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U.S. News correspondent Ken Walsh, one of the longest-serving White House correspondents in history, discusses his new book about presidential photographers and their power to define an era and make or break a presidential administration. Book sale, signing,[...]

U-M percussion professor Michael Gould performs his compositions, inspired by recently retired RC instructor Ken Mikolowski’s poems, that revolve around his own experiences with loss, illness, and recovery. With narration by U-M theater professor Malcolm[...]

Literati is excited to host a discussion of German author Siegfried Kracauer’s novel Georg. We will be joined by the translator Carl Skoggard, publisher Patrick KIley, and Chair of the Department of German Languages and Literature[...]

*Featured Speaker Marya Hornbacher *Panel discussion about the present and future of research in bipolar disorder *Reception The University of Michigan Psychiatry Department is an approved provider with the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative.[...]

How Can the Independent Bookstore Survive and Prosper? Come to hear how Hilary and Mike Gustafson, owners of Literati Bookstore, are pursuing their vision of success. What motivated them to take on the big box[...]

Art Spiegelman has helped bring comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves. In 1992, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful Holocaust narrative MAUS- which portrayed Jews as mice[...]

Bakehouse co-owner Amy Emberling discusses the history of the business and the new cookbook, Zingerman’s Bakehouse: The Cookbook, she co-authored with fellow Bakehouse owner Frank Carollo. Catered lunch includes Zingerman’s bagels, cream cheese, smoked fish, egg salad, rye bread,[...]

As part of Desiree Cooper’s two-day residency at the Residential College, she  is be giving a reading, free and open to the public, in Benzinger Library. She will be reading from her new book of[...]

Literati is proud to partner with the Clements Library and the Detroit School to host author and professor Tiya Miles for a lecture on her latest book Dawn of Detroit at the Rackham Amphitheater. About Dawn of Detroit:[...]

Join us in welcoming Z Nicolazzo (pronouns: ze/hir) to campus. Ze will join us for Transgender Awareness Week on Monday, November 13th. Ze is an assistant professor in the Adult and Higher Education program, and[...]

All adults and teens in grade 6 & up invited to listen to local storyteller Jim Glenn relate odd and unusual tidbits of U.S. history from the late 1700s through the mid-20th century. 7-8:30 p.m.,[...]

Professor Chavasse presents research from her travels to the Malta Festival in Poznan, Poland, and to Berlin, Germany where she created a new dance work for Tanz Tangente. In Poznan, the panoply of dance, music[...]

Meijer supermarket company cochairman Hank Meijer discusses his new biography of the Republican senator from Grand Rapids who was instrumental in creating the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the U.N. Book sale, signing, and reception. 7 p.m., Ford[...]

Nov. 17 & 18. RC students perform Theresa Rebeck’s 2011 Broadway drama about 4 young writers, their professor, and the tensions and romances that develop as they attend a 10-week intensive writing seminar. 8 p.m., Keene[...]

The Driftwood Shrine author, John Gendo Wolff, will discuss poetry by Americans like Emily Dickinson, and William Carlos Williams, highlighting the influence of Zen in their work. 45 minute duration, followed by Q&A. https://www.driftwoodshrine.com John[...]

Nov. 17 & 18. RC students perform Theresa Rebeck’s 2011 Broadway drama about 4 young writers, their professor, and the tensions and romances that develop as they attend a 10-week intensive writing seminar. 8 p.m., Keene[...]

Postponed from September. This civil rights icon and Georgia congressman is joined by writer Andrew Aydin and illustrator Nate Powell to discuss March, the graphic novel trilogy Lewis wrote with their help. It chronicles Lewis’s role in the civil rights movement, and[...]