John Counts
News Leader at Ann Arbor News
News Leader at MLive
Investigations editor for @MLive. Punk rock crooner. "Bear County, Michigan" coming 2025 from @northwesternup. Book riffage at https://t.co/Ma8WI5ap71
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
mlive.com | John Counts
Readers: MLive President John Hiner is taking the week off from this column. In his place, MLive Investigative Editor John Counts shares a behind-the-scenes look at a recent project from his team. The story is almost impossible to sum up. If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.
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2 months ago |
jcounts.substack.com | John Counts
In our backyard, here on the rural outskirts of Detroit, we have a little white house – a playhouse, but a little more advanced. We call it The Little House. It was built by my father-in-law’s father back in the ‘50s or ‘60s. He was one of those guys who could build anything, kind of like my father-in-law. I was never one of those guys. The only thing I could ever build were songs, stories and, recently, a book – Bear County, Michigan.
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Feb 15, 2025 |
kirkusreviews.com | John Counts |Alison Espach |Richard Wright
A book concerning misfits should be more thrilling. A mostly marginal cast of characters struggles through life in western Michigan in these short stories. The fictional Bear County, Michigan—in a state shaped like a hand, it’s the “middle of the pinkie,” according to one character—is a post-industrial place marked by a lack of good jobs and the beautiful shoreline of Lake Michigan.
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Oct 30, 2024 |
pubs.usgs.gov | John Counts |William H. Craddock |Jared T. Gooley |Marc L. Buursink
First posted October 30, 2024 Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimated undiscovered, technically recoverable mean resources of 16 million barrels of oil and 348 billion cubic feet of gas in conventional reservoirs of the Norphlet Formation in the U.S. Gulf Coast region.
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Jun 20, 2024 |
jcounts.substack.com | John Counts
I was in the middle of the master’s program at Columbia College Chicago circa 2007 when novelist, professor, Windy City expert, punk Buddhist and all-around kind soul Don De Grazia agreed to be my thesis advisor. Don and I first met at an official school function where there were drinks. We drank a couple of those, then immediately hit the bar. And for the rest of my time in Chicago, this was our way.
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All songs are little stories. And short stories share a musicality of language. I talk here a little about the album I wrote based on the book Bear County, Michigan. https://t.co/8QnLjMdC8U
So cool getting to talk to @slagterm about the collision of rock and roll and word: https://t.co/WMFhrTRyhf
RT @a2pulp: Portals of Escape: John Counts' short stories chronicle how “Bear County, Michigan” residents try to evade their realities.…
