Here's what's going on today at the Wisconsin Book Festival:
Thursday, October 16
Friends of UW-Madison Library Book Sale: Regular Sale (no entry fee)
Thursday, October 16 | 10:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Venue: Memorial Library
Presented by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries
The Friends of UW-Madison Library's annual book sale takes place at 116 Memorial Library throughout the Festival weekend. On Wednesday, October 15, from 5:00-9:00pm, the sale kicks off with a Preview Sale ($5 Entry). The Regular Sale (no entry fee) takes place on Thursday, October 16, and Friday, October 17, from 10:30am-7:00pm. The sale ends on Saturday, October 18, from 10:30am-1:00pm at the $3-a-Bag Sale (bring your own bag). From 1:05-2:00pm on Saturday all remaining books are free. All sales are held in 116 Memorial Library.
Category(s): Book Sales
Writing Science for the Public: Daniel Levitin
Thursday, October 16 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Venue: Helen C. White Hall
Presented by the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison
Presenter(s): Daniel Levitin
Daniel Levitin enjoyed a successful career as a rock musician and studio producer before turning to cognitive neuroscience, earning a Ph.D. and becoming a top researcher into how our brains interpret music. Please join Daniel Levitin in a conversation about "Writing Science for the Public" on October 16, 4:00 pm.
6191 Helen C. White Hall
Category(s): Writing & Publishing
Henry Drewal and Baba Wague Diakite: Meet Mami Wata
Thursday, October 16 | 5:00 - 6:30 PM
Venue: Madison Public Library-Main Branch
Made possible by the Chazen Museum of Art
Presenter(s): Henry Drewal, Baba Wague Diakite
Commonly known as a water spirit, Mami Wata is a west African mythical figure steeped in much mystery and charm. For centuries, traditional and now contemporary art has been created to celebrate Mami Wata, thus demonstrating the pervasiveness of the water deities, the centuries-long centrality of water and these spirits to the lives of people across many cultures, and the imagery’s relevance and adaptability in an ever-changing world. Drewal is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of African and African Diaspora Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Contemporary artist Baba Wague Diakite is one who brings Mami Wata to life in the twenty-first century: come and meet him!
Bookseller: Barnes & Noble West
Category(s): Art & Visual, International, Religion
Young and Muslim: How Does It Feel to be a Problem?
Thursday, October 16 | 5:00 - 6:30 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Studio/Overture
Presenter(s): Moustafa Bayoumi, Amitava Kumar
Through the stories of seven young Arab and Muslim Americans in Brooklyn, New York, Bayoumi sheds light on the misunderstandings that frame or even define their lives in How Does it Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America. Among those he meets are an Arab Christian who served as a Marine in Iraq and a woman detained by the FBI and released with no explanation. In his latest work, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb, Indian-born writer and journalist Kumar reports on the global war on terror.
Bookseller: Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
Category(s): International, Memoir & Biography, Religion, Society & Politics
Voices from the Heart of the Land and Sand Country Memories: Susan Gilchrist and Richard Cates, Jr.
Thursday, October 16 | 5:00 - 6:30 PM
Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture
Richard Cates, Jr. is presented by University of Wisconsin Press
Presenter(s): Susan Gilchrist, Richard L. Cates, Jr.
Richard L. Cates’ collection of the reminiscences, observations and opinions of older community members from Arena township in southern Wisconsin celebrates a vision of stewardship and a way of life that is disappearing. Speaking from the landscape of Wisconsin’s northwest pine barrens, Susan Gilchrist’s oral histories from residents of the region are imbued with the sense of this particular landscape and reveal the richness of our connections to the land.
Bookseller: University Book Store
Category(s): Land & Home, Wisconsin Ties
Best New Writing from Wisconsin People & Ideas: Poetry and Fiction Contest Winners
Thursday, October 16 | 5:15 - 7:00 PM
Venue: Avol's Bookstore
Presented by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters
The winning fiction entries from the 2008 Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine/Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops Writing Contest, read by the authors. Second-place poetry winner Gillian Nevers will join fiction winners Rae Meadows, Stephanie Resnik and Thomas Biel.
Category(s): Fiction, Poetry, Wisconsin Ties
Wisconsin Food Originals: Stirring Up the Past with Family Recipes and Stories
Thursday, October 16 | 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Venue: Sun Prairie Public Library
Presenter(s): Mary Bergin, Barry Levenson
Two of Wisconsin’s best-known food lovers talk about and let you sample some of the state’s most unusual and tastiest foods. Bergin’s Hungry for Wisconsin: A Tasty Guide for Travelers will be a Wisconsin road trip necessity. With the children’s book Mustard on a Pickle, Mt. Horeb Mustard Museum owner Barry Levenson introduces kids to new foods.
Category(s): Culinary, Wisconsin Ties
Feathers, Furs, and Tepees: Family Storytelling with Debra Morningstar
Thursday, October 16 | 6:15 - 7:15 PM
Venue: Monona Public Library
Sponsored by the Friends of Monona Public Library
Presenter(s): Debra Morningstar
Join Debra Morningstar, Oneida Storyteller, as she shares Native American stories of How Chipmunk Got His Stripes, How Turtle Cracked His Shell, and more! Debra’s lively presentation includes an Indian Story Basket, Hand-drums, Rattles and her Traveling Museum, with which she invites children to accompany her on a magical and educational journey.
Category(s): Native American, Spoken Word, Wisconsin Ties, Youth & Kids
The Debutante Ball: Gail Konop Baker, Jess Riley, & Danielle Younge-Ullman
Thursday, October 16 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Venue: A Room of One's Own Feminist Bookstore
Presenter(s): Gail Konop Baker, Jess Riley, Danielle Younge-Ullman
Join three new female authors for an evening of girl talk, life lessons, and literary connections. All are involved with the daily online journal, www.thedebutanteball.com, a group blog for select debut authors who help cross promote and support one another.
Gail Konop Baker’s memoir, Cancer is a Bitch: Reflections on Midlife, Mortality, Motherhood and Marriage, is an intimate, raw, brutally honest and often humorous account of the author’s brush with breast cancer and its intersection with her personal and family life.
Jess Riley’s debut novel, Driving Sideways, tells the story of a kidney transplant recipient who finally feels well enough to take a cross-country road trip to wrap up a few loose ends in her life. She was a finalist for the 2005 James Jones First Novel Fellowship.
Danielle Younge-Ullman’s debut novel, Falling Under, is a novel about a young woman struggling to break free of a turbulent past and find love.
There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women. --Madeleine Albright
Bookseller: A Room of One's Own
Category(s): Fiction, Memoir & Biography, Wisconsin Ties
Mexican Enough: Stephanie Griest
Thursday, October 16 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Studio/Overture
Presenter(s): Stephanie Griest
In a work that is part memoir, part journalistic reportage, Griest explores the Mexican half of her biracial identity while traveling from a narco-infested border town to the Chiapas highlands in Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines. Along the way she visits with political activists, migrant workers, and resistance fighters, traveling with companions who include a Border Patrol agent and a Polish thief.
Bookseller: Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
Category(s): International, Memoir & Biography
Sara Pennypacker & Jacquelyn Mitchard: On Writing for Young People
Thursday, October 16 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Venue: Madison Public Library-Main Branch
Made possible by a generous grant from the American Girl Fund for Children
Presenter(s): Jacquelyn Mitchard, Sara Pennypacker
What kind of stories do children fall in love with? How can kids stay hooked on reading through middle and young adult years? Explore these questions with Sara Pennypacker, creator of the beloved "Clementine" books, and Madison's own Jacquelyn Mitchard, whose recent young adult novels have expanded her vast readership into a new demographic. "Being a reader," says Mitchard, "gives you a portable universe, a way that you'll never be a prisoner." Jump in!
Bookseller: Barnes & Noble West
Category(s): Wisconsin Ties, Youth & Kids
Passing the Mic: First Wave Anthology & Josh Healey’s Hammertime
Thursday, October 16 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Venue: Wisconsin Historical Society-Library Mall
Presented by OMAI
Presenter(s): Josh Healey
Please join the OMAI/First Wave community as we celebrate the release of two critically important books by members of our growing family. Someone Might Hear You: An Anthology of First Wave Poets is the first-ever anthology of Wisconsin youth poetry featuring 31 writers from the ground-breaking First Wave program. Hammertime: Poems and Possibilities is the first full poetry collection from Josh Healey, visionary artist and Program Director of the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives and First Wave at UW-Madison. Welcome by Patricia Smith and Kevin Coval, hosted by Eric Mata and Josh Healey.
Bookseller: Wisconsin Historical Society
Category(s): Poetry, Spoken Word, Wisconsin Ties
A Half-Century of Change in Rural Wisconsin: Jim Pope, Jerry Apps, & Justin Isherwood
Thursday, October 16 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Venue: Promenade Hall/Overture
Presenter(s): Jerry Apps, Jim Pope, Justin Isherwood
Jerry Apps, Justin Isherwood, and Jim Pope are three of the Wisconsin authors who have done the most to celebrate and preserve stories of Wisconsin's rural life and heritage. In this event they come together to discuss the significant change that has taken place in the state's culture and agriculture over the past fifty years.
Bookseller: University Book Store
Category(s): Land & Home, Wisconsin Ties
Religion and Print Culture: Paul S. Boyer & Charles Cohen
Thursday, October 16 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Venue: Pres House
Presented by University of Wisconsin Press
Presenter(s): Paul Boyer, Charles Cohen
Mingling God and Mammon, piety and polemics, and prescriptions for this world and the next, modern Americans have created a culture of print that is vibrantly religious. Print media -- religious tracts, newsletters, cartoons, pamphlets, self-help books, mass-market paperbacks, and editions of the Bible from the King James Version to contemporary "Bible-zines" -- have shaped and been shaped by experiences of faith since the Civil War.
Category(s): History, Religion, Wisconsin Ties
Daniel Levitin: The World in Six Songs
Thursday, October 16 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Venue: Borders Books & Music (West Side)
Presented by the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison
Presenter(s): Daniel Levitin
In The World in Six Songs, Daniel Levitin picks up where his New York Times bestselling book This Is Your Brain On Music left off. Blending cutting-edge scientific findings with his own sometimes hilarious experiences as a musician and music-industry professional, Levitin takes readers on a journey across human civilization to argue that the brain evolved to play and listen to music in six fundamental forms -- for friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion, and love.
Bookseller: Borders West
Category(s): Music
On Poets Laureate: Plans, Programs, and Poems
Thursday, October 16 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Venue: College Library Open Book Cafe (Helen C. White Hall)
Presenter(s): Andrea Musher, John Lehman, BJ Best, Fabu , Susan Firer
Two current Poets Laureate, Susan Firer and Fabu Carter Brisco, along with two finalists for the state Poet Laureate position, John Lehman and B.J. Best, present their current programs, plans and ideas for bringing poetry to the Wisconsin public, and all will read their work. Andrea Musher, former Madison Poet Laureate, will facilitate.
Category(s): Poetry, Wisconsin Ties
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