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5/19
Barrett Swanson
7:00 PM - A personal quest across the United States to uncover what it means to be an American today.
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5/24
Jason Karlawish
7:00 PM - Part case studies, part meditation on the past, present and future of the disease.
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5/25
Lunch for Libraries - Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen, Nicholas Petrie
12:00 PM - Madison Public Library Foundation’s annual Lunch for Libraries virtual fundraiser!
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5/26
Andrea Debbink
11:00 AM - An inspiring guide for the next generation of climate activists, conservationists, and nature lovers
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5/26
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7/20
Michele Harper
7:00 PM - An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself.
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Ongoing Wisconsin Book Festival Events
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12/1
Miranda Paul, Ebony Glenn
12:00 AM - When something really matters, one voice can make a difference.
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12/1
Kashmira Sheth
12:00 PM - A humorous series featuring a charming, distractible Indian-American girl and her family and friends
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4/6
Kevin Henkes
11:00 AM - The stand-alone companion to the award-winning, acclaimed, and bestselling The Year of Billy Miller
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Recent Wisconsin Book Festival Events
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5/7
Helen Oyeyemi
12:00 PM - A vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage
Recording Available
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5/6
Senator Elizabeth Warren
7:00 PM - Vivid personal stories with a passionate plea for political transformation.
Recording Available
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5/6
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel, Cheryl Strayed
4:00 PM - A heartrendingly comic chronicle for our times.
Recording Available
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4/28
UW Press Wisconsin Poetry Series Reading
John Brehm, Ambalila Hemsell, Sarah Kortemeier, Bruce Snider
7:00 PM - A reading celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Wisconsin Poetry Series.
Recording Available
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4/27
Angela Garbes
7:00 PM - A candid, feminist, and personal deep dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and motherhood.
Recording Available
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4/22
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
7:00 PM - ***ONE NIGHT ONLY*** Ocean Vuong will appear live to discuss his debut novel
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4/21
2021 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows Reading
Emma Binder, Jari Bradley, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, Victoria C. Flanagan, Sandra Hong, Taylor Koekkoek
7:00 PM - Poetry and fiction from the 2020-21 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows.
Recording Available
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4/19
Yan Lianke
7:00 PM - The story of a public health crisis when rural villages selling their blood led to an AIDS outbreak.
Recording Available
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4/14
Imperial Liquor & Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
Amaud Johnson, John Murillo
7:00 PM - UW Professor, Amaud Johnson, and UW Almnus, John Murillo, for their newest books,
Recording Available
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4/8
Emily Nemens
7:00 PM - An explosive, character-driven odyssey through the world of baseball.
Recording Available
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4/7
Love Poems & God of Nothingness
Jesse Lee Kercheval, Mark Wunderlich
7:00 PM - Featuring UW Professor, Jesse Lee Kercheval, and UW Almnus, Mark Wunderlich, for their newest books
Recording Available
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3/30
Brian Alexander
7:00 PM - An intimate portrait of one small hospital, revealing the magnitude of America’s health care crisis
Recording Available
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3/26
A Time for Mercy & A Song for the Dark Times
John Grisham, Ian Rankin
6:00 PM - Grisham and Rankin discuss their new books, and frankly, anything else they’d like to discuss.
Recording Available
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3/25
Ayad Akhtar
6:00 PM - A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams.
Recording Available
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3/23
Andrew J. Graff, Nickolas Butler
7:00 PM - A timeless story of loss, hope, and adventure amid the vividly rendered Upper Midwest landscape.
Recording Available
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3/15
2021 UW Poetry MFA Graduates Reading
Gabriela Balza, Adrienne Chung, Miriam Huettner, Itiola Jones, Alison Thumel, Ajibola Tolase
7:00 PM - A reading from the graduating MFA cohort in poetry.
Recording Available
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3/14
S.A. Cosby, Chris Harding Thornton, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Heather Young
6:00 PM - Complicated stories of secrets and crimes that involve generations within a rural noir framework
Recording Available
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3/10
Jackie Polzin
7:00 PM - A stunning and brilliantly insightful meditation on life and longing.
Recording Available
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3/3
James Crews, Chekwube Danladi, Rachel Swearingen, Angela Voras-Hills
7:00 PM - Featuring UW Alumni James Crews, Chekwube Danladi, Rachel Swearingen, and Angela Voras-Hills
Recording Available
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3/2
Heather McGhee
7:00 PM - Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.
Recording Available
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2/17
The Rib King & Milk Blood Heat
Ladee Hubbard, Dantiel Moniz
7:00 PM - UW Alumnae Ladee Hubbard and Dantiel Moniz for their new novels, The Rib King and Milk Blood Heat.
Recording Available
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2/16
Emily St. John Mandel, Chloe Benjamin
7:00 PM - An exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events.
Recording Available
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12/3
Jane Smiley
7:00 PM - The imaginative story of three extraordinary animals and a boy whose lives intersect in Paris.
Recording Available
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12/2
The Office of Historical Corrections
Danielle Evans
7:00 PM - Truths of American history—about who gets to tell them, and the cost of setting the record straight.
Recording Available
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11/18
Aria Aber, Elizabeth Powell
7:00 PM - Wisconsin Wednesday featuring UW Alumnae Aria Aber and Elizabeth Powell
Recording Available
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11/17
Charles Yu
7:00 PM - A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation.
Recording Available
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11/16
Claudia Rankine, Jericho Brown
7:00 PM - An invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together
Recording Available
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