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THURSDAY 16 OCT 9 AM to 2:15 PM ✦ Thursday, Oct 16 ✦ Central Library
Elementary School Thursday Gustafer Yellowgold, Susan Apps-Bodilly, Julie Mata
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School-age programming expands with performances, author presentations, and workshops. Pre-registration by middle grade school groups is required. Events include a performance by Gustafer Yellowgold, a presentation by Susan Apps-Bodilly on her book, One Room Schoolhouse, and an animation demonstration by the Madison Public Library Media Lab and Julie Mata, author of the Kate Walden Directs series.
12:30 to 1:30 PM ✦ Thursday, Oct 16 Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
4 to 7:30 PM ✦ Thursday, Oct 16 Chazen Museum, Room L160
StoryBook: Warrington Colescott’s Venice
Bending the Frame: Image War/Image Peace
Rick Axsom
Fred Ritchin
Axsom, MMoCA curator, will engage in a conversation with artist Warrington Colescott, Professor Emeritus of Art at the UW-Madison, about his creation of Death in Venice (1971), a portfolio of ten etchings inspired by Thomas Mann’s novella. Colescott will talk about his stay in Venice and how he wished to re-imagine Death in Rick Axsom Venice according to his own personal read of it. Prints from Colescott’s Death in Venice portfolio are on view in StoryBook: Narrative in Contemporary Art.
We’re excited to have the Midwest Regional Conference of the Society of Photographic Educators in Madison during this year’s Festival. Fred Ritchin, dean of the school at the International Center for Photography, will discuss how to affect positive societal changes using photographic images particularly as the purpose and effectiveness of media has been called into question. Following the presentation, PhotoMidwest and the Society for Photographic Education will host a reception for Ritchin at Tripp Commons in the UW Memorial Union from 5-7:30. Co-presented by the Society for Photographic Education and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the UW-Madison.
3:30 PM ✦ Thursday, Oct 16 Birge Hall, Room B302
5 to 6 PM ✦ Thursday, Oct 16 Central Library: The Bubbler
Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot
Barracuda in the Attic
Sir Peter Crane Perhaps the world’s most distinctive tree, Ginkgo is a botanical oddity and a widely recognized botanical “living fossil.” Wild Ginkgo exists only in China, but today it is beloved for the elegance of its leaves, prized for its edible nuts, and revered for its longevity. It is one of the world’s most popular street trees and herbal medicines. The Sir Peter Crane lecture will explore the evolutionary and cultural history of the species from its mysterious origin through its proliferation, drastic decline, and ultimate resurgence. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival.
Kipp Friedman Whether shooting pool with mobster Crazy Joey Gallo or attending a dinner party hosted by an aged but spry Kipp Friedman Groucho Marx, Kipp Friedman led a colorful childhood. The youngest son of celebrated writer and satirist Bruce Jay Friedman, Kipp looks back fondly on the amusing, sometimes confusing events that helped shape his life in this moving tribute to growing up among a family of creative artists.
6:30 to 7:30 PM ✦ Thursday, Oct 16 The Kitchen Gallery
Delancey: A Man, A Woman, A Restaurant, A Marriage Molly Wizenberg When Molly Wizenberg married Brandon Pettit, she vowed always to support him, to work with him to make their hopes and dreams real. While Delancey is a funny and frank look at behind-the-scenes restaurant life, it is also a bravely honest and moving portrait of a tender young marriage and two partners who had to find out how to let each other go in order to come together. Presented in partnership with Bowen Appetit.
Devil’s Lake Reading Danielle Evans, Rebecca Dunham
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The Charlotte Zolotow Lecture Paul Fleischman
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of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Ellenberg shows us that math is a science of not being wrong, worked out through centuries of hard work and argument. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival.
6:30 to 7:30 PM ✦ Thursday, Oct 16 Central Library: The Bubbler
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Paul Fleischman will discuss his career as a children’s book author and his long association with a legendary editor at Harper & Row. Fleischman is a prolific and versatile author of fiction, nonfiction, and picture books. He won the Newbery Medal for Joyful Paul Fleischman Noise: Poems for Two Voices, and his most recent book is Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines. The 17th Annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture, sponsored by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, is free and open to the public.
Molly Wizenberg
Jordan Ellenberg
Devil’s Lake, an online literary journal out of UW-Madison’s MFA program, publishes necessary work — poems, stories, and essays — that speak to the human issues of our contemporary moment. This year, we proudly present Wisconsin-based writers Danielle Evans and Rebecca Dunham. Evans and Dunham are the 2014 Devil’s Lake Driftless Prize judges, and they will read from their works, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self and Glass Armonica.
5:30 to 6:30 PM ✦ Thursday, Oct 16 Central Library: Community Room
How Not to Be Wrong Jordan Ellenberg In partnership with the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities, we present Jordan Ellenberg to discuss how math touches everything we do, allowing us to see the hidden structures beneath the messy and chaotic surface of our daily lives. The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set
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FRIDAY 17 OCT 7:00 to 8:00 PM ✦ Thursday, Oct 16 Wisconsin Veteran’s Museum
5 to 6:30 PM ✦ Friday, Oct 17 Overture Center for the Arts: Promenade Hall
5:30 to 6:30 PM ✦ Friday, Oct 17 Central Library: Community Room 301
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
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Missing Class: How Seeing Class Cultures Can Strengthen Social Movement Groups
Amy S. Greenberg Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s definitive history of the 1846 conflict paints an intimate portrait of the major players and their world, including the birth of both America’s first national antiwar movement and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
First Wave Three First Wave poets will put their unique poetic spin on the Race to Equity Report, one of the most troubling documents that has exposed the profound inequality existent in Dane County among communities of color, particularly African-Americans and whites related to poverty, achievement gap issues and incarceration rates and beyond. The poems will be responded to by three renowned local and internationally acclaimed artists and community intellectuals. Presented in partnership with 100 State, the Morgridge Center, the YWCA, the Madison Media Institute, the Hip Hop Revival, UCAN. Sean Lewis 5 to 6 PM ✦ Friday, Oct 17 Great Dane Pub: Pool Hall
We Make Beer Sean Lewis
Deborah Crombie
7:30 to 8:30 PM ✦ Thursday, Oct 16 Central Library: Community Room
To Dwell in Darkness Deborah Crombie New York Times bestselling author, Deborah Crombie, delivers a powerful tale of intrigue, betrayal, and lies that plunge married London detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James into the darkness that lies at the heart of murder. As Kincaid begins to gather the facts of a deadly bombing, he finds every piece of the puzzle yields an unexpected pattern, including the disappearance of a mysterious bystander. What he discovers will leave him questioning his belief in the job and remind him just how vulnerable his precious family is. 8 to 9:30 PM ✦ Thursday, Oct 16 Overture Center for the Arts: Promenade Hall
Passing the Mic/All Elements Hip Hop Arts Showcase First Wave, reg e gaines, Chinaka Hodge This spoken word & hip hop event is hosted by First Wave and features the Midwest Spoken Word and Hip Hop AllStars. Come hear youth poetry slam champions and hip hop artists from cities across the Midwest including Chicago, the Twin Cities, Milwaukee and Indianapolis and see two of America’s top spoken word and hip hop artists, reg e gaines and Chinaka Hodge.
Take a journey into craft beer-making and what you can find in the quest to brew the perfect pint. A visit to Blue Hills Brewery led Sean Lewis on an intensive study of brewing and then a nation-spanning journey into the heart and the art of beer making. What Lewis found along the way was a group of like-minded craftsmen who saw their competitors as cherished friends. We Make Beer is not just a celebration of American brewing, but of the spirit that binds brewers together. Presented in partnership with the Great Dane Pub.
Betsy Leondar-Wright Missing Class looks at class dynamics in 25 groups that span the gamut of social movement organizations in the US today, including the labor movement, grassroots community organizing, and groups working on global causes in the anarchist and progressive traditions. It describes class differences in paths to activism, attitudes toward leadership, Betsy Leondar-Wright methods of conflict resolution, ways of using language, diversity practices, use of humor, methods of recruiting, and group process preferences. Missing Class makes a persuasive case that seeing class culture differences could enable activists to strengthen their own groups and build more durable cross-class alliances for social justice. 5:30 to 6:30 PM ✦ Friday, Oct 17 Central Library: Community Room 302
Snow in May Andrea Potos
Evie Robillard
5 to 6 PM ✦ Friday, Oct 17 Central Library: The Bubbler
A Good Year Andrea Potos, Evie Robillard, Katrin Talbot, Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva
Kseniya Melnik A remote Siberian town with a darkly fascinating history teems with life in this luminous linked debut collection of short stories. Melnik introduces us to a surprising mix of newly minted professionals, ex-prisoners, intellectuals, musicians, and faithful Party workers. By Kseniya Melnik blending history and fable, each of Melnik’s stories transports us somewhere completely new. Weaving through the last half of the twentieth century, Snow in May is an inventive and gorgeously rendered portrait of living on the periphery where, despite their isolation, and perhaps because of it, the most seemingly insignificant moments can be beautiful, haunting, and effervescent. 5:30 to 6:30 PM ✦ Friday, Oct 17 A Room of One’s Own
Andrea Potos, Evie Robillard, Katrin Talbot, and Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva are Madison poets whose different styles and sensibilities have not kept them from nurturing each other’s work in a poetry group for more than a decade. This year, all four have new chapbooks to celebrate. Potos will read from New Girl; Robillard from The Willowslip; Talbot from noun’d, verb; and Zurlo-Cuva from The Beauty of This World.
Katrin Talbot
Wisconsin People & Ideas Writing Contest Reading 2014 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters
Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva
Wisconsin People & Ideas Magazine hosts annual statewide fiction and poetry contests, with cash awards of up to $500 for works by the best writers as well as other prizes, including a reading at the Wisconsin Book Festival. Featured poets reading this year include Dion Kempthorne (Richland Center), Jeanie Tomasko (Madison), and Judith Harway (Shorewood). Karen Loeb (Eau Claire), Jennifer Sauer (Madison), and Marilyn Shapiro Leys (Prairie du Chien).
9 AM to 2:15 PM ✦ Friday, Oct 17 ✦ Central Library
High School Friday 2014 First Wave, Media Lab Jordan Ellenberg
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Chinaka Hodge
A program-rich schedule is designed to engage students in the Wisconsin Common Core Standards within a dynamic learning environment. 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. The focus of this year’s High School Friday is to highlight the varied nature of work, showcasing multiple creative avenues that can be pursued through college and career preparedness.
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SATURDAY 18 OCT 10 AM to 11 AM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: Community Room
5:30 PM ✦ Friday, Oct 17 Cooperative Children’s Book Center Elizabeth Burr Room 401, Teacher Education
Eyes Wide Open
Where Are Children’s Books Going?
Paul Fleischman
B. G. Hennessy Author B. G. Hennessy will offer her perspectives on the future of children’s books, in light of apps and eBooks, as part of the grand opening of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center in its new location. A reception will follow her presentation.
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Jim Moore
Robin Chapman
7 to 8 PM ✦ Friday, Oct 17 Central Library: The Bubbler
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Wisconsin Historical Museum
Underground: New and Selected Poems Jim Moore Underground: New and Selected Poems is the long overdue career retrospective of Jim Moore, a poet of great depth and generosity who has steadily built a devoted following over the course of three decades and seven books. This volume gathers the best of his previous work as well as twenty new poems that showcase a poet whose work should appeal to fans of Mary Oliver and Billy Collins. In poems that are frank and accessible, Moore is a keen observer, who is not afraid to risk sentimentality to get at emotional truths beneath the surface of life. 7 to 8 PM ✦ Friday, Oct 17 PhotoMidwest Studio
Dappled Things Robin Chapman Dappled Things pairs the poetry of Robin Chapman with the photogravures of Peter Miller. This lavishly printed portfolio-book explores new realms of correspondence between graphic and poetic imagination. The Hopkins-like soundscape of Chapman’s keenly observed poetry of her Wisconsin surroundings resonates superbly with Peter Miller’s landscapes of Japan and Asia. Each poem brings out new meanings and metaphors inspired by the prints, and vice versa.
Terese Allen
Ron Faiola
Robin Shepard
8 to 9 PM ✦ Friday, Oct 17 Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery H.F. DeLuca Forum
Science of the Supper Club Terese Allen, Ron Faiola, Robin Shepard This hallmark event spotlights the distinctive food, culture, and history of Wisconsin’s supper clubs. Presented in three “courses,” this celebration features the origins of the signature old fashioned cocktail, relish tray, fish fry, and other supper club hallmarks. The event begins with appetizers at 5 p.m. with a special happy hour SoundWaves lecture and concert, continues to the main course highlighting food samples, demonstrations, and talks from UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences faculty, and concludes at 8 p.m. with a special “dessert” with authors Terese Allen, Ron Faiola, and Robin Shepard. Register at wiscifest.org. 8 to 9 PM ✦ Friday, Oct 17 Dragonfly Lounge
Monsters of Poetry 2014 Join Madison’s own Monsters of Poetry Reading Series and the Wisconsin Book Festival for a night of autumnal fire. On October 17th, we are proud to present Cole Lavalais, William Waltz, Christopher Bolin, and Shara Lessley. Features a halftime raffle that will include signed copies of the readers’ books and other literary wonders. Come hang out! Your blood will be cidered, your hearts will turn, your minds will be raked congenially into piles in the yard! 9 to 10 PM ✦ Friday, Oct 17 Central Library: Community Room
Gail Sheehy
7:30 to 8:30 PM ✦ Friday, Oct 17 Central Library: Community Room
Daring: My Passages Gail Sheehy The author of the classic New York Times bestseller, Passages, returns with her inspiring memoir that chronicles her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking “girl” journalist in the 1960s to becoming a premier political profiler. Sheehy reflects on desire, ambition, and wanting it all: career, love, children, friends, social significance. Sheehy speaks from hard-won experience to today’s young women. Her fascinating, no-holdsbarred story is a testament to guts, smarts, and daring and offers a bold perspective on all of life’s passages. Hosted by David Maraniss.
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Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines is the briefing every high school reader needs to comprehend our riveting historical moment. Using history, sociology, and psychology for altitude, the book points out the principles driving events, showing readers how to see the global in the local.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory Caitlin Doughty Death. The universal equalizer. It doesn’t care how smart, attractive, wealthy, loved, or well-liked you are. In Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, Doughty reveals life’s terrifying secret - we all die. We systematCaitlin Doughty ically deny it until it happens, and when it does, the industry shrouds the preparations, perpetuating more fear. By keeping it hidden, however, the funeral industry isn’t cheating us out of dollars, but death itself. In this peek behind-the-black-curtain, Doughty mirthfully exposes the chilling and gory details of what happens to your corpse after death in terms of decomposition and embalming.
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Armed with Nonviolence: Stories from the Fight for Human Rights Ann Bausum This program for teens and adults draws from Ann Bausum’s books Marching to the Mountaintop, Freedom Riders, and With Courage and Cloth to show parallel uses of nonviolent resistance in the fight for human rights, from women picketing the White House in the 1910s for the right to vote, to participants in the Civil Ann Bausum Rights Movement using nonviolent protests to break down the barriers of segregation. Bausum shows how qualities like courage, ingenuity, camaraderie, and the influence of the news media have made the difference in winning fights for human rights. 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: The Bubbler
Vintage Susan Gloss At Hourglass Vintage in Madison, Wisconsin, every item in the boutique has a story to tell and so do the women whose lives the store touches. A small-town girl with a flair for fashion, Violet Turner had always dreamed of owning a shop like Hourglass Vintage. But while she values Susan Gloss the personal history behind each beautiful item she sells, Violet is running from her own past. An engaging story that beautifully captures the essence of friendship and style, Vintage is a charming tale of possibility, of finding renewal, love, and hope when we least expect it. 11 AM to 12 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: Children’s Program Room
A Christmas Wish for Corduroy B. G. Hennessy It’s almost Christmas, and Corduroy wishes he could be a child’s holiday gift, but he’s a plain bear, and nobody seems to notice him. He sets out across the store to ask Santa Claus for help. With warm humor and classic art, A Christmas Wish for Corduroy takes readers back to the beginning and shows how Corduroy became the beloved bear we know today. This is a heartwarming story about the power of hope, perseverance, and friendship — an important addition to any Corduroy collection.
11 AM to 12 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Alamo Doughboy Jennifer Rude Klett This detailed account of World War I is told through family interviews, US Army histories, service records, newspaper accounts, and letters from over there. It’s a true story about a private who served Jennifer Rude Klett with the Texas/Oklahoma Ninetieth Division, his two brothers and two cousins, all of whom grew up in the same small town in Minnesota and served in the war. Alamo Doughboy is a solid military history, yet it transcends the war book genre. It’s also about the home front, a boy and his dog, faith, love, courage, and duty. 11 AM to 12 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 A Room of One’s Own
Difficult Fruit Lauren Alleyne A collection of poems about coming into self-knowledge--of fighting for and winning personhood as a woman in the world--this offering from Trinidadian poet Lauren Alleyne grapples with personal experience. The poems form a lyric Lauren Alleyne memoir of the author’s life, chronicling a journey that includes coming to terms with violence and loss, celebrating love and connection, and standing witness in the world that shaped that journey. These poems are a movement through fracture--both necessary and unwarranted--toward wholeness and transformation. This debut collection introduces a striking new voice in poetry. 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: Community Room
Sisterland and the Madison Writers’ Studio Conversation Curtis Sittenfeld, Susanna Daniel, Michelle Wildgen, Mary Kay Zuravleff Sisterland tells the story of twins, Kate and Violet, who grow up extremely close until Kate makes a fateful decision that drives the sisters apart. Years later, the sisters find themselves drawn together once again, forced to face the secrets of the past. Funny, haunting, and written with deep empathy and wisdom, Sisterland is a novel about the obligation we have towards others and the responsibility we take for our own actions. Following the reading, novelists Curtis Sittenfeld, Susanna Daniel, Michelle Wildgen, and Mary Kay Zuravleff discuss the topics they found most daunting to write about: the sex scenes, the family issues, the characters they struggled to inhabit, or the topics they’ve decided not to write about at all.
June Melby
Angela Sorby
Bridget Birdsall
12 to 1 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Wisconsin Historical Museum
My Family and Other Hazards June Melby When June Melby was ten years old, her parents decided on a whim to buy the miniature golf course in the small Wisconsin town where they vacationed every summer. In My Family and Other Hazards, Melby recreates all the squabbling, confusion, and ultimately triumph, of one family’s quest to build something together. When her parents decide to sell the course years later, she reflects on what the course meant to her both as a child and an adult and gives us a funny, heart-warming memoir about saying goodbye to your childhood home. 12 to 1 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: The Bubbler
The Sleeve Waves Angela Sorby Inspired by thrift store knit sleeves, punk rock record sleeves, and, of course, print book sleeves, Sorby explores how the concrete world hails us in waves of color and sound. As Sorby’s tough, ironic, and subtly political voice repeatedly insists, we apprehend, use, and release more energy than we can possibly control. Meant to be read both silently and aloud, the poems in The Sleeve Waves meditate on how almost everything, like light and sound, comes to us in waves that break and vanish and yet continue. 1 to 2 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 A Room of One’s Own
Double Exposure Bridget Birdsall Alyx Atlas was raised as a boy, yet she knows something others don’t: she’s a girl, After she sustains a terrible beating, she and her mother move from California to Milwaukee where Alyx starts over as a girl. For the first time in her life, Alyx feels like she fits in. A dangerous game of Truth or Dare exposes Alyx’s difference, and Alyx must prove she’s a girl. Will Alyx find the courage to stand up for the truth of her personhood or will she run away like she’s always done?
Aneesh Chopra
1:30 to 2:30 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: Community Room
The Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government Aneesh Chopra In Innovative State, America’s first Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, tells the story of a new revolution in America. Chopra, who was tasked with leading the charge for a more open, tech-savvy government, shows how we can use technology to tackle our most vexing problems. Innovative State is a fascinating look at how to be smart, do more with less, and reshape American government for the twenty-first century. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival. 1:30 to 2:30 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: The Bubbler
Painted Cities Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski To those outside it, Pilsen is a vast barrio on the south side of Chicago. To Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, it is a world of violence and decay and beauty, of nuance and pure chance. It is a place where the smell of cooking frijoles is washed away by that of dead fish in the river, where vendettas are a daily routine, and where a fourteen-year-old immigrant might hold the ability bring people back from the dead. Simultaneously tough and tender, these stories mark the debut of a writer poised to represent his city’s literature for decades to come. 1:30 to 2:30 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Wisconsin Historical Museum
Son of Fortune Victoria McKernan Son of Fortune is the gripping sequel to The Devil’s Paintbox, by acclaimed historical fiction writer Victoria McKernan. Aiden Lynch is a survivor, and now that he’s reached the glittering city of San Francisco, promise lies ahead. Luck seems to favor him as he manages to stay one step ahead of trouble, leading him to a wealthy family and then the high-stakes poker game in which he wins a ship, fully outfitted and ready for trade. 2:30 to 3:30 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: The Bubbler
Further Joy John Brandon
Curtis Sittenfeld
Susanna Daniel
Michelle Wildgen
Mary Kay Zurvleff
In eleven expertly crafted stories, Brandon gives us a stunning assortment of people, all on the verge of finding out what they can get away with and what they can’t. Ranging from haunted deserts to alligator-filled swamps, these are stories of foul luck and strange visitations, delivered with deadpan humor by an unforgettable voice. Brandon brings his darkly American artistry to his first story collection, demonstrating once again that he belongs in the top ranks of contemporary writers.
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3 to 4 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Wisconsin Historical Museum
Seventh Generation Earth Ethics: Native Voices of Wisconsin Patty Loew This collection of Native biographies, one from each of the twelve Indian naPatty Loew tions of Wisconsin, introduces some of the most important figures in Native sustainability. These figures understood the cultural gravity that kept their people rooted to their ancestral lands and acted in ways that ensured the growth and success of future generations. In this way they honor the Ojibwe’s Seventh Generation philosophy, which cautions decision makers to consider how their actions will affect seven generations in the future — some 240 years. 3 to 4 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: Community Room
4 to 5 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery H.F. DeLuca Commons
Marketplace of the Marvelous Erika Janik Chiropractic care, herbal remedies, and the mantra “eight glasses of water a day” are commonplace today, but these and many other modern-day staples of healthy living were originally devised by the outcasts of nineteenth-century medicine. Erika Janik demonstrates the direct influences that those unorthodox Erika Janik methods have had on modern-day medical theory and practice. As the debate over alternative medicine’s authority continues, Marketplace of the Marvelous illustrates that today’s irregular treatments may be tomorrow’s mainstream. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival.
Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements
4:30 to 5:30 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: The Bubbler
Linda Gordon, Astrid Henry
All it takes is a quarter to change Owen Lerner’s life. When lightning strikes the coin he’s feeding into the parking meter, the pediatric psychiatrist survives, except that now he only wants to barbecue. The bolt of lightning that lifts Dr. Lerner into the air sends the entire Lerner clan into free fall, and Man Alive! follows along at that speed, capturing family-on-family pain with devastating humor and a rare generosity. This novel explores how much we are each allowed to change within a family — and without.
In partnership with the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities, we present co-authors Linda Gordon and Astrid Henry, who demonstrate that the post-Suffrage women’s movement focused on exploitation of women in the workplace as well as on inherent sexual rights. Showing how history books have obscured the notable activism by working-class and minority women in the past, Feminism Unfinished provides a much-needed corrective.
Man Alive! Mary Kay Zuravleff
5:30 to 6:30 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 A Room of One’s Own
Alena Rachel Pastan Elizabeth Suneby
Jennifer Bradbury
Farhana Zia
3 to 5 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: Children’s Program Room
2014 South Asia Book Award Ceremony Elizabeth Suneby, Jennifer Bradbury, Farhana Zia The 2014 South Asia Book Award Ceremony honors Elizabeth Suneby, author of Razia’s Ray of Hope: One Girl’s Dream of an Education; Jennifer Bradbury, author of A Moment Comes; and Farhana Zia, author of The Garden of My Imaan. This event is presented in partnership with the South Asia National Outreach Consortium. For more details about the books, authors, and the event, visit southasiabookaward.org. 3:30 to 4:30 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: The Bubbler
How to Sell Your Novel Chloe Benjamin, Ashley Ream, Judith Claire Mitchell Madison authors Chloe Benjamin (The Anatomy of Dreams), Judith Claire Mitchell (author of The Last Day of the War and the forthcoming A Reunion of Ghosts), and Ashley Ream (Losing Clementine), discuss the path to publication, from drafting to securing an agent, submitting to publishers, and revising with an editor. The panel will also include brief readings by each author and a Q&A. 8
With her evocative prose, Pastan matches the hothouse tension of Du Maurier’s Rebecca while infusing her new novel, Alena, with its own hairpin twists and turns and devastating denouement. From a dazzling look at the Venice Biennale to the inner workings of a cutting-edge museum set on a moody and atmospheric Cape Cod, Pastan offers a scintillating view of artistic, erotic, and emotional entanglements. Haunted and haunting, Alena is a provocative story that explores creative and romantic rivalry and the blurred border between art and artist.
Anthony Doerr
6 to 7 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr All the Light We Cannot See interweaves the lives of a young, blind French girl and an orphaned German boy whose paths collide as they try to survive the physical and emotional destruction of World War II. Throughout the novel, Doerr returns to the themes of light and time, nature and war, the courage and frailties of the human heart. All the Light We Cannot See is a lushly-written novel that will catapult its author onto the short lists of America’s greatest novelists. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival. 6:30 to 7:30 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: Third Floor
Wisconsin Book Festival Arts Reception Andy Adams, Laura Damon-Moore, Filter Photo Festival FlakPhoto’s Andy Adams teams with the BUBBLER to present the FlakPhoto Midwest Print Show. Laura Damon-Moore and the Library as Incubator Project present Art in the Library: an Indoor Picnic and The Wall of Words, drop-in art exercises using library materials as the starting point. Filter Photo surveys the contemporary photo book with diverse design, publication, aesthetic, and country of origin represented. Refreshments can be purchased from Underground Food Collective.
5:30 to 6:30 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: Community Roon
House of Coates Revisited: Lester B. Morrison, Little Brown Mushroom, and Other Lost Broken Men Brad Zellar Longtime Alec Soth collaborator Brad Zellar will talk about the unusual genesis of House of Coates (recently reissued by Coffee House Press), his relationship with the book’s reclusive protagonist, and how a full-immersion study of lonely men and isolation inspired the LBM Dispatch team to go out into America in search of social life and community. Presented in partnership with the UW Arts Institute and FlakPhoto.
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Mary Gordon
7:30 to 8:30 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: Community Room
The Liar’s Wife Mary Gordon The beloved author at her storytelling best: four wonderful novellas of relationships of Americans abroad and Europeans in America, both historical and contemporary. These stories dazzle on the surface, with beautifully rendered settings and vistas, and dig deep psychologically. At every turn Gordon reveals in her characters’ interactions those crucial flashes of understanding that change lives forever.
SUNDAY 19 OCT 8 to 10:30 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Town Center
9:30 AM to 10:30 AM ✦ Sunday, Oct 19 Central Library: Community Room
NerdNite
Perimeter: A Contemporary Portrait of Lake Michigan
Jordan Ellenberg Nerd Nite is a monthly-ish informal gathering at which nerds get together for nerdery of all sorts (well, mostly presentations and drinking). Nerds and non-nerds alike gather to meet, drink and learn something new. The science festival edition Nerd Nite will feature Jordan Ellenberg, Kristyn Masters, Emily Ruff, and Eric Caldera. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Science Festival. 8 to 10 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Overture Center for the Arts: Promenade Hall
OMAI’s Passing the Mic Tribute Chinaka Hodge, Dasha Kelly Nakila Robinson will be honored by those impacted by her ferocity, including a performance by the 8th cohort of First Wave. Guillermo Anderson, one of Central America’s most important artistic leaders, will showcase the majesty of Central American culture and how to support the next generation arriving to our nation. OMAI’s Associate Artistic Director Rain Wilson will close the event with a tribute to the life of Maya Angelou that also addresses the challenges facing our own community as outlined in the Race to Equity Report.
Kevin Miyazaki Commissioned by the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University to create an artwork reflecting on the importance of fresh water, Milwaukee-based photographer Miyazaki embarked on a two-week, 1,800-mile drive around Lake Michigan to produce what he calls “a contemporary portrait of Kevin Miyazaki Lake Michigan.” From residents, environmental scientists, and artists to a Native American water rights advocate, surfers, and commercial fishermen, Miyazaki also photographed the water as he went, creating waterscapes of the ever-changing lake affected by weather and time. Perimeter gathers these images together, creating a diverse portrait of both people and a place.
Michael Forster Rothbart
Danny Wilcox Frazier
Scott Strazzante
11 AM to 12 PM ✦ Sunday, Oct 19 Overture Center for the Arts: Promenade Hall
Photos From Home Michael Forster Rothbart, Danny Wilcox Frazier, Scott Strazzante Stephin Merritt
9 to 10 PM ✦ Saturday, Oct 18 Central Library: Community Room
101 Two-Letter Words Stephin Merritt From Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields comes this unique, witty book - a celebration of two-letter words, focusing on the 101 such words that count in Scrabble. Featuring original four-line poems by Merritt and color illustrations by Roz Chast, 101 Two-letter Words covers familiar words (go, hi, no, ox) as well as obscure ones (ka, oe, qi, xu). With the dark wit and clever wordplay of Edward Gorey and Shel Silverstein, this book is sure to delight not just Scrabble players and crossword puzzle fanatics but anyone in thrall to the weirdest corners of the English language.
Documentary photographers Michael Forster Rothbart, Scott Strazzante, and Danny Wilcox Frazier discuss and show photos from their books, all of which explore questions of home and how people’s lives change when the home/land changes. Forster Rothbart will discuss Would You Stay? about the devastating nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl scattered radioactive fallout across 30 countries in Europe. Scott Strazzante will discuss Common Ground about Illinois farmers Harlow and Jean Cagwin, and the transformation of their family farmer into a suburban neighborhood. Danny Wilcox Frazier will discuss Driftless: Photographs From Iowa about a changing Midwest of vanishing towns and transformed landscapes. 11 AM to 2 PM ✦ Sunday, Oct 19 Central Library: The Bubbler
How Many Words is a Picture Really Worth? Brad Zellar
10:30 AM to 12 PM ✦ Sunday, Oct 19 Starts at A Room of One’s Own Book Store
Run for Literacy A Benefit for the Literacy Network Our scenic route down State Street and through the UW-Madison campus is sure to please both avid runners and strolling supporters alike! Choose the 10K run, 5K run, or 5k walk, or bring the kids to the 10 AM Fun Run down State Street! Money raised helps keep classes and tutors free for low-literate adults in Dane County. For more information visit http://raceroster. com/events/2014/2650/run-for-literacy
In partnership with the UW Arts Institute and FlakPhoto, we present a workshop with author Brad Zellar. Photographs are spectacular crutches for writers, and excellent tools for summoning (or inventing) memories, exploring points of views, and collecting descriptive details. We’ll talk about different approaches and strategies for poetry, documentary non-fiction, fiction, and memoir. Working from a collection of photos, we’ll do a few quick exercises and work together to create a communal picture book composed of words and photographs. Each person should bring three small photographs (snapshots, personal, or found photos) to work with. Registration is required. Limit 20. Register at http:// host.evanced.info/madison/evanced/eventsignup. asp?ID=41112.
Michael Perry
11 AM to 12 PM ✦ Sunday, Oct 19 Central Library: Community Room
The Scavengers Michael Perry Life outside the Bubble Cities is rough. The world is short on food but full of trouble. After her family chose to take their chances OutBubble, Maggie decided it was time to grow up and grow tough. Rechristening herself Ford Falcon, she spends her days scavenging in a junkyard near her family’s makeshift house. When Ford finds her place ransacked and her family missing, she must prove she is brave enough to make it in this wild world alone and face whatever obstacles stand in the way of rescuing her loved ones. 12:30 to 1:30 PM ✦ Sunday, Oct 19 Central Library: Community Room 302
The Great Sand Fracas of Ames County Jerry Apps When the Alstage Mining Company proposes a frac sand mine in the village of Link Lake, events quickly escalate to a crisis. Reluctantly caught in the middle is Ambrose Adler, a reclusive, retired farmer with a secret. Will the village board vote to solve their budget problems with a cut of the mining profits? Will the mine create real jobs for local folks? Will defenders of the Trail Marker Oak literally draw a battle line in the sand? 12:30 to 1:30 PM ✦ Sunday, Oct 19 Central Library: Community Room 301
The Dog Year Ann Garvin Caught red-handed in a senseless act, Lucy is faced with a choice: get help or lose her medical license. Now, she’s reluctantly sharing her deepest fears with a bunch of strangers, avoiding her loneliness by befriending a troubled girl, pinning her hopes on her husband’s last gift, and getting involved with a rugged cop from her past. When she is adopted by a stray mutt and moves her group to the dog park, she begins to bond with the rag-tag, dog-loving addicts and discovers that a chaotic, unplanned life might be the sweetest of all. 1 to 2 PM ✦ Sunday, Oct 19 Central Library: Children’s Program Room
It’s an Orange Aardvark Michael Hall Five carpenter ants at home in their tree stump hear a noise. What is it? One ant thinks it is a hungry aardvark lurking outside the stump, just waiting to eat them. One ant makes a hole in the stump to see. Orange light floods the stump — it’s not an aardvark, proclaims the ant chorus. It’s orange! So what is lurking outside the stump? This very funny picture book features suspenseful page turns, a wonderful surprise ending, and an introduction to a rainbow of colors.
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SPONSORS 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 2014 Wisconsin Book Festival sponsors for their generosity and dedication to helping us learn, share, and create.
MORE EVENTS FOR BOOK LOVERS SEPT 26-OCT 30 ✦ All Day ✦ Central Library: Second Floor
The FlakPhoto Booklist Andy Adams We’ve teamed up with FlakPhoto creator Andy Adams to feature a selection of photography books drawn from the Madison Public Library collection. The FlakPhoto Booklist installation is on view Sept.
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26–Oct. 30 at the Central Library.
OCT 13-27 ✦ All Day ✦ Central Library: Madison Room Andy Adams
PhotoBook Exhibition Filter Photo Festival Gregory Harris, Assistant Curator of the DePaul Art Museum, selected 29 compelling books for the Filter PhotoBook exhibition. The entries comprise a survey of the contemporary photo book, with diverse styles of design, publication, aesthetic, and country of origin represented. The exhibition is a partnership with the Filter Photo Festival, The BUBBLER, and FlakPhoto.
THURSDAY, OCT 23 ✦ 6:30 to 8 PM ✦ Birge Hall: UW-Madison Herbarium
Studying Wisconsin: The Life of Increase Lapham Paul G. Hayes
Paul G. Hayes, Martha Bergland A long overdue tribute to the life and achievements of Increase Lapham, Studying Wisconsin chronicles the life of Wisconsin’s pioneer citizen-scientist through letters, journals, books, and articles. Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society Press (WHSP), the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Letters, and Sciences, UW-Madison Herbarium, the Wisconsin Book Festival. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are suggested. To register, contact the WHSP at whspress@wisconsinhistory.org or 608-264-6465.
FRIDAY, OCT 24 ✦ 7 to 8 PM ✦ Central Library: Community Room Martha Bergland
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Atul Gawande In Being Mortal, bestselling author and surgeon Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. In the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort, enhance, and provide not only a good life but also a good end.
Dr. Atul Gawande
MONDAY, OCT 27 ✦ 7 to 8:30 PM ✦ UW Union South: Varsity Hall
“Go Big Read” Keynote Lecture Shiza Shahid Shiza Shahid was a college sophomore when she first met Malala Yousafzai. Today, the two young women work together to help the 600 million adolescent girls worldwide who are denied an education because of social, economic, legal and political factors. This fall, Go Big Read, the UW-Madison’s com-
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mon-reading program, presents Shahid as the keynote speaker, discussing Yousafzai’s I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. Shahid is now the CEO and co-founder of the Malala Fund, which supports local entrepreneurs who have developed programs to increase educaShiza Shahid
tional access for women.
TUESDAY, NOV 18 ✦ 7 to 8 PM ✦ Central Library: Community Room 301
Committee of One Patricia Holt Patricia Holt had no idea how traveling to the Middle East would change her perspective. Initially inter-
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ested in the fine crafts of the area, Holt was led to Leila Wahbeh who moves mountains of red tape in her
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efforts to transform the helpless into the helpful. With unflagging energy and donations of money and materials, Leila helps people become self-sufficient. One family survives, then one hundred. As those
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one hundred educated families reach out to hundreds more, thousands of families cross the bridges built by a Committee of One. Presented in partnership with the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project.
THURSDAY, NOV 20 ✦ 7 to 8 PM ✦ Central Library: Community Room 301
BOOK FEST BENEFACTORS
Edges Leora Skolkin-Smith
Carla & Mike Dilorio Carol & John Toussaint Cheryl Rosen Weston James & Katie Worledge
As the death toll mounts in the Gaza Strip, the world is again focused on the conflict between Israel and Palestine. That border and its toll on Jerusalem, the city where her mother was born, haunted Leora Skolkin-Smith throughout her childhood. Travel back to an Israel before walls separated Arab from Jew in Edges, Skolkin-Smith’s powerful novel of family, love, and war, proudly reissued by The Story Plant. Leora Skolkin-Smith
Edges is a journey of self-discovery amid turmoil in the middle Arab-Israeli conflicts of the 1960s.
WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL ✦ OCTOBER 16-19, 2014 ✦ WISCONSINBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG
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2014 Friends of the Madison Public Library Book Sale 9 AM to 2:15 PM
Elementary School Thursday
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Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot: Sir Peter Crane
Room of One's Own, Event Space
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Bending the Frame: Fred Ritchin 5 to 6 PM
Barracuda in the Attic: Kipp Friedman
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The Dog Year: Ann Garvin
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Performance Poetry 2014: First Wave Overture Center, Promenade Hall
Central Library, Children's Program Room
Central Library, Community Room 302
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Man Alive!: Mary Kay Zuravleff
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The Great Sand Fracas of Ames County: Jerry Apps
Room of One's Own,
A Christmas Wish for Corduroy: B. G. Hennessy
FESTIVAL VENUES
How Many Words is a Picture Really Worth?: Brad Zellar
3:30 to 4:30 PM
WI Institutes for Discovery, H.F. DeLuca Commons
Difficult Fruit: Lauren Alleyne
5 to 6:30 PM
Overture Center, Promenade Hall
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Marketplace of the Marvelous: Erika Janik
Wisconsin Historical Museum,
11 AM to 12 PM
Photos From Home
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Armed with Nonviolence: Ann Bausum
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Central Library, Community Room
Central Library, The Bubbler
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The Scavengers: Michael Perry
How to Sell Your Novel
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Run for Literacy: Literacy Network
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A Good Year: Andrea Potos, Evie Robillard, Katrin Talbot, Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva
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Perimeter: A Contemporary Portrait of Lake Michigan: Kevin Miyazaki
Room of One's Own,
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Feminism Unfinished: Linda Gordon, Astrid Henry
Vintage: Susan Gloss
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Seventh Generation Earth Ethics: Patty Loew
Eyes Wide Open: Paul Fleischman
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Further Joy: John Brandon
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Caitlin Doughty
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To Dwell in Darkness: Deborah Crombie
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9 to 10 PM
101 2-Letter Words: Stephin Merritt
Central Library, Community Room
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Delancey: Molly Wizenberg
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Monsters of Poetry 2014
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Son of Fortune: Victoria McKernan
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Devil's Lake Reading: Danielle Evans, Rebecca Dunham
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NerdNite: Jordan Ellenberg WI Institutes for Discovery, Town Center
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PhotoMidwest Studio,
Daring: My Passages: Gail Sheehy
How Not to Be Wrong: Jordan Ellenberg
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Dappled Things: Robin Chapman
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The Liar's Wife: Mary Gordon Central Library, Community Room
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Painted Cities: Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski
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Double Exposure: Bridget Birdsall
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Where Are Children's Books Going? B. G. Hennessy
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All the Light We Cannot See: Anthony Doerr
Wisconsin Historical Museum,
Missing Class: Betsy Leondar-Wright
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Madison Museum of Contemporary Art,
Room of One's Own,
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Alena: Rachel Pastan
Sisterland and the Madison Writers' Studio Conversation
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Wisconsin People & Ideas 2014 Writing Contest Reading
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Alamo Doughboy: Jennifer Rude Klett
Snow in May: Kseniya Melnik
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We Make Beer: Sean Lewis
Central Library, Community Room 301
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House of Coates Revisited: Brad Zellar
It's an Orange Aardvark: Michael Hall
Central Library, Community Room
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Dragonfly Lounge
PhotoMidwest Studio
401 E. Washington Ave., Madison; (608) 250-0097
303 S. Paterson St., Madison; (608) 287-1182
Great Dane Pub Downtown
A Room of One's Own
Birge Hall, UW-Madison
123 E. Doty St., Madison; (608) 284-0000
315 W. Gorham St., Madison ; (608) 257-7888
430 Lincoln Drive, Madison; (608) 262-1052
The Kitchen Gallery
Wisconsin Historical Museum
Central Library
107 King St., Madison; (608) 467.6544
30 N Carroll St., Madison; (608) 264-6555
201 W. Mifflin St., Madison ; (608) 266-6300
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
Chazen Museum
227 State St., Madison ; (608) 257-0158
330 N. Orchard St., Madison ; (608) 316-4300
750 University Ave., Madison ; (608) 263-2246
Memorial Union
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Cooperative Children's Book Center
800 Langdon St., Madison; (608) 265-3000
30 W. Mifflin St., Madison; (608) 267-1799
225 N. Mills St., Madison ; (608) 263-3720
Overture Center for the Arts 201 State St., Madison ; (608) 258-4141
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THE GREAT SAND FRACAS OF AMES COUNTY
A Novel
Jerry Apps In the sixth novel in Jerry Apps’s “Ames County series,” a proposed frac sand mine in the local community park divides smalltown neighbors into factions.
“Once again, Jerry Apps has tapped into a highly controversial
issue to explore contemporary Midwestern values—historical preservation versus forces of change, environmental protection versus economic opportunity. And once again, Apps succeeds brilliantly. He is an articulate and forceful voice for the Wisconsin ethos.”—Jerry Minnich, author of The Wisconsin Almanac cloth $26.95 | e-book $16.95
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THE SLEEVE WAVES
Angela Sorby
WINNER OF THE 2014 FELIX POLLAK PRIZE IN POETRY
Sometimes, if you’re very patient and a “ little lucky, a set of truly original poems will
jolt you upright again, and you will read their unexpected, eccentric turns, their mesmerizing content and cadence, with gratitude and amazement and feel so glad you’re still alive.” —Naomi Shihab Nye
paper $16.95 | e-book $12.95
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Searching for the Perfect Pint
Robin Shepard Won the top book prize from the North American Guild of Beer Writers at the 2002 Great American Beer Festival.
The book pairs Shepard’s impeccable taste buds with his sharp prose “ style. . . . Readable and cleverly presented, this is one book that area beer nuts will want to have handy in their glove compartments.”—Isthmus
paper $24.95
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