When Phyllis Michael Wong found herself relocating to Marquette to serve as first lady of Northern Michigan University, she had no idea about the revolutionary women from the county’s past …
Two important American novels, both penned by counterculture icons, celebrate significant anniversaries this year, and both authors play an important role in the great American road trip.
While on vacation in the Upper Peninsula, odd couples Laurel and Arnie and Claire and Charles unwittingly become amateur homicide detectives after they stumble into an investigation of a suspicious death. Soon, as told in Deb Davies’ new mystery, “White Nights,” they discover the case may not have been accidental.
Edward Rosick’s first book was on a medical topic — understandably, given he is a Lansing-area physician.
While reading longtime Michigan political consultant G.T. Long’s memoir, the name Lee Atwater may pop in your head. Atwater played on the national political stage and was noticed for his aggressive campaigning and political stumping. Long performed a similar role for such Northern Michigan and Upper Peninsula Democratic candidates as Mitch Irwin and Pat Gagliardi in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s.
Bookstores in Lansing have almost always been around.
Authors, poets and readers in the Capital City need to get ready to “kick out the jams” in April, because three major literary events are on the calendar — two of which were canceled for the last two years out of pandemic precaution.
The werewolf of London isn’t the only one who loved tiki bars, as Warren Zevon crooned in his famous song of the same name.
Most authors go their entire writing career with the dream of getting their book reviewed in The New York Times Sunday Book Review. First-time author Kai Harris has already checked that off her list with her debut novel, “What the Fireflies Knew.”
