Calendar

Dec
4
Sun
NaNoWriMo: I Wrote a Novel….Now What? @ AADL Traverwood
Dec 4 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Local fiction writer Leslie “Elle” Wright, best known for her Edge of Scandal romance novels, offers tips on revising your written work and how to get published.&A. Signing In conjunction with the end of National Novel Writing Month, a nonprofit promotion challenging teens and adults to write a 50,000-word novel by the end of November.
2-4 p.m., AADL Traverwood Branch

Dec
7
Wed
Poetry and the Written Word @ Crazy Wisdom
Dec 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

All writers welcome to share and discuss their poetry and short fiction. Sign up for new participants begins at 6:45 p.m.

 

Dec
8
Thu
Story Night @ Crazy Wisdom
Dec 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Storytellers Guild members present a program of old tales and personal stories for grownups.
 Free; donations accepted.annarborstorytelling.org, facebook.com/annarborstorytellers.

 

Jan
11
Wed
Poetry and the Written Word @ Crazy Wisdom
Jan 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

All invited to read and discuss their poetry or short stories. Bring about 6 copies of your work to share. Hosted by local poets and former college English teachers Joe Kelty and Ed Morin.

 

Jan
17
Tue
Claudia Rankine: On American racism @ ISR Rm 1430
Jan 17 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Rankine will also present her recent work on American racism at 10 a.m. in ISR Room 1430 at 426 Thompson St. in Ann Arbor. Her talk will be followed by a cross-disciplinary discussion on American racism and the scholar-activist.

 

Nick Petrie Book Club @ Nicola's Books
Jan 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

 

The book club offers an intimate, small-group discussion with RC alumnus Rick Petrie, Tuesday, January 17 at 6 pm. We will discuss The Drifter before Nick’s reading from his newest book, Burning Bright, at 7 pm.

Limited to 12 people. To participate, you must purchase the book discussion title from Nicola’s (at a 15 percent discount) and pre-order or purchase the new release title (at a 10 percent discount).

To sign up, contact the store directly at 734-662-0600.

Nick Petrie: Burning Bright @ Nicola's Books
Jan 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Nick Petrie received his MFA in fiction from the University of Washington, won a Hopwood Award for short fiction while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan Residential College, and his story At the Laundromat won the 2006 Short Story Contest in theThe Seattle Review, a national literary journal. A husband and father, he runs a home-inspection business in Milwaukee.

“Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie’s Peter Ash is the real deal.”–Lee Child. 

In the new novel featuring war veteran Peter Ash, an action hero of the likes of Jack Reacher or Jason Bourne (Lincoln Journal-Star), Ash has a woman’s life in his hands and her mystery is stranger than he could ever imagine.

War veteran Peter Ash sought peace and quiet among the towering redwoods of northern California, but the trip isn’t quite the balm he’d hoped for. The dense forest and close fog cause his claustrophobia to buzz and spark, and then he stumbles upon a grizzly, long thought to have vanished from this part of the country. In a fight of man against bear, Peter doesn’t t favor his odds, so he makes a strategic retreat up a nearby sapling.

There, he finds something strange: a climbing rope, affixed to a distant branch above. It leads to another, and another, up through the giant tree canopy, and ending at a hanging platform. On the platform is a woman on the run. From below them come the sounds of men and gunshots.
Just days ago, investigative journalist June Cassidy escaped a kidnapping by the men who are still on her trail.  She suspects they’re after something belonging to her mother, a prominent software designer who recently died in an accident. June needs time to figure out what’s going on, and help from someone with Peter’s particular set of skills.

Only one step ahead of their pursuers, Peter and June must race to unravel this peculiar mystery. What they find leads them to an eccentric recluse, a shadowy pseudo-military organization, and an extraordinary tool that may change the modern world forever.

Jan
24
Tue
Margot Lee Shetterly: Hidden Figures @ Stamps Auditorium
Jan 24 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Literati is delighted to be the bookseller for Margot Lee Shetterly’s visit to Ann Arbor in support of her book, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. Margot will speak at Rackham Auditorium (915 E. State Street) at 4pm, and then participate in a fireside chat at Stamps Auditorium on North Campus at 6:30pm, with a signing to follow.

Audiences of all backgrounds will be captivated by the phenomenal true story of the black “human computers” who used math to change their own lives—and their country’s future. Set against the rich backdrop of World War II, the Space Race, the Civil Rights Era, and the burgeoning fight for gender equality, this talk brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, who worked as mathematicians at NASA during the golden age of space travel. Teaching math at segregated schools in the South, they were called into service during the WWII labor shortages. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had jobs worthy of their skills at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, in Hampton, Virginia. Even as Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts, the women of this all-black “West Computing” group helped America achieve a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War. They were part of a group of hundreds of black and white women who, over the decades, contributed to some of NASA’s greatest successes.

In this keynote, Margot Lee Shetterly talks about race, gender, science, the history of technology, and much else. She shows us the surprising ways that women and people of color have contributed to American innovation while pursuing the American Dream. In sweeping, dramatic detail, she sheds light on a forgotten but key chapter in our history, and instills in us a sense of wonder, and possibility.

Margot Lee Shetterly grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many of the women in her book Hidden Figures. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of a Virginia Foundation for the Humanities grant for her research on women in computing. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Event date:
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 – 4:00pm to 8:00pm
Event address:
Stamps Auditorium
1226 Murfin Avenue
Jan
25
Wed
Author’s Forum: The Fortunes: A Conversation with Peter Ho Davies and Douglas Trevor @ Hatcher Gallery
Jan 25 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Peter Ho Davies, U-M English professor, reads from his new book, followed by a conversation with Douglas Trevor, U-M English professor, Q & A with the audience, and book signing.

Inhabiting four lives, three inspired by real historical characters, “The Fortunes” captures and capsizes more than a century of our history, recasting the story of America through the lives of Chinese Americans. It brilliantly reimagines the multigenerational novel, looking through the prismatic fractures of immigrant experience, and showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive as much through love as blood.

Poetry and the Written Word: Caroline Maun and Glen Armstrong @ Crazy Wisdom
Jan 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Readings by WSU English professor Caroline Maun, a widely published poet whose collections include The Sleeping and What Remains, and Cruel Garters journal editor Glen Armstrong, an Oakland University writing professor who has published several chapbooks. Followed by a poetry and short fiction open mike.

 

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