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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...

The zigzaggy career of Ann Arbor-based author Jim Ottaviani — who’s now published more than a dozen science-centric graphic novels — began, in part,...

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.

Every house has a story. That’s the message two local historians in Dearborn want their neighbors and City Council members to realize with their...

Before settling in to read University of Michigan marketing professor Marcus Collins’ new book, For the Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What...

TidalWave Comics, an independent comic and graphic novel publisher based in Portland, Oregon, has added a comic book about popular singer-songwriter, Lizzo, to its...

Because March is both Women’s History Month and National Reading Month, it seems an ideal time to showcase some women who have written (and...

Sometimes a book teaches you as much about the kind of reader you are as it does about its focal topic.In the case of...

Looking for a literary stocking stuffer? You’re in luck. Michigan-based author Wade Rouse — who writes fiction intended for women readers under his maternal grandmother’s...

When Royal Oak-based novelist Rebecca Mix had her first press interview, with a small local newspaper, the reporter told her that readers often get...

My husband — whom I originally met while playing in the University of Michigan Marching Band’s trombone section — consulted U-M’s football schedule as...

Twenty years ago, an epic novel with an unconventional, intersex narrator (and a richly described Detroit backdrop)appeared on bookstore shelves, grabbing readers with this...

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