LiteraryDetroit

We are cultivating Detroit as a distinctive literary city with extraordinary public events that connect readers with writers.

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Tonight's Motor Signal is postponed. We are disappointed, but look forward to coming together another day. In the meantime, stay safe and healthy, friends!

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WE'RE BACK.

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This award-winning collection features work by @dreamhampton, @_johncarlisle, @ShakaSenghor, @TomSugrue, and many more ... including @nandicomer, one half of Thursday's fantastic Motor Signal duo.

🌟 Come early and get your copy!! 🌟

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@modeld "This is a really unique setup, I think unusually fun and gratifying ... We try to treat writers really well and give them a fun and exciting way to share their work, and also give audiences something a little bit disarming and a little bit new.”

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Our Motor Signal Reading Series, among a host of great spaces for Detroit literary culture featured in @modeld! https://t.co/rYl87n1MZ3

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@CultureSource In our next season, you can expect more of that ... plus MORE. We are ready to grow. Stay tuned.

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We are thrilled that our Motor Signal Reading Series will have more fuel for the fire! Thank you, @CultureSource. https://t.co/qwzx4LQxyC

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@CultureSource Not only do we jolt the literary reading out of its traditional form with acts of co-creation, but we have a long commitment of paying writers for their time and talent, and making beautiful hand-pressed broadsides of each featured writers' words.

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@flaquitowey @yosuheirhammad @AngelNafis @Combsthepoet @annaleighclark Did you find some good books?? If it's not on your radar, trusted people love Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Gandhi's autobiography isn't an easy read, but quite interesting. Rohinton Mistry, Salman Rushdie, and: https://t.co/zaigJ02m5x

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Fall Classes enrolling in fiction, memoir, poetry, & screenwriting!

Use discount code DETROIT at checkout for 10% Off:

Intro to Memoir: 10/10

Mixed Levels Fiction: 10/9

Intro to Screenwriting: 10/7

Intermediate Screenwriting: 10/8

Poetry: 10/10

https://t.co/1TmKBqvfAg

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“The past has come back, the things we keep trying to bury are resurfacing." https://t.co/bLuCDSo7ru

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TONIGHT. And... there will be ghost stories. Real and imagined.

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At our final Motor Signal reading of the season, not only will we hear from these amazing writers, plus co-create together, but we'll raffle off a FREE subscription to @poetswritersinc magazine! https://t.co/PxGeVq9R03

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These five women transformed the New York art world -- even if their lovers often overshadowed them. Join @shadyladieslit on May 11 to talk to Pultizer Prize finalist Mary Gabriel about the NINTH STREET WOMEN. #empoweringwomen #shadyladies https://t.co/WmorkaicEk

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At our final Motor Signal reading of the season, not only will we hear from these amazing writers, plus co-create together, but we'll raffle off a FREE subscription to @poetswritersinc magazine! https://t.co/PxGeVq9R03

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This springtime reading is the penultimate of the 2019 Motor Signal season. Don't miss!

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The theme: Wayfinding, our own true compasses, and reflecting on when, in the making of the maps of our lives, we are followers and when we are guides. https://t.co/0c7xccAfH5

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❤️❤️ The Motor Signal Reading Series, bringing some heat and light to the season.

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Here's Amy Elliott Bragg on the origins of cremation in the U.S. ... It was a sensationalized and strange practice, but one that became "a moral crusade for the betterment of public health" especially in cities. https://t.co/yaL3reWbiU

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Guess what's coming ... !!! 💫 ✨https://t.co/9ADuaIu8S4

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Here's @NewYorker on Akil Kumarasamy's new book: "When characters discover joy in HALF-GODS, the language itself is shocked into brightness. ... " https://t.co/HBq5x4Aoyw