by Ryan Place | Mar 9, 2019 | Exclusives, Uncategorized
George Hagenauer is a funny guy. He is the man of a million, brilliant, chattering tangents, weaving in and out of multiple stories simultaneously like a Benzedrine-crazed Grand Theft Auto driver, yet he never loses the threads. His stories and thoughts are...
by Ryan Place | Aug 10, 2018 | Exclusives, Uncategorized
*Special thank you to Book Beat & Street Corner Music for allowing us in your stores* Wayne Kramer probably shouldn’t be alive right now. A normal human would’ve folded up and exploded decades ago from a pulverizing combination of “Hard Stuff,” like hard music,...
by Ryan Place | Jun 29, 2018 | Exclusives, Uncategorized
*Detroit Bookfest would not have been possible at Eastern Market without the love and support of Eastern Market Manager Lonni Thomas* Detroit is a great American city and the Eastern Market Neighborhood is one of the top retail districts in Detroit and...
by Ryan Place | Jun 27, 2017 | Exclusives, Uncategorized
I remember Lenny Fritz vividly. He was a big dude who looked intimidating and whose peripheral manifestation evoked possibilities of an outlaw biker or a club bouncer to those who didn’t know him. In actuality, Lenny was a fun, cool, extremely creative and hilarious...
by Ryan Place | Mar 5, 2017 | Exclusives, Uncategorized
You have to hand it to John King. He’s a self-made businessman who built a fifty-year powerhouse of books. He’s outlasted Borders Books, watched the rise of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, and survived razor-thin years of the Great Recession. Even with...
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