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Sunday, October 11
James Lorence, David Taylor, Herbert Lewis, Loretta Metoxen, and Gordon McLester
Sunday, October 11 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture
Sponsored by MATC
Presenter(s): James J. Lorence, David A. Taylor
Moderator(s): Herbert S. Lewis, Professor Emeritus
During the Great Depression, while enduring unprecedented economic hardship, citizens grappled with the changing nature and definition of community in American society. In this period of extreme stress, the unemployed were willing to use collaborative means to aid them in coping with family and personal issues, even in the highly individualistic South -- as discussed by James Lorence in The Unemployed People's Movement : Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-41. David Taylor’s Soul of a People: The WPA Writers’ Project Uncovers Depression America depicts WPA Writers’ Project workers in Wisconsin in the 1930s and includes the experiences of Aldo Leopold (who contributed the conservation essay to the WPA Wisconsin guide,) and Oneida writers on the project including Oscar Archiquette and Ida Blackhawk.
Bookseller: University Book Store
Category(s): History, Society & Politics, Wisconsin Ties
Kim Nielsen & Michael Rosen: Beyond the Miracle Worker and What Else But Home
Sunday, October 11 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Venue: A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore
Presenter(s): Kim Nielsen, Michael Rosen
The complexity of caring is beautifully revealed in two works depicting very different times and circumstances. Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen returns to the story of Anne Sullivan Macy, Keller’s teacher, to discover the real and far more interesting story of a woman who has been mythologized as an educational superhero. Michael Rosen movingly recounts his family’s story of how a blacktop baseball game led five young men, living in poverty, into the midst of the Rosen’s middle class life, extending that family and bridging the typically unbridgeable divides of race, class, and culture.
Bookseller: A Room of One's Own
Category(s): Memoir & Biography, Society & Politics
Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: A Book Discussion
Sunday, October 11 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Venue: Madison Public Library-Main Branch
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
The Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration: Opening Reception
Sunday, October 11 | 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Venue: James Watrous Gallery
The Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration will present the work of several of Wisconsin's most accomplished illustrators of children's books, including Laura Dronzek, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Lois Ehlert, Kevin Henkes, Renée Graef, David McLimans, and Ellen Raskin. Several gallery events are planned, including the opening reception during the Wisconsin Book Festival and workshops with the Madison Children's Museum.
Exhibit runs October 11 - December 6, 2009. For more information please click here or call 608.265.2500.
Category(s): Art & Visual, Wisconsin Ties, Youth & Kids
Terese Allen & Robert Wolf: Flavor of Wisconsin and Eating in Place
Sunday, October 11 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture
Presenter(s): Terese Allen, Robert Wolf
Food expert, activist, and writer Terese Allen explores Wisconsin history and culture through its food with her updated and expanded version of Harva Hatchen’s classic work, The Flavor of Wisconsin: An Informal History of Food and Eating in the Badger State. Robert Wolf’s Free River Press is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to document contemporary America through writing workshops with people from all walks of life; Eating in Place is a well-rounded look at the local foods movement, written by those who are directly involved in it: small niche farmers, chefs, farmers’ market organizers, activists, and consumers.
Bookseller: Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
Category(s): Making it Home, Wisconsin Ties
Agate Nesaule, Dwight Allen & Debra Spark: The Typewriter Satyr; Good for the Jews and In Love with Jerzy Kosinski
Sunday, October 11 | 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Venue: A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore
Presented by University of Wisconsin Press and the UW-Madison Creative Writing Department
Presenter(s): Debra Spark, Agate Nesaule, Dwight Allen
Fresh work from acclaimed writers: three novels set in Wisconsin. Dwight Allen’s The Typewriter Satyr combines sharp social criticism with a poignant story about the courage to take a chance on love and its sometimes disastrous consequences. Debra Spark returns to Madison with Good for the Jews, a smart, funny, sexy novel that is both a loose retelling of the Book of Esther and a thoroughly modern tale about modern Jewish families in the Midwest. Author of the award-winning memoir A Woman with Amber, Agate Nesaule presents a debut novel about a woman inspired by the transformation of Polish-Jewish émigré Jerzy Kosinski from persecuted wartime escapee to American celebrity.
Bookseller: A Room of One's Own
Category(s): Fiction, Wisconsin Ties
The Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration: Panel Discussion with Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Laura Dronzek, Lois Ehlert, Renée Graef, Kevin Henkes & David McLimans
Sunday, October 11 | 2:30 - 3:45 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Studio/Overture
Presented by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters
Presenter(s): Lois Ehlert, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Kevin Henkes, Laura Dronzek, David McLimans, Renée Graef
The Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration will present the work of several of Wisconsin's most accomplished illustrator/artists of children's books. We will explore each artist's indivudual process for producing a finished children's book, exploring how the artist progresses from an idea to a finished set of original illustrations ready for the publisher. Each of these artists has a different way of entering the world of the child and bringing forth a gift composed of different shapes, colors, lines and words. This variety of creative expression will reward gallery goers and perhaps surprise an audience not acquainted with the work of these nationally known artists who live and work in our midst.
Exhibit runs October 11 - December 6, 2009. For more information please click here or call 608.265.2500.
Bookseller: University Book Store
Category(s): Art & Visual, Wisconsin Ties, Youth & Kids
Wendell Berry
Sunday, October 11 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Venue: Overture Hall/Overture
Presented in partnership with the Aldo Leopold Foundation
Presenter(s): Wendell Berry
One of America’s most courageous writers, renowned poet, essayist, farmer, and novelist Wendell Berry is the Festival’s keynote speaker this year. Berry’s portrayals of rural people living in community with one another, and the land, have inspired countless readers and have led many to call him one of America’s great agrarian writers and moralists. The love and delicacy with which he draws the lives of farmers and small townspeople can make you re-think your notion of what makes a good life, a true community, and a just world.
Bookseller: Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
Category(s): Fiction, Making it Home, Poetry