Nicholas Rombes will read from his debut, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing.
Rombes is Professor of English at University of Detroit Mercy. He is author of Ramones from the 33 1/3 series and the book 10/40/70. His writing has appeared in The Believer, Filmmaker Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, n+1, and The Rumpus.
Literati is pleased to help launch issue 5.5 of literary journal Harlequin Creature with a very special listening party. That’s because issue 5.5 of the journal is, in fact, a viynl record.
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Elli DeLing will be reading from her debut poetry collection Jitamo’s Poems, published by the Neutral Zone’s Red Beard Press. Elli is 80 years young and won her first poetry contest at age 17. She has been an editor, educator, mother, anthropologist and has worked with Great Lakes Indian tribes and social justice causes for many years.
The event begins with an Open Mic session when area poets can read their own work or share a favorite poem by another author. This is a monthly poetry series held on the second Thursday of each month.
Signing to follow.
Sonali Dev‘s novel A Bollywood Affair was published this October. Her first literary work was a play about mistaken identities performed at her neighborhood Diwali extravaganza in Mumbai. She was eight years old. Despite this early success, Sonali spent the next few decades getting degrees in architecture and writing, migrating across the globe, and starting a family while writing for magazines and websites. With the advent of her first gray hair her mad love for telling stories returned full force, and she now combines it with her insights into Indian culture to conjure up stories that make a mad tangle with her life as supermom, domestic goddess, and world traveler.
Sonali lives in the Chicago suburbs with her very patient and often amused husband and two teens who demand both patience and humor, and the world’s most perfect dog.
Harry Dolan is the author of the mystery/suspense novels BAD THINGS HAPPEN (2009), VERY BAD MEN (2011), and THE LAST DEAD GIRL (2014). He graduated from Colgate University, where he majored in philosophy and studied fiction-writing with the novelist Frederick Busch. A native of Rome, New York, he now lives in Ann Arbor.
Robin Silbergleid is an associate professor of English at Michigan State University, where she directs the creative writing program. She is the author of the chapbook Pas de Deux: Prose and Other Poems (Basilisk Press 2006), the memoir Texas Girl (Demeter Press 2014), and the poetry collection Frida Kahlo, My Sister (Finishing Line Press 2014). Her poems, essays, and scholarship can be found in a number of journals and anthologies online and in print. She lives in East Lansing, Michigan, with her two children.
Talk and book signing with Lisa Viger, author of Affordable, Easy Raw: How to Go Raw on $10 a Day. Join Lisa as she discusses the benefits of a raw food diet and shares tips on how to transition to a raw food diet affordably. Free. Call 665-2757; rachel@crazywisdom.net.
John F. Buckley reads from Yankee Broadcast Network, his latest collaboration with Martin Ott.
Buckley is a recent graduate of the Helen Sell Writers’ Program at U-M. He has been writing poetry since an attempt at writing a self-help book went somewhat awry. After a twenty-year stint on and near the West Coast, he now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife. His website is johnfrancisbuckley.wordpress.com.
Martin Ott lives in Los Angeles, where he writes often about his misunderstood city. He is the author of three books of poetry and a novel, The Interrogator’s Notebook (Story Merchant Books). He blogs at writeliving.wordpress.com.
Since 1993, when Françoise Mouly joined The New Yorker as art editor, she has been responsible for over 1,000 of the magazine’s signature covers, many of which were chosen by The American Society of Magazine Editors as ‘best cover of the year’. She is also the Publisher and Editorial Director of TOON Books, an imprint of comics and visual narratives for young readers. And she founded and coedited (with collaborator and husband Art Spiegelman) the groundbreaking comics anthology RAW; The New York Times-bestselling Little Lit series; and the TOON Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics. Born in Paris, Françoise Mouly studied architecture at the Beaux Arts before she moved to New York in 1974. Ms. Mouly was awarded France’s highest honor, the Legion of Honneur.
