Lit City event listings are presented by Just Buffalo

July 30

Mike Boughn and Sherry Robbins. 7pm. Poetry reading by UB Poetics graduate Boughn and Weird Sisters Collectivist Robbins. Chemical No. 2. 260 Plymouth Avenue at Connecticut.

Naseem Rakha: The Crying Tree. 7pm. Reading and book signing with the journalist turned novelist, author of The Crying Tree, about a family’s coping with the murder of their son and the death sentence of his killer. Talking Leaves Books, 3158 Main Street (837-8554 / www.tleavesbooks.com).

August 6

Sam Magavern: Primo Levi’s Universe. 6:30pm. Buffalo writer and public interest lawyer reads from his critical biography of Italian memoirist, novelist, poet, and chemist Primo Levi. Burchfield-Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Avenue (878-6011 / www.yournewburchfieldpenney.com).