Past Years - 2015 Events | Wisconsin Book Festival

Another Time and Place

10/24/15 - 12:00pm

Jennifer Chiaverini

Mary McNear

Authors read from books that transport the reader to worlds with a particularly deep sense of place

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

10/24/15 - 12:00pm

Mary Norris

With humor and wit, Norris expertly guides readers through common and confusing grammatical issues.

Kate Walden Directs: Bride of Slug Man

10/24/15 - 12:00pm

Julie Mata

Kate and Tristan are both making films and classmates eager to join the cast and crew are divided.

Meet Me Halfway: Milwaukee Stories

10/24/15 - 12:00pm

Jennifer Morales

With humor and compassion Morales raises questions about a “postracial” society and how to get there

Beneath the Bonfire

10/24/15 - 1:30pm

Nickolas Butler

This collection of stories captures memorable characters of the back roads and highways of America.

Bird

10/24/15 - 1:30pm

Crystal Chan

Secrets, mysterious spirits, and friendship weave together in this story about loss and moving on.

Brutal Youth

10/24/15 - 1:30pm

Anthony Breznican

Three freshmen join forces to survive high school bullies and a faculty that's worse.

Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story

10/24/15 - 1:30pm

David Maraniss

Maraniss shows that the shadows of collapse were evident in Detroit even when it was at its peak.

The League of Outsider Baseball

10/24/15 - 1:30pm

Gary Cieradkowski

A truly unique look at the players that exist in the obscure corners of baseball’s history.

Cold War on Maplewood Street

10/24/15 - 3:00pm

Gayle Rosengren

A powerful and hopeful story about what it means to grow up in a world full of uncertainty.

Love, Always: Partners of Trans People on Intimacy, Challenge and Resilience

10/24/15 - 3:00pm

Helen Boyd

Miriam Hall

Shawnee Parens

Witty, and moving essays, letters, and poems from the partners of transgender people

Music for Wartime

10/24/15 - 3:00pm

Rebecca Makkai

Makkai brings together a collection of sweeping, powerful, spellbinding stories.

Picto-Poems

10/24/15 - 3:00pm

Kimberly Blaeser

Blaeser’s “Picto-Poems,” intersecting layers of text/image inspired by Native American pictographs

Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice

10/24/15 - 3:00pm

Adam Benforado

Unfair reveals the hidden forces that distort our criminal justice system and offers solutions.

Being Nixon: A Man Divided

10/24/15 - 4:30pm

Evan Thomas

David Maraniss

Thomas creates a three dimensional portrait of the complex president Nixon.

The Limits of Truth

10/24/15 - 4:30pm

Matthew Gavin Frank

B. J. Hollars

How far can a writer stretch a fact before it becomes a fiction?

This Angel on My Chest

10/24/15 - 4:30pm

Leslie Pietrzyk

Unconventionally linked stories, each about a different young woman whose husband dies.

Patternalia : An Unconventional History of Polka Dots, Stripes, Plaid, Camouflage, & Other Graphic Patterns

10/24/15 - 5:00pm

Jude Stewart

Patternalia delves into the deep trove of history and culture unique to each pattern.

Science Cafe: Red All Over

10/24/15 - 6:00pm

Jennifer Angus

Jude Stewart

What's in a color?

Secular Faith: How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics

10/24/15 - 6:00pm

Mark Smith

Demonstrations of how, in the long run, boundaries of secular and religious cultures converge.

We Are Not Ourselves

10/24/15 - 6:00pm

Matthew Thomas

Using the Learys Thomas charts the expectation of domestic bliss and economic prosperity post WWII.

Survival of the Storied: Why Science Needs Art and Art Needs Science

10/24/15 - 7:00pm

Lauren Gunderson

Discover the synchronicities of science and story

Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

10/24/15 - 7:30pm

Robert Reich

Reich gives a myth-shattering breakdown of America’s failing economic system, and how to fix it.

Nerd Nite 2015

10/24/15 - 8:00pm

Pupa Gilbert

B. Venkat Mani

Dietram Scheufele

Be there and be square.