books

Every month on Lake Effect, we partner with the Milwaukee Public Library for our Book of the Month series to bring you new reading recommendations. We are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, which ends on Oct. 15 and MPL librarian, Beth Gabriel brings us her suspenseful and haunting pick to commemorate.

WUWM Community Engagement Coordinator talks with the owners of La Revo Books, Barbara and Valeria Cerda.

Toya Wolfe’s debut novel, Last Summer on State Street, is set at the Robert Taylor Homes, a public housing project in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood that housed 27,000 people at its peak. The book focuses on the lives of four young Black girls as they come of age while watching the buildings around their home get knocked down.

Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy.

Milwaukeeans are able to check out books from 27 countywide library branches. And if the book isn't at your local branch, the library system will get it there... fast.

Mindy McCord, the co-founder of Wisconsin-based Siren Shrub Company & award-winning bartender and author of Mindful Mixology, Derek Brown, join Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to talk about mindful drinking as more quality options for low and no-proof drinks continue to grow.

In June, a Muskego-Norway School Board committee refused to include a novel about Japanese American wartime incarceration in an accelerated English class.

Monthly with Mosley features Judge Derek Mosley. He joins Lake Effect every month to share restaurant recommendations, unpack our legal system, and share his personal research on Black history. This month he shares a snack pick and a place to visit in Milwaukee.

Everybody Loves the Sunshine, is a song by the famous Black jazz musician Roy Ayers. In 1971, a white, Jewish, former ballerina chose to have a child with him fully knowing and agreeing that Ayers wouldn’t be part of or participate in raising him. Nabil Ayers is that child and will be at Boswell Book Company tonight for a book event.

For this month's Book of the Month series, Marian Royal, a public services area manager for Milwaukee Public Library’s central branch shares her summer reading pick, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel.