Past Years - 2021 Events | Wisconsin Book Festival

The Marathon Don't Stop

10/22/21 - 4:00pm

Rob Kenner

First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble

The first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip-hop mogul, artist, and activist

Tragic City & Machete

10/22/21 - 5:30pm

Tomás Morín

Clemonce Heard

Poets Clemonce Heard and Tomás Morin discuss their recent collections

Speaking of Race

10/22/21 - 7:00pm

Celeste Headlee

How to have productive conversations about race, offering insights, advice, and support.

Unfollow Me

10/22/21 - 8:30pm

Jill Louise Busby

An intimate, impertinent, and incisive collection about race, progress, and hypocrisy

Friends of UW-Madison Libraries Book Sale

10/23/21 - 9:00am

Friends of UW Libraries

Education for Democracy

10/23/21 - 10:30am

Chad Alan Goldberg

Jason Smith

An investigation of the value of state universities and humanities education as a public good

Empire of Rubber

10/23/21 - 10:30am

Gregg Mitman

An ambitious and shocking exposé of America’s hidden rubber empire in Liberia.

When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People

10/23/21 - 11:00am

Steven Nadler

Lawrence Shapiro

Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today's epidemic of irrationality.

How the Arts Can Save Education

10/23/21 - 12:00pm

Erica Halverson

a blueprint for using the arts to rethink what good learning, teaching, and curriculum can be.

Shoulder Season

10/23/21 - 12:00pm

Christina Clancy

An evocative and nostalgic tale about a small-town girl turned Playboy Bunny.

God, Human, Animal, Machine

10/23/21 - 1:30pm

Meghan O'Gieblyn

The core questions of existence--identity, knowledge, life itself--urgently require rethinking.

Reprieve

10/23/21 - 1:30pm

James Han Mattson

A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror

Ordinary Girls

10/23/21 - 3:00pm

Jaquira Díaz

Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of age

Shape

10/23/21 - 3:00pm

Jordan Ellenberg

A far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry.

Fans

10/23/21 - 4:00pm

Larry Olmsted

Why being a sports fan is good for us individually and is a force for positive change in society.

Revelations in Air

10/23/21 - 4:30pm

Jude Stewart

An extraordinary, strange, beautiful exploration of smell, the least understood of of the senses.

The Breaker

10/23/21 - 4:30pm

Nicholas Petrie

If Peter and June solve this mystery, Peter's record will be scrubbed clean.

Godspeed

10/23/21 - 6:00pm

Nickolas Butler

Why is it being built here, and why so quickly?

Redeeming Justice

10/23/21 - 7:30pm

Jarrett Adams

An unforgettable firsthand account of the limits—and possibilities—of our country’s system of law.

The Ex-Girlfriend of my Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend

10/23/21 - 9:00pm

Maddy Court

advice on love, dating, and friendship by and for queer women and people of marginalized genders

Fuzz

10/24/21 - 11:00am

Mary Roach

An irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.

Wisconsin People & Ideas 2021 Fiction and Poetry Contest Reading

10/28/21 - 7:00pm

the winners of the statewide 2021 Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction & Poetry Contests

Wisconsin People & Ideas 2021 Fiction and Poetry Contest Reading - Jennifer Fandel, Paula Schulz, David Southward, Kim Suhr, Allison Uselman, Yvette Viets Flaten, Jason Smith - 10/28/2021 - 7:00pm

Giannis

11/2/21 - 7:00pm

Mirin Fader

The story of Giannis Antetokounmpo's extraordinary rise.

Go Big Read: Transcendent Kingdom

11/3/21 - 7:00pm

Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing.