Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them: Contemporary Michigan Literature (Made in Michigan Writers) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814334741 ISBN 13: 9780814334744

Publisher: Wayne State University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Tales of the ghostly and supernatural by some of Michigan’s finest fiction writers.

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Review:

James Hynes's 'Backseat Driver' deftly contrasts female powerlessness in daily life with revenge from beyond the grave, Anne-Marie Oomen's 'Bitchathane' and Lolita Hernandez's Making Bakes use regional flavor effectively, and editor Kasischke's 'Ghost Anecdote' neatly shifts focus from narrator to reader, memory to imagination, and mundane to fabulous. Mainstream readers will find these hauntings very accessible, and their endearing na?vet? will charm horror fans."--Publishers Weekly

Looking for trouble in familiar places? I suggest you curl up with this contemporary literary guide to Michigan ghosts, in which some of our state's finest poets and storytellers will carry you to burial grounds, haunted lighthouses, disorienting museums, mansions with secret passageways, and farmhouses visited by those long dead. These stories unite the urban and the rural, the funny and the grim, by allowing a reader a glimpse below the surface."--Bonnie Jo Campbell

By turns bone-chilling and heart-stirring (not to mention heart-chilling and bone-stirring) these gripping tales are deeply haunted by Michigan history. My hat-and my hair!-is raised to the authors and editors."--Peter Ho Davies "author of The Welsh Girl "

About the Author:

Keith Taylor is the author of numerous books, including Guilty at the Rapture and a co-translation of Battered Guitars: The Poetry and Prose of Kostas Karyotakis. He is coordinator of undergraduate creative writing at the University of Michigan and director of the Bear River Writers Conference.||LAURA KASISCHKE is the author of three previous books of poetry, Wild Brides, Housekeeping in a Dream, and Fire & Flower, and two novels, Suspicious River and White Bird in a Blizzard. Her new novel, The Life before Her Eyes, is forthcoming. She lives in Chelsea, Michigan

About this edition

• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0814334741
• ISBN 13: 9780814334744
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Taylor Keith, Kasischke Laura