A U-M Residential College creative writing alumna, Laura Hulthen Thomas heads the undergraduate creative writing program at the Residential College, where she teaches fiction and creative nonfiction.
A U-M Residential College creative writing alumna, Laura Kasischke’s book of poems, Space, in Chains, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches writing at U-M English and the Residential College.
Set in Michigan small towns both real and fictional, the stories in Laura Hulthen Thomas’s State of Motion take place against a backdrop of economic turmoil and the domestic cost of the war on terror. As familiar places, privilege, and faith disappear, what remains leaves these broken characters wondering what hope is left.
Laura Kasischke’s Where Now: New and Selected Poems showcases her probing vision that subverts the so-called “normal.” A lover of fairy tales, Kasischke’s command of the symbolic includes a keen attention to sound in her exploration of the everyday—whether reflections on loss or the complicated realities of childhood and family.
Local journalist Micheline Maynard interviews Bakehouse managing partners Frank Carollo and Amy Emberling about their new cookbook, which features 65 of their most popular recipes. Bakehouse treats and drinks.
4:30-6:30 p.m., Zingerman’s Greyline, 100 N. Ashley. $75 (includes one autographed copy of the book). Reservations required. 663-3663.
The presentation discusses three projects for social change based in Liverpool UK, Johannesburg South Africa, and with Chippewa communities of the Upper Peninsula and Canada. Two of the projects focus on activism against gender-based violence and one explores Black identities in international context. Gonzalez discussed how social activist interventions can manifest as performance-based projects, academic writings, or public scholarship. Community-based activism requires ongoing engagement with partner organizations working for common goals.
If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please contact Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, author of The Virgin Suicidesand Middlesex, is joined by local novelist Claire Vaye Watkins in a discussion of Fresh Complaint, his new collection of short stories about characters that range from a failed poet who turns to embezzlement to a high school student whose drastic decision upends the life of a middle-aged physicist.
7 p.m., Michigan Union Ballroom. Tickets $28.62 (includes a copy of the book) in advance at brownpapertickets.com/event/3080004. 585-5567.
Literati is excited to host a panel discussion of the new book #exstrange: A Curatorial Intervention on Ebay
About #Exstrange
#exstrange: a curatorial intervention on eBay presents the #exstrange exhibition project, which transformed one of the largest marketplaces on the web — eBay — into a site of artistic production. This book documents artworks, reveals the aftermath of auctions and correspondences between artists and bidders, and features essays by lead curators Marialaura Ghidini and Rebekah Modrak, cultural critic Mark Dery, journalist Rob Walker, media and material culture scholar Padma Chirumamilla, guest curator Gaia Tedone, and artist and writer Renee Carmichael.
Over 80 contemporary artists and designers created “artworks as auctions” for #exstrange between January 15 and April 15, 2017, each using the elements of the auction listing–descriptive text, images, pricing, and categories–as tools of production.
Works include artist Lucy Pawlak’s collaboration with the Beat Officer to sell a series of clay objects as missing evidence from unexplained events in Mexico; IOCOSE’s sale of instant protests in the category “Specialty Services” where buyers chose the protest mantras, and outsourced performers demonstrated; and Susanne Cockrell & Ted Purves’ offering of a stick-gun with the memory of their son’s play in “Entertainment Memorabilia.”
Panel Participants:
Rebekah Modrak, Co-curator of #exstrange, and Associate Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan.
Sophia Brueckner, #exstrange artist, and Assistant Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan.
Masimba Hwati, #exstrange artist, and MFA candidate, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan.
Fred Feinberg, #exstrange guest curator, and Professor of Marketing and Statistics, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Padma Chirumamilla, wrote the essay “Guarantees and Ghosts: Breakdowns in Everyday Life” for the #exstrange book, and PhD candidate, School of Information, University of Michigan.
Former U-M planner Fred Mayer, a founding member of the Society for College and University Planning, discusses his 2015 book. In conjunction with the Clark Library exhibit Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M’s Bicentennial, which runs through Dec. 20 on the 2nd floor of the Hatcher Grad Library.
6 p.m., 100 U-M Hatcher Grad Library Gallery, enter from the Diag. Free. 647-0646.
AADL director Josie Barnes Parker, AADL storyteller Kayla Coughlin, and AADL youth librarian Laura Pershin Raynor, a former National Storyteller of the Year, tell funny, touching stories, interspersed with guitar-and-banjo tunes by local musicians Betsy Beckerman and Sara Melton Keller.
7-8:30 p.m., AADL multipurpose room (lower level), 343 S. Fifth Ave. Free. 327-4555.
This 2016 Democratic presidential candidate discusses her new book, What Happened.
Hill Auditorium, 7 p.m. Tickets $62-$112 in advance at hillaryclintonbooktour.com.
Helen Fox is Lecturer Emerita in RC Social Theory and Practice.
Ann Evans Larimore is Professor Emerita, Geography and Women’s Studies, RC Social Theory and Practice.
