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9/13
Christopher Leonard
7:00 PM - Christopher Leonard reveals the secrets of Koch industries and the pitfalls of Corporate America
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9/19
Bud Selig
5:00 PM - Bud Selig provides unprecedented insight into the world of professional baseball
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9/24
7:00 PM - An unforgettable account of the power of idealist and the fierce determination to make a difference
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Recent Wisconsin Book Festival Events
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6/25
Richard Wagner
7:00 PM - An illuminating and nuanced picture of Wisconsin's gay history.
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6/6
Terry Brooks
7:00 PM - Terry Brooks will discuss the latest installment in the Fall of Shannara saga with Patrick Rothfuss
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5/28
David Maraniss
7:00 PM - A tale of fear, paranoia, and injustice—and at the heart is the story of Maraniss’s father.
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5/15
Celeste Ng
12:00 PM - The Madison Public Library Foundation presents the 2019 Lunch For Libraries.
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5/8
We Want To Do More Than Survive
Bettina Love
6:30 PM - An alternative to traditional modes of educational reform that expands our ideas of civic engagement
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5/8
Sport: Ship Dog of the Great Lakes
Renee Graef
10:00 AM - Sport's adventures while discovering how lighthouse tender ships helped keep the Great Lakes safe.
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5/2
Creative Writing Awards Ceremony
7:00 PM - The 2019 undergraduate and graduate creative writing awards ceremony.
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4/30
Cherríe Moraga
7:00 PM - A reckoning with white American history and a piercing love letter from a fearless daughter.
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4/29
Mary Norris
7:00 PM - Mary Norris is again delighting readers with her wit, knowledge, and exploration of language.
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4/25
2019 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows Reading
Aria Aber, Chekwube Danladi, Natasha Oladokun, Emily Shetler, Lucy Tan, Mary Terrier, Kate Wisel
7:00 PM - Poetry and fiction from the 2018-19 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows.
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4/24
Nickolas Butler
7:00 PM - A Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith.
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4/18
Solmaz Sharif
7:00 PM - Solmaz Sharif’s astonishing first book asks us to see the ongoing costs of war.
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4/15
Brian Teare
7:00 PM - Through these poems, we experience the pleasure and pain of being a body during climate change.
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4/9
G. Willow Wilson
7:00 PM - An epic adventure from an essential voice in American fiction.
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4/8
Jamaica Kincaid
7:30 PM - CANCELED - DUE TO ILLNESS, JAMAICA KINCAID WILL NOT BE ABLE TO APPEAR AT THIS EVENT.
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3/25
2019 UW Poetry MFA Graduates Reading
Rebecca Bedell, Christopher Greggs, Rebekah Denison Hewitt, Wes Holtermann, Kabel Mishka Ligot, Alexis Sears
7:00 PM - A reading from the graduating MFA cohort in poetry.
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3/13
Amber Tamblyn
7:00 PM - A passionate and deeply personal exploration of feminism during divisive times.
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3/12
I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood
Tiana Clark
7:00 PM - CANCELED - Due to illness, our event with Tiana Clark has been canceled.
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3/11
Sonya Renee Taylor
7:00 PM - Reconnect with the radical origins of minds & bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength
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3/8
7:30 PM - A two day spoken word poetry competition where 30 award-winning poets from around the country
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3/8
Mitchell Jackson
6:00 PM - A candid, lyrical, and thrillingly alive portrait of a family, a community, and a nation.
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3/6
Derrick Barnes
10:00 AM - A high-spirited, engaging salute to the beautiful, raw, assured humanity of black boys.
children-teenfiction -
2/28
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2/15
Gaylord Schanilec: A Natural History
Gaylord Schanilec
5:00 PM - Art book exhibit focused on the landscape, natural history, and culture of the upper Mississippi.
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2/12
Susan Gloss
7:00 PM - A charming story of artists, inspiration, and how to reinvent your life with purpose and flair.
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2/9
Muriel Simms
3:00 PM - Stories of twenty-five African Americans whose families arrived, survived, and thrived in Madison.
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2/7
Ha Jin
7:00 PM - Due to weather and travel conditions, this event has been CANCELED.
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2/6
Chigozie Obioma
7:00 PM - A heart-wrenching epic about destiny and determination.
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