All invited to read and discuss their poetry or short stories. Bring about 6 copies of your work to share.
7-9 p.m., Crazy Wisdom, 114 S. Main. Free. 665-2757
Ann Arbor Storytellers Guild members host a storytelling program. Audience members are encouraged to bring a 5-minute story to tell.
7-9 p.m., Crazy Wisdom Tea Room, 114 S. Main. Free. 665-2757
This Canadian mystery writer briefly discusses her 2 most recent books. The Spook in the Stacks, the 4th in her Lighthouse Library Mystery series (written under the pen name Eva Gates) is centered around a crime-solving librarian at a lighthouse library in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The Cat of the Baskervilles, the latest in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery series, features bookstore owners Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson trying to clear Jayne’s mother of the murder of a washed-up actor in town to play in a production of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Delany also joins an Aunt Agatha’s book club discussion, following her talk, of her 1st Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery, Elementary She Read.
7 p.m., Aunt Agatha’s, 213 S. Fourth Ave. Free. 769-1114.
June 16 & 17. Adults & kids of all ages invited to meet more than 50 top area cartoonists and participate in workshops on making web comics, writing and drawing minicomics, creating video games, and much more. Kids can also vote in the 6th annual Kids’ Comics Awards. Winners announced during a ceremony featuring puppets, super villains, and more. At 7 p.m. on June 15, Maris Wicks, whose science-themed work is on display this month (see Galleries), discusses “Gorillas, Guts, and Gastropods.” See a2caf.com/programming for full schedule.
11 a.m.-6 p.m. (Sat.) & 12:30-5:30 p.m. (Sun.), AADL Downtown. Free. 327-4200.
Celebration of Chelsea-area authors with brief talks by children’s writers Marilyn Kuehl and David Brzezinski, teen writer S.D. Grimm, nonfiction writers Alex Weddon, Kate Bancroft, and Patrice Johnson, poets Jennifer Burd and Katherine Edgren, and fiction writers Harold Fischel, Lakota Grace, Doris Lemcke, & Patricia Stebelton. Signings.
12:30-3 p.m., CDL, 221 S. Main, Chelsea. Free admission. 475-8732.
June 16 & 17. Adults & kids of all ages invited to meet more than 50 top area cartoonists and participate in workshops on making web comics, writing and drawing minicomics, creating video games, and much more. Kids can also vote in the 6th annual Kids’ Comics Awards. Winners announced during a ceremony featuring puppets, super villains, and more. At 7 p.m. on June 15, Maris Wicks, whose science-themed work is on display this month (see Galleries), discusses “Gorillas, Guts, and Gastropods.” See a2caf.com/programming for full schedule.
11 a.m.-6 p.m. (Sat.) & 12:30-5:30 p.m. (Sun.), AADL Downtown. Free. 327-4200.
Performance to be determined!
7 p.m. Espresso Royale, 324 S. State. $5 suggested donation. facebook.com/AnnArborPoetry.
Debbie Taylor’s Over In Motown! is an energetic picture book celebrating the musical genres and rhythms of the industry that fueled Detroit in the Motown era. Based on the Over In The Meadow rhyme, this counting book features beautiful illustrations by Keisha Morris.
Join us as Debbie Taylor reads from and discusses the creation of this new book published by the library’s Fifth Avenue Press imprint and chosen as a Junior Library Guild 2020 selection!
The event includes a simple craft for children.
Debbie Taylor is also the author of Sweet Music in Harlem.
This event is part of AADL’s Black History Month series and will include a signing with books for sale.
Talk by local writer Beverly Jenkins, recipient of the 2017 Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. She sets her African American historical romance novels in the decades after emancipation to emphasize black history after slavery.
7-8:30 p.m., AADL Malletts Creek, 3090 E. Eisenhower (between Stone School & Packard). Free. 327-4200.
Join us for a talk and signing with Wayne State University emeritus professor and historian E. Lawrence Abel, author of John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him. When John Wilkes Booth died—shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln—all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth’s wealthy fiancée. And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg.
About the Author
E. Lawrence Abel is a “distinguished faculty professor” and “emeritus professor” at Wayne State University in Detroit. He has joint appointments as full professor in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Psychology at Wayne, where he has taught courses on human sexuality for many years. He is the author of over 40 scholarly and trade books and more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and trade magazine articles on Civil War History and on sexual relations, and is a member of the Michigan Civil War Round Table.
In the past he has made guest appearances on several national T.V. shows such as The Tom Snyder Show and To Tell The Truth, as well as on many radio talk shows. He is also frequently called upon by the media to discuss his writings (e.g., New York Times, CNBC). In April, 2015, he was a scheduled speaker at the U. S. National Archives on the Lincoln assassination and has since spoken at various book stores.
