Whispers in the Driftless: Debut Novelist Maggie Ginsberg in Conversation with Nickolas Butler

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Join Maggie Ginsberg to discuss her debut novel, Still True—a story of familial secrets set in small-town Wisconsin. Ginsberg will be joined by fellow novelist Nickolas Butler for a conversation on craft, writing about place, and how to keep readers engaged from the first page to the last. Q&A and book signing to follow!

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Maggie Ginsberg is an editor at Madison Magazine and a long-time award-winning contributor to city, regional, and national magazines. She grew up on the edge of the Driftless Region and spends her free time running Wisconsin's trails and reading books by her favorite authors, one of whom happens to be Nickolas Butler. Still True is her first novel.

Nickolas Butler was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and educated at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He is the internationally best-selling and prize-winning author of one collection of short stories and four novels. He lives in rural Wisconsin with his wife and their two children. 

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