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“It was a very cold night so I went and checked on him, thinking he was homeless. Nope—dead body!”

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My story was about “Zombie,” a new drug that had hit the streets of Detroit, but was still so underground only those heavily entrenched in the world of hard drugs and law enforcement knew about it.

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We Came All This Way is the first novel in 8 years from the author whom Entertainment Weekly calls “…a fearsome cultural critic disguised in a novelist’s clothing,” and The Washington Post calls “… a young master of this old…

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As my date and I rode into Detroit with a bus full of fellow college freshmen, I felt like a character straight out of a Sinclair Lewis novel – kitschy, afraid, but most of all, excited.

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Updated periodically.

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JMSN’s organic sound goes against the grain of overcooked contemporary pop music.

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These are people that are so poor that they can’t even keep up with their water bill. They are living in a city where they can’t get a job and they are so poor that they can’t leave. I think it’s worth trying to make a difference to them.

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Judge rules “no Constitutional right to water.”

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I spent a few years after college living in a variety of locales in the Detroit area and working shit jobs as I passed off my mid-twenties waiting to see what use the world might have for me.

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Part of why Detroiters love Detroit is that everyone else hates it.