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2:00 pm EMU MLK Day Keynote Lecture: Keith Boykin @ EMU Student Center Auditorium
EMU MLK Day Keynote Lecture: Keith Boykin @ EMU Student Center Auditorium
Jan 21 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Talk by this CNN political commentator and bestselling writer, author of For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough, winner of the American Library Association Stonewall Award for Nonfiction in 2013.[...]
2:00 pm MLK Day Lecture: Michael Eric Dyson @ Hatcher Library, Room 100
MLK Day Lecture: Michael Eric Dyson @ Hatcher Library, Room 100
Jan 21 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
This Georgetown University sociology professor and New York Times opinion writer–a Detroit native–discusses MLK and African American leadership in the 21st century. 2-4:30 p.m., 100 U-M Hatcher Grad Library Gallery, enter from the Diag. Free. 764-7522.
7:00 pm Fiction at Literati: Kristen Roupenian: You Know You Want This: “Cat Person” and Other Stories @ Literati
Fiction at Literati: Kristen Roupenian: You Know You Want This: “Cat Person” and Other Stories @ Literati
Jan 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Literati is thrilled to welcome author Kristen Roupenian who will be sharing her new collection You Know You Want This: “Cat Person” and Other Stories. About You Know You Want This: From the author of “Cat Person”–“the[...]
3:30 pm Panel Discussion: Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement @ 2239 Lane Hall
Panel Discussion: Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement @ 2239 Lane Hall
Jan 22 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Panel discussion on U-M Afroamerican and African studies professor Naomi André’s book, with André, RC and U-M women’s studies professor Abigail Stewart, and U-M musicology professor Gabriela Cruz. 3:30 p.m., 2239 Lane Hall, 204 S.[...]
7:00 pm David Stephen Calonne: The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way @ Literati
David Stephen Calonne: The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way @ Literati
Jan 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Literati is excited to welcome David Stephen Calonne who will be presenting this new collection of Charles Bukowski’s work The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing. About The Mathematicsc of the Breath[...]
7:00 pm Skazat! Poetry Series: Jill Darling @ Sweetwaters
Skazat! Poetry Series: Jill Darling @ Sweetwaters
Jan 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Reading by local poet Jill Darling. She is the author of the poetry collections (re)iteration(s), a geography of syntax, Solve For, begin with may: a series of moments, and two collaborative chapbooks with Laura Wetherington[...]
7:00 pm Poetry and the Written Word: Hannah Ensor, Suzi F. Garcia @ Crazy Wisdom
Poetry and the Written Word: Hannah Ensor, Suzi F. Garcia @ Crazy Wisdom
Jan 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Featured Readers: Hannah Ensor, a poet living in Ypsilanti, RC alum, and assistant director the Hopwood Program, has published on topics of pop culture, sports, and mass media. She co-wrote the chapbook, at the intersection[...]
10:00 am Kentaro Toyami: The Future of Work @ Towsley Auditorium, Lawrence Bldg, Washtenaw Community College
Kentaro Toyami: The Future of Work @ Towsley Auditorium, Lawrence Bldg, Washtenaw Community College
Jan 24 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Literati is proud to be the bookseller at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of Ann Arbor’s event with Kentaro Toyama at the Washtenaw Community College. The Future of Work Speaker’s Synopsis: Will artificial intelligence (AI)[...]
4:00 pm MLK Lecture: James Forman, Jr.: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America @ 1010 Weiser Hall
MLK Lecture: James Forman, Jr.: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America @ 1010 Weiser Hall
Jan 24 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Yale law professor James Forman, Jr. reads from his Pulitzer-winning book examining the response by African American elected officials and citizens to the surge in crime and drug addiction that began in the 1970s. 4-5:30 p.m., 1010[...]
5:30 pm Zell Visiting Writers: Elif Batuman @ U-M Museum of Art Stern Auditorium
Zell Visiting Writers: Elif Batuman @ U-M Museum of Art Stern Auditorium
Jan 24 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Reading by this New Yorker staff writer, author of The Idiot, her 2017 comic novel set in 1995 about a Harvard student whose email relationship with a Hungarian math student leads her on a journey of self-discovery.
7:00 pm Bill Wylie-Kellerman: Dying Well @ Nicola's Books
Bill Wylie-Kellerman: Dying Well @ Nicola's Books
Jan 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Retired Detroit minister Bill Wylie-Kellerman discusses his new book about his wife’s illness and death, written from his spiritual perspective. Signing.
7:00 pm Brad Schwartz: Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago @ Literati
Brad Schwartz: Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago @ Literati
Jan 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Literati is excited to welcome author Brad Schwartz who will be sharing his new history book Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago. About Scarface and the Untouchable: In 1929, thirty-year-old[...]
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