Past Years - 2020 Events | Wisconsin Book Festival

Writing into Inhospitable Space

10/16/20 - 5:30pm - 10/16/20 - 6:30pm

Cherene Sherrard

Heather Swan

A conversation that will examine inhospitable aspects of our current moment

Life of a Klansman & White Too Long

10/16/20 - 7:00pm - 10/16/20 - 8:00pm

Edward Ball

Robert P. Jones

Edward Ball and Robert P. Jones discuss the history of familial and institutional white supremacy.

Sissy

10/16/20 - 8:30pm - 10/16/20 - 9:30pm

Jacob Tobia

You'll never think about gender, both other people's and your own,the same way again

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write

10/17/20 - 10:00am - 10/17/20 - 11:00am

Claire Messud

Meg Wolitzer

A vivid portrait of a life in celebration of the power of literature.

She Proclaims

10/17/20 - 11:30am - 10/17/20 - 12:30pm

Jennifer Palmieri

Take action and shatter the glass ceiling with this empowering, optimistic feminist guide

Conditional Citizens

10/17/20 - 1:00pm - 10/17/20 - 2:00pm

Laila Lalami

A blend of the author’s experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in American culture.

Finding Latinx

10/17/20 - 2:30pm - 10/17/20 - 3:30pm

Paola Ramos

A journey to find the communities of people defining the controversial term, “Latinx.”

Find Me

10/17/20 - 4:00pm - 10/17/20 - 5:00pm

Andre Aciman

Brandon Taylor

A spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love and sequel to Call Me By Your Name

Crooked Hallelujah

10/17/20 - 5:30pm - 10/17/20 - 6:30pm

Kelli Jo Ford

A big-hearted and ambitious novel of the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters

Until the End of Time & Black Hole Survival Guide

10/17/20 - 7:00pm - 10/17/20 - 8:00pm

Brian Greene

Janna Levin

Physicists Brian Greene and Janna Levin discuss their new books.

Erosion

10/17/20 - 8:30pm - 10/17/20 - 9:30pm

Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert.

The Other's Gold & Slick Like Dark

10/21/20 - 7:00pm - 10/21/20 - 8:00pm

Elizabeth Ames Staudt

Meg Wade

Wisconsin Wednesday featuring UW Alumnae Elizabeth Ames Staudt and Meg Wade

Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod & Descent

10/28/20 - 7:00pm - 10/28/20 - 8:00pm

Traci Brimhall

Lauren Russell

Wisconsin Wednesdays featuring Elizabeth Ames Staudt and Lauren Russell for their new collections.

Wisconsin People & Ideas 2020 Fiction and Poetry Contest Reading

10/29/20 - 5:00pm - 10/29/20 - 7:00pm

Jacquelyn Thomas

Jennifer Morales

Barbara Kriegsmann

Sarah Martell Huebner

Kathryn Gahl

Dominic Holt

A reading featuring the winners of the statewide 2020 Fiction & Poetry Contests

Wisconsin People & Ideas 2020 Fiction and Poetry Contest Reading - Jacquelyn Thomas, Jennifer Morales, Barbara Kriegsmann, Sarah Martell Huebner, Kathryn Gahl, Dominic Holt - 10/29/2020 - 5:00pm

How to Be an Antiracist

11/4/20 - 6:30pm - 11/4/20 - 7:30pm

Ibram Kendi

An essential conversation about racial justice the day after the 2020 Presidential Election.

Payback

11/10/20 - 7:00pm - 11/10/20 - 8:00pm

Mary Gordon

A novel of lifelong reckoning between two women by the award-winning Mary Gordon.

World of Wonders

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

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us.

Transaction Man

11/12/20 - 7:00pm - 11/12/20 - 8:00pm

Nicholas Lemann

The definitive account of the reengineering of America and the enormous impact it has had on us all.

Just Us

11/16/20 - 7:00pm - 11/16/20 - 8:00pm

Claudia Rankine

Jericho Brown

An invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together

Interior Chinatown

11/17/20 - 7:00pm - 11/17/20 - 8:00pm

Charles Yu

A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation.

Hard Damage & Atomizer

11/18/20 - 7:00pm - 11/18/20 - 8:00pm

Aria Aber

Elizabeth Powell

Wisconsin Wednesday featuring UW Alumnae Aria Aber and Elizabeth Powell

Speak Up

12/1/20 - 12:00am - 3/31/21 - 12:00am

Miranda Paul

Ebony Glenn

When something really matters, one voice can make a difference.

Nina Soni: Sister Fixer

12/1/20 - 12:00pm - 3/31/21 - 11:45pm

Kashmira Sheth

A humorous series featuring a charming, distractible Indian-American girl and her family and friends

The Office of Historical Corrections

12/2/20 - 7:00pm

Danielle Evans

Truths of American history—about who gets to tell them, and the cost of setting the record straight.