Calendar

Calling all writers! Get into the groove of writing in a quiet space with lots of outlets to plug in a laptop! Whether you’re working on a novel as part of National Novel Writing Month[...]

Join Michigan poets Anne-Marie Oomen, Teresa Scollon, and Ellen Stone for reading and conversation. Anne-Marie Oomen is author of two memoirs, Pulling Down the Barn and House of Fields, both Michigan Notable Books, An American Map: Essays (Wayne State University[...]

U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies fellows discuss their recent books and areas of research.

U-M alum (and former NELP professor) Diane Cook who will read from her debut story collection Man V. Nature. Diane’s fiction has been published in Harper’s Magazine, Granta, Tin House, Zoetrope, One Story,Guernica, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times[...]

Local young adult fiction writer Lara Zielin and short story writer Margaret Yang discuss how make a place for writing in your life and make the most of the time you have. For adult and[...]

U-M English and Judaic Studies professor Anita Norich discusses her Writing In Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the 20th Century.

Novelist Jen Haeger discusses Epidemic, her recently published 2nd book in her Moonlight Medicine series of romantic thrillers about a female veterinarian who attracts the attentions of a werewolf. Signing.

Canadian mystery writer Maureen Jennings, author of the popular Detective Murdoch series, discusses No Known Grave, the last in her trilogy of WWII mysteries featuring small-town detective inspector Tom Tyler. Signing.

Deepak Singh‘s memoir Chasing America: Of Lollipops, Night Clubs and Ferocious Dogs is an anthropological view of his journey from urban India to rural America. Describing encounters tinged with both racism and understanding, he offers[...]

Local Authors Brunch is a panel discussion over brunch with several local writers, including Susan Wineberg (Historic Ann Arbor: An Architectural Guide), Dina Shtull (Why the Rabbi Played Clarinet in the Sauna),Judith Elkin (The Jews of[...]

Journalist Gail Sheehy discusses Daring, My Passages, her new memoir about her experiences as a groundbreaking “girl” journalist in the 1960s.

Oliver Horowitz discusses An American Caddie in St. Andrew’s: Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course, his coming-of-age memoir about his experience as a Harvard student working as a caddie at the venerable[...]

Jeff Kass  reads from his latest Dzanc Books poetry collection, My Beautiful Hook-Nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave, alongside emerging poet Eli Denning, who’s debut collection is now out on Red Beard Press. Kass is the author[...]

Fielding Graduate University (Santa Barbara) Institute for Social Innovation fellow Zieva Konvisser discusses Living Beyond Terrorism: Israeli Stories of Hope and Healing, her collection of stories by ordinary people who became victims of terrorist attacks[...]

U-M lecturer Julie Babcock launches her debut poetry collection, Autoplay, released by local micro-press MG Press. Babcock is a Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of grants and fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission and the Vermont[...]

Foreign Policy Managing Editor Yoshi Dreazen discusses his The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War.

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.[...]

Barbara Winton discusses her biography of her father, If It’s Not Impossible: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton.

Music historian James Grymes discusses Violins of Hope, his book about Amnon Weinstein, the Israeli violin maker who has devoted the past 20 years to restoring violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust.

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.  

The Neutral Zone, a local teen center, is partnering with U of M to put on night of poetry at the Mendelssohn on Thursday, November 13th at 7 pm. Local high school students reading and the two[...]

Minneapolis writer Dori Weinstein, who teaches Hebrew to preschoolers, discusses her two children’s books about Jewish holidays, Sliding into the New Year and Shaking in the Shack.

U-M Judaic professor Zvi Gitelman, author of the recent Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: An Uncertain Ethnicity, discusses Jewish dilemmas in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

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[...]

Comic actress Annabelle Gurwitch discusses her new memoir about turning 50, I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50.

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

RC Writing Alum and U-M Professor of English Laura Kasischke will participate in a live broadcast of Word Squared with T Hetzel. Sweetland Center for Writing’s Word Squared lets you hear directly from U-M professors about their[...]

UK-bred mystery writer Andrew Grant discusses his new thriller, Run, and Michigan writer Elizabeth Heiter discusses her new thriller, Hunted.

Local poet Scott Beal, an award-winning U-M creative writing grad, reads from his recently published debut collection, which deploys familiar characters from Rapunzel to Perseus and whimsically surreal tall tales to explore the varied and[...]

Aaron Poochigian‘s recent translation of Jason and the Argonauts will be published by Penguin Classics (October 2014). Born in 1973, he attended Moorhead State University (1991-96), then University of Minnesota (Classics). . After traveling and research[...]

Children’s book author Chris Van Allsburg will give a presentation and sign in support of his latest work, The Misadventures of Sweetie-Pie. Van Allsburg is a Michigan native and U-M alum. He is the winner of two[...]