NOTE: This offer is no longer valid. The Festival has partnered with Books & Company in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin to enable attendees to purchase books by presenting authors in advance of the Festival. With our two…
In recent years I’ve gone back to read some classic fiction that I was first asked to read in high school, 30 years ago, books like The House on Mango Street, The Great Gatsby, and…
Check out this discussion of Festival of Books’ Keynote Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff’s new book, The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women, in People Magazine! http://www.people.com/article/rosemary-kennedy-siblings-didnt-see-her-after-lobotomy Koehler-Pentacoff will be speaking at the…
I could never name just a few books that have changed my life. Reading in general has made that difference, as I come from a working class family that includes many immigrants. My paternal grandparents…
New to the Festival of Books this year! Come watch “live art” being made by local artists Trevor Huskey and Arthur Mohagen! Saturday, November 7, from 9 am to 3 pm Trevor Huskey creates intricate…
When I was about eight years old I owned several collections of poetry for children. I still remember many of the poems I read then, and though I rarely can remember where I put my…
This year’s poster features an original collage artwork by Trevor Husky, who will be part of the Live Art Session at the Festival.
When I was 18 years old, the author Ray Bradbury wrote to me. I’d told him that I wanted to be a writer more than anything else in the world, and while I was already…
A backdrop of t-shirts featuring brave statements about violence against women sets the stage for novelist Kathie Giorgio and poet Sarah Xerta to raise their voices into the mix, adding lyricism and story-telling to create…
As a child, I learned the small words first – the ones that were easiest to enunciate and that encompassed my life experience: Mama, Papa, food. As I grew, so did the words and the…
