What brings a pair of Pulitzer Prize winners to town in May? Nope, it’s not the U-M commencement. Novelists Richard Ford and Jeffrey Eugenides will be at 826Michigan’s “Storymakers Dinner” at Zingerman’s Roadhouse on May 12 to promote an anthology Ford edited for the benefit of the youth literacy group. In an April visit to Ann Arbor, Ford explained that as a solitary writer, “you don’t get to do too much for anybody,” so he welcomed the invitation to put together Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work. Along with Ford and Eugenides, ZZ Packer, Junot Diaz, Alice Munro, and a third Pulitzer Prize winner, Jhumpi Lahiri, all contributed to the collection. Tickets to the $100 fund-raiser are scarce, but the book’s on sale for $16.99 at 826’s Liberty Street Robot Supply & Repair store.
