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Legendary news anchor and television journalist Tom Brokaw visited Traverse City on Wednesday, May 12 as part of the 2010 TC National Writers Series. Anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004, Brokaw is the only person to ever host all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News and Meet the Press. He is also the New York Times best-selling author of runaway hits "The Greatest Generation," "The Greatest Generation Speaks" and...
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An internationally renowned author, screenwriter, playwright, broadcaster and Detroit Free Press columnist, Albom has penned four #1 New York Times best-sellers, including "Tuesdays with Morrie," "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," "For One More Day" and "Have a Little Faith." Albom was joined on stage by host Doug Stanton, New York Times best-selling author ("In Harm's Way") and founder of the National Writers Series.
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The National Writers Series is a one-of-a-kind book event designed to engage today's best writers with large, enthusiastic book-buying audiences. Doug Stanton, New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers and In Harms Way, and whose writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, TIME, and Men's Journal, founded this year-round book festival in 2009. He hosts the events in a grand 19th century opera house near the shore of Lake Michigan in the resort town of...
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NOTE: TV-MA (Language) Author Lee Child is in conversation onstage at the City Opera House with New York Times bestselling author and host Doug Stanton for a fascinating discussion on his life and work, including the eagerly anticipated new novel, A Wanted Man (published September 2012). Child has become an international sensation and regular fixture atop the New York Times bestsellers list. He is published in ninety-five countries and in forty languages, with more than thirteen million books...
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New York Times bestselling Author Maggie Stiefvater brought a new audience to the National Writers Series as the first young adult author to appear on the City Opera House stage on September 27, 2012. Bookends blogger and young adult reviewer Lynn Rutan guest hosted the conversation with Stiefvater, who offered an energetic and entertaining look into her career as a young adult novelist. "As soon as I stopped writing crappy novels, I got published. That's the secret," Stiefvater...
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The chapters of author, actor and photographer Benjamin Busch's life have circled back and folded in on themselves in mysterious and moving ways. A former U.S. Marine Corps officer who served two combat tours in Iraq, Ben returned to the U.S. to play a Marine in HBO's Generation Kill, where he pretended to invade towns he had actually invaded in the line of duty. The intersection of combat and art continued to play a pivotal role in Ben's career; he produced multiple photo exhibits of Iraq that...
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#1 New York Times Best-Selling Author of The Lincoln Lawyer and Creator of the Harry Bosch Series with Guest Host Bryan Gruley, Award-Winning Author of the Starvation Lake Mystery Series.
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Political Activist and Best-Selling Author of Infidel with guest host Jack Segal - top NATO Adviser on Afghanistan and Former U.S. Diplomat. As one of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the 2004 murder of her colleague, Theo van Gogh, at the hands of a religious fundamentalist. Ayaan was immediately forced into hiding, having written the screenplay for Theo's Submission, a fierce 11-minute critique of Islam....
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NOTE: TV-MA Modern television is now home to some of the best, most engrossing storytelling happening in American culture. Audiences loved last year's evening at NWS with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, and before that Mad Men writers and producers Janet Leahy and Lisa Albert. This exclusive, one-of-a-kind event has become a signature evening and much anticipated by National Writers Series audiences. The National Writers Series is proud to present An Evening with Chip Johannessen, one of...
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Rarely does an author transcend his chosen genre. Buzz Bissinger managed to do it first with his breakout bestseller turned popular television series, Friday Night Lights. Not just a sportswriter, Bissinger is a master storyteller known for his artful ability to capture the everyday dramas faced by coaches and players off the court and away from the cheers of adoring fans. His ability to weave a compelling narrative and reveal the human side of every story is why some Bissinger's most ardent...
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Suffering, survival, and a celebration of the human spirit— go inside one of the most secretive places on the planet with bestselling author Blaine Harden. "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West," tells the true story of Shin Dong-hyuk. Born into a life of hard labor behind the electrified fences of the Kaechon internment camp, Shin is the only person to have escaped from what can only be described as a modern-day concentration...
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A twisted marriage of lies, infidelity, and murder — master of the mystery/thriller and author of the New York Times bestseller Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn reveals what it takes to write a novel people can't put down. What was the inspiration for the book that has replaced Fifty Shades of Grey as the new must-read fiction of the year? Find out how this former journalism major, crime reporter, and film and TV critic at Entertainment Weekly became one of the most popular authors writing today....
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Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick is an admittedly meticulous researcher and has become known for his ability to pull out fascinating bits of history as he chronicles his historic tales of America and the sea in his nonfiction narratives. Philbrick talked about his research and writing process with interviewer Rich Fahle at his National Writers Series appearance May 14, 2013. C/O Cymbre Foster
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Recruiting Russian spies and managing covert actions against weapons of mass destruction in the world's rogue states. Hear CIA veteran and debut novelist Jason Matthews talk about his life undercover and turning that experience into publishing gold. Red Sparrow is the espionage novel everyone's going to be talking about.
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Go inside the mind of Temple Grandin in this special Writers Series event. Grandin has become one of the nation's leading autism advocates as well as an expert in animal welfare. Grandin shares her experiences and takes questions on a wide array of topics.
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Author Colum McCann is interviewed by Leigh Haber, Books Editor for O, The Oprah Magazine. McCann is best known for his novel Let the Great World Spin, currently being adapted for the screen by J.J. Abrams.
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They live among us. They are your neighbor, your mother, your lover. They change. Ben Percy was thinking about what society fears now, decided it was terrorism and disease, and sat down and began writing Red Moon -- the world's first 9/11 werewolf book. It has been hailed as Amazon Best Book of the Month in May, 2013 the "most anticipated book" of 2013 by Publisher's Weekly, and the New York Times called the paranormal thriller "imaginative and lots of fun." Percy is also...
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Enjoy this reading by Ivy Baillie- a senior in the Front Street Writers program located in Traverse City, Michigan. Front Street Writers student Ivy Baillie wowed the audience when she read an original piece of flash fiction prior to the Friday September 27, 2013 event with Michael Paterniti. Thank you Ivy and thank you to the audience for your support of the Front Street Writers program.
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Paterniti is an emerging American master whom critics have said is at the top of his game. The New York Times bestselling author is also the author of Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain. He is a former executive of Outside and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, Details, and Esquire, where he is writer-at-large. He is also the co-founder of The Telling Room, a nonprofit writing center for children in Portland, Maine. It is dedicated...
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Jamie Ford, author of the New York Times best-selling Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, appeared on Monday, Sept. 30 with guest host Rich Fahle to discuss his newly-released second novel, Songs of Willow Frost.
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Francine J. Harris reads original poems before An Evening with Nikki Giovanni.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Finkel won critical acclaim for his book The Good Soldiers, listed a best book of 2009 by the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Slate.com, and The Boston Globe. In his forthcoming book Thank You For Your Service Finkel follows many of the soldiers he wrote about in The Good Soldiers as they return home and struggle to reintegrate both into their family lives and into American society at large.
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Before there was Lisbeth Salander or Stephanie Plum, there was V.I. Warshawski. Sara Paretsky has been credited with transforming the mystery genre through the creation of her female private eye V.I. Warshawski. She introduced the smart and gritty investigator in 1982 in her novel Indemnity Only. This was followed by 15 more bestselling Warshawski novels. Kathleen Turner played V.I Warshawski in the movie of that name and her work appears in the documentary Women of Mystery.
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An American icon and an Oprah "Living Legend" Nikki Giovanni's poetry has spurred movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations. Frequently anthologized, Giovanni's poetry expresses strong racial pride and respect for family. Her informal style makes her work accessible to both adults and children. "I come from a long line of storytellers," said Giovanni in an interview who said she gained her appreciation for her African-American heritage from her...
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National Writers Series presents Kelly Corrigan with a discussion of her new book Glitter and Glue.
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Author George Packer sits down at City Opera House in Traverse City to talk about his extensive covering of the Iraq war and his latest book The Unwinding. Packer became a staff writer for The New Yorker in 2003 and has covered the Iraq War for the magazine. His book The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by the New York Times and won the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award. He has also written about the atrocities committed in Sierra...
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Author Daniel James Brown sits down at the City Opera House in Traverse City to talk about his latest book The Boys in the Boat. The Boys in the Boat, tells the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Olympics. It’s the improbable, intimate story of a group of boys from the American west who, in the depths of the great depression, showed the world what true grit really meant. The Boys in the Boat was an LA Times Bestseller for 22 weeks, and...
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Washington Post editor Steve Luxenberg set out to write a memoir about why his mother withheld from her children the existence of her sister, Annie, who was institutionalized for 31 years in an asylum near Detroit. But Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret (2010, Hyperion) surpasses his mother’s story. The book is ultimately an examination of secrets, why we keep them, and how they transform us. Luxenberg spoke at the National Writers Series in Traverse City, on April 8, appearing...
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Georgia native Karin Slaughter is regarded as one of the best crime novelists in America today. Her 14 novels have sold over 30 million copies worldwide and have topped bestseller lists in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, the Netherlands and Germany. But, as she told guest author Elizabeth Buzzelli during a National Writers Series appearance in Traverse City on June 26, Slaughter’s books explore more than bloody murders and harrowing mysteries, they examine gender stereotypes and...
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Bryce Hoffman is a bestselling author, speaker and consultant. An award-winning journalist, he spent two decades covering major companies in the automotive, technology and biotechnology industries. At the end of 2008 Ford Motor Company was in the fight of its life but when Congress threw it a taxpayer lifeline, Ford ignored it. Instead, the iconic company under the leadership of Alan Mulally pulled off one of the biggest comebacks in business history. It would become one of the great management...
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See one of the most off the wall audiences in National Writers Series history at the final event of the season. Diana Gabaldon is a New York Times best selling author and creator of the Outlander television series on Starz.
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Nancy Horan is the author of the blockbuster 2007 bestseller and book club favorite Loving Frank, which chronicles a little-known chapter in the life of legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and his client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. Translated into sixteen languages, Loving Frank won the 2009 James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction, awarded by the Society of American Historians. In her much-anticipated second novel Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Horan beautifully...
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READING, WRITING & SHOPPING: A gift for comic writing and A flare for everything fashionable, international bestselling author Sophie Kinsella makes her first trip to the U.S. in more than four years. Kinsella is the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Shopaholic series as well as the novels Can You Keep a Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me?, Twenties Girl, and I’ve Got Your Number and Wedding Night. Shopaholic To The Stars by Sophie KinsellaIt has been several years...
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Tess Gerritsen wasn’t drawn to write gory thrillers because she had a peculiar lust for blood and violence. Instead, her path to murder was an immigrant’s tale. It began with Gerritsen’s mother, a native of China, who didn’t understand English well. But she could easily grasp the universal language of film, particularly horror movies. Guest host Kerrey Woughter Serial Killers and Twisted Sex
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An Evening with Brian Castner & Brian Turner November 19, 2014 With Guest Host Benjamin Busch at the City Opera House in Traverse City THE STORY OF WAR, THE LANGUAGE OF BEING HUMAN: Three veterans of the war in the Middle East, all acclaimed authors, come together on the NWS stage to tell their stories as literature and as a record of an epochal event.
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Rita Mae Brown sits down for an interview with the National Writers Series in Traverse City, MI. Rita Mae Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of the Mrs. Murphy mystery series (which she writes with her tiger cat, Sneaky Pie), the Sister Jane foxhunting mysteries, and the acclaimed classic and mega-bestselling Rubyfruit Jungle. She is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet who has published countless novels, essays, screenplays, poetry, cookbooks, a memoir, and most famously,...
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BESTSELLING AUTHOR & ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER: Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain has sold more than 4 million copies and spent more than THREE years on the New York Times bestseller list. He won an academy award in 1990 for his live action short film, The Last Party. Before turning to writing full-time, Garth Stein was a documentary filmmaker, directing, editing, and/or producing several award-winning films, including The Lunch Date, winner of the Academy award for live action...
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Perhaps Macomber’s near-capacity crowd at the National Writers Series event wasn’t sure what kind of a ride they were in for that night. Just a block away, another performance was rollicking at the City Opera House – NBC was hosting a free concert featuring Joshua Davis, a semifinalist in the televised, singer-competition show, “The Voice.” In his introduction, Doug Stanton, National Writers Series co-founder, urged the crowd to “vote for Debbie Macomber – she’s trending on...
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Jeff Shaara remembers the moment that emotion overcame his father on a Civil War battlefield. The late Michael Shaara, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, was touring Gettysburg together with his son. A guide led them up Pickett’s Charge, the uphill path the Confederates took toward the Union Army’s guns. The battlefield visitors stepped over what was once a stone wall and found a Confederate flag planted in the ground. That, the guide passionately told them, was...
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Master of suspense and The Stranger by Harlan Cobenmega-bestselling author Harlan Coben will make a National Writers Series appearance during the 2015 National Cherry Festival with his new book The Stranger. The Stranger is his most shocking thriller yet, proving that a well-placed lie can help build a wonderful life – and that a secret has the same explosive power to destroy it. With over 60 million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben’s last seven consecutive novels all debuted at #1 on...
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Advising four-star generals comes naturally when you’ve stared down warlords, defied death threats from drug cartels and told a U.S. president he was being duped. And that’s just the beginning. Sarah Chayes’ journey from fearless journalist to being the smartest person in a room full of four-star generals and policy makers will blow you away. As a renowned NPR correspondent, Sarah Chayes made the gutsy decision in 2002 to settle in war-ravaged Kandahar, Afghanistan – heartland of the...
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Bonnie Jo Campbell has made her mark writing mesmerizing stories and gripping novels about the dark and desperate side of country living. Now, the National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Mothers Tell Your Daughters by Bonnie Jo CampbellAward finalist has a new collection of stories—Mothers, Tell Your Daughters. With gorgeously ragged prose and Campbell’s uncanny knack for irony, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters captures the central mysteries of life through her fierce...
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Traverse City writer Mardi Link swims into the depths of friendship in her newest book, The Drummond Girls. This poignant memoir tells the story of eight women who met in 1991 at Peegeo’s restaurant near Traverse City. They decide to celebrate a friend’s engagement with a trip to Drummond Island, a remote chunk of rugged shoreline, wilderness, dirt roads, and dive bars. So begins two decades of annual trips to Drummond Island, where they hang onto a slice ofThe Drummond Girls by Mardi...
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Paula McLain, international bestselling author of The Paris Wife, is returning to the National Writers Series on October 14, 2015, for an up-close and personal conversation about her stunning new book, Circling the Sun. McLain’s new, heartbreaking love story is scheduled for release the week of July 28th. The novel is set against the romantic backdrop of colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Like The Paris Wife, the story centers around a captivating love triangle—this one between daring aviator...
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Susan Casey is the New York Times bestselling author who travels to the edges of the earth and the depths of its oceans, to explore new realms. In Voices in the Ocean: A Journey Into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins, she turns her storyteller’s art to dolphins—playful mammals that can count, deduce, throw tantrums, call each other by name, and rescue themselves and humans, too. USA Today calls the book “painstakingly researched and gorgeously written.” Casey is our tour guide to...
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