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If Our Bodies Could Talk

James Hamblin

7:00 PM - James Hamblin presents a book about how bodies word in a world full of myths and misinformation.

Spiral Staircase

Sho Sugita

7:00 PM - The first definitive volume of Hirato Renkichi’s futurist poems to appear in English.

Learning to Stay

Erin Celello, James Devita

7:00 PM - Author Erin Celello and playwright James DeVita discuss adapting Celello’s novel for the stage.

Bobby Kennedy

Larry Tye

6:30 PM - Tye peels away layers of myth and misconception to paint a complete portrait of this singular figure

Lace & Pyrite

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

7:00 PM - An evening of collaborative poetry and creative nonfiction.

Night At The Fiestas

Kirstin Valdez Quade

7:00 PM - Unforgettable stories chart the passions and obligations of family life.

The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar

Jamey Stillings

7:00 PM - An aerial exploration over what has become the world's largest concentrated solar power plant.

Harmless Like You

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

7:00 PM - How does a mother desert her son?

The Confessions of Young Nero

Margaret George

7:00 PM - Author Margaret George discusses her book "The Confessions of Young Nero" about Nero's rise to power

In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite

Melissa Clark

7:30 PM - More information to come.

UW Poetry MFA Graduates Reading

7:00 PM - A reading from the graduating MFA cohort in poetry.

Hag-Seed & Technology: Revisiting The Tempest in the 21st Century

Margaret Atwood

7:30 PM - Margaret Atwood discusses her book "Hag-Seed" alongside Shakespeare's "The Tempest"

Canceled Due to Illness: Black Comix, Social Justice, and Visual Ideologies

John Jennings

1:00 PM - The event has been canceled due to illness. We are working to reschedule.

Canceled Due To Illness: The Soul of Black Comix

John Jennings

6:00 PM - The event has been canceled due to illness. We are working to reschedule.

The Collapsing Empire

John Scalzi

7:00 PM - John Scalzi returns with the beginning of an exciting new saga: ​The Collapsing Empire.

Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows Reading

7:00 PM - Poetry and fiction from the 2016-17 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows

Known and Strange Things

Teju Cole

7:00 PM - Teju Cole will discuss his book "Known and Strange Things," a collection of his works.

Lunch for Libraries

Richard Russo

11:30 AM - This year's Lunch for Libraries will feature author Richard Russo and his book "Everybody's Fool"

Everybody's Fool

Richard Russo

7:00 PM - Pulitzer-Prize winner, Richard Russo returns to Bath and revisits beloved characters.

Imagine Wanting Only This

Kristen Radtke, Jamel Brinkley

7:00 PM - A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief.

Listen to Your Grandmothers

1:00 PM - A gala for Listen to Your Grandmothers and a celebration of the Raging Grannies

Pandora's Lab

Paul Offit

7:00 PM - What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction?

Chuck Klosterman X

Chuck Klosterman

7:00 PM - A tour of the past decade from one of the sharpest and most prolific observers of our unusual times.

Testimony

Scott Turow

7:00 PM - The newest novel by "the master of the courtroom drama."

Here I Am

Jonathan Safran Foer

7:00 PM - Foer’s most searching, hard-hitting, and grandly entertaining novel yet.

Illusion of Justice

Jerome Buting

7:00 PM - A tour-de-force from a relentless and eloquent advocate for justice.

The Hour of Land

Terry Tempest Williams

7:00 PM - A meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America.

Besieged

Kevin Hearne, Patrick Rothfuss

7:00 PM - Short stories from the world of the Iron Druid Chronicles in conversation with Patrick Rothfuss

Sachiko: a Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story

Caren Stelson

10:00 AM - A reconstruction of an atomic bomb survivor's memories of perseverance.

2017 Pinney Mini Book Festival

1:00 PM - Wisconsin authors will reveal tips for getting published followed by our Author Blitz and reception

Why Did You Name Me Javier, Dad?

Oscar Mireles

9:00 AM - Oscar Mireles will visit schools to share poetry and talk about Hispanic writing.

The Blood of Emmett Till

Tim Tyson

5:00 PM - A reconstruction of a crucial moment in America's civil rights history.

Forest Dark

Nicole Krauss

7:00 PM - A novel about the personal transformation of an old lawyer and a young novelist.

Dinner at the Center of the Earth

Nathan Englander

7:00 PM - A political thriller that unfolds in the charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

My Book Of Beautiful Oops

Barney Saltzberg

12:00 PM - Barney Saltzberg will visit schools around the Madison area.

Most Blessed of the Patriarchs

Annette Gordon-Reed

4:00 PM - A character study that reveals the sometimes contradictory third American president.

How the Right Lost Its Mind

Charles Sykes

7:00 PM - A popular conservative voice wonders what has happened to the right.

Bringing It Home

Gail Simmons

7:00 PM - A cookbook from the judge who makes delicious food and inspired cooking accessible for home cooks.

Kids in the Rotunda

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker

9:30 AM - An uplifting presentation of toe-tapping music spiced with storytelling, humor and history.

2017 Friends of UW-Madison Libraries Book Sale

Friends of UW Libraries

4:00 PM - The largest used book sale in Wisconsin returns this fall!

Friends of the Madison Public Library Book Sale

Friends of Madison Public Library

9:00 AM - Find great bargains at the Friends' Book Sale.

Hood

Luke Timmerman

4:00 PM - A revealing portrait of one of the most influential biologists of our time and a deeply human look a

The Dark Net

Benjamin Percy

5:30 PM - A novel about the anonymous and criminal arena that exists in the secret reaches of the web.

The Impossible Presidency

Jeremi Suri

5:30 PM - A reassessment of presidential history that argues they aren't able to meet expectations

Heretics!

Steven Nadler, Ben Nadler

5:30 PM - This graphic narrative tells the story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority.

We Have No Idea

Jorge Cham, Daniel Whiteson

6:00 PM - An entertaining illustrated science primer about questions physicists are still trying to answer.

The Politics of Value

Jane L. Collins

7:00 PM - A new framework for viewing economic value.

America: The Cookbook

Gabrielle Langholtz, Christine Muhlke, Ari Weinzweig

7:00 PM - The United Recipes of America: A Culinary Road Trip Through the 50 States.

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Dan Egan

7:00 PM - An ode to the majesty and history of this national, natural treasure.

Death in Cold Water

Patricia Skalka

7:00 PM - The third installment in a murder mystery set on the shores of Lake Michigan.

2017 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture

Jason Reynolds

7:30 PM - A lecture by one of the brightest stars in the field of children’s and young adult literature.

It Devours!

Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink

8:30 PM - A page-turning mystery from the creators of Welcome to Night Vale.

Friends of the Madison Public Library Book Sale

Friends of Madison Public Library

9:00 AM - Find great bargains at the Friends' Book Sale.

High School Friday 2017

Jason Reynolds, Amy Rose Capetta

9:00 AM - A great opportunity for high school students to experience a wide-range of book-related programming.

Homing Instincts

Sarah Menkedick

4:30 PM - Essays that explore the disorienting time before and after becoming a mother.

Stars Over Clear Lake

Loretta Ellsworth

4:30 PM - A novel of memories, romance, and fate, inspired by a real-life ballroom and POW camp in Iowa.

Lawyers Who Write

Susan Gloss, E.M. Kokie, Jay Ranney, Carl Rasmussen, Dean Strang

4:30 PM - A panel discussion by Madison-area lawyers who have found a successful second career as writers.

Wisconsin People & Ideas 2017 Fiction and Poetry Contest Reading

Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters

5:00 PM - A reading from the winners of the Wisconsin People and Ideas fiction and poetry contest.

Life In A Northern Town

Mary Dougherty

5:00 PM - A happy hour book talk about a one-of-a-kind collection of globally and regionally inspired recipes

King of Spies

Blaine Harden

6:00 PM - The shocking, gripping account of the most powerful American spy you’ve never heard of.

The Far Away Brothers

Lauren Markham

6:00 PM - An investigation of the unaccompanied migrant minor crisis told through the stories of two brothers.

Unbranded

Ben Masters

6:00 PM - A report from an epic 3,000-mile journey through the most pristine backcountry

The Bedlam Stacks

Natasha Pulley

7:00 PM - A story of a great friendship and a treacherous quest in the magical landscape of nineteenth-century

Policing the Black Man

Angela J. Davis

7:30 PM - A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Away With Words

Joe Berkowitz

9:00 PM - An irreverent tour through the world of pun competitions.

2017 Friends of the CCBC Fall Book Sale

Friends of the CCBC

9:00 AM - Super bargains on brand-new and gently used hardcover and paperback childrens and YA books.

Look Up! and The Magic Rabbit

Annette LeBlanc Cate

10:30 AM - A humorous introduction to bird-watching and the story of a magician and his bunny.

The Storm Before The Storm

Mike Duncan

10:30 AM - The story of the tumultuous years that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.

You, Beast

Nick Lantz

10:30 AM - Poetry that explores the roots and limits of human empathy

Cataclysm

Zeynab Ali

10:30 AM - A memoir about a Kenyan-born Somali refugees' experience growing up in the United States.

Nomadland

Jessica Bruder

10:30 AM - A journalistic account of a new kind of nomad: older Americans.

Flock Together

B. J. Hollars

11:00 AM - A moving elegy to extinct birds.

The Close Encounters Man

Mark O'Connell

12:00 PM - A biography of the man who popularized UFOs

We Are All Criminals

Emily Baxter, Corey Saffold

12:00 PM - One in four people in the US has a criminal record; four in four have a criminal history.

The Inheritance

Niki Kapsambelis

12:00 PM - An intimate portrayal of the global epidemic of alzheimers and the race to cure it

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

Kathleen Rooney

12:00 PM - A portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America.

Thousand-Miler

Melanie Radzicki McManus

12:00 PM - A memoir that follows the author through Wisconsin's Ice Age Trail.

Writing Home Ground

Robin Chapman, Catherine Jagoe, Alison Townsend

12:00 PM - Three Wisconsin authors talk about writing that evokes specific places

Infamous Mothers

Sagashus Levingston

1:30 PM - Read their stories and witness how 20 women who make a difference in this world.

Warriors, Saints, and Scoundrels

Michael Edmonds

1:30 PM - Meet the mayors, ministers, mystics, murderers, & more whose lives influenced and defined Wisconsin.

Not A Scientist

Dave Levitan

1:30 PM - An exploration of the ways politicians can turn scientific facts into fiction.

The Mirror Thief

Martin Seay

1:30 PM - A thriller about how we are haunted by our own reflections.

How To Be An Indian In The 21st Century

Louis V. Clark III (Two Shoes)

3:00 PM - One man's life-long journey, in prose and verse, to discover what it means to be an American Indian.

Slow Medicine

Victoria Sweet

3:00 PM - Unforgettable stories of the teachers, doctors, nurses, and patients who show that time indeed heals

Crossings

Jon Kerstetter

3:00 PM - A doctor-soldier writes about his medical and war experiences as a way to heal.

Hidden Voices

Fabu, Sherry Lucille, Catrina Sparkman

3:00 PM - Three Madison-area African American writers discuss their writing in relation literary giants

The Pox Lover

Anne-Christine d'Adesky

3:00 PM - A personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York and Paris by a pioneering AIDS journalist.

The Mountain

Paul Yoon

3:00 PM - Six thematically linked stories set across several continents.

The American Dream in Wisconsin

Terese Agnew, Patty Loew, Jesus Salas

4:00 PM - A panel discussion exploring what it means to be an American today.

The Geography of Madness

Frank Bures

4:00 PM - An investigation of “culture-bound” syndromes.

Dead Presidents

Brady Carlson

4:30 PM - An exploration of the way we memorialize our greatest leaders.

Spy Schools

Daniel Golden

4:30 PM - Daniel Golden exposes how academia has become the center of foreign and domestic espionage.

The Hearts of Men

Nickolas Butler

4:30 PM - A novel about friendships and families in a Wisconsin boy scouts troop.

The Water Will Come

Jeff Goodell

5:00 PM - The definitive account of rising sea levels, how this will happen, and what it will all mean.

Janesville: An American Story

Amy Goldstein

6:00 PM - An account of why it’s hard to recreate a prosperous, healthy working class

The War On Science

Shawn Otto

6:00 PM - An investigation of why authoritarians are trusted when scientists aren't

Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

Ada Calhoun

6:00 PM - Ruminations and advice on successful modern marriage.

There Your Heart Lies

Mary Gordon

6:00 PM - A novel that intertwines memories of the Spanish Civil War with modern hardships,

Close Enough For The Angels

Paul Madonna

7:30 PM - Paul Madonna discusses his two new illustrated novels in conversation with Paul Buhle.

The Odyssey of Echo Company

Doug Stanton

7:30 PM - The story of a small platoon of Americans and their fight for survival during the Vietnam War.

One Day We'll All Be Dead And None Of This Will Matter

Scaachi Koul

9:00 PM - Essays that capture a hilarious, scathing, and honest look at modern life.

The Genome Factor

Jason Fletcher

10:00 AM - The latest discoveries at the scientific frontier where genomics and the social sciences intersect.

Preservation

Christina Ward

10:30 AM - A survey of methods that will ensure your preservation projects are safe and delicious.

A Year in the Wilderness

Amy and Dave Freeman

10:30 AM - A passionate and beautifully illustrated account of a year in the Boundary Waters.

100 Things To Do In Madison Before You Die

Katie Vaughn

10:30 AM - This book is a starting point for exploring this vibrant, independently spirited city.

Faces of a Fish Empire

Joe Kutchera

12:00 PM - A visual history of Empire Fish Company that captures the many changes in Milwaukee, WI

Montaigne in Barn Boots

Michael Perry

12:00 PM - A humorous tour through a 16th century philosoper's relevance to today.

The Driftless Reader

Curt Meine

1:00 PM - A collection of nature writing from around the Midwest

Don't Call Us Dead

Danez Smith

1:30 PM - A poetry collection that confronts an America where every day is too often a funeral

A House Among the Trees

Julia Glass

1:30 PM - The story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant.

I & You

Lauren Gunderson

7:30 PM - An ode to youth, life, love, and the strange beauty of human connectedness.

The House of Unexpected Sisters

Alexander McCall Smith

7:00 PM - The latest installment of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.