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join Aunt Agatha’s at the downtown library (543 South 5th Ave) to enjoy a panel discussion with Loren D. Estleman, Doug Allyn and Laura Joh Rowland. All have new books out. Mr. Estleman’s is his[...]

Breeda Kelly Miller, a 2014 Ann Arbor Moth StorySlam winner, discusses how she developed “Ticket to Heaver,” her award-winning story that was broadcast on the NPR Moth Story Hour. 7-8:30 p.m., U-M North Campus Research[...]

Literati is thrilled to be the bookseller for the annual Wallenberg Lecture, featuring Just Mercy author Bryan Stevenson. Bryan Stevenson is committed to serving the legal needs of the poor in the American deep south.[...]

Literati is pleased to be the bookseller for this Osher Lifelong Learning Institute event with Scott Ellsworth, author of The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph. You can find more information[...]

Mar. 8: 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[...]

Talk by U-M English professor Linda Gregerson, an award-winning poet. The Russel Award is the U-M’s highest honor, awarded annually to a faculty member who is especially distinguished in his or her field. Reception follows.[...]

Literati is pleased to be the bookseller for the second annual Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. Lecture in Native American Studies, featuring author Joy Harjo. Joy Harjo is an internationally known poet, writer, and performer of[...]

“Slugg: A Boy’s Life in the Age of Mass Incarceration” is a blueprint for survival and a demonstration of the power of love, sacrifice, and service. The son of a Kingpin and the prince of[...]

Conversation between Harvard social sciences professor Matthew Desmond, author of the bestseller Evicted: Poverty & Profit in an American City, and veteran journalist and nonfiction writer Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here,[...]

Literati is pleased to partner with the University of Michigan’s Sweetland Center for Writing and WCBN Radio for the latest installment of Word^2: Writer to Writer, a series which puts a UM professor and member of[...]

Mar. 22: Readings by Jennifer Clark, a Kalamazoo poet who has a forthcoming 2nd collection Johnny Appleseed: The Slice and Times of John Chapman, and InsideOut Literary Arts Project (Detroit) interim director and Al-Mutanabbi Street[...]

Literati is pleased to be the bookseller for Diana Butler Bass’s visit to Ann Arbor. Diana is the Lenten speaker at First United Methodist Church in downtown Ann Arbor, and will speak on the topic[...]

U-M Ford School of Public Policy professor Shobita Parthasarathy discusses her new book. The culminating event of a day-long public symposium on “Patents, Social Justice, and Public Responsibility” (for information, see fordschool.umich.edu/events/2017/patents-social-justice-and-public-responsibility.) 4-5:30 p.m. Palmer[...]

Please join us for a not-be-missed evening of conversation about urban “renewal,” racial capitalism, and resistance in contemporary Detroit. To mark the Detroit launch of Kinney’s Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier (2016),[...]