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When longtime NPR journalist and educator Steve Drummond appeared at the Michigan Flight Museum in Willow Run Airport on Dec. 4 to talk about...

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...

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

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...

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...

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....

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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