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‘Pages from a Black Radical’s Notebook’: a James Boggs Reader

By PATRICK HIGGINS

A great service to mankind — in particular, to Detroit-kind — has been rendered with the release of “Pages from a Black Radical’s Notebook: A James Boggs Reader.” The book offers up hundreds of pages worth of postulations, considerations, examinations, and critiques by Boggs, a key Motor City laborer and radical activist. APR 11

Review: ‘At the Bureau of Divine Music’

By ADAM GAC

Occasionally self-indulgent and unerringly personal, Michael Heffernan’s collection of poems, “At the Bureau of Divine Music,” may not be for every reader, but it will elicit a response from anyone. APR 6

Book review: ‘The Double Life of Alfred Buber’

By BIANCA GONZALEZ

Through a memoir-style narrative of Alfred Buber’s mid-life crisis, David Schmahmann explores love, lust, poverty and power in “The Double Life of Alfred Buber” as he takes a microscope to the difficult journey people go through in finding out who they truly are. “The Double Life of Alfred Buber” offers a unique narrative, presenting the story out of chronological order which serves to blur the lines of what is real and what isn’t — precisely the issue that Buber seems to be confronting. APR 15

‘Punching Out’: What’s happening to Detroit
FEB 22
'Lost Detroit' shows city's dismissed dozen
DEC 10
Prof works on book about Lafayette Park
NOV 30

Review: ‘In Which Brief Stories Are Told’

By BARRY LEWIS

A paperback book comprised of short stories about the intricate lives of Michiganders, “In Which Brief Stories Are Told” probes the minds of its readers as it creeps through the lives of regular citizens. APR 6

Student publishes book on autism

By ADAM GAC

Autism is diagnosed now more often than ever before. Ryan Ennis, a graduate from Wayne State’s School of Library and Information Science and a doctoral candidate in the reading language and literature program, recently wrote a short chapter book for helping typical children understand others with autism. Ennis wrote “The Thursday Surprise” for children in grades 3-5. MAR 9