Madison BookBeat

Madison BookBeat

38 episodes

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

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Thomas Pearson, Author Of An Ordinary Future, On Disability And Difference

Published: Jan. 8, 2024, 7:48 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 2 seconds

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The Dane County Farmers' Market Cookbook With Food Writer Terese Allen

Published: Dec. 11, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 20 seconds

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Prof. Stephen Kantrowitz, Citizens Of A Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History Of The 19th Century United States.

Published: Nov. 28, 2023, 1:04 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 54 seconds

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The Life And Music Of Al Jarreau

Published: Nov. 16, 2023, 8:27 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 5 seconds

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Poet Tacey M. Atsitty on Risking Your Heart and Being Swallowed Up

Published: Nov. 6, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 17 seconds

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UW Prof. Stephen Kantrowitz, "Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the 19th Century United States "

Published: Oct. 30, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 46 seconds

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Alison Townsend On The Spirit Of Place

Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 10:17 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 32 seconds

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What Are You Reading?

Published: Oct. 9, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 24 seconds

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Joyce Carol Oates, "Zero-Sum"

Published: Sept. 25, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 59 seconds

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B. Pladeks Magical Intersection Of Ecology And History

Published: Sept. 19, 2023, 2:36 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 3 seconds

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Jon Melrod's "Fighting Times" in Wisconsin

Published: Sept. 11, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 45 seconds

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Novelist And Poet Quan Barry On Nonduality, Communicating Beyond Language, And Writing Across Genres

Published: Sept. 4, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 3 seconds

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Poet Deshawn McKinney On Vulnerability As A Muscle

Published: Aug. 21, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 15 seconds

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Scholar Nicole Fox On Memorials, Transitional Justice, And The Inescapability Of Memory

Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 37 seconds

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Michael Dorgan, "No Fight, No Blame: A Journalist's Life in Martial Arts" (part 2)

Published: July 31, 2023, 8:22 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes

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On (Short) Storytelling, with Wisconsin writer Steve Fox

Published: July 17, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 30 seconds

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The search for dignity in Palestine, with Christa Bruhn

Published: July 10, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 33 seconds

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Local Writer JK Cheema On Writing, Family, And Remembering The Past

Published: July 3, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes

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Jon Shelton on "The Education Myth"

Published: June 12, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 5 seconds

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Writer John West On Paradox, Redemption, And Playing Bach

Published: June 5, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 40 seconds

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Mark Borthwick, "A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright"

Published: May 29, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 5 seconds

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Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington

Published: May 22, 2023, 4:22 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes

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Madison Infuses Scott Mitchel Mays New Novel, Breakneck

Published: April 17, 2023, 7:28 p.m.
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Writer Jeff Sharlet On Whiteness, Slow Civil War, And Harry Belafonte

Published: April 3, 2023, 5 p.m.
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Freedom Dreaming with Anisa Yudawanti and Amy Wilson

Published: March 27, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 35 seconds

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Nick Vander Puy On The HELP Campaign To Save The Penokees

Published: March 20, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 29 seconds

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Poet Jameka Williams On Sex, Race, And Kim Kardashian

Published: March 6, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 55 seconds

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Frank Emspak, "Troublemaker: Saying No to Power," part 2

Published: March 6, 2023, 3:27 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 5 seconds

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Rebecca Webster On Sovereignty & Threats To The Oneida Nation

Published: Feb. 20, 2023, 11 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 23 seconds

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Author Kathryn Harlan On The Sensual And Unsettling In Storytelling

Published: Feb. 6, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 45 seconds

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Brian J. Kramp, "This Band Has No Past: How Cheap Trick Became Cheap Trick"

Published: Jan. 30, 2023, 7 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 56 seconds

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100 Umbrellas by Ron Czerwien

Published: Jan. 23, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 53 seconds

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Joel Selvin, "Sly And The Family Stone: An Oral History"

Published: Jan. 9, 2023, 7 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 1 second

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Michael Massey, "More: A Memoir"

Published: Jan. 2, 2023, 9:20 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 32 seconds

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Dennis Punzel, "Point Wisconsin! The Road to a National Title for Kelly Sheffield & The Wisconsin Badgers."

Published: Dec. 26, 2022, 7 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 3 seconds

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Waterbaby By Nikki Wallschlaeger

Published: Dec. 19, 2022, 7:09 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 15 seconds

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Helen Shiller, "Daring To Struggle, Daring To Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago's Uptown Community"

Published: Nov. 28, 2022, 7 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 29 seconds

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Madison Book Beat: Tegan Nia Swanson on "Things We Found When The Water Went Down"

Published: Nov. 21, 2022, 7 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 40 seconds

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Frank Emspak, "Troublemaker: Saying No To Power"

Published: Oct. 31, 2022, 6 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 19 seconds

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Peter Fauerbach, "Fauerbach Brewing Company Madison Wisconsin 1848-1967"

Published: Oct. 24, 2022, 6 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 52 seconds

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Maggie Ginsberg On Her Debut Novel, Still True

Published: Oct. 17, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 39 seconds

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Wounded Pages: In Conversation with Shahayra Majumder

Published: Oct. 10, 2022, 6 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes

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Anne Winkler-Morey, "Allegiance to Winds and Waters: Bicycling the Political Divides of the United States."

Published: Sept. 26, 2022, 6 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 45 seconds

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In Conversation With Writer Oscar Hokeah

Published: Sept. 12, 2022, 5 p.m.
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Rob Zaleski, "David Couper Beyond the Badge: Reflections of an Ex-Cop"

Published: Aug. 30, 2022, 12:58 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 5 seconds

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David Maraniss, "Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe"

Published: Aug. 22, 2022, 6 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 58 seconds

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Poet Matthew Gutierrez Keeps Notes Along the Way

Published: Aug. 15, 2022, 5 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 19 seconds

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Mystery author Patricia Skalka on the importance of place

Published: Aug. 8, 2022, 6 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 7 seconds

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Howard Sherman, "Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century"

Published: March 15, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 13 seconds

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UW Prof. Chad Alan Goldberg, "Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea"

Published: March 8, 2021, 6:20 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 seconds

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Madeline Uraneck, "How to Make a Life: A Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted"

Published: March 2, 2021, 2:54 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 16 seconds

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UW Prof. John Milton Cooper, Jr., "Woodrow Wilson: A Biography," part 1

Published: Feb. 15, 2021, 11:07 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 49 seconds

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R. Richard (Dick) Wagner, "We’ve Been Here All Along: Wisconsin’s Early Gay History"

Published: Feb. 7, 2021, 8:09 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 11 seconds

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Rob Zaleski, " Ed Garvey Unvarnished: Lessons from a Visionary Progressive"

Published: Feb. 7, 2021, 3:44 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 14 seconds

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Matt Levin, “Cold War University – Madison and the New Left in the Sixties”

Published: Feb. 7, 2021, 3:32 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Bill Christofferson, "The Man From Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson"

Published: Feb. 7, 2021, 3:26 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 20 seconds

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Dennis Dresang, "Patrick J. Lucey: A Lasting Legacy"

Published: Feb. 7, 2021, 2:34 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 21 seconds

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Harvey Briggs, "Rolls-Royce Motor Cars: Making A Legend"

Published: Feb. 7, 2021, 2:26 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 39 seconds

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Sarah Kendzior, "Hiding In Plain Sight: The Invention Of Donald Trump"

Published: Feb. 7, 2021, 2:16 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 13 seconds

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Ursula Lawrence, "The French Republican Wall Calendar"

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 4:44 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 14 seconds

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Larry "Ratso" Sloman, "On The Road With Bob Dylan"

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 4:27 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 58 seconds

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Greg Renz, "Beneath The Flames"

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 4:03 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 17 seconds

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Jesse Garcia, "Going For Wisconsin Gold: Stories Of Our State's Olympians"

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 3:58 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 17 seconds

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Daphne E. Barbee-Wooten, "Justice For All: Selected Writings Of Lloyd A. Barbee"

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 3:51 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 12 seconds

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Mary Lang Sollinger, "From Inspiration To Activism: A Personal Journey Through Obama's Presidential Campaign"

Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 4:48 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 31 seconds

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Prof. Francine Hirsch, "Soviet Judgment At Nuremberg: A New History Of The International Military Tribunal After World War II"

Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 1:15 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 32 seconds

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Danielle Evans, "The Office of Historical Corrections"

Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 2:16 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 2 seconds

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Stephen Coss, "The Fever of 1721: The Pandemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics'

Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 2:07 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 27 seconds

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David Maraniss, "A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Family"

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 8:24 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes

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Nicholas Lemann, "Transaction Man: Traders, Disrupters and the Dismantling of Middle-Class America"

Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 9:07 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 25 seconds

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil, "World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments"

Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 8:52 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 58 seconds

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Sarah M. Broom, "The Yellow House"

Published: Nov. 1, 2020, 5:43 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 19 seconds

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R. Richard (Dick) Wagner, "Coming Out, Moving Forward: Wisconsin's Recent Gay History"

Published: Nov. 1, 2020, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 23 seconds

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Charles Monroe-Kane, "Lithium Jesus: A Memoir of Mania"

Published: Nov. 1, 2020, 5:19 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 24 seconds

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Glenn Silber, "The War At Home"

Published: Nov. 1, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 56 seconds

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Prof. Paige Glotzer, "How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960."

Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 2:45 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 3 seconds

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Rick Perlstein, "Reaganland"

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 3:19 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 32 seconds

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Patrick W. Steele, “Home Of The Braves: The Battle For Baseball In Milwaukee”

Published: Aug. 3, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 59 seconds

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Larry Tye, “Demagogue: The Life And Long Shadow Of Senator Joe McCarthy”

Published: July 27, 2020, 7:28 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 18 seconds

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P. Carl, "Becoming A Man: The Story of a Transition"

Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 4:53 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 32 seconds

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Danez Smith, "Homie"

Published: Feb. 10, 2020, 10:43 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 44 seconds

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