Books
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Wisconsin nostalgia trip
Wisconsin author Jim Guhl’s debut novel, “Eleven Miles to Oshkosh” stars a bullied high schooler growing up in the Fox Valley. It’s a nostalgia trip populated with an oddball cast of characters. more
Ian DeGraff
Literary visionary
UW Press has reputation for publishing some of the best LGBTQ literature in the nation. Outgoing executive editor Raphael Kadushin had the vision that made it possible. more
Oct 18, 2018
Mad as hell
What timing! Catherine Capellaro talks to Rebecca Traister, author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. Traister speaks at the Wisconsin Book Festival on Oct. 13. more
Oct 11, 2018
Wisconsin Book Festival — best bets
Our daily guide to some of the best bets at the 2018 Wisconsin Book Festival. more
Oct 10, 2018
Superstars and local luminaries
Politics, resistance and Wisconsin authors feature heavily in this year’s stacked lineup for the Wisconsin Book Festival. more
Oct 4, 2018
Survival tale
After Radio Clinic was ransacked during the New York City blackout of 1977, her dad hung a handwritten sign in the window: “WE ARE STAYING.” That’s the title of Rubin’s debut nonfiction book, where she explores themes of entrepreneurship and activism more
Sep 20, 2018
Hitting pause on “Little House”
Middleton-Cross Plains elementary teachers asked to reexamine using Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books after the popular “Little House on the Prairie” author’s name is removed from a major children’s book award. more
Aug 9, 2018
Sarah Rose Smiley
A writer learns to listen
Lucy Tan’s ambitious debut novel, “What We Were Promised,” began as a short story while the author was a student at UW-Madison’s graduate fiction program. Tan will be back teaching at the UW this fall. more
Jul 19, 2018
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Self-aware fiction
Verona native Sally Franson’s “A Lady’s Guide to Selling Out” is a fast-paced look at modern office culture. Catch the author at her hometown library on July 9. more
Jul 5, 2018
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Steve Apps
Jerry Apps’ dystopia
One of Wisconsin’s most prolific authors releases “Cold As Thunder,” a futuristic dystopian novel set in Wisconsin. more
Jun 28, 2018
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For the love of nature
Serving as both a geology lesson and a trail guide, “Wisconsin State Parks” gives the reader a deeper understanding of how Wisconsin’s natural wonders came to be. more
Jun 14, 2018
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Courage to write
Ahmed Ismail Yusuf was raised as a nomadic herder in Somalia, and taught himself to read with Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” He's in Madison to read from his new collection of short stories. more
Jun 11, 2018
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Courtesy of Kurt Dietrich
Jazz in the dairy state
Jazz isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you say Wisconsin. But Ripon College music professor Kurt Dietrich had no trouble finding stories to tell in his hefty volume, “Wisconsin Riffs: Jazz Profiles from the Heartland.” more
May 31, 2018
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