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May
11
Fri
John U. Bacon: The Best of Bacon: Select Cuts @ AADL Multipurpose Room
May 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Literati Bookstore is thrilled to bring John U. Bacon to the AADL to discuss a treasured collection of timeless pieces, The Best of Bacon: Select Cuts; perfect for fans of any Michigan sport.

This event is in partnership with the AADL. It includes a signing and books will be for sale.

“People who think they don’t like sports probably haven’t read John U. Bacon. That was me before I started talking with John on my show. He doesn’t write about statistics, wins, and losses. He writes about people digging down deep, challenging themselves to do better, try harder, encourage a teammate, weather a tough loss, get back up, do it again, and then—hopefully—celebrate a success. This collection will leave you looking at sports—and the people who play and coach them—with new eyes.”
—Cynthia Canty, host of “Stateside,” Michigan Radio

“John U. Bacon tells stories the same way a coach carries out a brilliant game plan. With passion and wisdom, hilarity and poignancy, he guides you to every corner of Michigan, a place where he has an unparalleled home court advantage. Whether he is writing about Bo Schembechler or Magic Johnson, Jim Abbott or Gordie Howe, his father or his son, frozen pond or broiling gym, a small-town high school hero or the forces of greed embezzling the essence of college football and basketball, Bacon examines our tumultuous love affair with sports in order to examine us. Open this collection at any juncture and find yourself transported to Bacon’s field of play.”
—Linda Robertson, award-winning sports columnist, Miami Herald

John U. Bacon is the author of ten books, most recently John Saunders’ Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope (which Bacon coauthored) and The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism, which extend his streak to six consecutive national
best sellers. He teaches at at the University of Michigan.

May
14
Mon
Fiction at Literati: Julia Fine @ Literati
May 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Literati is excited to host author Julia Fine who will be sharing her new novel What Should Be Wild.

About What Should Be Wild:
In this darkly funny, striking debut, a highly unusual young woman must venture into the woods at the edge of her home to remove a curse that has plagued the women in her family for millennia–an utterly original novel with all the mesmerizing power of The Tiger’s WifeThe Snow Child, and Swamplandia!

Cursed. Maisie Cothay has never known the feel of human flesh: born with the power to kill or resurrect at her slightest touch, she has spent her childhood sequestered in her family’s manor at the edge of a mysterious forest. Maisie’s father, an anthropologist who sees her as more experiment than daughter, has warned Maisie not to venture into the wood. Locals talk of men disappearing within, emerging with addled minds and strange stories. What he does not tell Maisie is that for over a millennium her female ancestors have also vanished into the wood, never to emerge–for she is descended from a long line of cursed women.

But one day Maisie’s father disappears, and Maisie must venture beyond the walls of her carefully constructed life to find him. Away from her home and the wood for the very first time, she encounters a strange world filled with wonder and deception. Yet the farther she strays, the more the wood calls her home. For only there can Maisie finally reckon with her power and come to understand the wildest parts of herself.

Julia Fine teaches writing at DePaul University and is a recent graduate of Columbia College Chicago’s MFA program. She lives in Chicago with her husband and their son.

May
15
Tue
Owen Laukkanen: Gale Force, and Nick Petrie: Light It Up @ AADL Multipurpose Room
May 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

These popular mystery writers discuss their new books. Gale Force is Laukkanen’s new suspense novel about an Alaskan salvage crew who rescue a foundering freighter whose passengers include a man on the lam from the Yakuza. U-M Residential College grad Petrie reads from Light It Up, the latest in his series about Iraq and Afghanistan vet Peter Ash, who this time investigates a series of well-planned hijackings of a Denver security company that protects cash-rich marijuana entrepreneurs. Signings.
7-8:30 p.m., AADL Downtown 4th-floor meeting rm. Free. 327-4200

The Moth Storyslam: Hair @ Greyline
May 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

 HAIR: Prepare a five minute story about curls, bangs, and mop tops. Relaxing it, pulling it out, or trading out the pigtails for a mohawk. Proving you’re more than just “that kid with the blue hair”. Loving what you were born with or reinventing yourself. Beauty standards and difficult tangles. Regale us with tales of roots, furs, and locks.

*Tickets for this event are available one week before the show, at 3pm ET.

*Seating is not guaranteed and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please be sure to arrive at least 10 minutes before the show. Admission is not guaranteed for late arrivals. All sales final.

7:30-9 p.m. (doors open and sign-up begins at 6 p.m.), Greyline, 100 N. Ashley. $8. 764-5118.

 

May
16
Wed
Scott Kaufman: Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party: A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford @ Ford Presidential Library
May 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Francis Marion University (Florence, SC) history department chair Scott Kaufman discusses his new book that traces Ford’s political life, from his Depression-era childhood and service in WWII to his role in Congress and tenure as the country’s only unelected president. Book sale, signing, & reception follow.
7 p.m., Ford Library, 1000 Beal. Free. 205-0555.

Teen Spirit: Issue #6 @ Literati
May 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Literati is pleased to host Teen Spirit, an award-winning publication of the Skyline High School Writing Center. Teen Spirit is a literary magazine that allows students to share their writing, art, photography, songs, and videos with our broader community, providing them an authentic audience for their work. This event will feature several exceptional Skyline student writers reading their fiction, poetry, and essays from the fifth edition of Teen Spirit publicly for the first time.

The Skyline Writing Center is a student-centered peer tutoring and mentoring organization that provides high-quality writing support to students every hour of every school day. Each year, 30 qualified juniors and seniors are trained to work with all students on a wide variety of genres at any stage of the writing process.  Since opening in 2012, the Writing Center has made more than 5,000 student contacts. Jeffrey Austin, a Skyline English teacher, is the program’s founder and director.

Poetry Salon: One Pause Poetry @ Argus Farm Stop
May 16 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Every Wed. Members read and discuss poems around themes TBA. Followed by collaborative writing games and exercises. Attendees invited to read their poems. Snacks & socializing.
8-10 p.m., Argus Farm Stop greenhouse, 325 W. Liberty. $5 suggested donation. onepausepoetry.org, 707-1284.

 

May
17
Thu
Emily Strelow: Take Flight With the Wild Birds of Michigan @ Literati
May 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

An intro to birding migration in Michigan. We will discuss the importance of field marks, bird sounds, flyways, weather, books and online media in the world of birding. Bring your questions and desire to learn birding basics. No experience necessary.

Emily Strelow has an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Washington in Seattle and an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science. Her first novel, The Wild Birds, was published March of 2018 with Rare Bird Books. She was born and raised in Oregon’s Willamette Valley but now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For the last decade she combined teaching writing with doing seasonal avian field biology. While doing field jobs she camped and wrote in remote areas in the desert, mountains and by the ocean. She is a mother to two boys, a naturalist, and a writer.

May
18
Fri
Ann Arbor Youth Poet Laureate Commencement Performance @ AADL Multipurpose Room
May 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Readings by the five finalists in the library’s 3rd annual Youth Poet Laureate contest. The finalists were chosen by a panel of local poets, some of whom are on hand tonight to announce the winner, whose debut collection will be published by the Neutral Zone’s Red Beard Press. Also, last year’s Ann Arbor Youth Poet Laureate, Zaphra Stupple, reads from their new book, There Will Still Be the Body.
7-9 p.m., AADL 4th-floor meeting rm. Free. 327-4200.

Iatrogenesis: Essays on Becoming a Physician @ Literati
May 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Literati is excited to partner with the University of Michigan Medical School to present Iatrogenesis: Essays on Becoming a Physician, a collection of essays written by U-M medical students.

About Iatrogenesis:
In Iatrogenesis: Essays on Becoming a Physician, medical students share coming-of-age stories that illustrate the rigorous, rewarding, and sometimes unforgiving journey into medicine. In Greek, iatro- means doctor, and -genesis means origin: Iatrogenesis thus describes any effect, good or bad, brought forth by a physician’s actions. This essay compendium looks beyond a physician’s impact on patients, instead turning inward to examine the impact of medical training on student doctors. These essays written by University of Michigan medical students span from the donning of the White Coat to graduation. Along the way, each writer weaves a story, the threads of which unite in a tapestry highlighting the universality of this coming-of-age journey. These essays breathe life into each stage of medical apprenticeship, displaying the full spectrum of human emotion as medical students find ways to reinvent themselves as the physicians of tomorrow.

In Greek, iatro- means doctor, and -genesis means origin: Iatrogenesis thus describes any effect, good or bad, brought forth by a physician’s actions. This essay compendium looks beyond a physician’s impact on patients, instead turning inward to examine the impact of medical training on student doctors. These essays breathe life into each stage of medical apprenticeship, displaying the full spectrum of human emotion as medical students find ways to reinvent themselves as the physicians of tomorrow.

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