Past Years - 2014 Events | Wisconsin Book Festival

PhotoBook Exhibition

10/19/14 - 9:00am - 10/27/14 - 7:30pm

Filter Photo Festival

A survey exhibition of the contemporary photo book presented by FilterPhoro Festival

The FlakPhoto Booklist

10/19/14 - 9:00am - 10/19/14 - 2:00pm

Andy Adams

FlakPhoto creator, Andy Adams, selects photo book highlights from the Library's collections

Perimeter: A Contemporary Portrait of Lake Michigan

10/19/14 - 9:30am - 10/19/14 - 10:30am

Kevin Miyazaki

"A contemporary portrait of Lake Michigan" from Wisconsin photographer Kevin Miyazaki.

Run for Literacy

10/19/14 - 10:30am - 10/19/14 - 12:00pm

Literacy Network

Money raised from this scenic run will support Literacy Network’s programs in Dane County.

How Many Words is a Picture Really Worth? Writing From Photographs

10/19/14 - 11:00am - 10/19/14 - 2:00pm

Brad Zellar

In this workshop, Brad Zellar will lead participants in creating their own writing/photo books.

Photos From Home

10/19/14 - 11:00am - 10/19/14 - 12:00pm

Michael Forster Rothbart

Danny Wilcox Frazier

Scott Strazzante

3 documentary photographers explore home and how lives change when the home/land changes.

The Scavengers

10/19/14 - 11:00am - 10/19/14 - 12:00pm

Michael Perry

Check out this imaginative and hilarious middle grade novel from a NYT-bestselling Wisconsin author.

The Dog Year

10/19/14 - 12:30pm - 10/19/14 - 1:30pm

Ann Garvin

Check out this Wisconsin author's heartwarming novel involving a four-legged friend.

The Great Sand Fracas of Ames County

10/19/14 - 12:30pm - 10/19/14 - 1:30pm

Jerry Apps

The latest installation in the Ames County saga takes on the duel between preservation and progress.

2014 Friends of the Madison Public Library Book Sale

10/19/14 - 1:00pm - 10/19/14 - 5:00pm

Friends of Madison Public Library

The Friends of the Madison Public Library will be hosting a book sale at our Book Store at Central!

It's an Orange Aardvark

10/19/14 - 1:00pm - 10/19/14 - 2:00pm

Michael Hall

Michael Hall delivers a funny and suspenseful story about colors, ants, aardvarks, and rainbows!

Studying Wisconsin

10/23/14 - 6:30pm - 10/23/14 - 8:00pm

Paul G. Hayes

Martha Bergland

The life of Increase Lapham, early chronicler of plants, rocks, rivers, & all things Wisconsin.

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

10/24/14 - 7:00pm - 10/24/14 - 8:00pm

Atul Gawande

In Being Mortal, Atul Gawande tackles how medicine can not only improve life but also its ending.

Go Big Read Keynote Lecture

10/27/14 - 7:00pm - 10/27/14 - 8:30pm

Shiza Shahid

Shiza Shahid gives the Go Big Read keynote speech about I Am Malala.

2014 Madison Print & Resist

11/1/14 - 11:00am - 11/1/14 - 5:00pm

Madison Print & Resist is a one-day show of posters, stickers, zines, journals, and books.

2014 Madison Print & Resist - - 11/01/2014 - 11:00am

The Final Silence

11/6/14 - 7:00pm - 11/6/14 - 8:30pm

Stuart Neville

Northern Ireland author Stuart Neville discusses his new book, "The Final Silence" at Mystery to Me.

Created Equal: Risking Everything: The Story of Freedom Summer

11/10/14 - 6:30pm - 11/10/14 - 7:45pm

Michael Edmonds

The UW-Madison's Freedom Summer archives provided rich material for this book of eyewitness accounts

Committee of One

11/18/14 - 7:00pm - 11/18/14 - 8:00pm

Patricia Holt

The Wisconsin Book Festival and the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project presents Patricia Holt

Edges

11/20/14 - 7:00pm - 11/20/14 - 8:00pm

Leora Skolkin-Smith

travel back to an Israel before walls separated Arab from Jew and be transported by this novel

The Slow Regard of Silent Things

11/29/14 - 7:00pm - 11/29/14 - 8:00pm

Patrick Rothfuss

Rothfuss brings us into the world of one of The Kingkiller Chronicle’s most enigmatic characters