Lit City literary event listings are presented by Just Buffalo (www.justbuffalo.org).

September 10

A Conversation with Dava Sobel. 6pm. Author of Galileo’s Daughter and Longitude visits Buffalo in honor of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy. Presented in conjunction with current exhibition Double Stars: Men and Women of Astronomy. Buffalo & Erie County Library, Central Branch, One Lafayette Square (858-8900).

September 11

Spin-a-Story Tellers: Story Potpourri. 7:30pm. Featuring a variety of storytellers, storytelling workshop with Erik Hahn at 6:30pm. Free for adults and older children. University United Methodist Church, 410 Minnesota Avenue (833-7562).

September 14

Turn of the New: Sally Fiedler and Ann Goldsmith. 7pm. Wordflight Series poetry reading featuring Fiedler and Goldsmith, followed by an open reading. Crane Library, 633 Elmwood Avenue.

September 16

Playwright Neil Wechsler. 7pm. Book signing with the award-winning Buffalo playwright, whose play Grenadine is in production at Road Less Traveled Theatre. Talking Leaves Books-Elmwood, 951 Elmwood Avenue (884-9524 / www.tleavesbooks.com).

Cathy Buchanan: The Day the Falls Stood Still. 7pm. Reading and booksigning with Niagara Falls native who has written a captivating historical novel set in the Falls at the beginning of the 20th century. Talking Leaves Books, 3158 Main Street (837-8554 / www.tleavesbooks.com).

September 17

Cathy Buchanan: The Day the Falls Stood Still. Noon. Reading and booksigning with Niagara Falls native who has written a captivating historical novel set in the Falls at the beginning of the 20th century. Buffalo & Erie County Library, Central Branch, One Lafayette Square (858-8900).

Kim Chinquee. 7pm. Buffalo State professor and flash fictioneer will read from and sign copies of the new anthology she’s edited. Talking Leaves Books, 3158 Main Street (837-8554 / www.tleavesbooks.com).