Sonja’s List September, 2023

Here’s Your Spot to Find In Person and Virtual Author Appearances
Presented by Independent Bookstores in Southeast Wisconsin

Sonja’s List was named in honor of the late Sonja J. Maas

September 2, 5:30 pm CDT

Lion’s Tooth Bookstore and Cafe
2421 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., Milwaukee
In Person Author Event

Mic Crenshaw and Moe Bowster, co-authors and editors of It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History

Information:
https://www.lionstoothmke.com/events.html

September 5, 3:00 pm CDT

Boswell Book Company and
Porchlight Book Company
Virtual Author Event

Amy Edmondson, author of Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well, in conversation with Sally Haldorson

Registration:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nB615Xv0QYiHEMKHS29GBQ#/registration

September 5, 6:30 pm CDT

Boswell Book Company
and Milwaukee Public Library
Centennial Hall
733 N Eighth St., Milwaukee
In Person Author Event

Meg Kissinger, author of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence, in conversation with Jacki Lyden

Registration:
https://megkissingermpl.eventbrite.com

September 6, 2:00 pm CDT

Boswell Book Company and
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
Virtual Author Event

Jennifer Ackerman, author of What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds, in Conversation with Lindsay Obermeier

Registration:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aSaYAqyfQ8-V6MYB-36rfQ#/registration

September 7, 7:00 pm CDT

Woodland Pattern Book Center and
African Poetry Book Fund
Virtual Author Event

Samuel A. Adeyemi, Nikitta Dede Adjirakor, O-Jeremiah Agbaakin, Rabha Ashry, Jakky Bankong-Obi, Hazem Fahmy, Alain Hirwa, Jay Kophy, Tawiah Mensah, Phodiso Modirwa, and Nneoma Veronica Nwogu, featured in Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set

Registration:
https://woodlandpattern.org/events/poetry-reading-african-poetry-book-fund

September 8, 6:30 pm CDT

Boswell Book Company,
Thrillwaukee and
the UWM Creative Writing Program
2559 N Downer Ave., Milwaukee
In Person Author Event

Katharine Beutner, author of Killingly, in conversation with Erica Ruth Neubauer

Registration:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/katharine-beutner-author-of-killingly-an-in-person-boswell-event-tickets-664831738627?aff=oddtdtcreator

September 8, 7:00 pm CDT

Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E. Locust St., Milwaukee
Hybrid In Person/Virtual Author Event

Kati Katchever and Liat Mayer

Registration:
https://woodlandpattern.org/events/poetry-reading-kati-katchever-and-liat-mayer

September 9, 5:30 pm CDT

Lion’s Tooth Bookstore and Cafe
2421 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., Milwaukee
In Person Author Event

Liz Mason, author of Caboose #14 My Canadian Boyfriend

Information:
https://www.lionstoothmke.com/events.html

September 12, 6:30 pm CDT
(Rain Date: September 13, 6:30 pm)

Woodland Pattern Book Center
at Juneau Park
900 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee
In Person Author Event

Francesca Kritikos, author of In the Bed of Sickness; Chelsea Tadeyeske, author of Island Weather; Antonio Vargas-Nieto; and Mark Leidner, author of Returning the Sword to the Stone

Information:
https://woodlandpattern.org/events/poetry-in-the-park-september-2023

September 12, 7:00 pm CDT

Boswell Book Company and
UWM’s Sam and Helen Stahl
Center for Jewish Studies
at the UWM Golda Meir Library
Fourth Floor Conference Room,
2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee
Hybrid In Person/Virtual Author Event

John Tolan, author of England’s Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century, in conversation with Alan Singer

Information:
https://www.boswellbooks.com/upcoming-events

September 14, 5:30 pm CDT

Lion’s Tooth Bookstore and Cafe
2421 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., Milwaukee
In Person Author Event

Donna Rewolinski, author of the Novice Mystery series; Joy Ann Ribar, author of Deep Dire Harvest; Kim Suhr, author of Nothing to Lose; and Mary Wimmer, author of The Art of the Break

Information:
https://www.lionstoothmke.com/events.html

September 14, 7:00 pm CDT

Boswell Book Company and
Elm Grove Public Library
at Elm Grove Woman’s Club,
13885 Watertown Plank Rd., Elm Grove
In Person Author Event

Pam Jenoff, author of Code Name Sapphire

Registration:
http://elmgrovejenoff.eventbrite.com

September 17, 2:00 pm CDT

Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E. Locust St., Milwaukee
Hybrid In Person/Virtual Author Event

Kate Colby, author of Reverse Engineer, and Chuck Stebelton, author of One Hundred Patterns & Three Heuristics

Registration:
https://woodlandpattern.org/events/poetry-reading-kate-colby-and-chuck-stebelton

September 19th, 6:30 pm-7:30 pm CDT

Reads by the River and
Waterford Stillhouse
228 E. Main St., Waterford
In Person Author Event

Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Good Night, Irene

Tickets:
https://www.readsbytheriver.com/events/20230919

September 20, 6:30 pm CDT

Boswell Book Company
2559 N Downer Ave., Milwaukee
In Person Author Event

Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different

Registration:
https://sarahthankammathewsmke.eventbrite.com

September 21, 6:30 pm CDT

Boswell Book Company and
Red Oak Writing
2559 N Downer Ave., Milwaukee
In Person Author Event

Audrey Lynden (Tricia Quinnies), author of The Artful Bargain, in conversation with Carla Luna

Registration:
http://audreylyndenmke.eventbrite.com

September 22, 7:00 pm CDT

Books & Company,
Boswell Book Company and
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center
Dawes Studio Theater
3270 Mitchell Park Dr., Brookfield
In Person Author Event

William Kent Krueger, author of The River We Remember

Tickets:
https://ticketing.wilson-center.com/krueger