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- Susan Messer: Grand River & Joy
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Sunday, October 25 at 2:00pm - Travelin' Man: ON THE ROAD & B...
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Thursday, October 22 at 7:00pm - Celebrate the Detroit Artists ...
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Sunday, October 18 at 2:00pm - David Small at Book Beat
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Friday, October 16 at 7:00pm - Artist, Author & Activist Youm...
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Thursday, July 9 at 7:00pm - Sonic Youth at Book Beat
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Monday, June 29 at 2:30pm - Tiki Party at Book Beat!!!
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Thursday, June 18 at 7:00pm - John Sinclair "Detroit Life"
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Tuesday, June 9 at 7:00pm - Sarah June & Aran Ruth at Book...
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Sunday, May 24 at 2:00pm - Ruins of Chippewa Lake Park
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Saturday, February 14 at 4:00pm
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- The 'Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Anniversary Celebration: Sun. Oct., 11th 10:44pm Oct 4
- August Reading Group Discussion of CANE by Jean Toomer 10:41pm Aug 7
- Inspiring Author & Actor Hill Harper 11:39pm Apr 13
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Join us Sunday afternoon at Book Beat from 2-3:30 PM for a discussion and reading by Susan Messer from her first novel GRAND RIVER AND JOY, a book that reflects on the racial tensions between Blacks and Jews set in 1967 Detroit. For more information please call: 248-968-1190.
Susan Messer grew up in Detroit, in the are...a she writes about, and now lives in Chicago.
“About four years ago, I began to think that one of my unpublished stories had novelistic potential, so I upped my time commitment to writing. I had two residencies at Ragdale, an artists’ colony, and at home, I began working on the novel every evening. That novel, called Grand River and Joy, is about a Jewish man whose small business ends up in the path of the Detroit riots of 1967, and it will soon be published by University of Michigan Press as part of their Sweetwater Fiction Series. Meanwhile, I have written over 300 pages of a second novel.” — from the author’s website
In the backroom gallery we will have a small selection of Detroit images by photographer Bill Rauhauser, whose photograph of Detroit graces the cover of GRAND RIVER AND JOY.Read More
Susan Messer grew up in Detroit, in the are...a she writes about, and now lives in Chicago.
“About four years ago, I began to think that one of my unpublished stories had novelistic potential, so I upped my time commitment to writing. I had two residencies at Ragdale, an artists’ colony, and at home, I began working on the novel every evening. That novel, called Grand River and Joy, is about a Jewish man whose small business ends up in the path of the Detroit riots of 1967, and it will soon be published by University of Michigan Press as part of their Sweetwater Fiction Series. Meanwhile, I have written over 300 pages of a second novel.” — from the author’s website
In the backroom gallery we will have a small selection of Detroit images by photographer Bill Rauhauser, whose photograph of Detroit graces the cover of GRAND RIVER AND JOY.Read More
Book Beat Rock out w/ David Small tomorrow night!
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Book Beat Get Smart w/ Marina Orlova, the sexy genius Hot-for-Words Russian etymologist: http://hotforwords.com/
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http://www.hotforwords.com to request words. To get my book: http://bit.ly/7Ftho Origin of the term: deus ex machina.
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Join us on 10/22 at 7 pm, for an autographing event and talk with authors Tom Weschler and Gary Graff about the career and on-the-road adventures of Detroit born heavy rocker Bob Seger - a multi-platinum selling, award winning songwriter and 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
TRAVELIN' MAN contains over 160 photo...s and the artwork from 8 albums that were designed by Weschler, a foreword by John Mellencamp, an afterword by Kid Rock and a comprehensive discography and chronology. Seger fans and readers interested in music and biography will enjoy this memory filled scrapbook of Detroit rock history, a beautifully designed hardcover tome just published by Wayne State University Press.
Please call 248-968-1190 to reserve a signed or inscribed copy if unable to attend. More info at: http://thebookbeat.com/
Tom Weschler spent over ten years from the late 60s through the early 70s in the Bob Seger camp, working as tour manager, photographer and album designer. TRAVELIN' MAN collects Weschler's early photos during the bands hard-gigging, heavy traveling reputation-making early days.
Gary Graff is an award winning music journalist based in the Detroit area. He is the founding editor of the MusicHound Essential Album Guide. Read More
TRAVELIN' MAN contains over 160 photo...s and the artwork from 8 albums that were designed by Weschler, a foreword by John Mellencamp, an afterword by Kid Rock and a comprehensive discography and chronology. Seger fans and readers interested in music and biography will enjoy this memory filled scrapbook of Detroit rock history, a beautifully designed hardcover tome just published by Wayne State University Press.
Please call 248-968-1190 to reserve a signed or inscribed copy if unable to attend. More info at: http://thebookbeat.com/
Tom Weschler spent over ten years from the late 60s through the early 70s in the Bob Seger camp, working as tour manager, photographer and album designer. TRAVELIN' MAN collects Weschler's early photos during the bands hard-gigging, heavy traveling reputation-making early days.
Gary Graff is an award winning music journalist based in the Detroit area. He is the founding editor of the MusicHound Essential Album Guide. Read More
Rock & Roll Never Forgets!
Time:7:00PM Thursday, October 22nd
Location:Book Beat
James Semark Love ya, man!
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Join us on Sunday, October 18th at 2:00 PM for a panel discussion and celebration of the Detroit Artists Workshop Press with founder/poet John Sinclair, author/historian Mike Jernigan and composer/ poet James Semark.
Mike Jernigan will present his new bibliography on the DAW press that has been recently published. This... is the first full length bibliography done on the Detroit Workshop Press – and is amazing in its detail, full-color illustrations of each book and superb research. A great tool for future historians and collectors of this landmark underground press founded in 1964, Detroit.
John Sinclair has two recent books published by Headpress in the UK. A large anthology of his writing, "It’s All Good", and "Headpress 28" (a collection of essays on underground culture and politics edited by Sinclair). Both books will be on hand as well as some of Sinclair's recent CD spoken word/ music releases.
Poet, activist and composer James Semark will also be present. Semark is co-founder of the Workshop and has continued its DIY tradition with an online presence for the Detroit Artists Workshop. Semark spearheaded the recent publication of "Work/ 6" Anthology Project, a superb and brave new collection of current Detroit writing and a continuation of the Artists Workshop press. Copies of the new Work #6 will be available for purchase.
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Mike Jernigan will present his new bibliography on the DAW press that has been recently published. This... is the first full length bibliography done on the Detroit Workshop Press – and is amazing in its detail, full-color illustrations of each book and superb research. A great tool for future historians and collectors of this landmark underground press founded in 1964, Detroit.
John Sinclair has two recent books published by Headpress in the UK. A large anthology of his writing, "It’s All Good", and "Headpress 28" (a collection of essays on underground culture and politics edited by Sinclair). Both books will be on hand as well as some of Sinclair's recent CD spoken word/ music releases.
Poet, activist and composer James Semark will also be present. Semark is co-founder of the Workshop and has continued its DIY tradition with an online presence for the Detroit Artists Workshop. Semark spearheaded the recent publication of "Work/ 6" Anthology Project, a superb and brave new collection of current Detroit writing and a continuation of the Artists Workshop press. Copies of the new Work #6 will be available for purchase.
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New book presentations and a panel discussion on the DAW Press
Time:2:00PM Sunday, October 18th
Location:Book Beat
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The 2009 Nobel prize has been awarded to Herta Müller, for depicting the 'landscape of the dispossessed' with 'the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose'
Sunday, October 11th Celebrate the Rubáiyát with Shahida Nurullah- 2 PM at Book Beat Local book collector and professional Jazz singer Shahida Nurullah will give a presentation on the history of the 'Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám' and its various illustrated versions that have appeared since its tran...
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Caldecott Award winning artist and author David Small will be presenting his highly acclaimed new graphic novel STITCHES at the Book Beat Friday, October 16th, from 7-8:30 PM. STITCHES is a highly personal and intense quest into the author's often painful past with many of it's details pulled from growing up in the Det...roit area. Truly one of the highlights of this fall's list, STITCHES is both hilarious and sad, surreal and grotesquely real. David has prepared a slideshow presentation and we will moderate a discussion that is not to be missed. Seating will be tight, please plan on attending early. If you can't attend, please call 248-968-1190 and we can arrange to have an inscribed copy held for you.
Small earned the 1997 Caldecott Honor and The Christopher Medal for The Gardener, with Sarah Stewart, his wife, recipient of the 2007 Michigan Author Award. In 2001 he won the Caldecott Medal for So You Want to Be President?, combining political cartooning with children's book illustration. Small's drawings have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.
David Small and Sarah Stewart make their home in an historic manor house in Mendon, Michigan.Read More
Small earned the 1997 Caldecott Honor and The Christopher Medal for The Gardener, with Sarah Stewart, his wife, recipient of the 2007 Michigan Author Award. In 2001 he won the Caldecott Medal for So You Want to Be President?, combining political cartooning with children's book illustration. Small's drawings have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times.
David Small and Sarah Stewart make their home in an historic manor house in Mendon, Michigan.Read More
A presentation of "Stitches", a graphic autobiography.
Time:7:00PM Friday, October 16th
Location:Book Beat
Source: nyartbookfair.com
Printed Matter's annual fair of contemporary art books, art catalogs, artists' books, art periodicals, and 'zines. Admission to the fair is FREE.
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October Reading Group Meeting
at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, Oct. 28th, at the Goldfish Teahouse in Royal Oak to discuss "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Díaz.
This winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, was praised in a New York Times Review:
"Junot Díaz’s “Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” is a wondrous,
not-so...-brief first novel that is so original it can only be described
as Mario Vargas Llosa meets “Star Trek” meets David Foster Wallace
meets Kanye West. It is funny, street-smart and keenly observed, and it
unfolds from a comic portrait of a second-generation Dominican geek
into a harrowing meditation on public and private history and the
burdens of familial history." This discussion group is free and open
to the public. Reading group books are available from Book Beat at a
discount. The reading group meets the last Wednesday of the
month (except December) to discuss quality world lit that merits
attention. For questions call: 248-968-1190Read More
at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, Oct. 28th, at the Goldfish Teahouse in Royal Oak to discuss "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Díaz.
This winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, was praised in a New York Times Review:
"Junot Díaz’s “Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” is a wondrous,
not-so...-brief first novel that is so original it can only be described
as Mario Vargas Llosa meets “Star Trek” meets David Foster Wallace
meets Kanye West. It is funny, street-smart and keenly observed, and it
unfolds from a comic portrait of a second-generation Dominican geek
into a harrowing meditation on public and private history and the
burdens of familial history." This discussion group is free and open
to the public. Reading group books are available from Book Beat at a
discount. The reading group meets the last Wednesday of the
month (except December) to discuss quality world lit that merits
attention. For questions call: 248-968-1190Read More
Source: www.thebookbeat.com
Author/Artist : Junot DiazPublisher : RiverheadAreader might at first be surprised by how many chapters of a book entitled The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao are devoted not to its sci fi–and–fantasy-gobbling nerd-hero but to his sister, his mother and his grandfather. ...
Book Beat Our website is almost back to normal - or as close to what normal is for Book Beat... October newslettter is now posted:
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The Farmington Community Library – Farmington Branch, presents children’s nature author Nic Bishop on Saturday, October 3rd from 11 AM – 12 PM. From 2-3 PM a presentation titled “Behind ...
