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Thursday, October 8
Fall 2009 Book Sale- Free Entry!
Thursday, October 8 | 10:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Venue: Memorial Library
Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries
A benefit for the UW-Madison Libraries -- runs through Saturday.
Category(s): Book Sales
Novella Carpenter & Michelle Wildgen
Thursday, October 8 | 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Venue: A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore
Presenter(s): Robert Pierce, Novella Carpenter, Michelle Wildgen
What do you do when the world begins to show its cracks? How do you keep going in a changed world? Novella Carpenter turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm. Her memoir, Farm City, is both a cautionary tale and a full-throated call to action, a moving meditation on urban life versus the natural world, and on what we have given up to live the way we do. Michelle Wildgen’s new novel, But Not for Long, follows three members of an East side sustainable food co-op in Madison as a blackout and other oddities shake the community.
Introduction: Robert Pierce
Bookseller: A Room of One's Own
Category(s): Fiction, Making it Home, Wisconsin Ties
Matt Rothschild: Democracy in Print: The Best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009
Thursday, October 8 | 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture
Presented by University of Wisconsin Press
Presenter(s): Matt Rothschild
The Progressive, one of America's liveliest and most influential journals of politics, opinion, and culture, was founded 100 years ago in Madison, Wisconsin by legendary Wisconsin Governor and Congressman Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFollette. From its very first issue it has served as a forum for activists, artists, journalists, historians, Nobel Prize-winners, and Supreme Court justices – all united by a passionate belief in peace, civil rights, social justice, and democracy. Progressive editor Matt Rothschild looks back on a century’s worth of struggle and discusses how far we’ve come, and how far we have yet to go, in fulfilling Fighting Bob’s vision at the start of the twenty-first century.
Category(s): History, Society & Politics, Wisconsin Ties, Writing & Publishing
Life After Favre -- A Season of Change: Phil Hanrahan
Thursday, October 8 | 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Venue: Orpheum Theatre: Main
Presenter(s): Phil Hanrahan
Wisconsin native Phil Hanrahan moved from Los Angeles to Green Bay to chronicle the 2008 Packers season. Immersing himself in the overlapping worlds of team and town, he watched games at Lambeau Field, met countless tailgaters, interviewed players, shoveled stadium snow, celebrated with Packer great Fuzzy Thurston on his 75th birthday, and road-tripped to five other states in pursuit of Packer Nation adventures. Join the author for stories from a dramatic year, the year the Packers traded their iconic quarterback of sixteen seasons, Brett Favre.
Bookseller: A Room of One's Own
Category(s): Wisconsin Ties
Troy Gardens: Talking About Food, Land, & Community
Thursday, October 8 | 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Venue: Troy Gardens
A family event with food, music, readings, a garden tour and group discussion about the meaning of local food and well being. Harvest food give-aways, plus soup donated by Willy Street Co-op and David’s Jamaican Cuisine (while supplies last).
Category(s): Making it Home, Wisconsin Ties
Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: A Book Discussion
Thursday, October 8 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Venue: College Library (Helen C. White Hall)
Presented by UW-Madison's Go Big Read Program
Join the discussion! In Defense of Food, the current book for UW-Madison's student and community reading program, is a tough, witty discourse on why food is more than the sum of its nutritional parts. Pollan examines the modern American food landscape where the deceptively simple question of what to eat has been muddled by the numerous and often conflicting claims of food producers, marketers, and nutrition experts. For more information on the UW-Madison Common Book Program and Michael Pollan's appearances in Madison on September 24-26, 2009, see www.gobigread.wisc.edu.
Category(s): Making it Home
Nicholas Thompson: The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
Thursday, October 8 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Presented in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of History, Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), the Grand Strategy Program, and the Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA)
Presenter(s): Nicholas Thompson
Paul Nitze and George Kennan were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for surviving the Cold War; as such, they fought epic political battles that spanned decades. Yet despite their very different views, Paul Nitze and George Kennan dined together, attended the weddings of each other’s children, and remained good friends all their lives. Nitze’s grandson, Nicholas Thompson, weaves a fascinating narrative that follows these two rivals and friends from the beginning of the Cold War to its end, meanwhile telling the story of our nation during the most dangerous half-century in history.
Bookseller: Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Category(s): History
Lorrie Moore & Michael Perry: WI Book Festival Party with Michael Perry & the Long Beds
Thursday, October 8 | 7:30 - 11:00 PM
Venue: Orpheum Theatre: Main
Presented by the Wisconsin Humanities Council.
Presenter(s): Lorrie Moore, Michael Perry
Two of Wisconsin’s -- and the nation’s -- most beloved and talented writers share the grand stage at the Orpheum Theatre. Is there anyone who doesn’t have a secret crush on at least one of these two? Michael’s newest memoir is Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting, and Lorrie’s brand new novel, A Gate at the Stairs, is her first in over a decade. Wildly different writers, they nevertheless mine some similar territory: farming and rural living, abundance and loss, and the cycles of family life. The evening will conclude with the 2009 Wisconsin Book Festival Party, featuring live music by Michael Perry & the Long Beds. Profoundly but hilariously undersold on their website, the Long Beds are described as "a rotating cast of characters who basically consent to stare at the backside of Michael Perry so he can pretend he's a musician, which he's not. He likes to write songs and sing them, and knows maybe five chords, but he plays his guitar with all the nuance of a man cutting brush. The Long Beds, on the other hand, are real pros, and charitable."
The entire evening is free and open to the public.
Bookseller: A Room of One's Own
Category(s): Fiction, Memoir & Biography, Wisconsin Ties
Get Up/Stand Up: OMAI-First Wave Wins 2009 Governor’s Arts Awards and OMAI Website Release Party
Thursday, October 8 | 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Historical Society-Library Mall
Join the OMAI staff, First Wave students and friends as we celebrate winning the 2009 Governor’s Award in the Arts – being the first university arts program in the twenty-nine year history of the award to do so. Also, as part of the celebration that will involve special appearances by friends of OMAI, ZD Studios will unveil the dynamic new website they have developed for OMAI.
Category(s): Poetry, Spoken Word, Wisconsin Ties
Sonya Newenhouse & Dennis Boyer: Listen to the Land and EnAct
Thursday, October 8 | 8:00 - 9:30 PM
Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture
Presenter(s): Sonya Newenhouse, Dennis Boyer
If you wanted to start a national dialogue on the environment, would you begin in your own neighborhood? Dennis Boyer did, and Listen to the Land gives voice to farmers, Native Americans, loggers, hunters, and activists, each with their own perspectives on the state our natural world. Dr. Sonya Newenhouse presents EnAct: Steps to Greener Living, an empowering manual designed to help mobilize neighborhoods to create sustainable living environments, and to build community amongst participants.
Category(s): Making it Home, Wisconsin Ties