University of Wisconsin announced Wednesday an alumnus’ best-selling book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” will be the 2016-17 Go Big Read, hopefully prompting discussion of poverty across campus in the upcoming school year. The author of the book, Matthew Desmond, received his doctorate from UW in 2010 and now works as an associate professor … Continue reading UW alumnus’ ‘Evicted’ chosen as UW’s next Go Big Read book