If you could come up with a phrase to describe the type of writing mystery authors Bryan Gruley, William Kent Krueger, Steve Hamilton and Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli are writing it would be Up North Noir. Gruley’s newest book “The Hanging Tree” which is pure Up North with all its unusual conventions and the charms you can [...]

Three Michigan authors recently got raves and all three will be at the Kerrytown BookFest

Northern Michigan University is seeking submissions for new book on native American contemporary stories

Michael Federspiel’s new book details the Hemingway mystique.

Michigan author Dan Okrent has written maybe the best book on Prohibition

The Michigan Center for the Book, Sleeping Bear Press and the Michigan Library Associaton have announced that John Smolens is the 2010 winner of the Michigan Author Award.
The annual award honors a Michigan writer for his or her contributions to literature based on an outstanding published body of work. Read a review of his newest [...]

Michigan authors will keep you reading this summer

Michigan children’s author Deborah Diesen

Yoopers shoot they score big

Constance Fenimore Woolson wrote Anne about her time on Mackinac Island