Calendar

Foreign Policy Managing Editor Yoshi Dreazen discusses his The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War.

Nicholas Rombes will read from his debut, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing.

Rombes is Professor of English at University of Detroit Mercy. He is author of Ramones from the 33 1/3 series and the book 10/40/70. His writing has appeared in The Believer, Filmmaker Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, n+1, and The Rumpus.

RC Writers Tea, open to majors and current writing students who are non majors,  and current students interested in the writing major. In RC’s Greene Lounge.  (Next tea: December 9)

Barbara Winton discusses her biography of her father, If It’s Not Impossible: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton.

Music historian James Grymes discusses Violins of Hope, his book about Amnon Weinstein, the Israeli violin maker who has devoted the past 20 years to restoring violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust.

Literati is pleased to help launch issue 5.5 of literary journal Harlequin Creature with a very special listening party. That’s because issue 5.5 of the journal is, in fact, a viynl record.

Minneapolis writer Dori Weinstein, who teaches Hebrew to preschoolers, discusses her two children’s books about Jewish holidays, Sliding into the New Year and Shaking in the Shack.

U-M Judaic professor Zvi Gitelman, author of the recent Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: An Uncertain Ethnicity, discusses Jewish dilemmas in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.