To get at one of the themes explored by University of Michigan professor Eileen Pollack’s engrossing new novel, “Breaking and Entering,” you need only imagine what it would be like if Rick Santorum lived next door to Barney Frank. “Strangely enough, they’d probably take out each other’s trash,” said Pollack. ...
If you are the sort of person who looks for any chance to get Grandma and Grandpa going about the good old days, you're going to love “Michigan Family Farms and Farm Buildings: Landscapes of the Heart and Mind” (University of Michigan Press). If you cherish these old stories so ...
Ann Arbor's Anthony Collings recently had a book published by The University of Missouri Press, "Capturing the News: Three Decades of Reporting Crisis and Conflict."
Among the illustrious University of Michigan’s many long arms is its Biological Station, a small village on the southern tip of Douglas Lake, maybe 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge. It has all the necessities of academic life — varied sorts of housing, a big communal cafeteria, a lecture ...
Ann Arbor welcomed home one of its own tonight when author and "Family Guy" writer Cherry Cheva returned to discuss her path to success in the entertainment industry.
OK, kids, pop quiz: If your death turned out to be sudden, unexpected, unusual or suspicious, whose job would it be to find out what the heck happened? Well, those of us in Washtenaw County would be served by the Office of the Medical Examiner, headed up by Dr. Bader ...
The Library of Michigan has released its annual Michigan Notable Books list, and Ann Arbor has made a strong showing. Of the 20 books on the annual list, 4 are from Ann Arbor authors or were published in Ann Arbor. Two non-fiction books published by University of Michigan Press made ...
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In “The Golden Treasure” (Star Publish), the first book of local author Lillian Cauldwell’s “The Anna-Mae Mysteries” series for tweens, heroine Anna-Mae Botts accomplishes something that’s eluded almost 145 years of effort by adults: finding the lost gold of the Confederate Treasury, supposedly buried in northern Georgia during Jefferson Davis’ ...
Ask Jeffrey Pickell, the owner of Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, whether he has any special strategy for boosting holiday sales this year, and you’re in for a pointed response. “I think the artificial marketing of desperation is the worst thing any business can do,” said Pickell, owner of the store ...
Onna SolomonAnn Arbor's Onna Solomon is the 2009 winner of the Beloit Poetry Journal’s annual Chad Walsh Poetry Prize. BPJ editors select a poem or group of poems they have published in the calendar year to receive the award. This year’s choice is Solomon's "Autism Suite," which appeared in the ...
When noted Tchaikovsky scholar Roland John Wiley began his book on the composer back in 1990, he never expected it would take 18 years to complete. “I’ll give you the excuses in a moment,” Wiley, a member of the University of Michigan School of Music faculty, said in a phone ...
Welcome to Mel’s and Jules’s Book Rap, where Melissa LR Handa and Julia Eussen, AnnArbor.com co-contributors, compare thoughts about books and book-events. Sometimes they will agree with one another, other times a heated debate will ensue. No matter what the effect though, it is always fun to get two writers ...
By definition, the 22nd annual Jewish Book Festival is different than the others that take place in book-crazy Ann Arbor each year: All the material is either authored by Jewish writers or is about Jewish topics. But organizers of the event have historically gone out of their way to enhance ...
My beauty slumber has periodically fallen prey to my news habit lately — between world unrest, burgeoning pandemics, unrelenting unemployment and a globe with a fever, there’s just not enough time to worry about it all during my normal waking hours. I did think that I was going to set ...
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com AnnArbor.com's partner news site MLive.com is on a quest to find the best barbecue in ......
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