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The Small-Screen Dreams of Stan Zimmerman

As a kid growing up in Southfield, Stan Zimmerman didn’t pretend to be a superhero or a rock star.He pretended to run a TV...

U-M Professor Publishes Book on Identifying Political Disinformation

University of Michigan Law School professor and TV legal analyst (NBC News and MSNBC) Barbara McQuade cites an unusual combination of influences for her...

The Numbers Game

When I told author Felicia B. George, during a phone interview, that I hadn’t expected to feel so inspired by a book about gambling...

Is That All There Is?

There’s a line in the acknowledgments of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s bestselling memoir, True Gretch, that gives away the game. It’s page 157 — the...

How Thomas McGuane Went From Academic Ignominy to Literary Icon

Things weren't looking good for future novelist Thomas McGuane at the University of Michigan, where he’d begun his undergraduate studies in the late 1950s....

Kiley Reid Releases New Novel ‘Come & Get It’

Following the seismic success of her 2019 debut novel, Such a Fun Age, bestselling author Kiley Reid — who moved to Ann Arbor in...

Curtis Chin Discusses His Book “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,...

"We as people are a reflection of the places we grow up in, right?” says writer Curtis Chin. “They inform us; they change who...

Independent Book Stores Worth a Visit in Metro Detroit​

Despite the emergence of e-books, good old-fashioned physical copies are still a go-to for book worms. And while big box stores and Amazon dominate the market, there are a surprising number of great independent bookstores scattered around metro Detroit.

This Book by a U-M Professor Helps Couples Manage Money

Money may make the world go round, but man, do we hate talking about it — especially when our approach to spending and saving...

New Book Highlights Sustainability in Northern Michigan’s Food Industry

It doesn't get more local than Moomers Homemade Ice Cream on the west side of Traverse City. In a busy year, the creamery churns...

Book Review: Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine

"I tell jokes nonstop. So many of them do not land,” says Ghassan Zeineddine, whose debut short-story collection, Dearborn — which is both moving...

Give the Gift of Reading With These Books by Local Authors

For the serious readerDetroit’s most famous journalist-author, Mitch Albom, has a new novel about Holocaust survivors. The Little Liar tells the story of 11-year-old...

Six Michigan Art Deco High-Rises Featured in New Book

What happens when a writer and artist, both passionate about architecture, come together? You get a stunning book that creatively depicts some of the...

Stephen Mack Jones Discusses His Latest Novel ‘Deus X’

Stephen Mack Jones — the award-winning Farmington Hills-based crime writer whose fourth August Snow novel, Deus X, debuts Nov. 7 — is living proof...

Detroit Chef to Release First Cookbook

Chef and cookbook author Jon Kung has a confession to make.“I don’t read a lot of headnotes in recipes,” says Kung, whose debut cookbook,...

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