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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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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