We were not lucky enough to land a visit by Christopher Boucher when he toured the country in a 1971 VW Bug to promote his zany and much-praised new novel, How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, but we have persuaded him to touch down in the City by the Lake, graveyard to many a VW bug and bus.  

Join us night of music, poetry, Fluxus, food and much more featuring the inimitable Mike Basinski and Friends.

Performance by Buffluxus
Music by Don Metz and Michael Basinski
Poetry, visual and spoken, by MIchael Basinski

Just Buffalo’s exciting afterschool program, RECLAIMING BUFFALO, in collaboration with CEPA Gallery, is currently enrolling students (ages 11-16) for Winter & Spring sessions. Combining photography, creative writing, and computer literacy, this unique program has already received rave reviews.

As part of their highly acclaimed Babel series, Just Buffalo Literary Center is proud to present Zadie Smith, March 21, 2012 at  8:00 PM in Kleinhans Music Hall. Novelist Zadie Smith was born in North London in 1975 to an English father and a Jamaican mother. She read English at Cambridge, graduating in 1997. Her acclaimed first novel, White Teeth (2000), is a vibrant portrait of contemporary multicultural London, told through the story of three ethnically diverse families. The book won a number of awards and prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best First Book).

Medaille College's Write Thing Reading Series just might be one of the most eclectic visiting artist series at any educational institution in Buffalo. Each semester, Medaille invites from 3 to 6 published poets and fiction writers to campus for readings and/or class visits. Students at Medaille have the unique chance to meet up close and personal with Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award finalists, Guggenheim Fellowship recipients, and some of the most renowned international writers of today - as well as up-and-coming younger writers.

Aryn Kyle was born in Peoria, Illinois and grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado. She is a graduate of the University of Montana Writing Program. She is the author of the bestselling novel The God of Animals and Boys and Girls Like You and Me, a collection of
stories.  Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere.  She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Award and a National Magazine Award in fiction, and her work has been translated in 17 languages.

Soledad O'Brien is an anchor and special correspondent for CNN/U.S. Since joining the network in 2003, O'Brien has reported breaking news from around the globe and has produced award-winning, record-breaking and critically acclaimed documentaries on the most important stories facing the world today. She also covers political news as part of CNN's "Best Political Team on Television."

Established in 1997, the Canisius College Contemporary Writers Series brings fiction writers and poets of national stature to the Canisius campus to read from their work and to meet with students, faculty, and members of our community.  This year's writers include: Stewart O’Nan, Joyce Carol Oates, Aryn Kyle, and Bernard O’Donoghue. All readings include a question-and-answer period, a reception, and a book-signing; all are free and open to the public.

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