Literati welcomes Matt Bell in support of his latest novel, Scrapper.
Matt Bell’s last novel, The House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, a Michigan Notable Book, and an Indies Choice Adult Debut Book of the Year recipient. He is also the author of two previous books of fiction, How They Were Found and Cataclysm Baby, and a nonfiction book about the classic video game Baldur’s Gate II, published in 2015 by Boss Fight Books. Born in Michigan, he now teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.
One Pause Poetry and White Lotus Farms are pleased to welcome Gary Snyder, who has been called “the poet laureate of Deep Ecology” and “the Thoreau of the Beat Generation,” for a reading at the farm on September 17.
Literati welcomes Professor Caryl Flinn (BFI Film Classics: The Sound of Music), Professor Markus Nornes (Staging Memories: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness), Professor Yeidy Rivero (Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television 1950-106), Associate Professor Matthew Solomon (BFI Film Classics: The Gold Rush) and Assistant Professor Colin Gunckel (Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles Before World War II), to celebrate the release of, and sign, their recent scholarly publications.
Next Chapter launches its Poetry Reading and Open Mic series with readings from eight Michigan Poetry Society poets.
Literati welcomes Patrick Wensink in support of his latest novel, Fake Fruit Factory (September 2015, Curbside Splendor). Reading with Patrick will be friend of the store Aaron Burch, the editor of Hobart: Another Literary Journal and author of the story collection Backswing (Queen’s Ferry Press, 2014)
Patrick Wensink is the author of three works of fiction, including the bestselling Broken Piano for President, and a forthcoming essay collection. He frequently contributes to publications like New York Times, Oxford American, Salon, and Huffington Post. He once sold his own line of BBQ Sauce, was married in a doughnut shop, and got punched in the mouth so hard he lost a tooth. (Not all at the same time.) He lives in Louisville, KY with his wife and son.
Includes a talk on the therapeutic power of memoir writing and a book signing of the author’s memoir, What You Feel Is Real.
Brian Freeman joins our book club on Wednesday, September 23 at 7 PM, to talk about his Jonathan Stride novel The Cold Nowhere as well as his new thriller, Season of Fear. He’ll also be presenting a PowerPoint: “Jonathan Stride’s Duluth.”
Reading by Ken Meisel, an award-winning Detroit-area poet whose recent The Drunken Sweetheart at My Door is a collection of surrealistic metaphysical poems about love. Followed by a poetry and short fiction open mike.
Jon M. Stevens was born in Powell, Ohio, and grew up in the shadow of Ohio Stadium. He earned a master’s degree from U-M in 2004 and is currently a designer for an architecture firm in Ann Arbor. Ken Magee is an expert in Wolverine football history. He is a 30-year veteran of law enforcement, former chief of police for the University of Michigan, and a retired federal agent. A portion of this book’s proceeds will benefit the Ken Magee Foundation for Cops, which assists police officers permanently injured in the line of duty. They are the authors of The Game: The Michigan-Ohio State Football Rivalry.
