Detroit in literature

The role of Detroit, Michigan, and in literature has been significantly discussed, including in academic works. .^[1] ^[2]^[3] The city and its suburbs, is the setting for a number of novels and short story collections, ^[4] including:

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit, 1932 (Journey to the End of the Night, 1934)
Harriette Arnow, The Dollmaker 1954
Rainelle Burton, The Root Worker, 2001
Jim Daniels, Detroit Tales 2003
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides 1993 and Middlesex 2002
Arthur Hailey, Wheels 1971
Gary Hardwick, The Executioner's Game 2005
William X. Kienzle, The Rosary Murders 1979
Elmore Leonard, City Primeval: Detroit at High Noon 1980
Joyce Carol Oates, them 1968
Harold Robbins, The Betsy 1971
James O'Barr, The Crow 1981
Marge Piercy, "Braided Lives"
Patrick O'Leary, Door Number Three 1995
Jeffry Scott Hansen Warpath 2003
Paul Clemens, Made in Detroit 2005
Alexander C. Irvine, The Narrows 2005
Joe Borri, Eight Dogs Named Jack 2007
Frank Anthony Polito, Band Fags! 2008
Michael Zadoorian, Second Hand 2000, The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit 2009, Beautiful Music 2018 and The Narcissism of Small Differences 2020

References

^ Andrews, Clarence A. Michigan in Literature. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992. ISBN 9780814323687. Chapter 15: "Detroit in Literature--the French city and the motor city --"
^ Preston, Peter, and Paul Simpson-Housley. Writing the City: Eden, Babylon, and the New Jerusalem. London: Routledge, 1994.
^ Kenyon, Amy Maria. Dreaming Suburbia Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. OCLC 871802014
^ Anna Clark "Reading American cities: books about Detroit" The Guardian May 22, 2015 [1]

[1] Andrews, Clarence A. Michigan in Literature. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992. ISBN 9780814323687. Chapter 15: "Detroit in Literature--the French city and the motor city --"

[2] Preston, Peter, and Paul Simpson-Housley. Writing the City: Eden, Babylon, and the New Jerusalem. London: Routledge, 1994.

[3] Kenyon, Amy Maria. Dreaming Suburbia Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. OCLC 871802014

[4] Anna Clark "Reading American cities: books about Detroit" The Guardian May 22, 2015 [1]

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