Wisconsin Book Festival: Sunday, October 18
Join us for this Wisconsin Book Festival event held at your Madison Public Library!
Carol Chase Bjerke, Judith Strasser, & Richard Quinney: Writing Between Illness and Wellness
4:00 p.m. at the Central Branch
With dark humor, irony, compassion, and keen sense of self, Carol Chase Bjerke navigates through the different personas of a rectal cancer survivor, medical patient, healer, and most importantly, artist, to produce Hidden Agenda, a work that is the cure for cynicism and despair. For Judith Strasser, September 11th was the start of a life-changing exploration of the very nature of fear and courage, facing her own cancer and her memories of a brutal murder. In Facing Fear: Meditaions on Cancer and Politics, Courage and Hope she guides us along life’s precarious path. After Richard Quinney was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, he began keeping a journal and taking photographs of the passing seasons on his family farm in Walworth County which chronicle Quinney’s emotional journey and record how his farm provided peace and solace, a reminder of times past, and a revelation of the wonders of the present.
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