All adults and teens in grade 6 & up invited to learn about this nonprofit promotion (also known as NaNoWriMo) encouraging teens and adults to tackle the challenge of writing a 50,000-word novel by the end of November. Refreshments.
3-5 p.m., AADL Traverwood Branch, 3333 Traverwood at Huron Pkwy.
FAILURE:LAB is an event where storytellers and entertainers recounting their most memorable brush with failure. The audience is encouraged to share their thoughts on Twitter using the hashtag #failurelab during the performances between stories. Ticketed.
November 3 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (reception will follow)
– Amy Emberling, Partner at Zingerman’s Bakehouse
– Jason De Leon, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
– Arianna Carley, Entrepreneur and Engineering Student
– Tim McKay, Professor of Physics, Astronomy, and Education
– Nadine Jawad, Public Policy Major
All writers welcome to share and discuss their poetry and short fiction. Sign up for new participants begins at 6:45 p.m.
RC students perform Melissa Ross’ 2011 Off-Broadway drama about a dysfunctional family reunion. The 3 children of a broken and dying man quarrel with each other and with the world in a self-confounding effort to rediscover lost family connections. Also Saturday, same time and place.
RC students perform Melissa Ross’ 2011 Off-Broadway drama about a dysfunctional family reunion. The 3 children of a broken and dying man quarrel with each other and with the world in a self-confounding effort to rediscover lost family connections. Also Fiday, same time and place.
Lecture by this nationally recognized advocate for people with disabilities, author ofWhat Matters: Reflections on Disability, Community and Love.
Noon, 100 Hatcher Grad Library Gallery, enter from the Diag. Free.
Literati is pleased to once again partner with the University of Michigan’s Sweetland Center for Writing in support of their Word2: Writer to Writer programming. Professor Philip J. Deloria is this installment’s featured guest.
Sweetland’s Word Squared: Writer to Writer series lets you hear directly from University of Michigan professors about their challenges, processes, and expectations as writers and also as readers of student writing. Each semester,Word² pairs one esteemed University professor with a Sweetland faculty member for a conversation about writing.
Word² sessions are broadcast live on WCBN radio. These conversations offer students a rare glimpse into the writing that professors do outside the classroom. You can hear instructors from various disciplines describe how they handle the same challenges student writers face, from finding a thesis to managing deadlines. Professors will also discuss what they want from student writers in their courses, and will take questions put forth by students and by other members of the University community. If there’s anything you’ve ever wanted to ask a professor about writing, Word² gives you the chance.
Professor Deloria is the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of American Culture and History, former LSA Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, and past Director of the Program in American Culture and the AC Native American Studies program. He has served as president of the American Studies Association, a council member of the Organization of American Historians, and a Trustee of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of American Culture and the Department of History.
U-M Residential College drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs RC students in Terminal 3 (5 p.m. Fri. & noon Sun.), a sparse drama set in a hospital waiting room where a young couple is there to welcome the birth of their first baby and a middle-age couple is there to identify their dead son.
Part of sttaged readings of Marita Lindholm Gochman’s translations of 3 plays by this celebrated contemporary writer, widely recognized as the greatest Swedish playwright since Strindberg. The readings are each followed by a Q&A with translator Gochman and the actors.
U-M Residential College drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs RC students in Terminal 3 (5 p.m. Fri. & noon Sun.), a sparse drama set in a hospital waiting room where a young couple is there to welcome the birth of their first baby and a middle-age couple is there to identify their dead son.
Part of sttaged readings of Marita Lindholm Gochman’s translations of 3 plays by this celebrated contemporary writer, widely recognized as the greatest Swedish playwright since Strindberg. The readings are each followed by a Q&A with translator Gochman and the actors.
Alexander Weinstein is the Director of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and the author of the short story collection Children of the New World (Picador 2016). His fiction and translations have appeared in Cream City Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Notre-Dame Review, Pleiades, PRISM International, World Literature Today, and other journals. He is the recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and his fiction has been awarded the Lamar York, Gail Crump, Hamlin Garland, and New Millennium Prize. His stories have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and appear in the anthologies 2013 New Stories from the Midwest, and the 2014 & 2015 Lascaux Prize Stories. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and a freelance editor, and leads fiction workshops in the United States and Europe.
Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago.
