On Madison Book Beat, we aim to highlight local authors and book events. And sometimes, we hope that you just might learn about the next book on your to-read pile.
On this pledge drive edition of Madison Book Beat, we flip the table, asking YOU: what’re you reading? What book should we add to our reading list? David Ahrens hosts today’s open line.
Books mentioned by callers and by hosts in this episode include…
Also recommended in today’s episode is Libby, an app that lets patrons use their library card to check out and read eBooks or listen to eAudiobooks.
Alison Townsend On The Spirit Of Place
A Musical Translation of Movement: Jérôme Camal on Guadeloupean Gwoka and (Post) Coloniality
Joyce Carol Oates, "Zero-Sum"
B. Pladek’s Magical Intersection Of Ecology And History
Jon Melrod's "Fighting Times" in Wisconsin
Novelist And Poet Quan Barry On Nonduality, Communicating Beyond Language, And Writing Across Genres
Poet Deshawn McKinney On Vulnerability As A Muscle
Scholar Nicole Fox On Memorials, Transitional Justice, And The Inescapability Of Memory
Michael Dorgan, "No Fight, No Blame: A Journalist's Life in Martial Arts" (part 2)
On (Short) Storytelling, with Wisconsin writer Steve Fox
The search for dignity in Palestine, with Christa Bruhn
Local Writer JK Cheema On Writing, Family, And Remembering The Past
Jon Shelton on "The Education Myth"
Writer John West On Paradox, Redemption, And Playing Bach
Mark Borthwick, "A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright"
Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington
Scholar Sami Schalk On Black Disability Politics from the Black Panthers to the 2020 Uprising
Madison Infuses Scott Mitchel May’s New Novel, “Breakneck”
Writer Jeff Sharlet On Whiteness, Slow Civil War, And Harry Belafonte
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