2019 Book Roundup with Mystery to Me

WORT Music Playlists

What was that song I heard? Who was the artist, what is the album title, where can I get it? Where can I find the entire playlist for a show?

Click on the Playlists button to bring up a calendar where you can choose any date to find the playlists for that day. If you can’t find the right playlist or the song you’re looking for, your best bet is to call the station the next time that program’s on and ask the host yourself. If that’s not possible we may be able to help you, but please have as much information as possible at hand when you contact us, such as: approximate day and time the music was played, what type or genre of music it was, who hosted the show and any other information you remember about the selection and we’ll do our best to track it down.

Contact Information

Music Director: Sybil Augustine – musicdirector@wortfm.org (for music submissions, charts and tracking, promotional exchanges for music events and following up on volunteer applications or other requests. Please include specifics in your subject line, such as “Hiphop Music Submission” etc, )

Digital Production Director: Aaron Scholz – aaron@wortfm.org (for record donations and sales, promos recording volunteers, etc.)

Music Calendars: Submit your events online here or send by email to calendar@wortfm.org

How do I get my music played on WORT?

We accept submissions in most genres and styles of music, focusing on noncommercial, out-of-the-mainstream, independent releases (check out our playlists and music charts for more information.) It may take up to a few weeks for us to review and process your submission so we appreciate your patience, and feel free to contact us to follow up. Please send your music, indicating any tracks with language that needs to be aired after 10 pm and including a one-sheet description and any biographical and tour information, to WORT Music Director, 118 S. Bedford St, Madison, WI 53703 and/or to musicdirector@wortfm.org.

We do accept digital files on .wav or mp3, but currently we still prefer CDs to digital submissions because it’s the quickest way to get it into the hands of our programmers and onto the airwaves, though we have a growing digital library. Digital submissions should be .wav or other lossless files, or high quality mp3s [128-320 kbps.]

You can follow up or “track” your submissions by email, or call 608-256-2001 on Wednesdays between 1-4 pm CST to ask if we received it, has it been reviewed, has it been added to our library, and what kind of airplay it’s getting—e.g. light, medium, heavy or charting. Thanks and we look forward to hearing your music!

Every December, Patty has a tradition of looking at the year in books with Joanne Berg and Jayne Rowsam of independent bookstore Mystery to Me. Today on the show, they talk about some of their favorites in mysteries and other fiction, non-fiction, children’s and YA literature, cookbooks, and more.

They also touch on Mystery to Me’s bilingual book club, the explosion of local authors, and the impact of shopping local.

Joanne and Jayne just launched a monthly podcast called Open Books. You can subscribe here or listen on SoundCloud here.

Books Mentioned
The Odyssey, new translation by Emily Wilson
Circe by Madeline Miller
Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson
The Witches of St. Petersburg by Imogen Edwards-Jones
Drag Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature)
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown (listen to our interview with the Kate Brown here)
The Satapur Moonstone and The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
A Match Made for Murder by Iona Whishaw
Books by A. D. Scott
Books by Laurie R. King
Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker Prize)
La casa de los espíritus (The House of Spirits) by Isabel Allende
Bad Axe County by John Galligan
Fiddling with Fate by Kathleen Ernst
Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
Country Music USA by Bill Malone
The Second Home by Christina Clancy
A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father by David Maraniss (listen to our interview with the David Maraniss here)