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Madison BookBeat — 87 episodes
Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff, "Walt Whitman's American Dream"
Chloe Benjamin on writing into the unknown
Tara Mulder on what ancient birth stories can teach us
Dennis McNally, "The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties."
Poet Lisa Fishman on the potential of space on a page
Nancy Kathman, "Love, Cuba, Goats and Music"
Sahar Mustafah on writing about heritage in a time of genocide
Jeff Oloizia's "Writing Forward" Wisconsin Literary Podcast
Dean Robbins, Books For Kids
Lisa Low on poetry's capacity to unlock identity
Doug Metoxen Kiel on the ongoing fight for Indigenous nationhood
Melissa Faliveno makes the case for Midwestern gothic
Doug Bradley, "The Tracks of My Years: A Music-Based Memoir"
The Year in Books: three Madison booksellers on how their 2025 went
Cheryl Schiltz: When The World Falls Away: One Woman’s Triumph Over Invisible Disability
Cary Segall, "A Talk in the Woods: Voices From the Appalachian Trail"
Emily Mitchell on the power of speculative fiction in strange times
Margaret Mooney, "Radical Family: Trailblazing Lesbian Moms Tell Their Stories"
Pernille Ipsen on feminism & found families in "My Seven Mothers"
Mayor Dennis McBride, "A City on the Edge: Pandemic, Protest and Polarization"
David Michael Miller, "The Rise of Breese Stevens Field: Madison's ballpark and the team that made it home"
Ron Rindo on animal medicine, Amish life & the Packers
A Kinship with Ash: Heather Swan’s Poetic Reckoning with Nature and Loss
The Journey Within: Exploring Life and Nature in Wisconsin’s Parks
Dean Robbins, "Wisconsin Idols: 100 Heroes Who Changed The State, The World, And Me"
Madison BookBeat Featured Steven Davis, Author of "The Other Public Lands"
Kristina Amelong on accepting life (and death)'s mysteries in "What My Brother Knew"
Doug Moe, “Saving Hearts and Killing Rats: Karl Paul Link and the Discovery of Warfarin”
Denise S. Robbins on states of emergency in her debut novel “The Unmapping”
Amb. Tom Loftus, “Mission to Oslo”
A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield
The Art of Community — And Book Discussions
I Choose Joy: AJ Romriell on Wolves, Loving Yourself, and Exiting the Mormon Faith
New Wisconsin Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas on the mysteries and rewards of language
Sitting down with Madison Public Libraries Director Tana Elias
Christine Wenc on the founding of "The Onion"
On Jumping, Swimming, Sinking, and Floating: Poet Steven Duong Discusses His Debut Collection
Theresa Okokon on her memoir in essays "Who I Always Was"
What Books Did You Like This Year?
Zara Chowdhary on The Lucky Ones
The Year in Books with Three Madison Booksellers
Imagining Beyond Prisons: On Books-to-Prisons Bans and Abolition Activism
If You Don’t Deal With Your Past, It’s Still Your Present
Author and geologist Marcia Bjornerud on the rocks that made her
We Do Not Make Very Good Gods: Nature Critic Boyce Upholt on the Sinuous History of the Mississippi River
Observing Ann Garvin as an Author and a Human Being
Bob Wake & Diya Abbas, First-Place Fiction & Poetry Winners
Jane Rotunda and Jessica Calarco Preview the 2024 Wisconsin Book Festival
Novelist E.M. Tran on History, Humor, and a Superstitious Beauty Queen
Jennifer Kabat on the Importance of Solidarity in Unsettled Times
A Raw and Tangible Discussion on Grieving the Loss of a Partnership
Katharine Beutner talks about her Edna Ferber Award-winning novel Killingly
A Voice Both Austere and Intimate: Poet-Turned-Novelist Henry Wise on his Debut, Holy City
Robin and Joan Rolfs, Passionate About All Things Thomas Edison
Poet Nikki Wallschlaeger Talks Getting The Rhythm Right In “Hold Your Own”
Author and publisher Richard Sweitzer on his own terms
Author Richard Scott Larson discusses his new memoir, "The Long Hallway"
Just as a Serpent Sheds Its Skin: Priti Srivastava on Ecofeminism and Reincarnation in Storytelling
RACHEL WERNER AND HER MANY TALENTS
Author Beth Nguyen discusses her new memoir, "Owner of a Lonely Heart"
Poet Daniel Khalastchi on Wordplay, the Collision of Images, and White Whales
Angela Trudell Vasquez on Poetry in her Life
Madison Poet Cynthia Marie Hoffman On “Exploding Head”
Bending Granite Tells Tales Of Leading Organizational Change
Ann Garvin On Writing Her First Book At Age Fifty
Cynthia Simmons On The “Wrong Kind Of Paper”
Fragile Institutions: Shibani Mahtani And Timothy McLaughlin on the 2019 Protests in Hong Kong
Jacquelyn Mitchard On The Importance of Titles
A conversation with Greg Mickells, retiring director of Madison Public Library
It’s Not Nothing: Essayist Peter Coviello on How Our Favorite Books and Songs Help Us Make Worlds Together
Madison's Shoshauna Shy on bringing poetry to the public
Heather Swan’s Lyrical Language Of Beauty And Devastation
Thomas Pearson, Author Of An Ordinary Future, On Disability And Difference
The Dane County Farmers' Market Cookbook With Food Writer Terese Allen
Prof. Stephen Kantrowitz, ”Citizens Of A Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History Of The 19th Century United States.”
The Life And Music Of Al Jarreau
Poet Tacey M. Atsitty on Risking Your Heart and Being Swallowed Up
UW Prof. Stephen Kantrowitz, "Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the 19th Century United States "
Alison Townsend On The Spirit Of Place
What Are You Reading?
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