# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Chad Harbach: THE BRIGHTNESS
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 28 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: From the bestselling author of literary sensation The Art of Fielding comes an urgent, deeply felt story of friendship, art, love, and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change.

Parties and weddings, messy hookups and marred friendships, art and love and grief—The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way out of sleepy, Midwestern Westish College and into a larger world that will upend their connection and everything they thought they understood about their own place within it. 

At 27, Pella’s life looks settled: she’s a recent college grad, engaged to Mike, her longtime boyfriend, and helping her friend Owen pull off his own destination wedding on Block Island. But over that wild wedding weekend, Pella’s past and present collide spectacularly, blowing up her plans and sending her spiraling toward an unplanned future in New York City. Meanwhile, back at Westish College, 21-year-old Irma’s involvement with a politically charged prank—one that has roiled both the campus and the world beyond—threatens to derail her brilliant future. As Irma and Pella cycle through possibilities and identities, both navigate the heights and depths of passion and ambition, and the incalculable wages of love and loss.

In stunning scenes and spectacular characters—each drawn with an almost superhuman vividness and humanity—Chad Harbach captures that specific, shimmering anxiety of your twenties when life still feels wide open, even as hard and irreversible choices start closing in. Energetic, funny, and deeply human, this much-anticipated follow-up to The Art of Fielding confirms Chad Harbach as one of the most accomplished and deep-seeing writers of our time.

Pre-signed copies of The Brightness will be distributed for free to all attendees courtesy of the Wisconsin Book Festival.

In conversation With Jeff Oloizia. 

https://www.wisconsinbookfestival.org/events/brightness
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/madison/chad-harbach-the-brightness/200030772191808
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Festivals
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Madison
- **state**: WI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 201 W Mifflin St, Madison, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53703
- **lat**: 43.07359
- **long**: -89.38752
- **full address**: 201 W Mifflin St, Madison, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53703

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Chad Harbach: THE BRIGHTNESS being held?
  - **A:** Chad Harbach: THE BRIGHTNESS takes place on Wed, 28 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 28 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm at 201 W Mifflin St, Madison, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53703.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Chad Harbach: THE BRIGHTNESS?
  - **A:** Chad Harbach: THE BRIGHTNESS is organized by Wisconsin Book Festival.

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