Articles tagged: books
35th annual Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair coming to the Michigan Union
Posted: May 15, 2013Read all about it: The Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair, now in its 35th year, is once again scheduled to make the Michigan Union ballroom a collectors' dream of a book shop for one day: Sunday, May 19, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Read more »
Book-a-palooza to return to Common Language Bookstore
Posted: May 15, 2013Common Language co-owner Keith Orr with store mascot Duke. Though it's been a few years since the last one, Book-a-palooza—a large used book sale/fundraiser—is coming back to Ann Arbor's Common Language Bookstore. Funds from the ... Read more »
Nicola's Books honored with a major award from the Women's National Book Association
Posted: May 10, 2013It is quickly becoming a banner year for independent bookstores in Ann Arbor. The Women's National Book Association announced this week that Nicola's Books has been named the winner of the Pannell Award as the general bookstore of the year. Read more »
Time: Physical book sales steady in 2012 led by strong fiction and children's book gains
Posted: May 01, 2013As one of America's most well-read cities and the birthplace of an out-of-business big-box bookstore, Ann Arbor has a special connection to book world. Read more »
Laszlo Slomovits and poet Linda Nemec Foster to perform 'Cry of Freedom'
Posted: Apr 25, 2013Local musician Laszlo Slomovits and poet Linda Nemec Foster will team up at Nicola's Books for a joint reading and musical performance of “Cry of Freedom," a collaborative work. Read more »
Ann Arbor ranks sixth on Amazon.com 'Most Well-Read Cities' list
Posted: Apr 24, 2013Amazon.com released its third annual list of the most well-read cities in the country Wednesday, with Ann Arbor coming in sixth. Read more »
Elmore Leonard to kick off Midwest Literary Walk in downtown Chelsea
Posted: Apr 23, 2013He's given us Raylan Givens in "Justified," "3:10 to Yuma," "Get Shorty," and other great novels, short stories and screenplays. Now Detroit-based writer Elmore Leonard will be headlining the Midwest Literary Walk in downtown Chelsea ... Read more »
Ann Arbor author and psychologist Julie Jaffee Nagel to appear at Nicola's Books
Posted: Apr 22, 2013Ann Arbor-based author and psychologist Julie Jaffee Nagel - a graduate of Julliard, U-M, and The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute - will talk about performance anxiety and her new book "Melodies of the Mind: Connections between ... Read more »
Entertainment Weekly: U-M English prof's poetry collection 'The Cineaste' earns high mark
Posted: Apr 18, 2013The tables have been turned, and the grader has been graded - which is to say, U-M English professor A. Van Jordan recently had his new collection of poetry, "The Cineaste," reviewed by Entertainment Weekly. Read more »
with video: 'Give and Take' author (and U-M grad) Adam Grant to speak in Ann Arbor
Posted: Apr 15, 2013Adam Grant Adam Grant, the youngest tenured professor at Penn’s prestigious Wharton School, has just published a business book, “Give and Take,” that’s getting a ton of buzz. (We’re talking New York Times Magazine cover ... Read more »
Author Alexander McCall Smith to visit Nicola's Books
Posted: Apr 13, 2013He's a a respected expert on medical law and bioethics who has served on a number of British and international committees concerned with those issues. But you might know him as the author of the ... Read more »
Detroit Free Press: Cherry Lake and Sleeping Bear Press book publishers thriving in Ann Arbor despite difficult market
Posted: Apr 11, 2013Ann Arbor-based book publisher Ben Mondloch has been fighting trends since he started Cherry Lake Publishing four years ago. Read more »
David Sedaris to talk about 'Owls' and more at Hill Auditorium
Posted: Apr 08, 2013Trying to line up an interview with satirist and National Public Radio star David Sedaris—who’s coming to Hill Auditorium on Saturday, April 12 at 2 p.m.—is like experiencing a small-scale version of “Roger and Me”: ... Read more »
'Far From the Tree' author Andrew Solomon coming to the Michigan League
Posted: Apr 08, 2013The new book by National Book Award-winning author Andrew Solomon, "Far From the Tree," landed a pretty glowing critique on the front page of The New York Times Book Review recently - and now he's ... Read more »
Author Neil Gaiman coming to Michigan Theater; tickets on sale soon
Posted: Apr 03, 2013Popular author Neil Gaiman will appear at a ticketed event at the Michigan Theater on July 7 in celebration of his long-awaited new novel. Read more »
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