The Ann Arbor District Library and the Kerrytown BookFest will host a literary exhibit in the Ann Arbor District Library focusing on the theme of the 9th Annual BookFest: “Voices of Michigan”. The exhibit will highlight the earliest literary voices of Michigan, showcasing art, dust jackets and books that represent Michigan Indians past and present.
The exhibit will display books related to Indian life, such as bibles and teaching materials, stories about Michigan’s earliest residents, books in Indian languages, maps of Indian settlements and trails, artifacts, pictures, and novels that feature Michigan Indians. The materials in the exhibit will be drawn from local private collections as well as from libraries including U of M Special Collections, MSU Special Collections, Wayne State University, and others.
The exhibited items will be described and placed in context of Indian history and life. Margaret Noori, U of M professor and Community Book Award Winner, will read Indian poems and discuss the exhibit at a public reception at 7 p.m., Wednesday September 7th in the basement of the AADL Main Branch on 343 S. Fifth Avenue, 48104. The exhibit runs from Sept. 2-12.
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Kerrytown BookFest welcomes two authors and a photographer who will make you very hungry. At 12 p.m. author Jaye Beeler and photographer Dianne Carroll Burdick will talk about their new book, “Tasting and Touring Michigan’s Homegrown Food”, and do a cooking demonstration from recipes in their book.
“Tasting and Touring Michigan’s Homegrown Food: A Culinary Road Trip” includes photographs from the book, published by Arbutus Press. The process of making this book took one year to make, 8000 photographs to shoot, over 150 assignments to cover, over 2000 miles to travel and hours and hours of editing and processing. The book entertains, enlightens and educates people about the wonderful healthy foods of Michigan. The photographs in this collection shows-off the wonders from the fields, orchards, water, dairy barns, kitchens, markets and gardens of Michigan.
Then at 2 p.m. Editor Jane Shallal will do a cooking demonstration based on the book, “Ma Baseema: Chaldean Middle Eastern Cooking with a Chaldean Flair. Just sit back and enjoy the demonstrations that will make your mouth water.
Both cooking demonstrations are in Hollander’s Kitchen, located in the Kerrytown Shops which are adjacent to the Farmers’ Market.
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Author Maureen Jennings and photographer Sean Doerr both presenters at the 9th annual Kerrytown BookFest have been singled out recently by articles in the New York Times.
Jennings newest book, “Season of Darkness” was reviewed in this weekend’s upcoming Book Review section and Sean’s Doerr’s book. “Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor City’s Majestic Ruins”, on Detroit “ruins’ porn” was prominently mentioned in a full-page article in last Sunday’s New York Times (link not available). Doerr is the photographer of “Lost Detroit.”
Jennings will be joining a panel discussion on “Victorian History Mystery” moderated by librarian Patti O’Brien. The discussion includes three mystery writers who use the Victorian era as their backdrop, but from very different points of view. Maureen Jennings’ award winning Inspector Murdoch series is set in Victorian Toronto; Stefanie Pintoff’s series at the turn of the last century New York Cit,y featuring the use of new forensic methods of detection; and Tasha Alexander’s romantic series is set in Victorian England, and features a woman who falls in love with her husband after he dies, while she’s investigating his death.
Doerr is part of the panel “Detroit Voices” featuring a variety of voices from the changing face of Detroit. The speakers will be John Gallagher, author of “Re-imagining Detroit”, a Michigan Notable Book, and a long time writer for the Detroit Free Press. Joining him will be Sean Doerr and Dan Austin, photographer and author of the book “Lost Detroit”, as well as NPR “Changing Gears” reporter Kate Davidson. Leading the discussion will be writer and Professor Dorene O’Brien.
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The more than 100 entries in the Kerrytown BookFest Book Cover Design Contest from Ann Arbor area students were carefully reviewed by a three member panel of judges and five finalists coincidentally all from Pioneer High School have been selected. The students were all part of Crystal Westfield’s Digital Photography class. They are:
Cameron Wooley
- Matt Poleo
The students were asked to redesign the dust jacket for “Bitter Angels” the most recent work of Ann Arbor science fiction writer Sarah Zettel writing under C.L. Anderson. Zettel served as one of the judges (the others were Alvey Jones and Jack Summers) and here’s what Zettel had to say about the work:
“First, I really have to apologize for not being here (Zettel will be out of the country). Second, I’d like to congratulate all our finalists and contest entrants. The work we saw showed an extraordinary breadth of creativity and skill. It made our job as judges difficult, but also very rewarding.
A good book cover is a difficult thing to create. Unlike a lot of art, a cover has a specific job to do. The graphics and text have to work together to not only catch the eye, but create enough interest in someone passing by that they will stop to pick up the book. That’s a lot of work to be accomplished by a very small canvas. It is also the ultimate criteria we used when judging the entries. We looked at the art as art, but we also considered how well it would perform as a cover. If I saw this on the shelf, would I stop? Would I look again? Would I pick up the book to learn more about it?
In the end, it turned out we had a wealth of choices, and it was both a delight, and a challenge to make our final selections. Again, congratulations to all our entrants and to the finalists. It takes nerve to submit work for consideration, and I wish I was there to shake your hands and say thank you for giving me this chance to see what you’ve done. “
The first, second and third place winners will be announced at the Kerrytown BookFest at 11 a.m., Sunday September 11 at the Kerrytown Concert House as part of the ninth annual BookFest.
Delaney Wright
Melissa Vorce
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