Northern Michigan

Michigan politicians addressed the region's business community and shared their goals to improve affordable broadband connectivity, housing and childcare for the area.

“Firekeeper’s Daughter” is Angeline Boulley’s first book. It’s a young adult thriller about a Native teen girl who gets involved in an FBI drug investigation. It was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller for YA fiction, and is set to be adapted for Netflix by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground.

WDET's Nargis Hakim Rahman talks with Omar El Akkad about his novel "What Strange Paradise."

April Baer of Michigan Radio's "Stateside" talks with Joshua Prager about his book "The Family Roe."

Alex Michaelides has written two bestselling thrillers: “The Silent Patient,” and his newest, “The Maidens.” He has a background in psychotherapy, which has inspired his writing.

Anthony Doerr won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel “All the Light We Cannot See.” His latest book is called “Cloud Cuckoo Land.” It’s a novel the weaves together stories set in medieval Constantinople, present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship, decades in the future.

Mary Roach has been called “America’s funniest science writer.” She’s written seven popular science books, including “Stiff,” “Gulp,” “Grunt,” and her latest, “Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.”

Pam Houston is an essayist, novelist, writer of short stories, and a teacher. She’s best known for her first book, “Cowboys Are My Weakness.” Her latest book is a memoir called “Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country.”

This program is a forum on Afghanistan, in partnership with the International Affairs Forum. The forum features four panelists, three of which appeared live on stage at the City Opera House in Traverse City.