Madison BookBeat

It’s as though someone spent 2300 hours reading the microfilm of every State Journal and Capital Times, and the relevant issues of the Daily Cardinal, from 1932 to 1979 and hundreds of hours combing the photo archives of the State Historical Society, University Archives and Capital Newspapers, and synthesized all the information in one handy volume. It’s just like that

Festival director Jane Rotonda and author Meghan O'Gieblyn join the program to preview this year's book events.

An in-depth conversation with musician/author Ben Sidran about the life and times of the English keyboardist/singer/songwriter Georgie Fame , -- the only artist to twice knock the Beatles out of the top spot on the UK musical charts, and whose 64-year career encompassed rock and roll, rhythm and blues, pop and jazz.

Stu Levitan welcomes playwright Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff for a conversation about her new play, "Walt Whitman's American Dream," a featured presentation at the Capital Times Idea Fest on September 19. Presenting Whitman's life and poetry in the context of his time -- born while the Founders were still alive, he mourned Lincoln and died on the cusp of the Gilded Age -- the play invites audiences to reflect on what it means to be an American, and whether a divided people can reconnect. And th

Author Chloe Benjamin joins host Sara Batkie to talk about her new novel, Understory.

UW professor Tara Mulder joins us to discuss her new book, A Womb of One's Own.