Literary Agent, Eric Smith, comes to Ann Arbor
June 30, 2018About a year ago, Young Adult (YA) literary agent and author, Eric Smith, moved to Ann Arbor from Philadelphia. It’s been quite a year.
$2M Mystery: Crime Thrills in Mark Beyer’s First Novel
June 1, 2018Terry Holbrook heads home from downtown Ann Arbor to Dexter after working his shift as a video editor. It’s a winter night. The highway is icy. The car ahead skids, then crashes. Terry, the everyman in author Mark Beyer’s new page-turner crime thriller, Hired Man, pulls over and rushes to the aid of the injured
Down and Dirty with the Diaries of David Sedaris
March 31, 2018Beloved comedic writer reads his journal entries
Epic Homegoing Unfolds Over Two-and-a-half Centuries
January 31, 2018Toward the end of Yaa Gyasi’s stunning debut novel Homegoing, winner of the 2106 American Book Award, readers meet Marcus, a Stanford PhD student who sets out to research the convict-leasing system. As a young man, his grandfather had been arrested on trumped-up charges, then leased by the state of Alabama to a coal mining company, where he was forced to work in the mines for years.
A Sorcerer’s Wizardry at Literati
January 2, 2018Nate Staniforth, philosopher, artist, author, magician…