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Oct.28: Reading group selection: Twenty Days of Turin

Join us Wednesday, October 28 at 7 PM for a discussion of The Twenty Days of Turin a novel by Giorgio De Maria. The meeting will be held in person or online via Zoom link sent on the day of the meeting. The Reading group meets monthly except for December to discuss world literature in ...→ READ MORE

Oct. 31: Sub Rosa Selection: Hurricane Season

The Sub Rosa reading group will meet Saturday October 31st on Halloween! at 6:30 PM to discuss Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor. Sub Rose meets on the last Saturday of the month to discuss strange and wonderful books with a feminist slant. Books are discounted 15% in store and are currently in s...

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The Haunted Mill of Greenville, Michigan

The following is an excerpt from “Psychic Infrastructure: Mike Kelley and the Haunted Underground,” an essay on Kelley’s art, Detroit culture, and Mobile Homestead for a future anthology marking MOCAD’s 20th anniversary. In October 2002, Kelley came to Detroit to hang with ar...

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On the Surrealism Bookshelf

On the Surrealism Bookshelf Surrealism has never been only an art movement. Its territory has always extended into poetry, dreams, magic, eroticism, photography, automatic writing, popular culture and the place between conscious intention and the uncanny. An explosion of interest formed around the h...

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