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Saturday, October 10
Friends of the CCBC Fall Booksale
Saturday, October 10 | 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Venue: Helen C. White Hall, Room 4207
Presented by the CCBC
The biannual Friends of the CCBC booksale features hundreds of new and gently used children's and young adult books, including hardcover trade, paperback reprints, and more. All proceeds support the work of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center and related activities. Books are $2 (paperback) and $4 (hardcover). Anyone can become a Member of the Friends of the CCBC at the door and receive $1 discount per book.
Category(s): Book Sales, Youth & Kids
People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish with Kathleen Schmitt Kline and Ron Bruch
Saturday, October 10 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Venue: Brittingham Boat House
Presented by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Presenter(s): Kathleen Schmitt Kline, Ron Bruch
This compelling new environmental chronicle tells the story of a century’s worth of dedicated work and careful management that has made Wisconsin’s lake sturgeon population, which once teetered on the edge of extinction, the world’s largest and healthiest. The Wisconsin Historical Society Press presents authors Kathy Schmitt Kline and Ron Bruch to discuss the book project and Wisconsin’s sturgeon spearing tradition. Stop by the Brittingham Boathouse to meet the authors, share fish tales, and enjoy coffee and donuts.
Bookseller: Wisconsin Historical Society
Category(s): Making it Home, Wisconsin Ties
Olbrich Botanical Gardens: Garden Book Fair
Saturday, October 10 | 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Venue:
Presented by Olbrich Gardens' Schumacher Library
At 10 a.m., Emmet Judziewicz will sign copies of his book Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Great Lakes Region. At 12:30 p.m., Kim Wilson, author of In the Garden with Jane Austen, will give a slide tour of English gardens. The Fair will also offer book signings and a small sales area. Madison Area Master Gardeners plan to offer the 2010 edition of the Wisconsin Garden Journal. Speakers will present in the upstairs meeting room.
Category(s): Wisconsin Ties
Three Wisconsin Writers, Revisited: William Green, Ken Crocker, Steve Chappell & Richard Quinney on Roy Chapman Andrews, Glenway Wescott, and August Derleth
Saturday, October 10 | 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Venue: A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore
Presenter(s): William Green, Ken Crocker, Steve Chappell, Richard Quinney
Borderland Books has taken a special interest in preserving Wisconsin's literary heritage and making it fresh for a whole new generation of readers. Publisher Richard Quinney is joined by his collaborators to discuss the reissue of three classics by Wisconsin writers. Under a Lucky Star, by fearless archaelogist/paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, details the rip-roaring adventure of Beloit's famous "dragon hunter" as he heads into the Gobi Desert looking for fossils. Goodbye, Wisconsin is a classic, and ex-pat novelist Glenway Wescott's literary reputation is undergoing a resurgence of critical acclaim 20 years after his death. Sauk Prairie's own August Dereleth (In the Course of My Walks) is one of the most prolific and well loved chroniclers of Wisconsin's natural world. Three very different authors, writing in three very different genres, but all quintessentially Wisconsin.
Bookseller: A Room of One's Own
Category(s): Fiction, Wisconsin Ties
Beth Finke & Katie McKy
Saturday, October 10 | 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Venue: Rotunda Studio/Overture
Sponsored by Children's Theater of Madison (CTM)
Presenter(s): Beth Finke, Katie McKy
Two writers who'll appear to kids from ages 4-8. Themes of courage in the face of disability/difference, and the courage to be oneself. Wolf Camp, by Katie McKy, is a comedy of parents' unconditional love as their kids try on different skins. And Beth Finke returns with Hanni, her beloved Seeing Eye dog, to talk about the courage they both exhibit every day.
Bookseller: University Book Store
Category(s): Youth & Kids
Harvey Pekar & Paul Buhle: Studs Terkel’s Working, A Graphic Adaptation
Saturday, October 10 | 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture
Presenter(s): Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle
Working, the classic study of how ordinary American people feel about their jobs and lives, is perhaps the most famous book by beloved oral historian Studs Terkel. This graphic adaptation, the first effort to translate Terkel’s work into comic art, is the work of the inimitable Harvey Pekar. A completely unique figure in modern comic art, as depicted in the award-winning film American Splendor, Pekar is also a keen and courageous social critic. Paul Buhle, a Madisonian recently retired from Brown University, is author or editor of many books on politics and popular culture, and has collaborated with Pekar on several volumes.
Bookseller: Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
Category(s): Art & Visual, History, Wisconsin Ties
Fall 2009 Book Sale - Free Entry - $3 a bag!
Saturday, October 10 | 10:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Venue: Memorial Library
Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries
A benefit for the UW-Madison Libraries. Bring your own bag, or buy one for $1!
Category(s): Book Sales
Lynda Barry, James Danky, & Paul Buhle: A Serious Look at Comics
Saturday, October 10 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture
Presenter(s): James Danky, Paul Buhle, Lynda Barry
When you think of comic books do you have visions of funny animals and heroes in tights? And do you think of comics as juvenile, not really worth your time? Well, think again and take "A Serious Look at Comics" under the direction of Lynda Barry and featuring Paul Buhle (Comics in Wisconsin) and James Danky (Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix). Comics have grown-up and so has our appreciation for graphic work that marries text and image. Today’s fans and scholars look at comics as a key element in our understanding of culture, even our lives.
Bookseller: Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
Category(s): Art & Visual, History, Society & Politics, Wisconsin Ties
Joel Friederich & Chuck Rybak: Blue to Fill the Empty Heaven and Tongue and Groove
Saturday, October 10 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Venue: Avol's Bookstore
Presenter(s): Joel Friederich, Chuck Rybak
Poets Joel Friederich and Chuck Rybak share the triumphs and turmoil--and sometimes the humor--of dealing with the natural world, especially as informed by their experiences with fatherhood. In Chuck's work, courage is shown not as the easy answer often depicted by popular notions of heroism, but is interpreted by those who feel distant and removed from it. In Joel's poetry, his speakers struggle not to separate themselves from their natural or social environments, but to remain tethered to place, drawing on an uncertain courage to risk their individuality for the sake of that vital relationship.
Category(s): Poetry, Wisconsin Ties
Douglas W. Jacobson: Night of Flames: A Novel of World War II
Saturday, October 10 | 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Presented in partnership with the Polish Club of Wisconsin-Madison Chapter and the Wisconsin Veterans
Presenter(s): Douglas W. Jacobson
Night of Flames paints a vivid and terrifying picture of war-torn Europe during WWII. Through the long night of Nazi occupation, the ordinary people of occupied countries fight a covert war of sabotage and resistance against the overwhelming might of the German war machine.
Bookseller: Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Category(s): History, International, Wisconsin Ties
Robert Whitaker & Adam Schrager: The Principled Politician and On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919
Saturday, October 10 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Studio/Overture
Presenter(s): Robert Whitaker, Adam Schrager
As anti-Japanese hysteria rose during World War II, one political leader stood up for Japanese Americans’ constitutional rights -- Colorado governor Ralph Carr. Adam Schrager’s fast-paced biography traces the political rise and fall of this early civil rights champion, who prized principle over power. In 1919, Hoop Spur, Arkansas was the site of one of the worst racial massacres in our history. Robert Whitaker documents -- and exposes -- the massacre, and how attorney (and former slave) Scipio Africanus Jones brought a case to the Supreme Court that set the legal stage for the civil rights movement.
Bookseller: University Book Store
Category(s): History
Claudia Guadalupe Martinez & Laura Schaefer
Saturday, October 10 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Venue: Rotunda Studio/Overture
Sponsored by Children's Theater of Madison (CTM)
Presenter(s): Laura Schaefer, Claudia Guadalupe Martinez
Two moving middle-school novels about courage and family life. Madison favorite Laura Schaefer brings eighth-grader Annie and her friends together with the challenge to save her grandmother's business, a beloved teashop. And in The Smell of Old Lady Perfume, when the world of sixth-grader Chela Gonzalez suddenly falls apart, it's the roots of true friendship, family, and self-esteem that hold things together.
Bookseller: University Book Store
Category(s): Fiction, Wisconsin Ties, Youth & Kids
Verse Wisconsin: Sarah Busse & Wendy Vardaman
Saturday, October 10 | 1:30 - 3:00 PM
Venue: Madison Public Library-Main Branch
Presenter(s): Wendy Vardaman, Sarah Busse
The new co-editors of Wisconsin’s poetry magazine, formerly called Free Verse, will host and moderate a discussion by editors and publishers from several small, independent poetry presses in Wisconsin and the upper Midwest. What are publishers looking for in submitted work? Why publish chapbooks? How do individual small presses differ from one another, and what do they have in common? Publishers will bring books and other work samples, and be available to answer questions and talk to authors individually after the discussion.
Category(s): Poetry, Wisconsin Ties, Writing & Publishing
Sacred Trinity: US National Security Policy during the American Century: Andrew Bacevich
Saturday, October 10 | 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Presented by the Wisconsin Veterans Museum 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): Andrew Bacevich
Join us for this special event with Vietnam Veteran and noted scholar Dr. Andrew Bacevich. In this lecture, he will describe the national security consensus that has informed US policy since World War II, and why this consensus persists. He will make the case that the consensus has become antithetical to the nation's well-being and should be abandoned.
Bookseller: Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Category(s): Society & Politics
Bruce Allison, Janet Halfmann & Ken Stark
Saturday, October 10 | 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Venue: Rotunda Studio/Overture
Sponsored by Children's Theater of Madison (CTM)
Presenter(s): R. Bruce Allison, Janet Halfmann, Ken Stark
Pictures tell stories and trees share their tales in this trio of boundary-breaking history picture books for grade school kids. Ken Stark writes and illustrates the story of the Civil War's final battle in Appomattox: The Footrace That Ended the Civil War. In Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story, Janet Halfmann presents the story of a slave whose bravery and resolve gained freedom for his family, and made him a Civil War hero. Bruce Allison comes at history from a different angle with If Trees Could Talk, picturing several dozen remarkable Wisconsin trees along with a unique perspective on the events they've each seen.
Category(s): Wisconsin Ties, Youth & Kids
A Call to Nursing: Featuring editor Paula Sergi and other contributors
Saturday, October 10 | 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Studio/Overture
Presenter(s): Paula Sergi
A student nurse worries that her mistakes might kill a patient and summons up the courage to proceed; another realizes that she doesn't have the emotional tools to survive as a clinician and faces this difficult truth. Only recently have nurses been encouraged to creatively express themselves, giving voice to unique stories of compassion, wonder, heartbreak, and courage. Nurse writers from across the country will share their contributions to A Call to Nursing, a collection of poems and essays looking at the reasons these authors went into nursing, how nursing changed them, and why they either stayed the course or went on to other pursuits. Participants include representatives from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Bookseller: University Book Store
Category(s): Memoir & Biography, Poetry, Society & Politics, Wisconsin Ties
Anita Silvey, K.T. Horning, & First Lady Jessica Doyle: Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book
Saturday, October 10 | 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture
Presenter(s): Anita Silvey
For Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book, 110 American leaders reminisce about their childhood reading and examine how it influenced their lives. Their choices, both revealing and surprising, will be explored by Anita Silvey, editor of the book, and a panel that includes Wisconsin’s First Lady Jessica Doyle and K.T. Horning, Director of the CCBC. Members of the audience will be asked to discuss their favorite childhood books.
Bookseller: University Book Store
Category(s): Memoir & Biography, Youth & Kids
Agent, Editor & Publisher Panel
Saturday, October 10 | 4:00 - 6:30 PM
Venue: Harambee - South Madison Health & Family Center
Presenter(s): Robert Wolf, Kelly Wimmer
Join these four writers who also have experience as agents, editors and publishers. There is a one hour panel discussion with a Q&A, followed by breakout sessions to assist new and emerging writers. Freelance writer Kelly Wimmer is a publishing veteran, having worked as an editor at HarperCollins and also as an agent at the Jane Rotrosen Agency. Robert Wolf is the author and editor of over twenty-five books, a former Chicago Tribune columnist and feature writer, a playwright, and director of Free River Press. Alex Gee Jr. and Lilada Gee write memoir and nonfiction and are co-owners/publishers of Hayah Publishing in Madison.
Category(s): Wisconsin Ties, Writing & Publishing
Susan Firer & Judith Harway: Two Acclaimed Milwaukee Poets from Overture’s Wisconsin Writer Series
Saturday, October 10 | 5:00 - 6:00 PM
Venue: Rotunda Studio/Overture
Presenter(s): Judith Harway, Susan Firer
Susan Firer, recipient of the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award, is Milwaukee's poet laureate and a teacher at UW-Milwaukee. Firer's Milwaukee is a place of pockmarked beauty; where you can still hear "old nuns crying for their stolen wimples" and witness the smelt-fishing crowd get "out of control." Judith Harway’s new collection of poetry, All That is Left, examines the legacies, intended and accidental, passed down through three generations of a fictional Jewish immigrant family.
Category(s): Poetry, Wisconsin Ties
Bonnie Jo Campbell & Bich Minh Nguyen: American Salvage and Short Girls
Saturday, October 10 | 5:00 - 6:30 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Studio/Overture
Presenter(s): Bich Minh Nguyen, Bonnie Jo Campbell
In American Salvage, Bonnie Jo Campbell delves deep into the working class psyche in rural Michigan landscapes where jobs, wildlife, and ways of living are disappearing. With fierce compassion, Campbell chronicles the hard times, the methamphetamine abuse, the joblessness, the crime, and the toll that all this takes on intimate relationships and communities. Bich Minh Nguyen’s acclaimed memoir about her childhood as a Vietnamese immigrant is the focus of "The Great Michigan Read," a book club for the entire state. With her debut novel Short Girls, she recasts the story of estranged sisters (one a successful lawyer, one stringing together menial jobs), daughters of the newly naturalized inventor Dinh Luong, and the cultural and family history that binds them all.
Bookseller: A Room of One's Own
Category(s): Fiction
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
Saturday, October 10 | 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture
Presented in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of History, Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative, and Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Presenter(s): Paul Buhle, Andrew Bacevich, Alfred McCoy
Andrew Bacevich is Professor of History and International Studies at Boston University. A graduate of West Point and a Vietnam veteran, he brings his military experience to bear on his best-selling books, including The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism and American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy. Dr. Bacevich's talk will be followed by a discussion with Dr. Paul Buhle of Brown University, author of the definitive biography of W. A. Williams, and Dr. Alfred W. McCoy of UW-Madison, author of Policing America's Empire.
Bookseller: Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
Category(s): History, Society & Politics, Wisconsin Ties
Jennifer Heup & Pat Schmatz: Observations of an Amateur Astronomer and Mousetraps
Saturday, October 10 | 6:00 - 7:00 PM
Venue: Rotunda Studio/Overture
Presented as part of Overture's Wisconsin Writer Series, a collaborative partnership between Overture Center for the Arts, the Council for Wisconsin Writers, and Edenfred, the creative arts residency of the Terry Family Foundation.
Presenter(s): Pat Schmatz, Jennifer Heup
Shawano High School student Jennifer Heup received the Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Essay Award for Young Writers for her vivid memoir of watching a lunar eclipse. Pat Schmatz, who lives in Amherst Junction, won Tofte/Wright Children's Literature Award for Mousetraps, a riveting tale of a wise & wonderful high school girl coping not only with bullies and the complexities of love and friendship, but also with racism, drugs, and homophobia.
Category(s): LGBTQ, Wisconsin Ties, Youth & Kids
Jane Hamilton & David Rhodes
Saturday, October 10 | 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture
Made possible by a generous contribution from the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries
Presenter(s): David Rhodes, Jane Hamilton
The Wisconsin Book Festival proudly presents two nationally acclaimed Wisconsin writers. From her apple orchard in Rochester, we welcome bestselling novelist Jane Hamilton, a WBF favorite ever since she sang a cappella at the inaugural Fest in 2002. Her newest book, Laura Rider's Masterpiece, is a provocative, satirical tale, simultaneously funny and dark. David Rhodes makes his first appearance in Madison since last year's publication of Driftless marked the return of this major American writer. After publishing three highly acclaimed novels, a motorcycle accident in 1976 left him paralyzed from the chest down, and unpublished for the subsequent three decades. Rhodes hails from Wonewoc, which is about as far northwest of Madison as Jane Hamilton’s orchard is to the southeast: symmetrical literary treasures.
Bookseller: Borders West
Category(s): Fiction, Wisconsin Ties
Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dorhn: Race Course Against White Supremacy
Saturday, October 10 | 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Studio/Overture
Presenter(s): Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn
In Race Course Against White Supremacy: Race-ing Across America, long-time radical social change activists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn focus their critical perspectives on white supremacy and its troubling endurance in American life. Arguing that white supremacy has been the dominant political system in the United States since the nation’s earliest days, and that it is still very much with us, the discussion points to unexamined bigotry in the criminal justice system, election processes, war policy, and education. The book draws upon the authors' own confrontations with authorities during the Vietnam era, reasserts their belief that racism and war are interwoven issues, and offers personal stories about their lives today as parents and teachers. Introduced by Madison's Richard Davis, anti-racism campaigner.
Bookseller: Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
Category(s): Society & Politics
Sin Fronteras: A Celebration of Twenty Years of Building Cross-Hemispheric Arts Alliances through Music and Poetry with Guillermo Anderson, Greg Landau & Philip Montalvan
Saturday, October 10 | 8:00 - 11:00 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Historical Society-Library Mall
Presenter(s): Guillermo Anderson, Greg Landau, Philip Montalvan
In the fall of 1989, Soul Vibrations, one of the most important international reggae bands of the late’80’s, performed in Madison which lead to a series of historic cultural connections between arts communities in Central America and Madison. Two decades later this led to the establishment of the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives at UW-Madison. Join OMAI for an amazing evening celebrating this crossroads moment and also to commemorate one of Madison’s most important Central American solidarity networks, the Wisconsin Coordinating Council of Nicaragua which is celebrating twenty-five years of existence. The evening will be culminated by a joint performance by the visiting Central American artists and the First Wave Music Ensemble. Don’t miss what promises to be one of the artistic highlight events of the year!
Category(s): International, Poetry, Spoken Word, Wisconsin Ties