SPECIAL EVENTS
Author Breakfast | Author Home Tour | Pitch Panel | Premiere Reception
AUTHOR BREAKFAST
Saturday, May 17, 9:00 - 10:30 am.
Cost : $20. Online registration available – get your seat reserved!
Five of our guest authors are coming to breakfast with you! Register here to meet them and enjoy a lovely breakfast at one of Ann Arbor's favorite eateries: Zanzibar on S. State St.
You will be randomly assigned to a table where one of the guest authors will be seated. At half hour intervals, the authors will switch seats so you get to meet and chat with 3 of them during the breakfast. Booksignings will follow.
Participating authors: Ken Foster – Firoozeh Dumas – Claudia Mair Burney – Maureen Freely – Diane Wilson. Plan to walk around the corner to the Festival venues to see these authors in action!
Zanzibar is located at 214 S. State St., just down from Starbucks at Liberty and State.
For more information, call Kathy at (734) 369-3366.
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AUTHOR HOME TOUR
Sunday, May 18. Two tour times: 12:00 noon and 2:00 pm. Please arrive 15 minutes before the tour time for boarding.
Cost : $12. Register here. Seating is limited so get your spot reserved!
A community's literary tradition includes writers who once lived there. This van tour with narration will showcase residences and places where some of America's famous authors and poets lived while in Ann Arbor.
On the city's northside the tour will visit "poets' corner", home to Robert Frost and W. H. Auden along with their other homes while they taught at the University of Michigan. The residences of famed playwright Arthur Miller and prolific novelist Mildred Walker who each won Hopwood Awards while students will be included. Eminent poet Robert Hayden's home will be viewed along with parts of his bus route #5 designated a U.S. poetry landmark by the Academy of American Poets. Also featured will be poet Jane Kenyon's home and where Harriette Simpson Arnow lived. Ms. Arnow spent many years in Ann Arbor writing. Her masterpiece, The Dollmaker, is considered a landmark of American fiction. Discussion of other writers' connections to Ann Arbor including Ring Lardner and Frank Norris will be part the tour. Approximate time is 2 hours.
Steve Thorp is the tour leader. He is retired and a former Smithsonian tour guide. Steve, addicted to reading, has a life-long interest in writers' homes and has an extensive photographic collection of these literary places.
Pickup and dropoff is at Barnes & Noble Bookstore parking lot at 3235 Washtenaw Ave.
(734) 973-0846.
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PITCH PANEL - Michigan Stage in the Michigan League
Saturday, May 17. 5:00 - 6:30 pm.
Advance registration is required. Cost : $10.
Think you have the next bestseller? Pitch your idea to our panel of experts. You'll never get such great advice in such a short time! Participants must pre-register for a 2 minute presentation at a fee of $10. You will receive an assigned time between 5:00 and 6:30 via email.
Kevin Smokler is the editor of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times (Basic Books) which was a San Francisco Chronicle Noteable Book of 2005 and the co-founder of BookTour.com. An Ann Arbor native, he now lives in San Francisco.
Lisa Garrigues is an award-winning writer and experienced educator. In addition to teaching Writing Motherhood, she leads a variety of courses and workshops in writing memoir. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and earned a master's degree in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey, with her husband and two children. Lisa will moderate this panel.
Jane Bernstein was born in Brooklyn, NY, and educated at New York University and Columbia University. She is the author of five books, most recently Rachel in the World. Her film work includes the screenplay for the Warner Brothers movie Seven Minutes in Heaven. Her essays and articles have appeared widely in such places as The New York Times Magazine, Ms., Creative Nonfiction, The Massachusetts Review, and Glamour. Among her fellowships and awards are two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships, one in creative writing and one in media arts, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Creative Writing. Jane is a professor of English and creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
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PREMIERE RECEPTION
Friday, May 9. 7:00 - 8:30 pm.
Premiere of the "Up North with the Hemingways" Exhibit in the Art Lounge in the Michigan Union.
Come be the first to see this travelling exhibit sponsored by the Michigan Humanities Council as part of the Great Michigan Read for 2008. Hear readings by 826michigan students who participated in a seminar on Hemingway and his writing.
Free and open to the public. Michigan Union is at 530 S. State Street. Ann Arbor on Central Campus of the University of Michigan.
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