For six years Maya Stovall staged Liquor Store Theatre a conceptual art and anthropology video projectincluded in the Whitney Biennial in 2017in which she danced near the liquor stores in her Detroit neighborhood as a way to start conversations with her neighbors. In this book of the same name Stovall uses the project as a point of departure for understanding everyday life in Detroit and the possibilities for ethnographic research art and knowledge creation. Her conversations with her neighborswhich touch on everything from economics aesthetics and sex to the political and economic racism that undergirds Detroits historybring to light rarely acknowledged experiences of longtime Detroiters. In these exchanges Stovall enacts an innovative form of ethnographic engagement that offers new modes of integrating the social sciences with the arts in ways that exceed what either approach can achieve alone.