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Madison BookBeat

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

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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92 episodes

  1. Aurore Sibley, "Some Things Don't Burn: Art, Activism and Arson at the Bugle American" 52:40
  2. Stu Levitan, "Madison: The Illustrated History Vol. 2, 1932-1979." 52:21
  3. A Preview of the 25th Wisconsin Book Festival with Jane Rotonda and Meghan O'Gieblyn 51:48
  4. Ben Sidran, "Cool Cat Blues: The Life and Times of Georgie Fame" 1:02:11
  5. Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff, "Walt Whitman's American Dream" 1:01:05
  6. Chloe Benjamin on writing into the unknown 49:13
  7. Tara Mulder on what ancient birth stories can teach us 51:57
  8. Dennis McNally, "The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties." 1:21:07
  9. Poet Lisa Fishman on the potential of space on a page 50:26
  10. Nancy Kathman, "Love, Cuba, Goats and Music" 55:10
  11. Sahar Mustafah on writing about heritage in a time of genocide 50:53
  12. Jeff Oloizia's "Writing Forward" Wisconsin Literary Podcast 54:59
  13. Dean Robbins, Books For Kids 54:55
  14. Choosing to Die with author Theresa Evans 55:06
  15. Lisa Low on poetry's capacity to unlock identity 48:27
  16. Doug Metoxen Kiel on the ongoing fight for Indigenous nationhood 49:34
  17. Melissa Faliveno makes the case for Midwestern gothic 52:36
  18. Doug Bradley, "The Tracks of My Years: A Music-Based Memoir" 1:15:01
  19. The Year in Books: three Madison booksellers on how their 2025 went 50:23
  20. Cheryl Schiltz: When The World Falls Away: One Woman’s Triumph Over Invisible Disability 49:53
  21. Cary Segall, "A Talk in the Woods: Voices From the Appalachian Trail" 53:52
  22. Emily Mitchell on the power of speculative fiction in strange times 51:16
  23. Margaret Mooney, "Radical Family: Trailblazing Lesbian Moms Tell Their Stories" 54:23
  24. Pernille Ipsen on feminism & found families in "My Seven Mothers" 52:12
  25. Mayor Dennis McBride, "A City on the Edge: Pandemic, Protest and Polarization" 1:00:13
  26. David Michael Miller, "The Rise of Breese Stevens Field: Madison's ballpark and the team that made it home" 1:20:10
  27. Ron Rindo on animal medicine, Amish life & the Packers 52:34
  28. A Kinship with Ash: Heather Swan’s Poetic Reckoning with Nature and Loss 48:14
  29. The Journey Within: Exploring Life and Nature in Wisconsin’s Parks 46:50
  30. Dean Robbins, "Wisconsin Idols: 100 Heroes Who Changed The State, The World, And Me" 53:02
  31. Madison BookBeat Featured Steven Davis, Author of "The Other Public Lands" 52:51
  32. Kristina Amelong on accepting life (and death)'s mysteries in "What My Brother Knew" 49:56
  33. Doug Moe, “Saving Hearts and Killing Rats: Karl Paul Link and the Discovery of Warfarin” 51:58
  34. Denise S. Robbins on states of emergency in her debut novel “The Unmapping” 50:47
  35. Amb. Tom Loftus, “Mission to Oslo” 1:30:54
  36. A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield 50:48
  37. The Art of Community — And Book Discussions 52:57
  38. I Choose Joy: AJ Romriell on Wolves, Loving Yourself, and Exiting the Mormon Faith 48:54
  39. New Wisconsin Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas on the mysteries and rewards of language 51:23
  40. Sitting down with Madison Public Libraries Director Tana Elias 52:50
  41. Christine Wenc on the founding of "The Onion" 51:38
  42. On Jumping, Swimming, Sinking, and Floating: Poet Steven Duong Discusses His Debut Collection 54:31
  43. Theresa Okokon on her memoir in essays "Who I Always Was" 51:45
  44. What Books Did You Like This Year? 53:03
  45. Zara Chowdhary on The Lucky Ones 53:51
  46. The Year in Books with Three Madison Booksellers 53:56
  47. Imagining Beyond Prisons: On Books-to-Prisons Bans and Abolition Activism 52:20
  48. If You Don’t Deal With Your Past, It’s Still Your Present 52:48
  49. Author and geologist Marcia Bjornerud on the rocks that made her 47:55
  50. We Do Not Make Very Good Gods: Nature Critic Boyce Upholt on the Sinuous History of the Mississippi River 53:22