Literary Buffalo is presented by Just Buffalo.

10/9:

7pm. Talking Leaves (3158 Main St, 837-8554) Reading and book signing for Slipstream, with Carrie Shipers & Arthur Taylor

10/10:

7pm. Talking Leaves (3158 Main St, 837-8554) Reading and book signing for The Molech Prophecy with author Tom Phillips

7:30pm. University United Methodist Church (410 Minnesota Ave.). Cooking Up Some Stories. Story-telling for families with Spin-a-Story Tellers. Storytelling workshop at 6:30pm

10/11:

1pm. Barnes & Noble (4401 Transit Rd., Clarence, 634-1011) Local author signing: Spirits and Death in Niagara by Marcy Italiano

noon-2pm. Borders books (4545 Transit Rd., Williamsville, 634-0335) Booksigning with Gregory Lamberson for his new novel Johnny Gruesome. A special effects demonstration with makeup artist David Gray precedes the events, starting at 10am.

2pm. Barnes & Noble (2015 Walden Ave., 685-0720) Reading and book signing by Cathy Griebner-Tallady, author of I’d Rather Die Than Give a Speech. Music by Sonny Mayo

8pm. Tralf Music Hall (622 Main St., 852-2860) Just Buffalo Interdisciplinary Performance Series. $5/general; $3/students, seniors; free for Just Buffalo members

10/12:

9am. Antique World (11163 Main St., Clarence) Book sale and signing event in the Sunday Market Building. Featuring Heartland Verses, a collection of World War II memoirs, stories, and poems by Clara Treat.

10/15:

10:30am-noon. Buffalo Museum of Science (1020 Humboldt Pkwy., 896-5200) Reading Between the Lines Series: The First Frontier: New York State and American Expansion, 1775-1890. Discussion of The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution, by Barnet Schecter

7:30pm. Hallwalls (341 delaware Ave., 854-1694) Gray Hair Reading Series presented by Earth’s Daughters Magazine: Featured readers are author Don Mitchell and poet Ruth Thompson. $5 suggested donation

8pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum/Porter Hall (453 Porter Ave.) Just Buffalo/Poetics Plus/SUNY Buffalo present a performance by Bruce Andrews

10/16:

10:30am Jewish Center Greater Buffalo (2640 N Forest Rd., Amherst, 688-3572) Preview of the 42nd Annual Jewish Community Book Fair and Cultural Arts Festival

7pm. Rust Belt Books (202 Allen St., 885-9535) Just Buffalo/Small Press Poetry presents a reading by Kim Rosenfeld and Marie Buck

RECURRING EVENTS:

EM Tea Coffee Cup Open Mic Poetry Series. Meets every Tuesday, 7-9:30pm. EM Tea Coffee Cup Café, 80 Oakgrove Avenue at Hughes Street (884-1444)

Elmwood Writers Group. Meets every Wednesday at 7pm at revolving locations. For more info, visit www.elmwoodwritersgroup.org.

Just Buffalo Writers Critique Group. First and third Wednesday each month, 7pm (members only). Just Buffalo Literary Center, Market Arcade, 617 Main Street, Suite 202A (832-5400 / justbuffalo.org).

Northside Writers Group. 7pm. Meets the first and third Thursday of each month. Ascension Lutheran Church, 4640 Main Street, Amherst (626-4204)

Reading by Sean Thomas Dougherty and Forrest Roth.