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Milwaukee Book Festival

http://sites.google.com/site/milwaukeebookfestival

Each event is sponsored by one of the Festival's many presenting partners at locations throughout the area. Events are free and do not require registration unless otherwise noted.

Oct. 9 – Oct. 18, 2009
www.milwaukeebookfestival.org

The latest edition of the Milwaukee Book Festival premieres this October, starting October 9 and concluding October 18, and includes events at a variety of venues around the greater Milwaukee area. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry -- readings, talks, discussions -- there's truly something for everyone. Get out your calendar now and start planning! All events are free unless otherwise noted.

(Looking for maps and directions to the venues mentioned below?)


Friday, October 9

7 p.m. David Rhodes Reading, Boswell Books (2559 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI)

Saturday, October 10

2 p.m. Book Festival Kick-off with Wendell Berry, The Urban Ecology Center (hosted by Woodland Pattern). (1500 E. Park Place, Milwaukee, WI) $8/$7/$6 tickets

Monday, Oct. 12

4 p.m. Nonfiction and fiction from Susan Neville, author of Sailing the Inland Sea and Fabrications: Essays on Making Things and Making Meaning. Marquette University, Alumni Memorial Union, Rm. 227, (15th and Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI)

7 p.m. Humorist Max Brooks, The Zombie Survival Guide, UWM Union, Wisconsin Room, 2nd Level, (2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI)

Tuesday, Oct. 13

5:30 p.m. Vampire Stories (book club discussion), Milwaukee Central Library, Richard E. and Lucile Krug Rare Books Room, (814 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI)

7:30 p.m. Talk by Sorrel King, author of the memoir Josie's Story, Carroll University, Dorothy Goff Frisch Recital Hall in Shattuck Music Center, (218 N. East Ave., Waukesha, WI)

Wednesday, Oct. 14

6:30 p.m. Banned Books Night, (6:30 p.m. Reception, Presentation begins at 7 p.m.) Woodland Pattern (720 E. Locust Street, Milwaukee, WI)

7 p.m. Anne Basting, author of the nonfiction book Forget Memory, Boswell Books, (2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI).

8 p.m. Lyrical Sanctuary Open Mic (poetry), featuring Raymond Luczak

Thursday, Oct. 15

7 p.m. Studio open house and grand re-opening at RedBird-RedOak Writing Studio, Marion Center for NonProfits (3195 S. Superior St. #429).

7:30 p.m. A Multimedia Evening of Ekphrastic Poetry with Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of Cinema Muto (on the UWM campus in the Curtin Hall theater (room 175), 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI)

Friday, Oct. 16

7 p.m. John Eisenberg, author of That First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory, Next Chapter Bookshop, (10976 N. Port Washington Rd. in Mequon).

Saturday, Oct. 17

2 p.m. Council of Wisconsin Writers Award Winners' Reading, Boswell Books, (2559 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI). Featuring Ingrid Kallick, David McGlynn, Pat Schmatz, and Susan Firer.

Sunday, Oct. 18

2 p.m. Poetry with K. Silem Mohammad with Patrick Durgin and Jen Hofer, Woodland Pattern. (720 E. Locust Street, Milwaukee, WI) $8/$7/$6 tickets


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