Ongoing Wisconsin Book Festival Events
Recent Wisconsin Book Festival Events
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6/15
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5/25
Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster
Andrea Mosqueda
10:30 AM - Growing up in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, Maggie Gonzalez has always been a little messy, but she’s o
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5/23
Kwame Onwuachi, Jodie Pope
7:00 PM - A deeply personal tribute to the food of “a land that belongs to you and yours and to me and mine.”
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5/19
Lupe Lopez: Rock Star Rules! (Lupe Lopez: ¡Reglas de una estrella de rock!)
e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, Pat Zietlow Miller
10:30 AM - When a sassy drummer starts kindergarten, the rules of school cramp her style.
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5/16
Guy Raz
12:00 PM - Priceless insights and inspiration from the world’s top entrepreneurs
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5/15
Neil Gaiman
8:00 PM - He will tell stories and read stories, answer questions, and “amaze, befuddle and generally delight"
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5/11
Rachel Werner, Savannah Brooks
10:30 AM - Learn about floods, what we can do, and how to stay safe.
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5/10
Azar Nafisi
7:00 PM - A guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list
Recording Available
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5/3
Laura Anne Bird
10:30 AM - Twelve-year-old Clare Burch has just lost the person she loves most in the world.
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4/28
Mackenzie Berry
7:00 PM - A love letter, paying homage while also tracing the joys and dangers of nostalgia for place.
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4/27
Douglas Stuart
7:00 PM - A deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and
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4/26
Tajja Isen
7:00 PM - A fearless and darkly comic essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions.
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4/21
Jenny Kalvaitis, Kristen Whitson
4:30 PM - Examples of LGBTQ+ activism throughout Wisconsin’s history for young people to explore and discuss.
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4/14
2022 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows Reading
Adrienne Chung, Itiola Jones, K. Iver, Claire Luchette, Shaina Phenix, Alberto Reyes Morgan
7:00 PM - Poetry and fiction from the 2021-22 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows
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4/7
Angie Trudell Vasquez
7:00 PM - A poetry collection of race, ethnicity, gender, nature, and mysticism.
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4/4
2021-22 Great World Texts in Wisconsin
Jacqueline Goldsby
5:00 PM - ***CANCELED*** Tonight's public lecture with Jacqueline Goldsby has been cancelled due to illness
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4/1
Danez Smith, First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble
7:00 PM - The top new aesthetics in contemporary hip hop and interdisciplinary performance art
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3/31
Twelve Ways to Save Democracy in Wisconsin
Matt Rothschild
7:00 PM - A dozen reforms that are required to heal democracy within our state.
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3/10
Lindsay Christians, Kyle Nabilcy
7:00 PM - An in-depth look at nine creative, intense, and dedicated chefs and Madison’s food culture.
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3/8
Alison Townsend, Catherine Jagoe
7:00 PM - What it means to live in community with wilderness and to allow our identities to be shaped by it
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3/7
2022 UW Fiction MFA Graduates Reading
Bella Bravo, Madeline Haze Curtis, Waringa Hunja, Martha Pham, Amanda Rizkalla
7:00 PM - A reading from the graduating MFA cohort in fiction.
Recording Available
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2/15
The Mytilenean Debate & When I'm Gone Look For Me In the East
Quan Barry
7:00 PM - Amy Quan Barry will discuss her new play and her newest novel
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2/2
Laura Coates
7:00 PM - Even with the best intentions, “the pursuit of justice creates injustice.”
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1/12
Andrea Elliott, Darcey Merritt
1:00 PM - The most critical issues in contemporary America seen through the life of one remarkable girl.
Recording Available
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