Kiss My Glass

Maynard Okereke

6:30 PM - One great night of nerdiness featuring flash talks about glass from some of Madison's biggest brains

Bending Granite

Maury Cotter, Tom Mosgaller, Ben Reynolds, Michael Williamson

5:30 PM - Behind the curtain to reveal not only the Why but the How, Who, When, and Where of leading change

Reading for Our Lives

Maya Payne Smart

5:30 PM - A literacy action plan from birth to six

Sinister Graves

Marcie Rendon

5:30 PM - Follow Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman, as she attempts to discover the truth.

This is What it Sounds Like

Susan Rogers

6:00 PM - Deepen your connection to your favorite artists, and change the way you listen to music.

Crossroads of Ideas

Latif Nasser, Soren Wheeler

7:00 PM - Latif will share his best tricks to ferret out original and surprising stories that others look past

father forgive me

Deshawn McKinney

7:00 PM - An acerbic hip hop hymnal” filled with “fearless, wounding and tender” poems

Painting Beyond Walls

David Rhodes

7:00 PM - *** CANCELED *** An exploration of the human condition and our shared need for community

The Violence Project

James Densley

7:00 PM - How to stop a mass shooting epidemic

Bronze Drum

Phong Vu Nguyen

4:30 PM - Inspirational story of women's strength and power even in the face of the greatest obstacles.

Rainbow Rainbow

Lydia Conklin

6:00 PM - Liminal or uncertain identities, queer conception, and queer joy

Switchboard Soldiers

Jennifer Chiaverini

6:00 PM - Heroic women who served in the US Signal Corps during WWI.

The Viral Underclass

Dr. Steven Thrasher

6:00 PM - Showing the fraught relationship between privilege and survival

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

7:30 PM - A tale of discovery, speculation, and survival

The Family Chao

Lan Samantha Chang

7:30 PM - Electrifying portrait of a Chinese American family grappling with trauma, grief, race and love

Nerd

Maya Phillips

9:00 PM - Adventures in fandom from the universe to the multiverse

Demystifying the Publishing Industry

Ty Chapman, Ari Tison, Rachel Werner

10:30 AM - The authors will discuss various aspects of their journey to publication

Here on Lake Hallie

Patti See

10:30 AM - Humorous and heartfelt essays about a small Wisconsin town

Illuminations

Alan Moore

10:30 AM - Full power of imagination and magic

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Calling for a Blanket Dance

Oscar Hokeah

12:00 PM - The legacy of centuries of injustice

Meet Me By the Fountain

Alexandra Lange

12:00 PM - Conventional wisdom holds that the mall is dead. But what was the mall, really?

Meme Wars

Emily Dreyfuss

12:00 PM - The untold story of the online battles upending democracy in America

Ripple Effects

Ted Rulseh

12:00 PM - We are, quite possibly, loving our lakes to death

Off With Her Head

Eleanor Herman

1:30 PM - Each chapter analyzes a tried-and-true misogynistic method to keep women down

On the Line

Daisy Pitkin

1:30 PM - A story of class, solidarity, and two women's epic fight to build a union.

Wisconsin Waters

Scott Spoolman

1:30 PM - Every Wisconsin waterway has a story

Civil War by Other Means

Jeremi Suri

3:00 PM - The Civil War may have ended on the battlefield, but the fight over democracy never did.

Honor

Thrity Umrigar

3:00 PM - The dual love stories of Honor are as different as the cultures

Milked

Ruth Conniff

3:00 PM - How an American crisis brought together Midwestern dairy farmers and Mexican workers

The Billboard

Natalie Y. Moore

3:00 PM - The Billboard is a cultural force that treats abortion as more than pro-life or pro-choice

One Person, One Vote

Nick Seabrook

4:30 PM - A redistricting crisis is now upon us.

Slenderman

Kathleen Hale

4:30 PM - An online obsession, mental illness and the violet crime of two midwestern girls.

Zorrie

Laird Hunt

4:30 PM - An intimate portrait of the dreams that propel one tenacious woman.

Fruiting Bodies

Kathryn Harlan

6:00 PM -

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

Elizabeth Williamson

6:00 PM - An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

We Were Never Here

Andrea Bartz

6:00 PM - How long can you outrun a secret?

Catastrophizer, American Parables, & Useful Junk

Adam Fell, Daniel Khalatschi, Erika Meitner

7:30 PM - Joint poetry reading

Leaving Breezy Street

Brenda Myers-Powell

7:30 PM - We have no say into which worlds we are born. But sometimes we can find a way out.

Voice of the Fish

Lars Horn

7:30 PM - Breaking down the implied singularity of “the body” as cultural and scientific object.

How to Win the War on Truth

Samuel Spitale

9:00 PM - You will see the world with clear eyes for the first time.

Beyond Belief

John Koethe

10:30 AM - The space between attention and belief.

Refuse to Be Done

Matt Bell

10:30 AM - Refuse to Be Done will guide you through every step of the novel-writing process.

Home Made

Liz Hauck

12:00 PM - Capturing the clumsy choreography of cooking with other people

Still True & The Art of the Break

Maggie Ginsberg, Mary Wimmer

12:00 PM -

Grace & The West Wing and Beyond

Cody Keenan, Pete Souza

1:30 PM -

Matrix

Lauren Groff

7:00 PM - A defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.

2022 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture

Alvina Ling, Grace Lin

7:30 PM -

Midwest Video Poetry Festival

3:00 PM -

American Sex Tape

Jameka Williams

7:00 PM - A vibrant path to freedom from mirrors, stages, and screens

How the Word is Passed

Clint Smith

7:00 PM - A reckoning with the history of slavery across American

American Crusade

Andrew Seidel

7:00 PM - a meticulously researched and deeply insightful account of our political landscape

Breakdowns

Art Spiegelman

7:00 PM - A completely original autobiography—the story of his life as a comix artist

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