Past Years - 2023 Events | Wisconsin Book Festival

No Crying in Baseball

10/20/23 - 7:30pm

Erin Carlson

Unheralded piece of American history into a perennial cinematic favorite

This Is Salvaged

10/20/23 - 7:30pm

Vauhini Vara

Pushes intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty

Where The Dead Sleep

10/20/23 - 7:30pm

Joshua Moehling

There's a dangerous legacy in quiet Minnesota town and someone will do anything to keep it hidden

Have You Been Long Enough At Table & Sweet Movie

10/20/23 - 9:00pm

Leslie Sainz

Alisha Dietzman

Joint poetry reading

Have You Been Long Enough at Table & Sweet Movie

We Read Youth Voices Writing Contest: Authors Reception

10/21/23 - 10:00am

A Winter's Rime

10/21/23 - 10:30am

Carol Dunbar

A harrowing & emotional novel of one woman's journey to find peace and healing from a violent past

Death's Door

10/21/23 - 10:30am

Barbara Joosse

Renee Graef

Illustrated graphic novel for children ages 8–11 from Great Lakes maritime history

Suddenly Diverse

10/21/23 - 10:30am

Dr. Erica Turner

Ananda De Oliveira Mirilli

How school districts manage race and inequality

When I'm Dead

10/21/23 - 10:30am

Hannah Morrissey

Karma has finally come to collect

Confidence

10/21/23 - 12:00pm

Rafael Frumkin

The American Dream is just another pyramid scheme

Never Givin' Up

10/21/23 - 12:00pm

Kurt Dietrich

Never Givin’ Up celebrates a Milwaukee hometown hero and global sensation

Owner Of A Lonely Heart

10/21/23 - 12:00pm

Beth Nguyen

A powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement

Planting An Idea

10/21/23 - 12:00pm

Jerry Apps

Natasha Kassulke

Critical and creative thinking about environmental issues

My Murder

10/21/23 - 1:30pm

Katie Williams

What if the murder you had to solve was your own?

Promises of Gold

10/21/23 - 1:30pm

José Olivarez

Those homies who are there all along, cheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant

Small-Town Wisconsin: Fun, Surprising, And Exceptional Road Trips

10/21/23 - 1:30pm

Mary Bergin

Enduring character of unusual burgs of Wisconsin

Through The Groves

10/21/23 - 1:30pm

Anne Hull

David Maraniss

A memoir that will speak to anyone who’s ever left home to cut a path of their own

Dreaming In Spanish

10/21/23 - 3:00pm

Sara Alvarado

An epic love story of the dance between cultures

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

10/21/23 - 3:00pm

Taylor Byas

Subverting monolithic ideas about the South Side of Chicago

The Book of Charlie

10/21/23 - 3:00pm

David Von Drehle

David Maraniss

A nation of Charlies in the rollercoaster pursuit of a good and meaningful life

Wine People

10/21/23 - 3:00pm

Michelle Wildgen

Escape into the cutthroat world of wine and the complicated terrain of women’s friendship

CANCELED: Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: An American Story Of Assimilation And Erasure

10/21/23 - 4:30pm

Robert Lopez

An American story of assimilation and erasure

Dream Street & The Jazz Loft Project

10/21/23 - 4:30pm

Sam Stephenson

Photographs and tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965

Homestead

10/21/23 - 4:30pm

Melinda Moustakis

An unflinching portrait of a marriage, a love letter to the Alaskan landscape