Madison BookBeat
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Madison BookBeat highlights local Wisconsin authors and authors coming to Madison for book events. It airs every Monday afternoon at 1pm on WORT FM.
Copyright 2025 Madison BookBeat
Madison BookBeat highlights local Wisconsin authors and authors coming to Madison for book events. It airs every Monday afternoon at 1pm on WORT FM.
Copyright 2025 Madison BookBeat
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