Make your holiday shopping season historic at the Society’s Friends and Family Sale! Shoppers will receive up to 40% off more than 100 Wisconsin Historical Society Press books by well-known Wisconsin authors as well as on gifts, historic images, gift memberships, and much more at this special sale only available on-site at Society Headquarters. Don’t […]
YA Author Event: Tami Charles
Join 702WI at Goodman Community Center for this free author event with Tami Charles, who will discuss her new young adult novel Becoming Beatriz, talk about her writing process, and sign copies of her books! Students are welcome to attend. The event is free but space is limited, so please RSVP on our website: www.702wi.com
How Bookstores Against Borders became a phenomenon
About a week before the Fourth of July holiday this year, the downtown Madison bookstore A Room Of One’s Own announced that it would donate a portion of its sales over the independence day weekend to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, also known as RAICES. The fundraiser was called Bookstores […]
Dr. Eugenia Cheng: “Using Logic to Find Clarity for Life’s...
With appearances on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Ted Talks, YouTube sensation Dr. Eugenia Cheng will show how anyone can think like a mathematician to understand what is buried under divisive arguments and fake news. Taking a careful scalpel to politics, privilege, sexism and dozens of other real-world situations, she shows us that […]
Grief and taxidermy with Kristen Arnett
Before she held a reading this July at State Line Distillery and “escaped from an apocalypse hotel” during Madison’s memorable summer blackout, author Kristen Arnett sat down to discuss her debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, with Tone Madison‘s John McCracken. Give the conversation a listen here, or subscribe to the Tone Madison podcast on Apple […]
Jen Rubin remembers a resilient family business
Jen Rubin’s combined experiences in writing, storytelling, social policy, and education allowed her to delve into her family’s history in her first book, We Are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, A Store, And A Neighborhood The memoir centers around Radio Clinic, an electronics repair and appliance store Rubin’s immigrant grandfather founded […]
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