Aunt Agatha’s co-owner Robin Agnew hosts a panel discussion with 3 mystery writers on their own careers and latest works and on the nature of mystery writing. Cleveland history teacher Sam Thomas writes historical mysteries featuring a midwife in 1640s York, Eva Gates (the pen name of Canadian writer Vicky Delany) recently inaugurated a new cozy series about an assistant librarian with By Hook or By Crook, and retired Canadian psychologist Barbara Fradkin writes books featuring Ottawa police detective Inspector Green.
This Toronto writer reads from The Stolen Ones, his new novel in his Stevens and Windermere series about the death of a sheriff’s deputy and the mysterious woman found sitting by the body holding the deputy’s own gun. Signing.
RC students present fellow RC student Rebecca Godwin’s drama about a young woman who lives in a magical land of storytelling cursed with an inability ever to finish a story and subsequently banished to the Forest of Forgotten Stories, where meets a host of interesting oddballs. But when she’s threatened by an evil lurking in the forest, she must find a way out before he own story ends prematurely.
RC drama instructor Kate Mendeloff’s students direct and perform 8 short plays by Ives, an acclaimed contemporary American playwright best known for his one-act comedies.
U-M history professor Tiya Miles, an award-winning MacArthur Fellow, reads from and discusses her new novel about slaveholding by Southern Creeks and Cherokees and its legacy in the lives of three young women who are drawn to the Georgia plantation where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary compassion once played out. Reception follows. Signing. 2039 Lane.
U-M English professor Khaled Mattawa reads from and discusses his new book about the Palestinian poet and writer Mahmoud Darwish.
Reading by Eric Torgerson, a retired CMU English professor who has published 6 poetry collections. Followed by a poetry and short fiction open mike.
Reading by Glenn Sheldon, a University of Toledo humanities professor whose poetry collections include The Bird Scarer and Angel of Anarchy. Followed by a poetry and short fiction open mike.
Local cartoonist Dave Coverly, creator of the nationally syndicated cartoon Speed Bump, discusses his new collection of dog cartoons. Signing. Free, but pet food donations for the Humane Society are welcome..
Details to be announced.
