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HOWARD MARKEL, M.D., Ph.D., is the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan, and editor in chief of[...]

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,[...]

Sweetwaters and Toastmaster community members are creating a new Toastmasters Club at Sweetwaters! We will have 1 or 2 prepared speeches, showcase some of our (kind, encouraging and gentle) evaluations of the speeches, and some[...]

This nationally recognized advocate for people with disabilities reads from What Matters: Reflections on Disability, Community, and Love, her new book that offers strategies for ensuring intellectually disabled individuals full social inclusion and chronicles the challenges faced[...]

We are thrilled to welcome three wonderful poets to Literati as part of our Poetry at Literati series! Donald Dunbar, Christine Hume, and Becky Winn will be reading poems for their latest collections.  About Safe Word: Safe Word,[...]

Readings by U-M creative writing grad students, including fiction writers Michelle Cheever and poet Colin Walker. 7 p.m., UMMA Auditorium, 525 S. State. Free. 764-6330 The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed[...]

Nov. 4 & 18. All adults and teens in grade 9 & up invited to work on their novel for this nonprofit promotion (also known as National Novel Writing Month) challenging teens and adults to write[...]

Readings by 9 authors being published by the AADL’s new imprint. Books and authors include Rebecca G. Biber’s Technical Solace (poetry), Virginia Ford’s Ginger Stands Her Ground (memoir), R.J Fox’s Tales From the Dork Side (memoir), Meg Gower’s Michigan Moon (picture book), Jeff[...]

Performance by this Spokane-based spoken word poet, a 2017 grad of Eastern Washington University with a B.A. in theatre, who has published 2 chapbooks. His stage persona is easygoing, and his poems are humorous and[...]

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[...]

Alexandra Zapruder reads from Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film, her new book which traces the personal trials of her grandfather, Abraham Zapruder, who made the notorious home movie of the Kennedy assassination and his[...]

We are excited to welcome author Helen Benedict who will be reading and discussing her new novel Wolf Season About Wolf Season After a hurricane devastates a small town in upstate New York, the lives of three[...]

Literati is thrilled to launch the latest book from New York Times-betselling author John U. Bacon, The Great Halifax Explosion. This event, on November 7th, 2017, at 7pm in Rackham Audiotorium, is free and open to the[...]

Nov. 7 & 21. Monthly 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[...]

*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.[...]

Join us for an evening with Michigan author John Smolens to celebrate the re-release of three of his early novels, Cold, Fire Point and Invisible World by Michigan State University Press. Smolens has been described[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Literati is proud to be partnering with the Helen Zell Writers Program to host writers Mark Doty and Fernanda Eberstadt at the University of Michigan Museum of Art Helmut Stern Auditorium. Mark Doty is the author of[...]

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,[...]

Poetry readings by writers and vendors from Groundcover News, the local street newspaper that seeks to end homelessness and poverty. The program begins with an open mike for poets, who are welcome to read their own work[...]

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[...]

Literat is excited to welcome history professor Rita Chin who will be sharing her latest book The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: A History About The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: In 2010, the leaders of Germany,[...]

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

About Fight Songs Fight Songs exposes the rusted underbelly of the American Midwest, as experienced by young men, brutal cops, suicide cases, junkies, lovers, and minorities seeking justice. At turns as stark and thrilling as a Stooges[...]

Moth-style storytelling program in which local veterans tell personal stories about everything from their service in the military to the transition into civilian life. 2-3:30 p.m., Comfort Inn, 1140 S. Main, Chelsea. Free. 475-8732.

FRUIT is an independent, community-led reading and dialogue series for and by marginalized voices, hosted in Literati Bookstore. This month’s readers are Alise Alousi, Kamelya Youssef and Tariq Luthun. FRUIT is a moment and a[...]

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:[...]

HOWARD MARKEL, M.D., Ph.D., is the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan, and editor in chief of[...]

Ann Arbor Community of Christ Congregation is hosting a book signing for Elaine Stienon’s newest historical novel, Children of a Northern Kingdom: A Story of the Strangite Mormons in Wisconsin and on Beaver Island, MI.[...]

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.,[...]

Literati Bookstore is thrilled to partner with the JCC of Ann Arbor as part of their annual Jewish Book Fest and welcome author Nathan Englander to Zingerman’s Greyline in support of his new novel Dinner at[...]

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[...]

Literati is excited to welcome author Lynn Comella who will be discussing her book Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure. Lynn will be joined by University of Michigan Professor Katherine Sender[...]

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[...]

Sweetwaters and Toastmaster community members are creating a new Toastmasters Club at Sweetwaters! We will have 1 or 2 prepared speeches, showcase some of our (kind, encouraging and gentle) evaluations of the speeches, and some[...]

Literati is thrilled to host author Daniel Wolff who will be sharing his new book Grown-up Anger. Daniel will be joined in conversation with fellow music writer David Marsh and there will be a special musical[...]

U-M history of medicine professor Howard Markel reads from his acclaimed new book about these Michigan brothers who revolutionized American notions of health and wellness. He also discusses the book with U-M English professor Michael Schoenfeldt. 5:30-7 p.m.,[...]

Readings by U-M creative writing grad students, including fiction writers Christina Kim and poet Chelsea Walsh. 7 p.m., UMMA Auditorium, 525 S. State. Free.  The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting.[...]

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[...]

Literati Bookstore is excited to partner with the Michigan Chapter of the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators with a fun-filled reading with three Michigan childrens book authors! Supriya Kelkar was born and raised in[...]

Nov. 4 & 18. All adults and teens in grade 9 & up invited to work on their novel for this nonprofit promotion (also known as National Novel Writing Month) challenging teens and adults to write[...]

Maureen Jennings joins us with her first Inspector Murdoch novel since 2010 on Saturday, November 18 at 2 pm. Kick off your holiday shopping with Maureen & Inspector Murdoch.

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[...]

Stage name of Kelly Mays, who uses poetry to explore her indigenous heritage (she’s a member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe) and the struggles of being female in a patriarchal culture. Preceded by a[...]

Author and world traveler Robert (Bob) Downes has been inspiring readers to pursue their dreams of travel and adventure for more than three decades. A resident of Traverse City, Michigan, Downes, 64, is the author[...]

Literati is proud to partner with our neighbors at the Neutral Zone to welcome Kaveh Akbar and Hanrif Abdurraraqib who will be reading from their latest work Calling a Wolf a Wolf and They Can’t Kill Us Until[...]

Nicholas Delbanco is the author of thirty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Years, The Count of Concord, and Spring and Fall and his nonfiction works The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of[...]

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

Nov. 7 & 21. Monthly 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[...]

$10 Suggested Donation ÆPEX Contemporary Performance is excited to open its third season by bringing Hungarian-American violinist Hajnal Pivnick to Ann Arbor’s beloved Literati Bookstore. Based in New York City, Pivnick will make her Ann[...]

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[...]

Harry Dolan is the national bestselling author of Bad Things Happen, Very Bad Men, and The Last Dead Girl. He graduated from Colgate University, where he majored in philosophy and studied fiction-writing with the novelist[...]

Widely published Cleveland performance poet Siaara Freeman, who rose to national prominence in 2014 at the Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam in Detroit with a searing performance of her autobiographical poem “The Drug Dealer’s Daughter,” reads from her[...]

Literati is thrilled to partner with Current Magazine for an evening of Poetry and Fiction! RSVP Here! Come celebrate the submissions and winners of Current Magazine’s Poetry and Fiction contest. Meet Current’s editor and contributors, and[...]

Drew Philp’s work has been published both nationally and internationally and has appeared in publications, including BuzzFeed, The Detroit Free Press, Metrotimes, Corp! Magazine, the Bakersfield Californian, and the Michigan Daily. He lives in Detroit with his dog, Gratiot. A $500[...]

Nov. 29: Reading by Zilka Joseph, a local poet whose work is notable for its vividly figured explorations of the natural world. Her latest book, Sharp Blue Search of Flame, is a collection of dark, brooding poems that reflect her[...]

Join us for an evening of discussing literature in both the novel and short story format with University of Michigan Zell Writers’ professors Douglas Trevor and Claire Vaye Watkins as they discuss Trevor’s new collection[...]

Literati is pleased to host Dr. Rana Adwish who will discussing her book In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope About In Shock: A riveting first-hand account of a physician[...]