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Michigan Notable Books to be feted
Three recent National Book Award honorees found the prize created an almost oxymoronic situation for them: They couldn’t write. Jesmym Ward, Jaimy Gordon and Bonnie Jo Campbell all discovered that...
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Blockbuster authors add more heat to July’s literary events
A new report from Nielsen BookScan shows it’s been a hot summer for books-so to speak- with the “Fifty Shades Trilogy” accounting for one in five of all “real” books sold. It’s time to break that...
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MSU’s One Community Read author wins National Book Award
Hopefully, every MSU freshman was sent an e-mail last week about Katherine Boo, MSUs “One Book-One Community” book author, who won the 2012 National Book Award for Non-Fiction for her book “Behind the...
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Lansing area hosted some great book events in 2012
Author readings may not measure up to the spectacle of a Wharton Center musical or the audacity of the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, but for many in the Greater Lansing community and me, they...
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Lansing author hits the big time with his e-books
More than one-half million readers can’t be wrong. That’s the number of e-books sold by Holt thriller writer Rick Murcer. Murcer said he doesn’t know what propelled his first book “Caribbean Moon”...
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A Brit is talking Nazi Noir
Nazi Noir writer Philip Kerr’s will talk about his newest book ”A Man Without Breath” 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 17 at Schulers in Okemos. Kerr who writes in a variety of genres including children’s...
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D.E. Johnson’s new book “Detroit Shuffle” is not about the city’s current...
A book with “Detroit” in the title couldn’t come at a better time for author Michigan author D.E. Johnson whose new historical thriller, “Detroit Shuffle” recently received a starred review from the...
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Celebrated crime and western writer Elmore Leonard dies
Noted crime and Western writer Elmore Leonard caught his own Three-Ten To Yuma today and passed in to literary history at the age of 87. Leonard had suffered a stroke a few weeks ago and never...
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“Just desserts” find their way into two new books
Jeffrey Deaver The literary table in Lansing has been a gourmet treat of fine reading from authors who are as different as Little Debbie and Baked Alaska. Jeffery Deaver is among the leading thriller...
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Stranger than strange comes to Lansing
Classicon 44 noted for it unusual artwork featuring monsters, pinups and pulp characters will be held in Lansing Michigan 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday November 2 at the University Quality Inn 3121 Grand...
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