television companies to provide book tv to viewers as a public service ♪ ♪ >> hello my name is connor moran the director of the wisconsin book festival thank you so much for being here today and her memoir about coming to america and coming to be american, we have a lot of great things that we could talk with this book in current events. inward is talking about the greenroom, we are also joined from keith with wisconsin public radio, kate, thank you for being

television companies to provide book tv to viewers as a public service ♪ ♪ >> hello my name is connor moran the director of the wisconsin book festival thank you so much for being here today and her memoir about coming to america and coming to be american, we have a lot of great things that we could talk with this book in current events. inward is talking about the greenroom, we are also joined from keith with wisconsin public radio, kate, thank you for being here she will be monitoring today's conversation before we get started i want to say thank you to madison public library foundation and now across wisconsin in the nation and the globe, it's been unwavering for the past eight years for particularly during the pandemic, it was never a question of whether we were going to bring you great cultural event like this, it's just a matter of how, i hoist want to thank them, i want to thank layla for being here today we were going to bring her to madison and nate and see her in person, obviously that didn't happen for our donor event as such we are giving away free copies, once i leave the scree

. >> that evening everyone my name is connor moran i am the director of the wisconsin book festival.has been a pleasure to be with you over 16 events over three days. typically we do 60 events over four days. i typically have to work on sunday. but i don't have to work tomorrow but this is a final event and i cannot think of someone i would rather have closest out then terry tempest williams. terry thinkest much for being here is new book is called erosion. she is joined this evening by matt watts rothschild. the publisher of the magazine thank you matt for being here to moderate. and i will just tease everybody met has a book coming out. and when it comes out terry said she will return an interview matt about his become going to hold both of them to that promise and make it to all abuse you hold me to it it. as always i want to thank madison public library and that madison public library foundation for their incredible steadfast support of free cultural events like this to the wisconsin book festival. it has been eight years of doing this festival in seven months would be doing them

. >> that evening everyone my name is connor moran i am the director of the wisconsin book festival.has been a pleasure to be with you over 16 events over three days. typically we do 60 events over four days. i typically have to work on sunday. but i don't have to work tomorrow but this is a final event and i cannot think of someone i would rather have closest out then terry tempest williams.

. >> good evening, my name is connor moran and i'm delighted to be here tonight for our eighth event of the fall celebration, normally this would be the 9:00 little bit more laid back, i unbutton my top button for this keen of event but we dying lighted to host jacob tobia of their coming of age gender memoir, sissy. long-time coming weapon booked this event in february when we thought we could be here in person. thank you. we are also joined by -- oh, very good as well. by a local transactivist and -- thank you for being here. as always i want to thank maddison public library and the library foundation. their support of free cultural events for the past eight years and particularly over the past eight months has been intensely unwaiverring and i can't think them -- unwavering and i can't thank them enough for bringing these great opportunities to us here and across the country. so thank you to them. i'm going to let them take the conversation away and i'll see you at the end. >> yay. >> thank you, conor. i'm here we jacob tobia who wrote policiesy "obviously. and then a little house