This sentimental collection of essays by Peter Damm, BA ’71, takes you to a world of softly faded Polaroids and crackly AM radios. There are summer hijinks at Lake Michigan, poignant life lessons from the youngest of six Catholic children, and hilarious confessions that are both intimately personal and wholly relatable.

This fiction guru/publisher has spent decades curating his Mysterious Press and Mysterious Bookshop. Penzler often consults with ‘regulars’ like Stephen King and James Patterson — and he suggests these thrillers to pass the pandemic.

The first and arguably greatest American novel about a scientist — Sinclair Lewis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Arrowsmith — never could have been written without the real-life character Lewis found at U-M. But the writer never delivered the credit he promised.

A Moroccan encounter with the ancient Berber alphabet leaves novelist Nicholas Delbanco feeling tongue-tied.

What goes up must come down, states the law of gravity. Nicholas Delbanco asks: Does that apply to literature too?

Nicholas Delbanco asks: How does one ensure the road not taken is the road to creative freedom?

H.D. Thoreau once said, ‘Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.’ Really?

Nicholas Delbanco memorializes late author, poet, essayist, and longtime U-M professor Donald Hall.

Nicholas Delbanco reminds us that the act of writing (i.e., making marks on a surface) changes with the times.