Wisconsin Book Festival: Day 1

Okay, ready? The Wisconsin Book Festival begins tomorrow, and it begins with a bang. Instead of yet another Obama-McCain debate, get out and enjoy the first night of the Book Festival. The only undecided voters around here should be those people scratching their heads wondering which of these fine events to attend Wednesday:

Wisconsin Center for the Book: Celebration of Poetry with Lisa Fishman Wednesday, October 15 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Memorial Union/Frederic March Play Circle Theater
Fishman is a talented poet and manager of summer residencies at Poetry/Farm, an organic farm and writers' retreat in southern Wisconsin.

Stuff White People Like
Wednesday, October 15 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Borders West
Hilarious. Honestly.

2008 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture: Featuring Judy Blume
Wednesday, October 15 | 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Memorial Union Theater
Tickets required: Free tickets to the lecture may be picked up at Wisconsin Union Theater box office in the UW-Madison Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street, after September 8. Limit: 2 tickets per person. Blume is the author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Blubber; Just as Long as We're Together; and the five book series about the irrepressible Fudge.


Aldo Leopold Foundation Presents: Andrew Revkin and David Orr on Earth Lessons
Wednesday, October 15 | 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Promenade Hall/Overture Center
One New York Times science writer and one world-renowned environmental scholar.