ 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM Thursday & Friday ✦ 10:30 AM to 2 PM Saturday The largest used-book sale in Wisconsin includes literature, history, children’s books, science, art, philosophy, reference texts, foreign language books, and more. Videos, DVDs, CDs, and LPs are available. Open to the public.
Central Library Garage ✦ Thu, Oct 17 – Sat, Oct 19 ✦ Noon to 6 PM Thursday ✦ 10 AM to 6 PM Friday ✦ 9 AM to 2 PM Saturday This is the first big book sale in the new Central Library! Stop by for great deals on used books and other materials. Proceeds support The Friends of the Madison Public Library’s efforts to provide volunteer support and recognition, advocacy, and funds for special projects and collections that the Library could otherwise not afford.
Friends of the CCBC Helen C White College Library Library School Commons ✦ Sat, Oct 19 ✦ 8 AM to 2 PM The sale features hundreds of new and gently used children’s and young adult books at bargain prices.
Passing the Mic Tribute Showcase: Lemon Andersen, Gia Scott-Heron 8-10 PM
Festival Sponsors
WI Poet Laureate Max Garland 4-5 PM Sister Jody LePage 3-4 PM
venue information Central Library 201 W. Mifflin St., (608) 266-6300
Overture Center for the Arts 201 State St., (608) 258-4141
Great Dane Pub & Brewery 123 E. Doty St., (608) 284-0000
A Room of One’s Own 315 W. Gorham St., (608) 257-7888
Helen C White College Library 600 N Park St., (608) 262-3245
Wisconsin Historical Museum 30 N Carroll St., (608) 264-6555
UW Memorial Library 728 State St., (608) 262-3193
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery 330 N. Orchard St., (608) 316-4300
UW Union South 1308 W. Dayton St., (608) 890-3000
Wisconsin Veterans Museum 30 West Mifflin St., (608) 267-1799
bonus events in October & November An Evening with Ruth Ozeki Go Big Read presentation ✦ Monday, October 28 ✦ 7 to 8:30 PM ✦ Union South Wisconsin Union Varsity Hall
Join the Wisconsin Book Festival for the public presentation of this year’s Go Big Read book, A Tale for the Time Being, a powerful story about the ways in which reading and writing connect two people who will never meet. Spanning the planet from Tokyo’s Electric Town to Desolation Sound, British Columbia, and connected by the great Pacific gyres, A Tale for the Time Being tells of a diary, washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox, and the profound effect it has on the woman who discovers it.
An Evening with David Sedaris David Sedaris
The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane Kelly Harms
Night Light Sign Painters Movie Faythe Levine
✦ Monday, November 4 ✦ 7:30 PM ✦ Overture Center Overture Hall
✦ Wednesday, November 6 ✦ 7 to 8 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
✦ Friday, November 8 ✦ 8 to 10 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
America’s preeminent humorist returns by popular demand, following three straight Overture Hall sellouts in the last five years. Sedaris rocketed to stardom (superstardom among public radio types) as a regular on Public Radio International’s This American Life and as author of the vivid and sometimes vitriolic memoir Me Talk Pretty One Day and the brand new Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls. He’s got a talent for turning a big hall into a living room filled with friends. Have a seat!
The HomeSweetHome network’s Free House Sweepstakes has just announced this year’s lucky winner of a brand-new, fullyloaded dream home: Janine Brown of Cedar Falls, Iowa. But is it Janey Brown or Nean Brown that’s won? One, a gentle woman whose only friend is her great-aunt Midge, and the other, a woman escaping her abusive boyfriend both fight for life and love in a dream house in Maine. The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane, the debut novel from Kelly Harms, will charm readers from the very first page.
There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper. Sign Painters, the first anecdotal history of the craft, features the stories of more than two dozen sign painters working in cities throughout the United States. The documentary and book profiles sign painters young and old, from the new vanguard working solo to collaborative shops such as San Francisco’s New Bohemia Signs and New York’s Colossal Media’s Sky High Murals.
Contributing Sponsor
Event Supporters Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission DreamBank Great Dane Pub and Brewing Company Madison Arts Commission
WISCONSINBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
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Personal Effects Kokie & Podehl 11 AM-Noon
Friends of Madison Public Library
SunDAY ✦ October 20
Central Library Bubbler
Graphics: Barry, Brunetti & Ware 4-5 PM
UW Memorial Library
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Plutarch’s Essays John D’Agata 4-5 PM
Friends of UW Libraries High School Friday
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Book Sales
Line Breaks Rewind First Wave 8-9 PM
Smarter Than You Think 5:30-6:30 PM
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Illustration Conversation 2:30-3:30 PM
Jonathan Alter & David Maraniss 1:30-2:30 PM
Conditions of Love Dale Kushner 1-2 PM
A Room of One’s Own
WI People & Ideas Contest Reading 5-6 PM
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
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Stay Awake Dan Chaon 5:30-6:30 PM
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Lawyers Who Shaped Dane County: Tom Ragatz, Paul Humphrey 11 AM- 1 PM
Overture Promenade Hall
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Monsters of Poetry 6:30-7:30 PM
Performance Poetry First Wave 5:30 PM
A Room of One’s Own
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ReGENERATION Rebecca Ryan Noon-1 PM
Central Library Madison Room
American Craft Beer Cookbook 5-6 PM
Overture Promenade Hall
Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures 10:30- 11:30 AM
Central Library Local History Room
Proceeds benefit Wisconsin Book Festival
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2 p.m.
ROY G. BIV Jude Stewart 1-2 PM
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Central Library Teen Section
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Wisconsin Talk: Purnell, Raimy & Salmons 5-6 PM
Central Library Life with the Community Green & Gold 4-5 PM Room
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Central Library Fairshare CSA Bubbler Cookbook
Central Library Community Room
FriDAY ✦ October 18 4 p.m.
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Library as Incubator Project 10 AM to Noon
Expecting Better Emily Oster
hosted by Madison Public Library Foundation in Central Library Madison Room $25 Tickets Online
Public Enemy Bill Ayers 7-8 PM
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WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
Saturday ✦ Oct 19 continued from page 5 Madison Print & Resist Exhibitors from around the country ✦ 11 AM to 5 PM ✦ Helen C White College Library
E.M. Kokie
Nick Podehl
Personal Effects E.M. Kokie, Nick Podehl
Madison Print & Resist is a one-day show of printed matter, including posters, stickers, zines, journals, and books. Exhibitors from across the country include experimental publishers, visual artists, artisanal bookmakers and printers, radical imprints, grassroots zine authors, and activist designers — an array of subversively creative print-media artists and publishers, including Just Seeds and Xexoxial.
✦ 11 AM to Noon ✦ Central Library Teen Section
The event brings together the author and audiobook narrator of a gripping YA novel about a boy’s attempts to deal with the loss of his older brother in Iraq. The author and narrator discuss how to present difficult topics to teens and the various aspects of authorship, and show how different voices make a book more interesting with a sideby-side reading.
ReGENERATION: A Manifesto for America’s Next Leaders Rebecca Ryan ✦ Noon to 1 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
If you knew the future, what would you do differently? Economist and generational expert Rebecca Ryan shares her futuristic view in her newest book, ReGENERATION: A Manifesto for America’s Next Leaders, to answer the question on through seasons. In winter now, America faces choices about how it will evolve into spring, a process that will change how Americans spend, relate, collaborate, work and live.
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Sons of the Prophet Forward Theater Company & Verse Wisconsin
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✦ Noon to 1 PM ✦ Overture Center Promenade Hall
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Forward Theater Company opens the 2013-14 season with the Wisconsin premiere of Sons of the Prophet by acclaimed playwright Stephen Karam. A dark comedy about one family’s ability to withstand a hailstorm of misfortunes, the play’s main character is a distant relation of Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran, author of The Prophet. To complement the production, Verse Wisconsin invited Madison-area writers to create original poetry in response to the play’s source material and subject matter.
ROY G. BIV Jude Stewart ✦ 1 to 2 PM ✦ Central Library Bubbler
Picture these in your mind’s eye: A blackened tomato. The word YELLOW written in blue type. A fresh, unsullied watercolor set. The leafy greens of Ireland. Your Jude Stewart football team’s colors. Color means something. Drawing on a broad array of disciplines and brimming with wit and felicity throughout, Jude Stewart’s ROY G. BIV unlocks a whole new way of looking at the world, via the entertaining and exceedingly surprising lens that is color.
Jonathan Alter
David Maraniss
The Center Holds Jonathan Alter talks with David Maraniss ✦ 1:30 to 2:30 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
The Conditions of Love Dale Kushner ✦ 1 to 2 PM ✦ Central Library Madison Room
In 1953, ten-year-old Eunice lives in the rural backwaters of Wisconsin with her outrageously narcissistic mother, a manicuriste and movie star worshipper. Throughout this stunning debut novel, Eunice is tested by destructive forces. Her innocence is lost and regained through her ability to confront and absorb change and an innate capacity for joy. The Conditions of Love explores how destiny is wrestled from fate, how place and culture affect who we are, and how the bonds of friendship and love create a home for us in the world.
Jane Addams Book Awards Reading
Jonathan Alter follows up on his acclaimed bestseller, The Promise: President Obama, Year One, with a dramatic look at the last part of Obama’s first term and successful reelection in The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, which offers both historical sweep and stunning new details about the pivotal 2011-2012 period. Alter talks with author David Maraniss, pulling back the curtain on the campaign and detailing the back story of the big events of our time. At the heart of this fast-paced blend of journalism and history is a story about where the country could have gone, and where it is headed.
Ivan Brunetti
Lynda Barry
Briony Morrow-Cribbs
Chris Ware
WILPF Madison ✦ 1 to 2 PM ✦ A Room of One’s Own
Join teachers, students and members of the Madison branch of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in a discussion of the 60th annual Jane Addams award-winning children’s books. Learn how you can use the books in the classroom or living room to help children learn about and practice peace and justice in their lives. This session will feature readings, book displays and a roundtable discussion of this year’s winners: Each Kindness and We’ve Got A Job.
Queen of the Air Dean Jensen ✦ 1 to 2 PM ✦ Wisconsin Historical Museum 1st Floor
She was simply known as Leitzel. Just four-foot-nine and a mere 94 pounds, Lillian Leitzel was one of the most famous women in the world at the turn of the 20th Century. Her feats as an aerialist mesmerized crowds across the globe and for two decades during its golden age, she was the star of the Big Top. In Queen of the Air: A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus, author and former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel art critic Dean Jensen brings Leitzel back to life in a beautifully written narrative.
Illustration Conversation Briony Morrow-Cribbs, Lynda Barry, Ivan Brunetti, Chris Ware ✦ 2:30 to 3:30 PM ✦ Central Library Bubbler
Artists Briony Morrow-Cribbs, Lynda Barry, Ivan Brunetti, and Chris Ware gather in Madison Public Library’s Bubbler space for an intimate conversation about illustration. They tackle many deep questions: How does illustration help tell a story? What do images bring to the text? Why do illustrated stories make my brain feel different?
Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere Lucas Mann ✦ 2:30 to 3:30 PM ✦ Central Library Madison Room
An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town follows the travails of the players and the lives of their dedicated fans. Awardwinning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut, telling of the story of the Clinton LumberKings’ 2010 season. Part sports story, part cultural exploration, part memoir, Class A is a moving and unique study of why we play, why we watch, and why we remember.
WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
Sister: An African American Life in Search of Justice
Stephen Jimenez
Jody LePage ✦ 3 to 4 PM ✦ Wisconsin Historical Museum 1st Floor
This oral history highlights an extraordinary individual, Sylvia Bell White, who moved north as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career and a freedom defined in part by wartime rhetoric about American ideals. In Milwaukee she and her brothers persevered through racial rebuffs and discrimination to find work. Yet when a Milwaukee police officer killed her younger brother Daniel Bell in 1958, the Bell family suspected a racial murder but could do nothing to prove it. When one of the officers involved in the incident came forward 20 years later, Sylvia was the driving force behind her family’s quest for justice.
Attempts at Love in Greece John D’Agata ✦ 4 to 5 PM ✦ Central Library Bubbler
As the resurgence of the essay continues, John D’Agata takes a look at Mestrius Plutarch, a 2nd century Greek writer who might also be one of history’s most innovative essayists. D’Agata reads excerpts from his forthcoming book, Attempts at Love in Greece, a collection of Plutarch translations.
Wisconsin Poet Laureate Max Garland Max Garland ✦ 4 to 5 PM ✦ A Room of One’s Own
Max Garland
John D’Agata
Graphic Novelist Panel Lynda Barry, Ivan Brunetti, Chris Ware
Celebrated graphic novelists Lynda Barry, Ivan Brunetti, and Chris Ware discuss their most recent works. Barry’s The Freddie Stories traces a year in the life of the youngest member of the dysfunctional Mullen family. With consummate skill, Barry writes about the cruelty of children at that vulnerable age when the friends they make and the paths they choose can forever change their lives. Brunetti’s eye-popping illustrated autobiography, Aesthetics: A Memoir, traces his artistic trajectory and output, from youthful doodles to cover illustrations and comic strips. Aesthetics unearths a trove of previously unpublished materials, including working drawings, sketches for cartoons, book covers, personal photographs, and items from the artist’s collection of toys and handmade objects. With the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence, sometimes it’s reassuring — perhaps even necessary — to have something to hold on to. Ware’s Building Stories is just that thing. Whether feeling alone by yourself or alone with someone else, this book sympathizes with the crushing sense of life wasted, opportunities missed, and creative dreams dashed.
Sea Creatures Susanna Daniel ✦ 5:30 to 6:30 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
In Sea Creatures, a riveting domestic drama by Susanna Daniel, a mother must make the unthinkable choice between her husband and her son. “While Miami has inspired its satirical works of genius, chilling mystery novels and excellent accounts of Cuban exile, we’ve mostly run short on first-rate literature... But Daniel, with Sea Creatures, gets it absolutely pitch perfect.”
Lemon Lemon Andersen ✦ 6 to 7:30 PM ✦ Overture Center Promenade Hall
The film, Lemon, brings to the screen Lemon Andersen’s struggle to free his family from poverty and pain as he exposes his most shocking secrets on the New York stage. It follows Andersen’s desperate battle to keep the past where it belongs and move into a brighter future. Redemption may lie within his grasp when none other than Spike Lee steps in to produce the show. The stakes are high. With the power of a cliffhanger, Andersen asks the larger question: Can any of us really escape the past?
5:30-6:30 PM ✦ Central Library Art Gallery Meet the author before his free event. Tickets are $25 at wisconsinbookfestival.org. Proceeds benefit the Book Festival.
The Book of Matt Stephen Jimenez ✦ 7 to 8 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
What if everything you knew about an historical event wasn’t really true? The Book of Matt is a provocative and spellbinding examination of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, unraveling for the first time the hidden complexities, motives, personalities, and events surrounding this landmark American crime.
Passing the Mic Tribute Showcase Lemon Andersen, Gia Scott-Heron ✦ 8 to 10 PM ✦ Overture Center Promenade Hall
Celebrate the lives, achievements and legacies of three pioneers through poetry, music, dance, spoken word, and hip hop theater. UW-Madison’s own legendary bassist, Richard Davis, who was named the 2014 NEA Jazzmaster. Gia ScottHeron reads some classic works from her father’s collection and performs original pieces from her own collection, and friends and family of Vietnam will read and perform pieces from his recently published poetry collection.
Michelle Wildgen’s Humor Writing Showcase Emma Straub, Lindsay Hunter, Lucas Mann, Michelle Wildgen ✦ 8:30 to 9:30 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
Michelle Wildgen
Novelist and Tin House executive editor Michelle Wildgen hosts an evening with some of the Book Festival’s funniest talent. Enjoy the featured authors as they read something a little less serious.
WISCONSINBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
✦ 4 to 5 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Max Garland, reads a selection of his poetry. The Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission praised his poetry for its richness of language, human understanding, and accessibility to broad audiences. In his role, Garland hopes to “reach out to those who may feel alienated from the world of poetry (or art), and yet have deeply felt experiences to record and honor.” Garland is “interested in promoting the connection between poetry and place, and urging young, as well as young-at-heart, writers to write of the places they know and explore their relationships with those places in poetry.”
Stephen Jimenez Meet & Greet
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WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL ✦ OCTOBER 17-20, 2013
Sunday ✦ Oct 20 Wheel Fever Bike Ride Jesse Gant & Nicholas Hoffman ✦ 10 to 11 AM ✦ Central Library: Meet on the corner of Mifflin and Henry streets
After a short talk about their new book, authors Nicholas Hoffman and Jesse Gant will lead a historical bike ride through downtown Madison beginning and ending at Madison Central Library.
Jewelweed David Rhodes ✦ 10 to 11 AM ✦ Central Library Community Room
Jesse Gant and Nicholas Hoffman
David Rhodes
Allen Salkin
Jessie Haas
With Jewelweed, beloved author David Rhodes returns to the Driftless Region, and introduces a cast of characters who find themselves struggling to find a new sense of belonging in the present moment, sometimes with the help of peach preserves or mashed potato pie. Rich with a sense of empathy and wonder, Jewelweed offers a vision in which the ordinary becomes mythical, and the seemingly mundane is transformed into revelatory beauty.
Writing the Unthinkable Lynda Barry, Dan Chaon ✦ 11 AM to 2 PM ✦ Central Library Bubbler
This workshop aims to create a sustainable writing practice for anyone, at any level, who is interested in writing but has had a hard time doing it. The method shared uses a common but extraordinary sort of memory almost of all of us have; the instant kind that floods us when a certain smell or a song triggers a vivid image. It’s the kind of memory that is unwilled, something that feels somehow on-going and plastic, getting to a living place where a story is happening. Registration is required for this event. You can register online at wisconsinbookfestival.org/writing-the-unthinkable
In Search of Golianthus Hercules Jennifer Angus
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✦ 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM ✦ Central Library Children’s Section
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Jennifer Angus reads and shows illustrations from her debut novel, In Search of Golianthus Hercules. In 1890 Jennifer Angus England, 10-year-old Henri discovers that not only can he communicate with insects but that he, too, is among their tribe. Angus builds this fantastical premise with wellplaced scenes in which Henri’s own deep skepticism cleverly encourages the reader to join willingly in his discoveries, which include a housefly that can read, and a flea circus whose performance improves when Henri translates the ringmaster’s orders. Even as his concerns become increasingly concentrated on the small world of insects, his world seems to grow. The disappearance of Henri’s father creates a framing mystery that builds on the themes of identity and metamorphosis and wraps up in a satisfying and original denouement. Illustrated with period postcards and other historical images, this moving, well-conceived novel blends the spirit of Franz Kafka and the sly humor of Eva Ibbotson and is accessible for new fantasy readers while offering something different to established fantasy fans.
Public Poets Conversation Wendy Vardaman, Sarah Busse, Max Garland ✦ 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
Madison Poets Laureate Sarah Busse and Wendy Vardaman gather together poets from all walks of life for a conversation on public Wendy poetry. Max Garland, Sofia Snow, Peggy Vardaman Rogza, and Dasha Kelly join in to discuss what it means to be a “public” poet. What counts as a “public” poem? What do “poets laureate” do? What could they do? What’s a “Young Poet Laureate” and should Madison have one? And what does the idea of a laureate position look like when we place it in a broader cultural, civic and artistic context? What do poets laureate and political poets and hip hop and spoken word artists have in Sarah Busse common? How can traditional poetry and spoken word come together in the public square and should they?
Film Screening: Saige Paints the Sky Jessie Haas ✦ 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM ✦ Overture Center Promenade Hall
Life is changing for Saige. Inspired by her grandma, she organizes a Day of Beige at her school to show how boring the world would be without creativity and color. Things are finally starting to get better, and then grandma tells her of plans to sell her horse, Georgia. Can Saige find a way to keep the horse she loves,and help save the arts at her school?
Saige: Girl of the Year Jessie Haas ✦ 1 to 2:30 PM ✦ Central Library Children’s Section
Saige Copeland loves spending time on her grandma’s ranch, riding horses and painting. Her school made the tough choice to cut art classes, which means she’s lost her favorite subject. So when her grandma decides to organize a Save the Arts fundraiser and parade to benefit the school, Then her grandma is injured in an accident, and she wonders what she can do to help. Can Saige still raise money to protect the arts at school?
What Would Frodo Do? Faith, War, and the Birth of Modern Fantasy Literature G. Willow Wilson ✦ 1 to 2 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
What is the relationship between faith and fantasy? Why do great works of fantasy literature so often emerge during times of war and conflict? Today, as the Arab Spring and the War on Terror continue to shape the narrative of modern Islam, a new wave of Muslim fantasists is emerging, challenging the status quo both within the faith and without. This talk explores the emergence of the modern fantasy genre, from JRR Tolkien to Saladin Ahmed, to find the answers. G. Willow Wilson appears in partnership with the UW Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions.
From Scratch: Inside the Food Network Allen Salkin ✦ 2:30 to 3:30 PM ✦ Central Library Community Room
The Food Network has risen from obscurity and ridicule in the early ’90s to become a powerhouse of cable television, transforming chefs like Emeril Lagasse and Paula Deen into celebrities and changing food culture forever. With a light wit and balanced perspective, Allen Salkin, a former food and media reporter for the New York Times, presents the definitive history of the network from inception to the present day. Food Network devotees will delight at the inside knowledge of internal scandals, the intriguing biographies of their favorite star chefs, and an exclusive look at the ever-shifting lineup of executives and parent companies, unveiling a nuanced and rich tale of an empire that no one expected to survive. For up-to-the-minute details, visit
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