Madison BookBeat

Imagining Beyond Prisons: On Books-to-Prisons Bans and Abolition Activism

In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with folx from LGBT Books...

If You Don’t Deal With Your Past, It’s Still Your Present

In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski talks with local Madison author Tammy Borden. 

Tammy is a professional copywriter turned...

Author and geologist Marcia Bjornerud on the rocks that made her

On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie speaks with author, geologist, and Lawrence University professor Marcia Bjornerud about her new...

We Do Not Make Very Good Gods: Nature Critic Boyce Upholt on the Sinuous History of the Mississippi River

In his 1979 Whole Earth Catalog, Stewart Brand wrote, “We are as gods, so we might as well get good at it.” Based on his time on the Mississippi...

Observing Ann Garvin as an Author and a Human Being

In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski talks with local Madison author Ann Garvin.

Ann Garvin became an author...