Geoff Koch

2 months ago | lizadonnelly.substack.com | Liza Donnelly |Geoff Koch |Peter L Molloy |Michelle McBride

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Oct 9, 2024 | hourdetroit.com | Geoff Koch |Christina Clark

Jonathan Smith is an avatar of more than just MSU football. From the erosion of local rivalries to the rise of the money game, the first-year Spartan coach invites questions on more than just, say, the play at the line of scrimmage, though that was alarming enough in MSU’s Oct. 4 31-10 shellacking at Oregon, which was hosting its first Big 10 game.

Jun 25, 2024 | alumni.berkeley.edu | Geoff Koch

Space nerds are well aware, but the general public may need a reminder that NASA is on its way back to the Moon—with actual astronauts, that is, possibly including Woody Hoburg, Ph.D.’13, as part of the Moon-or-bust Artemis program. In Greek myth, Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo, which of course is also the appellation of the NASA mission that made astronauts like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin nearly mythological figures in their own right.

May 24, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Geoff Koch

Thomas McGuane, who turned 84 in December, is still under contract at the New Yorker, where he first published fiction in 1994—and published his most recent short story just this week. McGuane landed his first contract at the publication after a long run as a Hollywood screenwriter and novelist and plenty of highs and lows, from very nearly flunking out of the University of Michigan to being nominated for a National Book Award.

May 16, 2024 | hourdetroit.com | Geoff Koch |Christina Clark

Things weren’t looking good for future novelist Thomas McGuane at the University of Michigan, where he’d begun his undergraduate studies in the late 1950s. After one particularly dire academic term, his GPA was 0.6, which is how the math worked out for his grades of two F’s, one D, and an enigmatic FN. “It stood for ‘flagrant neglect,’” says the National Book Award finalist with a chuckle, sitting in front of one of the many bookshelves in his Montana home.