Past Years - 2017 Events | Wisconsin Book Festival

If Our Bodies Could Talk

1/17/17 - 7:00pm - 1/17/17 - 8:00pm

James Hamblin

James Hamblin presents a book about how bodies word in a world full of myths and misinformation.

Spiral Staircase

2/13/17 - 7:00pm - 2/13/17 - 8:00pm

Sho Sugita

The first definitive volume of Hirato Renkichi’s futurist poems to appear in English.

Learning to Stay

2/16/17 - 7:00pm - 2/16/17 - 8:00pm

Erin Celello

James Devita

Author Erin Celello and playwright James DeVita discuss adapting Celello’s novel for the stage.

Bobby Kennedy

2/20/17 - 6:30pm - 2/20/17 - 7:30pm

Larry Tye

Tye peels away layers of myth and misconception to paint a complete portrait of this singular figure

Lace & Pyrite

2/23/17 - 7:00pm - 2/23/17 - 8:00pm

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

An evening of collaborative poetry and creative nonfiction.

Night At The Fiestas

3/2/17 - 7:00pm - 3/2/17 - 8:00pm

Kirstin Valdez Quade

Unforgettable stories chart the passions and obligations of family life.

The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar

3/8/17 - 7:00pm - 3/8/17 - 8:00pm

Jamey Stillings

An aerial exploration over what has become the world's largest concentrated solar power plant.

Harmless Like You

3/9/17 - 7:00pm - 3/9/17 - 8:00pm

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

How does a mother desert her son?

The Confessions of Young Nero

3/13/17 - 7:00pm - 3/13/17 - 8:15pm

Margaret George

Author Margaret George discusses her book "The Confessions of Young Nero" about Nero's rise to power

In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite

3/16/17 - 7:30pm - 3/16/17 - 8:30pm

Melissa Clark

More information to come.

UW Poetry MFA Graduates Reading

4/3/17 - 7:00pm - 4/3/17 - 8:00pm

A reading from the graduating MFA cohort in poetry.

UW Poetry MFA Graduates Reading - - 04/03/2017 - 7:00pm

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

4/3/17 - 7:30pm - 4/3/17 - 8:30pm

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood discusses her book "Hag-Seed" alongside Shakespeare's "The Tempest"

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

4/6/17 - 1:00pm - 4/6/17 - 3:30pm

John Jennings

The event has been canceled due to illness. We are working to reschedule.

Canceled Due To Illness: The Soul of Black Comix

4/6/17 - 6:00pm - 4/6/17 - 7:00pm

John Jennings

The event has been canceled due to illness. We are working to reschedule.

The Collapsing Empire

4/8/17 - 7:00pm - 4/8/17 - 8:00pm

John Scalzi

John Scalzi returns with the beginning of an exciting new saga: The Collapsing Empire.

Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows Reading

4/13/17 - 7:00pm - 4/13/17 - 8:00pm

Poetry and fiction from the 2016-17 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows

Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows Reading - - 04/13/2017 - 7:00pm

Known and Strange Things

4/14/17 - 7:00pm - 4/14/17 - 8:00pm

Teju Cole

Teju Cole will discuss his book "Known and Strange Things," a collection of his works.

Lunch for Libraries

4/18/17 - 11:30am - 4/18/17 - 12:30pm

Richard Russo

This year's Lunch for Libraries will feature author Richard Russo and his book "Everybody's Fool"

Everybody's Fool

4/18/17 - 7:00pm - 4/18/17 - 8:00pm

Richard Russo

Pulitzer-Prize winner, Richard Russo returns to Bath and revisits beloved characters.

Imagine Wanting Only This

5/4/17 - 7:00pm - 5/4/17 - 8:00pm

Kristen Radtke

Jamel Brinkley

A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief.

Listen to Your Grandmothers

5/7/17 - 1:00pm - 5/7/17 - 4:00pm

A gala for Listen to Your Grandmothers and a celebration of the Raging Grannies

Listen to Your Grandmothers - - 05/07/2017 - 1:00pm

Pandora's Lab

5/10/17 - 7:00pm - 5/10/17 - 8:00pm

Paul Offit

What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction?

Chuck Klosterman X

5/18/17 - 7:00pm - 5/18/17 - 8:00pm

Chuck Klosterman

A tour of the past decade from one of the sharpest and most prolific observers of our unusual times.

Testimony

6/3/17 - 7:00pm - 6/3/17 - 8:00pm

Scott Turow

The newest novel by "the master of the courtroom drama."