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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Risky Behavior Writing, reading, and publishing are inherently risky behaviors. They won’t give you STDs, but other unfortunate consequences abound. First of all, being reviewed is a nightmare. You can decline to read your reviews, but reviews drive sales figures,, Read more…
After publishing 15 award winning novels as Lynn Leslie and Leslie Lynn, Sherrill Bodine has decided to be herself. She’s writing about her life in Chicago to reveal the heart beneath society’s glitter. She not only attends black-tie affairs and works on charity Read more…
The 2012 Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books full program schedule is now available electronically. 2012 Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books Program In addition, you can view program highlights by selecting the program preview links on our home page. Author bios Read more…