
Madison BookBeat highlights local Wisconsin authors and authors coming to Madison for book events. It airs every Monday afternoon at 1pm on WORT FM.
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 71 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | BooksArts | |||

On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie chats with author Emily Mitchell about her new short story collection, The Church of Divine Electricity, now available from University of Wisconsin Press.
Delightfully blending literary fiction w... more
Stu Levitan welcomes Margaret Mooney, editor of Radical Family: Trailblazing Lesbian Moms Tell Their Stories and her wife Meg Gaines to discuss this collection of nine first-person accounts from mainly Madison-area lesbians who gave birth, adopted or... more
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie talks with author Pernille Ipsen about the new translation of her memoir, My Seven Mothers (University of Minnesota Press.)
On New Year’s Eve in Copenhagen in 1972, seven women had a child togeth... more
Stu Levitan welcomes Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride for a conversation about his new book A City on the Edge: Pandemic, Protest and Polarization. It's a gripping and insightful first-person account of what it was like to be the newly elected chief e... more
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Stu Levitan welcomes David Michael Miller for a conversation about his new book, The Rise of Breese Stevens Field: Madison's ballpark and the team that made it home, the Centennial Edition.
You may know Breese Steven... more
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie talks with author Ron Rindo about his latest novel, Life, & Death, & Giants (St. Martin's Press).
Gabriel Fisher was born an orphan, weighing eighteen pounds and measuring twenty-seven inches lon... more
WORT 89.9FM Madison · A Kinship with Ash: Heather Swan
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski sits down with Wisconsin poet, essayist, and environmental humanities scholar Heather Swan. A lecturer at the University of Wisconsin–Mad... more
WORT 89.9FM Madison · Time, Beauty, and Grief, Betsy-Korbinyr_7-28-25
In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Lisa Malawski sits down with local author Betsy Korbinyr who is an award-winning author and retired social worker based in Madison, Wisc... more
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