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Madison BookBeat

By: Stu Levitan Andrew Thomas David Ahrens Cole Erickson Lisa Malawski
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  • Madison BookBeat highlights local Wisconsin authors and authors coming to Madison for book events. It airs every Monday afternoon at 1pm on WORT FM .
    Copyright 2024 Madison BookBeat
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Episodes
  • Ann Garvin On Writing Her First Book At Age Fifty
    Mar 19 2024

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

    Ann Garvin became an author at age fifty. She has now written five books. Ann Garvin is a nurse, a professor, and USA Today Bestselling Author. She thinks everything is funny and a little bit sad. Ann writes stories about women with a good sense of humor who do too much in a world that asks too much from them. Ann is the founder of the multiple award-winning Tall Poppy Writers where she is committed to helping women writers succeed. She is a sought-after speaker on writing, leadership and health and has taught extensively in NY, San Francisco, LA, Boston, and at festivals across the country and in Europe.

    Some may say that a nurse engages more with the left-brain which is analytical, calculated and orderly verses the right-brain which is supposed to be intuitive and creative. With this, there is also the thought that the nurse must step to the right of their left brains in order to be both data-minded and people focused. Lisa talks with Ann about her book journey and engages in conversation about Ann’s nurse left brain moving to the right in order to be an author.

    There’s No Coming Back from This was published by Lake Union Publishing in 2023.

    Ann will return to the airwaves on 10/28 for her new book, Bummer Camp.

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    50 mins
  • Cynthia Simmons On The “Wrong Kind Of Paper”
    Mar 11 2024

    Hallie Linden yearns to write for the New York Times. At the moment, she’s stuck at a daily newspaper in tiny Green Meadow, Indiana, a town known for its amusement park and nothing else. It’s 1989, and juicy reporting jobs are hard to find. She resolves to work hard, win a few awards, and then welcome the job offers.

    In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host David Ahrens speaks with Cynthia Simmons. She’s author of a recent novel called Wrong Kind of Paper, the story of a young reporter in a small town who resists the corporate journalist demand to avoid “controversy.”

    The novel unexpectedly turns into a two track thriller — one uncovering the deadly corruption and the other is the fight to get the story published.

    Before her career as a reporter, novelist and professor of media law, Cynthia Simmons was the News Director of WORT-FM. Since then, she’s held numerous prestigious reporting positions, and is now the Associate Teaching Professor at Penn State, where she teaches mass media law.

    In this interview, she also shares with Ahrens the special contribution of listener-supported radio by providing the information necessary for a democracy to function.

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    52 mins
  • Fragile Institutions: Shibani Mahtani And Timothy McLaughlin on the 2019 Protests in Hong Kong
    Mar 4 2024

    In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with journalists Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin for a conversation on their book Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy (2023, Hachette Books).

    Among the Braves is a narrative history of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong told through the eyes of four activists named Finn, Tommy, Chu, and Gwyneth. Imbedded reporters Mahtani and McLaughlin give insight into the development and ultimate dissolution of a movement more than 150 years in the making. Among the Braves Deftly blends first-person accounts with the larger social, political, and historical forces shaping a popular movement. You can follow her @ShibaniMahtani

    Shibani Mahtani is an international investigative correspondent for the Washington Post. She was previously the Post's Hong Kong and Southeast Asia bureau chief and a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal based in Singapore, Yangon, and Chicago. Her Hong Kong coverage was honored with prizes including a Human Rights Press Award for an investigation into police misconduct. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. You can follow him @TMcLaughlin3

    Timothy McLaughlin is a prize-winning contributing writer for The Atlantic. Previously he worked for Reuters news agency. His work has also appeared in publications including WIRED, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Prospect. He has won multiple awards for his Hong Kong coverage, including two Best in Business Awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing, and is a two-time finalist for The Livingston Award for International Reporting. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California. Mahtani and McLaughlin live in Singapore with their adopted Hong Kong village dog, Bean.

    Image courtesy of Timothy McLaughlin

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    52 mins

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