Author Next Door: Peter Damm
by Erin Evans One morning, Peter Damm was taken by his mother to get his tooth pulled— already a dreadful enough ordeal, especially considering the dentist’s tendency to treat pain like a mildly annoying fly on the wall. Worse, his mother surprised him with a visit to the doctor to get a polio shot the […]
National Writers Series Kicking Off 10th Season in Traverse City with Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Who’s America is This?
Author Next Door: Molly Greeley
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Molly Greeley first read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice when she was 10. She’s re-read it multiple times since — and has now written her own Jane Austen-inspired novel, The Clergyman’s Wife. In The Clergyman’s Wife, Charlotte Collins, née Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford’s vicar, and sees to her duties […]
Anne Stanton: National Writers Series turns 10
National Writers Series celebrates 10th year
Traverse City’s Doug Stanton joins the likes of Spielberg, Terkel
Traverse City-based writer Doug Stanton has won the prestigious Stephen E. Ambrose Oral History Award from Rutgers Living History Society. Previous winners include Ken Burns, Steven Spielberg and Studs Terkel.
Author Next Door: Kath Usitalo
Kath Usitalo’s love for the U.P. is apparent in her new book, Secret Upper Peninsula: The Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. The Naubinway writer (“it’s at the northernmost part of Lake Michigan”) loves the weird and wonderful parts of the U.P. and is always on the lookout for more. Usitalo has written three books on the U.P., […]
Mitch Albom will talk love and loss in Traverse City
Mitch Albom set to talk about new book at National Writers Series