Unless indicated in the program description, all events are free, unticketed, and open to the public on a first-come first serve basis.
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| TIME |
EVENT TITLE |
CATEGORY |
VENUE |
| Wednesday, October 7 |
| 5:00 - 9:00 PM |
Fall 2009 Book Sale Preview- $5 entry |
Book Sales |
Memorial Library |
| 5:30 - 7:00 PM |
Bus Lines and Poetry Out Loud: High School Poetry Awardees |
Poetry / Wisconsin Ties / Youth & Kids |
Africana Restaurant |
| 5:30 - 7:00 PM |
Amelia Klem Osterud & James A. Levine |
Fiction / International / Society & Politics / Work |
Wisconsin Studio/Overture |
| 5:30 - 7:00 PM |
Erinn Batykefer: Allegheny, Monongahela |
Poetry / Wisconsin Ties |
Avol's Bookstore |
| 5:30 - 7:00 PM |
Barbara Manger, Janine Smith & Lewis Koch |
Art & Visual / Memoir & Biography / Wisconsin Ties |
Chazen Museum of Art, Rm. L-140 |
| 6:00 - 7:30 PM |
Katie Krueger: Give with Gratitude: Lessons Learned Listening to West Africa |
International / Memoir & Biography / Wisconsin Ties |
A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore |
| 6:30 - 7:30 PM |
Arthur & Ursula Rathburn |
Memoir & Biography / Wisconsin Ties |
Sun Prairie Public Library |
| 7:30 - 9:00 PM |
The 12th Annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture: Gregory Maguire |
Fiction / Writing & Publishing / Youth & Kids |
Memorial Union Theater |
| 8:00 - 9:30 PM |
Valerie Laken & David McGlynn: Dream House and The End of the Straight and Narrow |
Fiction / Wisconsin Ties |
Wisconsin Studio/Overture |
| 8:00 - 9:30 PM |
Angela Sorby & Mark Kraushaar: Bird Skin Coat and Falling Brick Kills Local Man |
Poetry / Wisconsin Ties |
Avol's Bookstore |
| Thursday, October 8 |
| 10:30 AM - 7:00 PM |
Fall 2009 Book Sale- Free Entry! |
Book Sales |
Memorial Library |
| 5:30 - 7:00 PM |
Novella Carpenter & Michelle Wildgen |
Fiction / Food / Making it Home / Wisconsin Ties |
A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore |
| 5:30 - 7:00 PM |
Troy Gardens: Talking About Food, Land, & Community |
Food / Making it Home / Wisconsin Ties |
Troy Gardens |
| 5:30 - 6:30 PM |
Life After Favre -- A Season of Change: Phil Hanrahan |
Wisconsin Ties |
Orpheum Theatre: Main |
| 5:30 - 7:00 PM |
Matt Rothschild: Democracy in Print: The Best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 |
History / Society & Politics / Wisconsin Ties / Writing & Publishing |
Promenade Hall/Overture |
| 7:00 - 8:30 PM |
Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: A Book Discussion |
Discussion / Food / Making it Home |
College Library (Helen C. White Hall) |
| 7:00 - 8:30 PM |
Nicholas Thompson: The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War |
History |
Wisconsin Veterans Museum |
| 7:30 - 9:00 PM |
Get Up/Stand Up: OMAI-First Wave Wins 2009 Governor’s Arts Awards and OMAI Website Release Party |
Poetry / Spoken Word / Wisconsin Ties |
Wisconsin Historical Society-Library Mall |
| 7:30 - 11:00 PM |
Lorrie Moore & Michael Perry: WI Book Festival Party with Michael Perry & the Long Beds |
Fiction / Memoir & Biography / Wisconsin Ties |
Orpheum Theatre: Main |
| 8:00 - 9:30 PM |
Sonya Newenhouse & Dennis Boyer: Listen to the Land and EnAct |
Making it Home / Wisconsin Ties |
Promenade Hall/Overture |
| Friday, October 9 |
| 10:30 AM - 7:00 PM |
Fall 2009 Book Sale - Free Entry! |
Book Sales |
Memorial Library |
| 12:00 - 1:30 PM |
Lev Raphael: My Germany: A Jewish Writer Returns to the World His Parents Escaped |
International / Memoir & Biography |
Wisconsin Veterans Museum |
| 5:00 - 9:00 PM |
Bone Folders' Guild Exhibit Opening: Courage to Create, Courage to Cross Boundaries |
Art & Visual / Wisconsin Ties |
State Street Gallery |
| 5:00 - 7:00 PM |
Wisconsin People & Ideas/Wisconsin Book Festival Writing Contest Winners' Showcase |
Fiction / Poetry / Wisconsin Ties / Writing & Publishing |
Avol's Bookstore |
| 5:30 - 7:00 PM |
Jonah Lehrer: From Marshmallows to Metacognition: What Can Science Teach Us About Decision-Making? |
Society & Politics |
Promenade Hall/Overture |
| 5:30 - 7:00 PM |
Harriet Brown & Joan Fischer: Feed Me! Writers Dish about Food, Eating, Body Image, and Weight |
Food / Society & Politics / Wisconsin Ties |
Madison Public Library-Main Branch |
| 6:00 - 7:00 PM |
Catherine Victorias Alexis (Lexi) Gee |
Wisconsin Ties / Youth & Kids |
Madison Children's Museum |
| 6:00 - 7:00 PM |
Wade Rouse: At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream |
LGBTQ / Memoir & Biography |
A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore |
| 6:00 - 8:00 PM |
Madison Children's Museum Kids' Book Bonanza |
Art & Visual / Youth & Kids |
Madison Children's Museum |
| 6:30 - 8:00 PM |
Robert Rauschenberg's America: Gallery Talk |
Art & Visual |
MMoCA (Madison Museum of Contemporary Art) |
| 7:00 - 8:00 PM |
Sheri Sinykin, Patricia Curtis Pfitsch, & Stephanie Lowden |
Fiction / Native American / Wisconsin Ties / Youth & Kids |
Madison Children's Museum |
| 7:00 - 8:30 PM |
Making Waves Showcase: From Hawai’i to First Wave through Chitown |
Poetry / Spoken Word / Wisconsin Ties |
Wisconsin Historical Society-Library Mall |
| 8:00 - 9:30 PM |
Gay American Autobiography: David Bergman & Raphael Kadushin |
LGBTQ / Memoir & Biography / Wisconsin Ties |
A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore |
| 8:00 - 9:30 PM |
Presenting Akademia Cartonera: A Primer of Latin American Cartonera Publishers |
Art & Visual / International / Society & Politics |
Promenade Hall/Overture |
| 9:00 - 11:45 PM |
Passing the Mic Spoken Word & Hip-Hop Open Mic |
Poetry / Spoken Word / Wisconsin Ties |
Wisconsin Historical Society-Library Mall |
| Saturday, October 10 |
| 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM |
Friends of the CCBC Fall Booksale |
Book Sales / Youth & Kids |
Helen C. White Hall, Room 4207 |
| 10:00 - 11:30 AM |
Three Wisconsin Writers, Revisited: William Green, Ken Crocker, Steve Chappell & Richard Quinney on Roy Chapman Andrews, Glenway Wescott, and August Derleth |
Fiction / Wisconsin Ties |
A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore |
| 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM |
Olbrich Botanical Gardens: Garden Book Fair |
Wisconsin Ties |
|
| 10:00 - 11:30 AM |
Beth Finke & Katie McKy |
Youth & Kids |
Rotunda Studio/Overture |
| 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish with Kathleen Schmitt Kline and Ron Bruch |
Making it Home / Wisconsin Ties |
Brittingham Boat House |
| 10:00 - 11:30 AM |
Harvey Pekar & Paul Buhle: Studs Terkel’s Working, A Graphic Adaptation |
Art & Visual / History / Wisconsin Ties / Work |
Promenade Hall/Overture |
| 10:30 AM - 2:00 PM |
Fall 2009 Book Sale - Free Entry - $3 a bag! |
Book Sales |
Memorial Library |
| 12:00 - 2:00 PM |
Douglas W. Jacobson: Night of Flames: A Novel of World War II |
History / International / Wisconsin Ties |
Wisconsin Veterans Museum |
| 12:00 - 1:30 PM |
Robert Whitaker & Adam Schrager: The Principled Politician and On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 |
History |
Wisconsin Studio/Overture |
| 12:00 - 1:30 PM |
Joel Friederich & Chuck Rybak: Blue to Fill the Empty Heaven and Tongue and Groove |
Poetry / Wisconsin Ties |
Avol's Bookstore |
| 12:00 - 1:30 PM |
Lynda Barry, James Danky, & Paul Buhle: A Serious Look at Comics |
Art & Visual / History / Society & Politics / Wisconsin Ties |
Promenade Hall/Overture |
| 12:00 - 1:30 PM |
Claudia Guadalupe Martinez & Laura Schaefer |
Fiction / Wisconsin Ties / Youth & Kids |
Rotunda Studio/Overture |
| 1:30 - 3:00 PM |
Verse Wisconsin: Sarah Busse & Wendy Vardaman |
Poetry / Wisconsin Ties / Writing & Publishing |
Madison Public Library-Main Branch |
| 2:30 - 4:00 PM |
Sacred Trinity: US National Security Policy during the American Century: Andrew Bacevich |
Society & Politics |
Wisconsin Veterans Museum |
| 2:30 - 4:00 PM |
Anita Silvey, K.T. Horning, & First Lady Jessica Doyle: Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book |
Memoir & Biography / Youth & Kids |
Promenade Hall/Overture |
| 2:30 - 4:00 PM |
A Call to Nursing: Featuring editor Paula Sergi and other contributors |
Memoir & Biography / Poetry / Society & Politics / Wisconsin Ties / Work |
Wisconsin Studio/Overture |
| 2:30 - 4:00 PM |
Bruce Allison, Janet Halfmann & Ken Stark |
Wisconsin Ties / Youth & Kids |
Rotunda Studio/Overture |
| 4:00 - 6:30 PM |
Agent, Editor & Publisher Panel |
Wisconsin Ties / Writing & Publishing |
Harambee - South Madison Health & Family Center |
| 5:00 - 6:30 PM |
Bonnie Jo Campbell & Bich Minh Nguyen: American Salvage and Short Girls |
Fiction / Work |
Wisconsin Studio/Overture |
| 5:00 - 6:00 PM |
Susan Firer & Judith Harway: Two Acclaimed Milwaukee Poets from Overture’s Wisconsin Writer Series |
Poetry / Wisconsin Ties |
Rotunda Studio/Overture |
| 5:30 - 7:00 PM |
The Enduring Relevance of the Wisconsin School: What William Appleman Williams Got Right and Where He Went Wrong: Andrew Bacevich on the 50th Anniversary of Tragedy of American Diplomacy |
History / Society & Politics / Wisconsin Ties |
Promenade Hall/Overture |
| 6:00 - 7:00 PM |
Jennifer Heup & Pat Schmatz: Observations of an Amateur Astronomer and Mousetraps |
LGBTQ / Wisconsin Ties / Youth & Kids |
Rotunda Studio/Overture |
| 7:30 - 9:00 PM |
Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dorhn: Race Course Against White Supremacy |
Society & Politics |
Wisconsin Studio/Overture |
| 7:30 - 9:00 PM |
Jane Hamilton & David Rhodes |
Fiction / Wisconsin Ties |
Promenade Hall/Overture |
| 8:00 - 11:00 PM |
Sin Fronteras: A Celebration of Twenty Years of Building Cross-Hemispheric Arts Alliances through Music and Poetry with Guillermo Anderson, Greg Landau & Philip Montalvan |
International / Poetry / Spoken Word / Wisconsin Ties |
Wisconsin Historical Society-Library Mall |
| Sunday, October 11 |
| 12:00 - 1:30 PM |
Kim Nielsen & Michael Rosen: Beyond the Miracle Worker and What Else But Home |
Memoir & Biography / Society & Politics |
A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore |
| 12:00 - 1:30 PM |
James Lorence, David Taylor, Herbert Lewis, Loretta Metoxen, and Gordon McLester |
History / Native American / Society & Politics / Wisconsin Ties / Work |
Promenade Hall/Overture |
| 2:00 - 3:30 PM |
Agate Nesaule, Dwight Allen & Debra Spark: The Typewriter Satyr; Good for the Jews and In Love with Jerzy Kosinski |
Fiction / Wisconsin Ties |
A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore |
| 2:00 - 3:30 PM |
Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: A Book Discussion |
Discussion / Food / Making it Home |
Madison Public Library-Main Branch |
| 2:00 - 3:30 PM |
Terese Allen & Robert Wolf: Flavor of Wisconsin and Eating in Place |
Food / Making it Home / Wisconsin Ties |
Promenade Hall/Overture |
| 2:00 - 5:00 PM |
The Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration: Opening Reception |
Art & Visual / Wisconsin Ties / Youth & Kids |
James Watrous Gallery |
| 2:30 - 3:45 PM |
The Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration: Panel Discussion with Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Laura Dronzek, Lois Ehlert, Renée Graef, Kevin Henkes & David McLimans |
Art & Visual / Wisconsin Ties / Youth & Kids |
Wisconsin Studio/Overture |
| 4:00 - 5:30 PM |
Wendell Berry |
Fiction / Food / Making it Home / Poetry |
Overture Hall/Overture |
