Best Bookstore Bars In Milwaukee Near Me

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The Dandelion Comics Residency is a juried program for cartoonists based on the Greater Milwaukee area. Our goal is to support the local comics community while promoting work produced here to well-respected professionals active in the industry today.

The 2022/23 Dandelion artist-in-residence is ​Casey "KC" Harrison AKA DARK AGE online

Join us for a conversation and Q&A with Mic Crenshaw and Moe Bowster, co-authors and editors of It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People's History, who also produced a podcast of the same name.

Lion's Tooth welcomes Chicago-based zinester and Quimby’s Bookstore manager Liz Mason to celebrate the 14th issue of her long-running zine Caboose and hopes you will bring your own stories of fan obsession to share. More info here

Join us for an evening of readings from four Wisconsin authors: Donna Rewolinski, Joy Ann Ribar, Kim Suhr and Mary Wimmer.

Join us at Lion's Tooth to celebrate the launch of the Community Scholars Travel Fund, a dynamic and empowering initiative established to foster academic and personal growth among individuals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's underserved or economically disadvantaged communities. In partnership with local organizations, this fund seeks to eliminate barriers to education, facilitate cross-cultural exchanges, and broaden horizons by providing financial support to scholars who face financial constraints in pursuing travel opportunities.


Guest speakers Dr. Monique Liston, Founder, Chief Strategist and Joyful Militant at UBUNTU Research and Evaluation, and Dr. Michael Carriere, Professor of History and Director of the MSOE Honors Program at the Milwaukee School of Engineering will be on hand to further discuss this innovative program.

A portion of Lion's Tooth sales will be donated to the fund; there will be other ways to donate as well. Or just come out and hear about this exciting development! Can't make it? Give directly at Donate (paypal.com), or scan the QR code below. For more information contact Professor Michael Carriere at carriere@msoe.edu

America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was born in 1867 in the rolling hills of Richland Center, Wisconsin, to a family of Unitarians. Even with world-class commissions like New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, his organic architecture remains rooted in Wisconsin’s landscape, from affordable-housing prototypes in Milwaukee to his summer home and architecture school in rural Spring Green. This comprehensive guide to Wright’s designs (and those of his protégés) that are open to the public—as well as insider historical information about sites now demolished, and those available for “drive-bys” only—is for the architecture or history fan looking for tours, overnight stays or creative inspiration.

Based in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood, Kristine Hansen is a nationally recognized design and travel author with articles published on Travel + Leisure’s and Architectural Digest’s websites, as well as in Time, Midwest Living, and Milwaukee Magazine. She is also the author of Wisconsin Cheese Cookbook: Creamy, Cheesy, Sweet, and Savory Recipes from the State’s Best Creameries. ​

In honor of Banned Books Week, Cactus Book Club will read Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe, otherwise known as ‘The Most Banned Book of 2022’. This illustrated/graphic memoir documents the author’s “journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears”.


We're going to represent Milwaukee comics in Michigan! More info about the fest here.

4worldlovers: Please note that parts of the store are closed to browsing during in-store programming.


Amy Edmondson, author of Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well


Porchlight Book Company and Boswell present a virtual afternoon with Amy Edmondson, who is a Professor at Harvard Business School, the creator of the popular Ted Talk, "How to Turn a Group of Strangers into a Team," and author of Right Kind of Wrong, a revolutionary guide to transforming our relationship with failure. In conversation with Sally Haldorson, Porchlight’s Managing Director.


Please click here to register now for this virtual event. And be sure to order your copy of Right Kind of Wrong now as well.


Edmondson, a pioneering researcher of psychological safety, upends our understanding of failure and make it work for us. In Right Kind of Wrong, Edmondson provides the framework to think, discuss, and practice failure wisely. She illustrates how organizations can embrace our human fallibility, learn exactly when failure is our friend, and prevent most of it when it is not.

From Grit author Angela Duckworth: "The incomparable Amy Edmondson shows us how to see failures as beginnings rather than endings - and how to create the conditions for failing well. Comprehensive, clear, and full of real-world examples, a must-read for performers and leaders alike."

Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School and author of The Fearless Organization and Teaming. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and more. She received her PhD, AM, and AB from Harvard University.

Meg Kissinger, author of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence


In conversation with Jacki Lyden, at Milwaukee Public Library’s Centennial Hall, 733 N Eighth St

Milwaukee journalist and Pulitzer finalist Meg Kissinger appears at Milwaukee Public Library’s Centennial Hall for the launch of her searing new memoir, While You Were Out, which tells the story of a family besieged by mental illness and offers an as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. In conversation with NPR journalist Jacki Lyden, author of the memoir Daughter of the Queen of Sheba.

Please click here to visit megkissingermpl.eventbrite.com and register for this program now. Be sure to order your copy of While You Were Out now.


Growing up in the 1960s in Chicago suburbs, Kissinger’s family seemed to have a charmed life on the shores of Lake Michigan. Eight kids, two loving parents, the Kissingers always knew how to live large and play hard. But behind closed doors were a heavily-medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their own lives. Combining the intimacy of memoir with the rigor of investigative reporting, Kissinger chronicles her personal story of family struggle and tragedy which catalyzed a career of journalism focused on exposing our country’s flawed approach to mental health care.

From Hidden Valley Road author Robert Kolker: "Meg Kissinger is a world-class reporter and a rip-roaring storyteller. Her heartfelt, eviscerating, deeply introspective investigation of long-held family secrets will leave you quaking with rage about our broken mental health system-and grateful that writers like her are on the case."

Milwaukeean Meg Kissinger spent more than two reporting on America’s mental health system for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. A Pulitzer finalist, she has won two George Polk Awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and two National Journalism Awards. Kissinger teaches investigative reporting at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and was a visiting professor at DePauw University, her alma mater.

Jennifer Ackerman, author of What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

Boswell joins forces with Schlitz Audubon Nature Center to present a virtual afternoon with Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, for a conversation about her latest. What an Owl Knows is a brilliant scientific exploration of owls, the most elusive group of birds, and an investigation into why these remarkable and yet mysterious animals exert such a hold on human imagination. In conversation with Lindsay Obermeier, Schlitz’s Raptor Program & Animal Ambassador Director.