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Literati is pleased to welcome Ypsilanti’s own Amy Shrodes, co-author of Lost and Found Cat: The True Story of Kunkush’s Incredible Journey, for an all-ages event. The true story about one cat’s journey to be[...]

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[...]

This local novelist reads from The Mountain Goddess, the 2nd in her Sadhana fantasy trilogy that explores the spiritual struggles of women in the Buddha’s time. In this book, the young prince Siddhartha falls for[...]

Readings by featured poets, preceded by a poetry open mike. Mar 5: Reading by EMU creative writing teacher and Neutral Zone creative arts directorJeff Kass. Old Dominion poetry professor Tim Seibles describes Kass’s latest collection,[...]

On Mar. 6, Huron High School English teacher R.J. Fox draws on his recently published memoir, Love & Vodka, discusses the art of turning your experiences into a compelling nonfiction. For adult and teen (grade[...]

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[...]

Open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up[...]

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[...]

U-M creative writing professor Claire Vaye Watkins reads from her acclaimed debut novel set in a dystopian near future where severe drought has led to brutal survival tactics and internment camps for less fortunate members[...]

Literati is pleased to welcome Nickolas Butler in support of his new novel, The Hearts of Men. The Hearts of Men is an epic novel of intertwining friendships and families set in the Northwoods of[...]

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 thrilled to be the partner-bookseller for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, which brings world-renowned poets and fiction writers to Helmut Stern Auditorium in the University of[...]

“Remnants” is an award-winning, minimalist piece by faculty member Harry Greenspan; itincludes the voices of 3 men and 4 women, currently presented as a one-man performance by the author. The play reflects more than 40[...]

An open mike for poets, who are welcome to read their own work or a favorite poem by another writer. The program begins with a reading by a featured local poet TBA.    

Storytellers Guild members present a program of old tales and personal stories for grownups. Free; donations accepted. annarborstorytelling.org, facebook.com/annarborstorytellers. 665-2757.

Literati is pleased to welcome Will Schwalbe in support of his latest work, Books for Living. From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club comes an[...]

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[...]

Literati is pleased to welcome Joseph Scapellato in support of his debut collection, Big Lonesome. Joseph will be joined by UM professor Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn and Gold Fame Citrus. Reinventing a great[...]

“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[...]

Readings by local poets, with a variety of hand-crafted soups for refreshment. 5:30-8 p.m., Zen Buddhist Temple, 1214 Packard at Wells. $10 (kids, $5; family, $25). 761-6520.

FRUIT is an independent, community-led reading and dialogue series for and by marginalized voices, hosted in Literati Bookstore. This month’s installment features readings by TBD. FRUIT is a moment and a movement of reclamation. It[...]

RC students present an original play that has been conceived, written, and rehearsed within the past 24 hours.

Literati is pleased to partner with the University of Michigan to present Theodoris Chiotis, editor of the anthology Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis. Futures features some of the most daring new voices in Greek[...]

Vicky Delany launches her new series  – a Sherlock themed cozy titled Elementary, She Read.

Literati is pleased to welcome Jung Yun in celebration of the paperback release of her debut novel, Shelter, a staff favorite and a semifinalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Kyung Cho is[...]

Literati is thrilled to be the partner-bookseller for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, which brings world-renowned poets and fiction writers to Helmut Stern Auditorium in the University of[...]

Literati is delighted to welcome Dan Chaon in support of his latest novel, the staff-favorite Ill Will. Dan will be joined for a post-reading conversation by UM MFA first year in fiction Sam Krowchenko. Two[...]

Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States and author of The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers are Transforming the Lives of Animals (William Morrow/Harper Collins), will discuss[...]

Literati is pleased to be the bookseller for Benjamin Madley’s visit to Ann Arbor in support of his book, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873. This event is presented[...]

Readings by U-M creative writing grad students, including fiction writer Kristen Roupenian and poet Robert Heald. 7 p.m., UMMA Auditorium, 525 S. State. Free. 615-3710. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a[...]

Mar. 17 & 18. RC students present the acclaimed contemporary NYC-based playwright David Adjmi’s award-winning 2012 tragicomic satire of the empty-headed narcissism of the congenitally rich in the guise of the daily life of the[...]

Coffee and (_______) 14409 Jefferson Ave E, Detroit, Michigan 48215 Join us for the March edition of the East Side Reading Series! Writers in various genres will come together to read their original work, tied[...]

Mar. 17 & 18. RC students present the acclaimed contemporary NYC-based playwright David Adjmi’s award-winning 2012 tragicomic satire of the empty-headed narcissism of the congenitally rich in the guise of the daily life of the[...]

Readings by featured poets, preceded by a poetry open mike. Mar 19: Reading by Neutral Zone staffer Fiona Chamness, a winner of the Beloit Poetry Journal Prize who was featured in the 2010 HBO documentary[...]

RC drama instructors Martin Walsh and Kate Mendeloff’s students direct and perform 8 short plays by Ives, an acclaimed contemporary American playwright best known for his one-act comedies. 7:30 p.m., RC Keene Theater, East Quad,[...]

Readings by young poets battling for a spot at the Ann Arbor Youth Poetry Slam finals on Mar. 30. Other semifinals are held at Pioneer High School (7 p.m., Mar. 22). 7 p.m., Community High[...]

Local short story writer Alex Kourvo and young adult novelist Bethany Neal host an open house for writers to connect with one another and/or work on their projects.

Literati is delighted to welcome Deepak Unnikrishnan in support of his debut novel, Temporary People, winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80[...]

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[...]

U-M English professor Eileen Pollack reads from her new novel that explores the moral complexities of scientific discovery through the story of a brilliant research biologist obsessed with finding the genetic marker for a neurodegenerative[...]

Three well-known young adult writers read from their work, including Jennifer Jacobson (author of the Andy Shane series), Gordon Korman (best-selling author of more than 80 books, from the humorous Slacker to the adventurous Everest[...]

 “Stories for a Spring Evening” – Ann Arbor Storytellers’ Guild members  Lyn Davidge, Jane Fink, Darryl Mickens and Patti Smith  in a concert of  favorite stories. Judy Schmidt will add smidgens of history from 25 years of storytelling in Ann Arbor.  Copies 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[...]

These 2 mystery writers discuss their latest thrillers. Canadian writer Chevy Stevens’ Never Let You Go is about a woman who had escaped with her daughter from an abusive marriage who feels she is now[...]

Literati is pleased to partner with the Ann Arbor District Library for a reading by YA author Leopoldo Gout from his book Genius: The Game. Trust no one. Every camera is an eye. Every microphone[...]

Literati is thrilled to welcome Lindy West in celebration of the paperback release of her memoir, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, a New York Times bestseller, winner of the 2016 Stranger Genius Award for[...]

Literati is pleased to welcome Kevin Davis in support of his latest work, The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America’s Courtrooms. Called “the best kind of nonfiction” by Michael[...]

Readings by U-M creative writing grad students, including fiction writer Rebecca Marie Fortes and poet Young Eun Yook. 7 p.m., UMMA Auditorium, 525 S. State. Free. 615-3710. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers[...]

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[...]

Nationally Renowned Spiritual Author and Teacher Benjamin Shalva Launches New Book on Ambition Addiction Ambition Addiction: How to Go Slow, Give Thanks, and ­­Discover Joy Within: For many,­­ accomplishment is never enough. In a culture obsessed[...]

All invited to listen to guild members swap stories or bring their own to tell. 2-4 p.m., Ann Arbor District Library Freespace (3rd floor), 343 S. Fifth Ave. Free. 971-5763.

The University of Michigan Prisoner Creative Arts Project will host a community reading event to launch the ninth volume of its literary journal, the Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing. The journal is a collection[...]

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),[...]

Literati is pleased to welcome poets Fleda Brown and Patricia Clark in support of their most recent collections. The author of nine books of poetry and two essay collections, Fleda Brown was the Poet Laureate[...]

Reading by U-M creative writing lecturer Cody Walker, author of the collection The Self-Styled No-Child. “The light verses in Walker’s new collection often have dark edges to them,” says poet Mary Jo Salter. “This word-wizard[...]

Open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up[...]

Literati is thrilled to be the partner-bookseller for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, which brings world-renowned poets and fiction writers to Helmut Stern Auditorium in the University of[...]

Readings by local teen poets and spoken word artists battling ferociously for one of the 6 coveted spots on the Ann Arbor Youth Poetry Slam Team, which competes in the Brave New Voices International Poetry[...]

Literati is pleased to welcome Corey Dolgon in support of his latest work, Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph over Democracy. For decades now, American voters have been convinced to support[...]

In celebration of Literati Bookstore’s fourth birthday, please join us for a reading of poetry and prose by booksellers past and present, including Gina Balibrera, Russell Brakefield, John Ganiard, Sam Krowchenko, Lillian Li, and Mairead[...]

Written and directed by RC Creative Writing student Clare Higgins. AUDREY KELLAN is a brash, well-spoken but socially clueless young woman in her early twenties who has recently had to leave her university due to[...]