Madison BookBeat

By Stu Levitan, Andrew Thomas, Sara Batkie, David Ahrens, Lisa Malawski

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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.

Episode Date
A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield
May 14, 2025
The Art of Community — And Book Discussions
May 02, 2025
I Choose Joy: AJ Romriell on Wolves, Loving Yourself, and Exiting the Mormon Faith
Apr 14, 2025
New Wisconsin Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas on the mysteries and rewards of language
Apr 07, 2025
Sitting down with Madison Public Libraries Director Tana Elias
Mar 17, 2025
Christine Wenc on the founding of "The Onion"
Mar 10, 2025
On Jumping, Swimming, Sinking, and Floating: Poet Steven Duong Discusses His Debut Collection
Mar 03, 2025
Theresa Okokon on her memoir in essays "Who I Always Was"
Feb 10, 2025
What Books Did You Like This Year?
Dec 23, 2024
Zara Chowdhary on The Lucky Ones
Dec 16, 2024
The Year in Books with Three Madison Booksellers
Dec 09, 2024
Imagining Beyond Prisons: On Books-to-Prisons Bans and Abolition Activism
Dec 02, 2024
If You Don’t Deal With Your Past, It’s Still Your Present
Nov 25, 2024
Author and geologist Marcia Bjornerud on the rocks that made her
Nov 11, 2024
We Do Not Make Very Good Gods: Nature Critic Boyce Upholt on the Sinuous History of the Mississippi River
Nov 04, 2024
Observing Ann Garvin as an Author and a Human Being
Oct 28, 2024
Bob Wake & Diya Abbas, First-Place Fiction & Poetry Winners
Oct 21, 2024
Jane Rotunda and Jessica Calarco Preview the 2024 Wisconsin Book Festival
Oct 14, 2024
Novelist E.M. Tran on History, Humor, and a Superstitious Beauty Queen
Oct 07, 2024
Jennifer Kabat on the Importance of Solidarity in Unsettled Times
Sep 09, 2024
A Raw and Tangible Discussion on Grieving the Loss of a Partnership
Aug 26, 2024
Katharine Beutner talks about her Edna Ferber Award-winning novel Killingly
Aug 12, 2024
A Voice Both Austere and Intimate: Poet-Turned-Novelist Henry Wise on his Debut, Holy City
Aug 05, 2024
Robin and Joan Rolfs, Passionate About All Things Thomas Edison
Jul 22, 2024
Poet Nikki Wallschlaeger Talks Getting The Rhythm Right In “Hold Your Own”
Jul 08, 2024
Author and publisher Richard Sweitzer on his own terms
Jun 24, 2024
Author Richard Scott Larson discusses his new memoir, "The Long Hallway"
Jun 10, 2024
Just as a Serpent Sheds Its Skin: Priti Srivastava on Ecofeminism and Reincarnation in Storytelling
Jun 03, 2024
RACHEL WERNER AND HER MANY TALENTS
May 27, 2024
Author Beth Nguyen discusses her new memoir, "Owner of a Lonely Heart"
May 13, 2024
Poet Daniel Khalastchi on Wordplay, the Collision of Images, and White Whales
May 06, 2024
Angela Trudell Vasquez on Poetry in her Life
Apr 22, 2024
Madison Poet Cynthia Marie Hoffman On “Exploding Head”
Apr 15, 2024
Bending Granite Tells Tales Of Leading Organizational Change
Apr 08, 2024
Ann Garvin On Writing Her First Book At Age Fifty
Mar 19, 2024
Cynthia Simmons On The “Wrong Kind Of Paper”
Mar 11, 2024
Fragile Institutions: Shibani Mahtani And Timothy McLaughlin on the 2019 Protests in Hong Kong
Mar 04, 2024
Jacquelyn Mitchard On The Importance of Titles
Feb 26, 2024
A conversation with Greg Mickells, retiring director of Madison Public Library
Feb 12, 2024
It’s Not Nothing: Essayist Peter Coviello on How Our Favorite Books and Songs Help Us Make Worlds Together
Feb 05, 2024
Madison's Shoshauna Shy on bringing poetry to the public
Jan 29, 2024
Heather Swan’s Lyrical Language Of Beauty And Devastation
Jan 23, 2024
Thomas Pearson, Author Of An Ordinary Future, On Disability And Difference
Jan 08, 2024
The Dane County Farmers' Market Cookbook With Food Writer Terese Allen
Dec 11, 2023
Prof. Stephen Kantrowitz, ”Citizens Of A Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History Of The 19th Century United States.”
Nov 28, 2023
The Life And Music Of Al Jarreau
Nov 16, 2023
Poet Tacey M. Atsitty on Risking Your Heart and Being Swallowed Up
Nov 06, 2023
UW Prof. Stephen Kantrowitz, "Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the 19th Century United States "
Oct 30, 2023
Alison Townsend On The Spirit Of Place
Oct 17, 2023
What Are You Reading?
Oct 09, 2023
A Musical Translation of Movement: Jérôme Camal on Guadeloupean Gwoka and (Post) Coloniality
Oct 02, 2023
Joyce Carol Oates, "Zero-Sum"
Sep 25, 2023
B. Pladek’s Magical Intersection Of Ecology And History
Sep 19, 2023
Jon Melrod's "Fighting Times" in Wisconsin
Sep 11, 2023
Novelist And Poet Quan Barry On Nonduality, Communicating Beyond Language, And Writing Across Genres
Sep 04, 2023
Poet Deshawn McKinney On Vulnerability As A Muscle
Aug 21, 2023
Scholar Nicole Fox On Memorials, Transitional Justice, And The Inescapability Of Memory
Aug 07, 2023