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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,...

Writer Loren Estleman Talks His Tech-Free Career

To make contact with Loren Estleman, I had to do something I hadn’t done in years: write a letter, put a stamp on it,...

Meet the Author of the Michigan Chillers Series

For many Michiganders who attended elementary school in the early aughts, Johnathan Rand’s Michigan and American Chillers book series were a ubiquitous part of...

The Stories of the Girl Groups of the ’60s

For a time, harmonizing Black female teens — “girl groups” who wore matching dresses and sang doo-wop — dominated the pop music charts.There were...

This Ann Arbor Graphic Novelist Highlights Scientists in His Work

The zigzaggy career of Ann Arbor-based author Jim Ottaviani — who’s now published more than a dozen science-centric graphic novels — began, in part,...

‘Stories From the Sidewalk’ Chronicles 361 Historic Dearborn Properties

Every house has a story. That’s the message two local historians in Dearborn want their neighbors and City Council members to realize with their...

A Review of ‘For the Culture’ by Marcus Collins

Before settling in to read University of Michigan marketing professor Marcus Collins’ new book, For the Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What...

New Comic Book Depicts Lizzo’s Life

TidalWave Comics, an independent comic and graphic novel publisher based in Portland, Oregon, has added a comic book about popular singer-songwriter, Lizzo, to its...

Books About Detroit by Female Authors

Because March is both Women’s History Month and National Reading Month, it seems an ideal time to showcase some women who have written (and...

New Book Takes a Dive Into Detroit Hockey History

Sometimes a book teaches you as much about the kind of reader you are as it does about its focal topic.In the case of...

A Michigan Christmas Story

Looking for a literary stocking stuffer? You’re in luck. Michigan-based author Wade Rouse — who writes fiction intended for women readers under his maternal grandmother’s...

Meet The Local Author That Penned ‘The Ones We Burn’

When Royal Oak-based novelist Rebecca Mix had her first press interview, with a small local newspaper, the reporter told her that readers often get...

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