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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Kelly Cherry on “Reading: Risk & Reward”
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,…
Bodine, Sherrill
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…