2015 Festival of Books News
Save the Date for the 2015 Festival of Books
Save the date for the 2015 Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books! Friday, November 6, & Saturday, November 7, 2015
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Authors Marketplace 2014
The Authors Marketplace has been added this year to include more writers in the Festival. Writers who publish their own books. The authors are available to talk to Festival goers, and sell and sign their books in the Authors Marketplace. Read more…
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Exhibitors 2014
Publishers, authors, literary organization and book sellers will be featured in the Exhibit area. The booths will be open on Friday, November 7, from 3:00-7:30 PM and Saturday, November 8, from 8:00 AM–6:00 PM. Questions about the Exhibit Area should Read more…
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Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Exhibit from the Wisconsin Historical Society
Commons Student Lounge Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Exhibit from the Wisconsin Historical Society tells the story of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project, when CORE and SNCC staff led 900 northern volunteers and thousands of black residents in a challenge Read more…
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Max Garland on “Reading: Risk & Reward”
This passage by James Baldwin is more eloquent than anything I can come up with. So I’ll just footnote Baldwin by adding that the risks of reading are that you may be faced with a realization requiring more of you, Read more…
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Mark Wisniewski on “Reading: Risk & Reward”
Literary Risk Why did I work on Watch Me Go for twenty years? That’s not an easy question for me, if for no other reason than sometimes the book sat, rejected by yet another agent whose response had been full Read more…
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Michael Perry on “Reading: Risk & Reward”
I just read a nasty, catty review of one of my books. And here’s the thing: The book isn’t even out yet. So it goes. If you’re going to risk putting your work out there, you may be rewarded with Read more…
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Amy Abugo Ongiri on “Reading: Risk & Reward”
As a child growing up in a Pennsylvania steel town that was close but also worlds away from both Philadelphia and New York, reading was totally central to my life and the way that I connected to the world. Like Read more…
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Jacob Held on “Reading: Risk & Reward”
Philosophy is a risky business. Ask Socrates. Well, nowadays we don’t have to be worried about being sentenced to death. But even if charges of denying the gods and corrupting the youth don’t lead to execution these days, a good Read more…
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Joseph W. Ellwanger on “Reading: Risk and Reward”
I hope that my book, Strength for the Struggle, will reward readers with a clearer vision of their own life and where it’s going, a clearer vision of our nation’s history and how significant changes for the good of the Read more…