Thursday, October 4, 6:00-8:30pm, Hub Stage
$35 Reception, Author Talk-PLUS a copy of the book / $20 Reception and Talk Only
Reception music provided by Brass & Ivory
Book signing to follow event.
Kurt Dietrich is a professor of music and the Barbara Baldwin DeFrees Chair in the Performing Arts at Ripon College. He is the author of Dukes Bones: Ellingtons Great Trombonists, as well as numerous articles for publications including Annual Review of Jazz Studies and Black Music Research Journal. He is a longtime player of jazz and has performed on numerous recordings.
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Today’s Moment of Happiness Despite the News: A Year of Spontaneous Essays by Kathie Giorgio Book Launch & Reception
Thursday, October 18, 6:00-8:30pm, Hub Stage
Book signing to follow event.
Award winning novelist and poet Kathie Giorgio comes to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha (formerly UW-Waukesha) to debut her new memoir Today’s Moment of Happiness Despite the News: A Year of Spontaneous Essays by Kathie Giorgio based on her overwhelmingly popular blog of the same name.
The event features a reception, reading and a conversation with author, Kathie Giorgio and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s book editor, Jim Higgins.
Reception featuring music by Loeffler Studio Master Musicians.
Proceeds for this special event supports the SEWI Festival of Books, ensuring the Festival stays free and accessible to all.
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Friday, November 2nd, 6:30-8:00p, Hub Stage
$10 Reception and Keynote Only / $35 Reception, Keynote and Hardcover Book-LIGHT IT UP
Our Keynote Event with Nick Petrie kicks off the Southeast WI Festival of Books. Petrie, will read his current novel from his Peter Ash Series, Light It Up and share news of his upcoming novel, Tear It Up in conversation with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s book editor Jim Higgins.
Nick Petrie received his MFA in fiction from the University of Washington and won a Hopwood Award for short fiction while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. His story “At the Laundromat” won the 2006 Short Story Contest in The Seattle Review, a national literary journal. The Drifter, Nick’s first novel, won the International Thriller Writers Thriller Award and the Barry Award for Best First Novel, and was short-listed for the Edgar and Anthony Awards, as well as the Hammett Prize for Best Novel. He was named one of Apple’s 10 Writers to Read in 2017, and won the 2016 Literary Award from the Wisconsin Library Association. His books in the Peter Ash series are The Drifter, Burning Bright, Light It Up, and the forthcoming Tear It Down.
A husband and father, he has worked as a carpenter, cabinetmaker, furniture builder, remodeling contractor, and building inspector. He lives in Milwaukee.
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For more information about the author, visit his website at https://nickpetrie.com