Category: go big read

  • Go Big Read Display

    Posted on Aug 6th

    UW-Madison’s Go Big Read selection for 2024 is Rebekah Taussig’s memoir Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body. Taussig […]

  • Go Big Read Author To Speak

    Posted on Oct 25th

    “We are all a million things at once,” Yaa Gyasi has said about Transcendent Kingdom. Her book uses fiction to explore the […]

  • An Evening with Bryan Stevenson

    Posted on Oct 26th

    The author of this year’s Go Big Read selection, Just Mercy, the renowned attorney Bryan Stevenson will speak on Monday, October 26, […]

  • Author of “Radioactive” to Speak

    Posted on Oct 10th

    On Monday, Oct. 15, from 7-8:30pm author Laura Redniss will speak about her work, this year’s Go Big Read selection, Radioactive: Marie and […]

  • Go Big Read Goes “Radioactive”

    Posted on Apr 23rd

    University of Wisconsin-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward has selected Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout by Pulitzer […]

  • Activist to Speak on Immigrant Experience

    Posted on Oct 4th

    On Monday, Oct. 10, at 4pm, Nancy Garcia, an activist who works directly with migrants at the Center for the Orientation of […]

  • Go Big Read

    Posted on Sep 13th

    Two book discussions have been scheduled to discuss the UW-Madison Common Reading Program’s featured title, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” The […]

  • UW Local Food Event

    Posted on Nov 23rd

    Please join us on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 5 p.m. in Open Book, for a discussion of local food. Learn how to […]

  • Go Big Read opportunities continue

    Posted on Oct 14th

    Are you unable to attend one of the scheduled book discussions of In Defense of Food, but want to get involved in […]

  • “In Defense of Food” Book Discussion

    Posted on Sep 29th

    College Library continues the discussion about Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food” on Thursday, October 8, beginning at 7 p.m. in Room […]

  • Go Big Read: Michael Pollan visit

    Posted on Sep 23rd

    Author Michael Pollan will be part of a panel presentation on Friday afternoon at 3:30pm in the Wisconsin Union Theater as a […]

  • “In Defense of Food” Book Discussion

    Posted on Sep 15th

    Please join us on Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 8 p.m. for a discussion of this year’s Go Big Read title, “In Defense […]