Books & Literature
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Booked Up
Novelist Sue Monk Kidd Comes to Town
Feb 6th, 2014 by Will Stotts, Jr.
Author of best-seller The Secret Life of Bees will give a reading at the downtown library.
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Malcolm Gladwell Comes to Town
Jan 30th, 2014 by Will Stotts, Jr.
The New Yorker writer’s style is delightful, but does he overplay his hand?
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Why Great Books in 2014?
Jan 21st, 2014 by Will Stotts, Jr.
Take the challenge and it may change your life.
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Change How You Read in 2014
Jan 3rd, 2014 by Will Stotts, Jr.Some suggested resolutions for a year’s worth of interesting reading.
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Favorites of 2013
Dec 20th, 2013 by Will Stotts, Jr.I won’t claim they’re the best, but they’ll make for good reading.
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The 12 Books of Christmas
Dec 13th, 2013 by Will Stotts, Jr.Give the gift of books: 12 selections for every kind of reader.
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New Column Explores Books, Author Readings & More
Dec 6th, 2013 by Will Stotts, Jr.Our new column, Booked Up, explores a variety of books, author readings and more.
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The Rep’s “Christmas Carol” gets a second dose of Aaron Posner
Nov 29th, 2013 by Matthew ReddinThe director returns for his second take on "A Christmas Carol," celebrating its 38th production in a row.
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Molly Rhode leads an actor-focused “Les Miserables”
Nov 22nd, 2013 by Matthew ReddinThe Skylight's production is the first professional staging in the region, and Rhode's planned an extra-theatrical approach that emphasizes its singers.
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Theater RED blends Shakespeare and Scheherazade in official debut
Nov 11th, 2013 by Matthew ReddinJared McDaris' "A Thousand Times Goodnight," getting the royal treatment at Sunset Playhouse, is an adaptation of the Arabian Nights in Elizabethan verse style.
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The Horror of Sauk City
Arkham House’s “weird fiction” legacy
Oct 30th, 2013 by Tea KrulosThe Sauk City-based publishing house never rose to financial success, but the Wisconsin imprint is nonetheless responsible for publishing the first works of major sci-fi and horror writers including H.P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury.
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“Venus in Fur”
Sexy, thought-provoking ambiguity – not ambivalence
Sep 26th, 2013 by Matthew ReddinDirector Laura Gordon explains the Stiemke's opening show, a two-person show about sexual dynamics more complex than it looks on the surface.
