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In her first published work, Rebecca Lombardo collects her internationally followed blog into the pages of “It’s Not Your Journey.” The memoir candidly details Rebecca’s two year long chronicle of her struggles with Bipolar Disorder,[...]

Literati is proud to be the bookseller for this event hosted by the University of Michigan’s Program in the Environment and Institute for the Humanities. We welcome Naomi Klein to Rackham Auditorium in support of[...]

David Kiley’s new book (he is co-editor) is Writing the War: Chronicles of a World War II Correspondent (Prometheus Books, October 2015). Kiley is a journalist and editor, having held senior posts at USA Today, Businessweek,[...]

This Jamaican novelist reads from A Brief History of Seven Killings, his 2014 epic novel that chronicles the lives of gunmen, drug dealers, one-night stands, CIA agents, and even ghosts over the course of 30[...]

Meet both the minds behind Michael Stanley, Stan Trollip and Michael Sears. They’ll be discussing their latest Detective Kubu novel, A Death in the Family.

Reading by Tarfia Faizullah, a Pushcart Prize-winning Bangladeshi American poet who is also a U-M creative writing lecturer.

Local independent press Short Flight / Long Drive (a division of Hobart: Another Literary Journal and edited by Elizabeth Ellen), presents a reading from recent SF/LD authors Mira Gonzalez, Tao Lin, and Uzodinma Okehi. Mira[...]

A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA from Columbia, Beatriz Williams spent several years in New York and London hiding her early attempts at fiction, first on company laptops as a corporate and communications[...]

Matthew Gavin Frank will read from his latest, The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food. Following his critically acclaimed Preparing the Ghost, renowned essayist Matthew Gavin Frank takes on America’s food. In a surprising style reminiscent[...]

Literati welcomes Rebecca Alexander as part of her paperback tour for Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found. Not Fade Away is the inspiring and moving memoir of a young woman who is slowly losing[...]

MICHELLE SEGAR, PH.D., is a behavioral sustainability scientist and Director of the Sport, Health, & Activity Research and Policy (SHARP) Center at U-M. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and Master’s degrees in Health Behavior[...]

Scott Stabile is the author of the children’s book series, Li’l Pet Hospital, and the screenwriter of the feature film, The Oogieloves in the BIG Balloon Adventure. His writing was featured in the international bestseller, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living[...]

Literati  welcomse Lisa Goich for the launch of her memoir 14 Days: A Mother, A Daughter, A Two-Week Goodbye. When Lisa traveled home to visit her parents in December 2011, she never expected an ordinary three-day[...]

Sweetland’s Word²: Writer to Writer series lets you hear directly from University of Michigan professors about their challenges, processes, and expectations as writers and also as readers of student writing. Word² pairs one esteemed University professor[...]

All invited to read and discuss their poetry or short stories. Bring about 6 copies of your work to share. Hosted by local poets and former college English teachers Joe Kelty and Ed Morin. Dec.[...]

Literati welcomes R.J. Fox for the launch of Love & Vodka: My Surreal Adventures in the Ukraine, the debut title from local publisher Fish Out of Water Books (www.fowbooks.com)! Bobby is over the moon after sharing a bike[...]

Justin Torres is the author of We the Animals. He has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, The Washington Post, Glimmer Train, Flaunt, and other publications, as well as non-fiction pieces in publications like The Guardian and The[...]

A twenty-year editor for Guitar Player and the founding editor of Pure Guitar magazine, Jas Obrecht has been writing about music since the mid 1970s. His new book is Early Blues: The First Stars of[...]

Book signing and talk with Kristy Robinett, author of It’s a Wonderful Afterlife – For over forty years Psychic Medium Kristy Robinett has communicated with thousands of spirits who have shared their experiences with death and what[...]

Cristina Trapani-Scott is an award-winning Ypsilanti poet whose work has appeared in publications including Hip Mama Magazine and the Paterson Literary Review. She is at work on a chapbook collection that explores the abstract space of[...]

RC Creative Writing alum and professor Laura Kasischke  is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, 2012. Kasischke has published nine novels, three of which have been made into feature films—The[...]

Literati is  the bookseller for this year’s Vivian R. Shaw Lecture, given by Piper Kerman, author of Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison. Based on the 13 months she spent in[...]

The Year The Trees Didn’t Die is the story of how Mary Koral and her husband managed to cope with the challenges of making an interracial adoptive family. Her writing has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly[...]

Sarah Freligh will read from her most recent collection, Sad Math, winner of the 2015 Moon City Poetry Prize. Sarah Freligh is the author of A Brief Natural History of an American Girl, winner of the Editor’s Choice[...]

Neutral Zone in conjunction with the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers Program presents Poetry Night in Ann Arbor 2015 at 7 p.m. on Friday, November 13, at the Rackham Auditorium.  Enjoy a wonderful celebration[...]

Jerry Dennis’ essays on nature have appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon, Orion, and many other publications. His books, most of them illustrated by Glenn Wolff, have received wide acclaim, have been translated[...]

Talk by noted shipwreck hunter Ross Richardson, author of The Search for the Westmoreland, Lake Michigan’s Treasure Shipwreck and creator ofmmichiganmysteries.com. Signing.

Kristen Meekhof, author of Gratitude and Grief: A Widow’s Guide to Healing, was widowed at the age of 33 when her husband died of adrenal cancer, Kristen wanted to listen to the narratives of widows from[...]

Simeon Berry has been an associate editor for Ploughshares and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and a Career Chapter Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters. His first book, Ampersand[...]

Jamaal May’s first book of poems, Hum, is a “bittersweet love song” to the ruined streets of his native Detroit. Since Hum’s publication in 2013, May has won the Beatrice Hawley Award, the ALA Notable[...]

Literati is pleased to welcome the Kickshaw Theatre for a staged reading of Ohio State Murders by Adrienne Kennedy. This event will be free to the public. To ensure you have a seat for the[...]

What is a hybrid form? To quote the just-released anthology Family Resemblance: An Anthology & Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres, examples can include “the lyric essay, epistolary, poetic memoir, prose poetry, performative, short-form nonfiction, flash fiction, and pictures[...]

B.A. SHAPIRO is the author of The Art Forger, which was a New York Times bestseller, a #1 Indie Next Pick and the winner of the 2013 New England Book Award, among many other honors.[...]