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Literati is excited to be a part of Rasa Festival! Tonight we are hosting readings from poets Ashwini Bhasi, Tarfia Faizullah, and Ambalila Hemsell Ashwini Bhasi is from Kerala, India and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She[...]

 Literati is excited to welcome David Daley and his new book Ratf**cked The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. With Barack Obama’s historic election in 2008, pundits[...]

Literati is excited to welcome Kathryn Remlinger and her new book Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan’s Upper Penisula About Yooper Talk: Yooper Talk is a fresh and significant contribution to understanding regional language and culture in North America. The[...]

Literati is excited to welcome Amos N. Guiora and his new book The Crime of Complicity Complicity is a ground-breaking examination of the legal culpability of the bystander told through the lens of the author’s family experiences in[...]

Literati is thrilled to welcome designer Oliver Uberti and his new book Where the Animals Go. For thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints. Now satellites, drones, camera traps, cellphone networks, and accelerometers reveal the natural world[...]

Tonight Literati is thrilled to host author and translator Clayton Eshleman in conversation with Keith Taylor on the work of Aimé Césaire The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire gathers all of Cesaire’s celebrated verse into one bilingual edition.[...]

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. 7-9[...]

Literati is excited to welcome John U Bacon in support of the new book about the life of legendary sports broadcaster John Saunders, Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope About Playing Hurt: During his three decades[...]

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

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 thrilled to host novelists Peter Ho Davies and Derek Palacio to celebrate the paperback release of The Fortunes and The Mortifications About The Fortunes: Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of[...]

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

Literati is pleased to welcome N.J. Campbell and Annie Hartnett who will be reading and discussing their new novels Found Audio and Rabbit Cake About Campbell’s Found Audio: Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning[...]

Readings by these 2 poets, both U-M creative writing grads. Dartmouth English professor Francis reads from Forest Primeval, her 2016 collection that won the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Eschewing a romantic view of nature, the poems[...]

Literati is thrilled to welcome Sam Walker who will be sharing his new book The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World’s Greatest Teams About The Captain Class Walker starts with one of the most hotly[...]

Literati is pleased to welcome Celeste Ng in support of her new novel, Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste will be in conversation with Douglas Trevor, Director of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan About Little[...]

Literati is excited to welcome Robin Sloan in support of his new novel, Sourdough About Sourdough: In his much-anticipated new novel, Robin Sloan does for the world of food what he did for the world of books in Mr. Penumbra’s[...]

Reading by this GVSU creative writing professor, a widely published poet whose 2014 book The Dead Wrestler Elegies, is an acclaimed collection of illustrated poems about professional wrestling and the toll it has taken on its stars.[...]

Literati is excited to welcome author Marta McDowell in support of her new book The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder About The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House series is a classic coming-of-age[...]

Readings by Kathleen McGookey, a widely published poet from the Grand Rapids area who recently published the prose poem collection Heart in a Jar, and Gregory Loselle, a Gabriel Richard English teacher (and former U-M Hopwood Award winner) who has published[...]

Literati is thrilled to welcome Annie Spence in support of her new book Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks About Fahrenheit 451: A Gen-X librarian’s snarky, laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and[...]

Tonight Literati is thrilled to welcome authors Sharon Harrigan and Rick Bailey in support of their new memoirs Playing with Dynamite and American English, Italian Chocolate About Playing with Dynamite Sharon Harrigan’s father was larger than life, a brilliant[...]