Upcoming Events! Thursday, March 8
Terry Blackhawk, author of The Light Between, and francine harris, author of allegiance, will read in the Helmut Stern Auditorium of the University of Michigan Museum of Art on the University of Michigan campus at 5:10 p.m.
Thursday, March 8
Thursday, March 8
Teresa Scollon will celebrate the release of To Embroider the Ground with Prayer at the opening reception for a mixed medium exhibit (poetry as well as painting) at the Interlochen Center For the Arts Oliver Art Center (132 Coast Guard Rd., Frankfort, MI) from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Friday, March 9
Discover Detroit at Detroit Historical Museum will showcase local authors, organizations, and business owners from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. Katherine Yung and Joe Grimm, authors of Coney Detroit, are featured speakers at 8:00 p.m.! Sunday, March 11
Jean Alicia Elster, author of Who's Jim Hines?, will attend the Michigan Reading Association's annual conference and participate in the author/illustrator breakfast at 8:00 a.m. at the DeVos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Registration is required.
Tuesday, March 13
Join us at Leopold's Books for a night of poetry! Terry Blackhawk, author of The Light Between, Bill Harris, author of Booker T & Them, and francine harris, author of allegiance, will dazzle the audience with excerpts of their new books at 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 15
Thursday, March 15
Friday, March 16
Terry Blackhawk, author of The Light Between, will read with Judy Rowe Michaels, poet, Princeton NJ, and Ellen Rowe, pianist, professor in the University of Michigan Jazz Program at the Virgil H. Carr Cultural Center (311 E. Grand River Detroit) from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Friday, March 16
Keith Taylor, author of If the World Becomes So Bright will read at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts (400 Culver St.) with with fellow poet Alison Swan at 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 18
Tuesday, March 20
Wednesday, March 21 - Sunday, March 25
Friday, March 23
Friday, March 23
Teresa Scollon, author of To Embroider the Ground with Prayer will read with Fleda Brown and Anne-Marie Oomen at the Interlochen Center For the Arts Oliver Art Center (132 Coast Guard Rd., Frankfort, MI) from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27
Join John Gallagher, author of Reimagining Detroit, in viewing the 30 minute documentary adaptation of his book at the M@dison Building (1555 Broadway Street, Detroit) at 7:00 p.m. Please RSVP to rsvp@oneofusfilms.org.
Friday, March 30 - Saturday, March 31
Wednesday, April 4
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan (2131 Beaufait, Detroit) from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Friday, April 13
Saturday, April 14
Jean Alicia Elster, author of Who's Jim Hines?, will be the featured author/speaker at the National Library Week celebration at Duffield Branch-Detroit Public Library (2507 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit) from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. More info here or call (313) 481-1711.
Sunday, April 15
Terry Blackhawk, author of The Light Between, will perform in Ann Holdreith's Musing Series at the Scarab Club (217 Farnsworth St., Detroit) from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Her special guest will be musician Jennie Knaggs.
Sunday, April 15
Tuesday, April 17
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| | | | The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
 Just released! In The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan: People, Law, and Politics David Gardner Chardavoyne presents a chronological history of the court from its beginnings in the 1830s to the present.
Join us on Thursday, March 15 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the historic Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse (231 W. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit) to celebrate the book's launch!
Light Refreshments will be served and copies of the book will be available for purchase. Parking meters are available on the far side of Fort Street and numerous parking lots and structures in the area offer public parking. (Please note that cell phones, cameras, and recording devices are prohibited in the courthouse.)
This event is free and open to the public! Please RSVP to Judy Christie at jkchristie@hotmail.com if you would like to attend!
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| Coney Detroit
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Coming in April! Any Detroiter knows that an authentic coney island hot dog is a natural-casing hot dog topped with an all-meat beanless chili, chopped white onions, and yellow mustard, but how well do you know its history? Have you met the people who run the hundreds of coney island restaurants in Michigan today? In Coney Detroit, authors Katherine Yung and Joe Grimm explore all aspects of this beloved regional delicacy in more than 150 mouth-watering photographs and lively text.
Coney Detroit showcases such Metro Detroit favorites as American Coney Island, Lafayette Coney Island, Duly's Coney Island, Kerby's Coney Island, National Coney Island, and Leo's Coney Island. As Yung and Grimm uncover the secret ingredients of an authentic Detroit coney, they introduce readers to the suppliers who produce the hot dogs, chili sauce, and buns, and also reveal the many variations of the coney--including coney tacos, coney pizzas, and coney omelets. Coney Detroit also traces the history of the coney island restaurant, which existed in many cities but thrived nowhere as it did in Detroit. Readers will learn about the traditions, rivalries, and differences between the restaurants, some even located right next door to each other.
While the coney legend is centered in Detroit, Yung and Grimm explore coney traditions in other Michigan cities, including Flint, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Port Huron, Pontiac, and Traverse City, and even venture to some notable coney islands outside of Michigan, from the east coast to the west. Most importantly, the book introduces and celebrates the families and individuals that created and continue to proudly serve Detroit's favorite food.
Join us for the launch of Coney Detroit on April 4 at Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan (2131 Beaufait, Detroit)! For a donation of 3 cans of food or $3, enjoy an evening of mingling with the authors and complimentary coney samples from Metro Detroit's favorite coney islands. It will be a coney-filled night to remember! Please RSVP here, as space is limited.
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N ew Film Books!
Just in time for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference, we've got three new film books. Check out:
Film and Risk edited by Mette Hjort is an interdisciplinary collection exploring the many ways risk plays a role in film.  Deadwood by Ina Rae Hark
considers the HBO series in the context of the television Western genre and the intersection of capital and violence in American history.  Gilligan's Island by Walter Metz analyzes the under-studied sitcom and investigates its reflection of key social questions of the 1960s. |
| Lake Superior Profiles
 Like Lake Superior itself, the communities of people surrounding the "Big Lake" are vast and full of variety, spanning state and international boundaries. In Lake Superior Profiles: People on the Big Lake, author John Gagnon gives readers a sense of the memorable characters who inhabit the area without attempting to take an exhaustive inventory. Instead, Gagnon met people casually and interviewed them--from a tugboat captain to an iron ore boat captain, Native Americans, and fishery biologists. Different though their stories are, all share a steadfast character, an attachment to the moody lake, and a devotion to their work.
Lake Superior Profiles combines biography, history, folklore, religion, and humor in fifteen diverse chapters. In Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario, Gagnon visits the rivers, bays, small towns, larger cities, and nature preserves that surround Lake Superior to meet the people who make their homes there. Among those he meets are several fisherman, a botanist studying arctic wildflowers on Isle Royale, a former lighthouse keeper on a remote reef on the lake, a voyageur reenactor from Duluth, a woman who harvests wild rice each August in the Bad River Sloughs, and a monk living on the Keweenaw Peninsula. He also writes about three of the lake's major fish species, a rock formation steeped in lore called the Sleeping Giant, and the current fragile ecology of the Big Lake.
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