“The idea is that the city that opens the
same book closes it in greater harmony.”
— Mary McGrory, The Washington Post, March 17, 2002
The Fox Cities Book Festival in partnership with the public libraries of the Fox Cities has come together with the goal of building a larger sense of community to promote literacy. Each year, we select an author and title to promote for Fox Cities Reads and encourage the people in our communities to read, think, talk, listen, and grow together.
Please direct questions about Fox Cities Reads to Joe Bongers at bongers@menashalibrary.org or to your local Fox Cities public library.
Guest Blog: A Teacher’s Thoughts on Evicted
Special thanks to Katie Chicquette Adams, a public school teacher, for this guest blog post. I’ve worked downtown at Appleton’s alternative high school program as its Language Arts teacher for ten years. Students at risk
Our Exciting News
Mark Your Calendars: Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer-prize winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is here for the Fox Cities Reads April 11 & 12. Please join us for his presentations on April 11 at
You’re Invited to a Community Conversation about EVICTED
Join facilitators from Celebrate Diversity Fox Cities as they lead us in meaningful and respectful conversations around the topics of homelessness and poverty as part of the Fox Cities Reads 2019. On Thursday, February 28,
Join the Silent Reading Party
Read, hang out, talk books, repeat. Book lovers rejoice! The Silent Reading Party is coming to a bookstore near you. The Fox Cities Book Festival hosts its first Silent Reading Party on Wednesday, February 27,
Fox Cities Reads 2019 Events
The Fox Cities Book Festival hosts two annual programs: a spring program, Fox Cities Reads, and a week-long festival in the fall. The Fox Cities Reads program, in its twelfth year, is a one-book, one-community
Fox Cities Reads 2019 Partners
Fox Cities Reads 2019 examines local and state-wide homelessness through Matthew Desmond’s 2016 New York Time’s Best Seller, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. In tandem with events and readings throughout the Fox
If you're looking for a good book similar to Evicted, here's a list of 10 you might be interested in.
www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/books/2017/11/28/10-books-read-after-youve-read-evicted/8900...
10 books to read after you've read 'Evicted'
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Following the Matthew Desmond presentations, here is an interesting listen about Milwaukee. www.wpr.org/effects-lack-economic-opportunity-milwaukees-53206-zip-code
The Effects Of A Lack Of Economic Opportunity In Milwaukee's 53206 Zip Code
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A recent study from UW-Milwaukee's Center for Economic Development takes a closer look at the economic conditions in Milwaukee's 53206 zip code. We'll talk with one of the authors of the report about how those conditions correlate with a lack of generational wealth, less educational opportunities an...#WisconsinWednesdays
"Patrick Somerville is a novelist and screenwriter. He grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and later earned his MFA from Cornell University.
Patrick is the creator and Executive Producer of the Netflix series MANIAC, and was a writer/producer for the HBO drama, THE LEFTOVERS. He got his start in TV writing for the FX drama THE BRIDGE, and Fox’s 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY.
His books include two collections of stories – TROUBLE (2006) and THE UNIVERSE IN MINIATURE IN MINIATURE (2010) – and two novels, THE CRADLE (2009) and THIS BRIGHT RIVER (2012). The Cradle was nominated for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Award. It was also a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick for Spring 2009, a Target Emerging Writers pick, and a New York Times Editor’s Choice. This Bright River was a New York Times Editor’s Choice as well, and The Universe in Miniature in Miniature was short-listed for the 2010 Story Prize.
Patrick’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, One Story, Epoch, GQ, Good Magazine, Esquire, Guernica, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is a MacDowell Fellow and the winner of the 2009 21st Century Award, given annually by the Chicago Public Library."
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