Ritt Deitz & Wilder Deitz

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Bruce Kasprzyk

A close-up of Ritt Deitz, left, and Wilder Deitz.

Ritt Deitz, left, and Wilder Deitz.

UW-Madison French teacher and longtime local singer-songwriter Ritt Deitz launches his first English-language novel, Settle Down, with a live musical performance joined by his son, Wilder Deitz. Set mostly in Madison and filled with familiar near-east-side references (including the late, great Willy Bear Tavern on Williamson Street), the coming-of-age story explores place and belonging through the eyes of recent college graduate Kenny McLuher — blessed (or cursed) with the hypnotic power to put people to sleep and the ability to conjure his dead father and Abraham Lincoln in his own dreams