Book lovers will flock to the Madison Central Library starting on Thursday for the annual Wisconsin Book Festival. The event has four days of authors and writers lined up to give talks on works ranging from poetry to politics to science literature. WORT producer Nina Kravinsky caught up with book festival organizer Conor Moran to […]
Angela J. Davis on Policing the Black Man
A Public Affair contributor Gil Halsted recorded a talk given by Angela J. Davis earlier this month during the Wisconsin Book Festival, entitled “Policing the Black Man.” Ms. Davis is a professor of law at American University, editor of the recent book Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment, and author of Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American […]
Highlights from the Wisconsin Book Festival
Esty Dinur explores some books at the Wisconsin Book Festival happening this weekend, Friday November 3rd – Sunday, November 5th. Lauren Markham is a writer and reporter whose work has appeared in VQR, The New Yorker.com, The Guardian, The New Republic, This American Life, and many others. Her writing and reporting centers around migration, youth and the environment. […]
The Politics of Value
Jane Collins Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology and Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Great Recession not only shook Americans’ economic faith but also prompted powerful critiques of economic institutions. This timely book explores three movements that gathered force after 2008: the rise of the benefit corporation, which requires social responsibility and […]
A Reader on the Driftless Region
Patty interviews co-authors Curt Meine and Keefe Keeley in the studio today. Together they co-wrote The Driftless Reader from University of Wisconsin Press, which explores the cultural heritage and natural landscape of southwestern Wisconsin and the surrounding region. They will be presenting as part of the Wisconsin Book Festival on November 5th at 1PM at Central […]
Dinner at the Center of the Earth
Nathan Englander Novelist A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years. An American waitress in Paris. A young Palestinian man in Berlin who strikes up an odd friendship with a wealthy Canadian businessman. And The General, Israel’s most controversial leader, who lies dying in a hospital, the […]
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