Bill Castanier
Literary journalist and lit blogger
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1 week ago |
lansingcitypulse.com | Bill Castanier
(This is the second in a two-part series on Detroit’s famed writer.)C.M. Kushins was 11 when his mother gave him a copy of “Get Shorty.” It led to a life of writing. He writes in the postscript to his newly released biography of Elmore Leonard, “Cooler Than Cool,” that “I discovered the narrative voice that excited me.”Kushins was an inveterate crime-fiction reader as a teen when he sent a short-story manuscript to Leonard.
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2 weeks ago |
lansingcitypulse.com | Bill Castanier
Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 6:23 am (This is part one of a two-part article on the legendary Elmore Leonard. Next week, I will interview his biographer.)How cool is cool?
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2 weeks ago |
lansingcitypulse.com | Bill Castanier
Chalk another one upThe public art season is upon us. Last weekend was Chalk of the Town in Old Town, where artists competed for the best chalk art installation. First place in the over-18 division went to Heather Wright for her illustration of a bobcat. The first-place youth winner was Markayla Marquardt for her fire-spewing dragon.
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3 weeks ago |
lansingcitypulse.com | Bill Castanier
Almost 30 years ago, Terri L. Jewell, a Lansing Black lesbian poet and author, committed suicide at the age of 41. Her life is still memorialized in the Stephen O. Murray Keelung Hong Special Collections at Michigan State University, where her work is archived. Jewell entered the literary world in 1993 with “The Black Woman’s Gumbo Ya Ya: Quotations by Black Women,” which is still sought out today. It is a compendium of inspirational quotes from 350 black women, both contemporary and historical.
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1 month ago |
lansingcitypulse.com | Bill Castanier
Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 6:37 am June 5-early fall 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday Noon-5 p.m. Saturday Noon-10 p.m. Sunday MSU Main Library 366 W. Circle Drive, East Lansing lib.msu.edu/exhibits In the early to mid-‘60s, most young men couldn’t find Vietnam on a map, despite the ramped-up coverage of the war on the nightly network news. The vast majority of males paraded to post offices in their hometowns on their 18th birthdays to register for the draft and receive...
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