Past Years - 2013 Events | Wisconsin Book Festival

The Girl You Left Behind

9/21/13 - 7:00pm

Jojo Moyes

A spellbinding love story of two women separated by time, but united in a fight for what they love.

The Year of Billy Miller

10/5/13 - 2:00pm

Kevin Henkes

Kevin Henkes delivers a short, satisfying, laugh-out-loud-funny school and family story.

My Race: A Jewish Girl Growing Up Under Apartheid in South Africa

10/8/13 - 4:00pm

Lorraine Abramson

The memoir of a gifted Jewish athlete growing up under the apartheid system of South Africa.

Friends of UW Libraries Book Sale 2013

10/17/13 - 10:30am

Friends of UW Libraries

The largest used-book sale in Wisconsin!

Expecting Better

10/17/13 - 11:30am

Emily Oster

Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong—and What You Really Need to Know.

Friends of Madison Public Library Book Sale

10/17/13 - 12:00pm

Friends of Madison Public Library

Friends of the Madison Public Library will host its first big book sale in the new Central Library!

Philosophical Portraits: Descartes & Nietzsche

10/17/13 - 5:30pm

Steven Nadler & Jennifer Ratner Rosenhagen

A conversation about two thinkers who mark the beginning and end of modern philosophy.

Public Enemy

10/17/13 - 7:00pm

Bill Ayers

Ayers charts his life as he becomes the GOP’s flaunted “domestic terrorist" and "public enemy."

The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire

10/17/13 - 7:00pm

Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

Britain seemingly should have won the Revolutionary War. How did they manage to lose America?

2013 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture

10/17/13 - 7:30pm

Leonard Marcus

Why Picture Books Matter - A lecture on the role of picture books in the modern age.

Hip Hop Arts Showcase

10/17/13 - 7:30pm

First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble

Hear visiting youth poetry slam champions and hip hop artists from cities across the Midwest.

High School Friday

10/18/13 - 9:00am

Jessie Garcia

Library as Incubator Project

First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble

High School Friday brings 150 students to the Festival for a full school day of book programming.

My Life with the Green & Gold: Tales from 20 Years of Sportscasting

10/18/13 - 4:00pm

Jessie Garcia

Behind-the-microphone insights on the Green Bay Packers and other Wisconsin teams and athletes.

The American Craft Beer Cookbook

10/18/13 - 5:00pm

John Holl

Learn about the rise of craft beer, how you can cook with beer, and, of course, have a sample or two

Wisconsin People & Ideas Writing Contest Reading 2013

10/18/13 - 5:00pm

Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters

Reading by winners of the Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine statewide fiction and poetry contests

Wisconsin Talk: Linguistic Diversity in the Badger State

10/18/13 - 5:00pm

Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy, & Joseph Salmons

What is a bubbler? Get answers to this and many other questions about why we speak the way we do.

Performance Poetry

10/18/13 - 5:30pm

First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble

This event will point to some of the ways back, bring "page" poets and "stage" poets together.

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds For The Better

10/18/13 - 5:30pm

Clive Thompson

It’s undeniable: technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better?

Stay Awake

10/18/13 - 5:30pm

Dan Chaon

In these stories, the world appears to be quiet. But you are up, unable to sleep. So you stay awake.

Monsters of Poetry Reading

10/18/13 - 6:30pm

Adam Fell

Kara Candito

Christopher Mohar

Monsters of Poetry Reading Series curators will be stepping up to the mic to read from their work

I Believe in Zero: Learning From The World's Children

10/18/13 - 7:00pm

Caryl Stern

A moving memoir about UNICEF's mission to eliminate preventable deaths of children under five.

Line Breaks Rewind

10/18/13 - 8:00pm

First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble

Selected works and excerpts from the annual Line Breaks Festival.

Lost at Sea

10/18/13 - 8:30pm

Jon Ronson

Ronson writes about the dark, uncanny sides of humanity with clarity and humor.

Friends of the CCBC Book Sale

10/19/13 - 8:00am

Friends of the CCBC

Book sale featuring new and gently used children's and young adult books at bargain prices.