Ayers had been scheduled to appear on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Overture Center in downtown Madison for an “author meet-and-greet” as part of the Madison Public Library’s Wisconsin Book Festival. However, reports the Wisconsin Reporter, organizers were forced to call off the hour-long hobnobbing event.

A staffer for the Madison Public Library Foundation told the Reporter that the schmoozing session was canceled because locals “didn’t have the kind of interest” organizers had hoped for.