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Kalamazoo quietly emerging as a literary hot spot and the Michigan News is becoming one of the largest book and magazine stores in the United States.
The Michigan News Agency, an independent bookstore in downtown Kalamazoo, has been around since 1947 and helps promote books from local authors. -Ryan Garda/Detroit Free Press; -By Anna Clark/Detroit Free Press Special Writer
Kalamazoo is a midsize city, but in literary terms, it's gigantic. The southwest Michigan hub, home to Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo College, has quietly become a thriving literary town that cultivates extraordinary readers and writers whose accomplishments are attracting national attention.
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Kalamazoo is tired of your Creedence Clearwater jokes
Every spring, serious scholars and amateur historians flock from all over the country to attend the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, the largest event of its kind, held at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Some of these people arrive in full costume and carry lutes. I know this because my long-distance boyfriend, David, who's getting his PhD at Western, dragged me to the conference last year, and my upcoming visit once again coincides with it. This time, however, I've learned my lesson. While he's busy attending round table discussions of Middle Low German medical literature, I'll be exploring the city's cooler side.
When David told me he lived in Kalamazoo, I didn't believe it was a real place. I thought maybe Creedence Clearwater Revival just made it up so they'd have a rhyme with "kazoo." And I'm not the only one, apparently: Once upon a time, the town's official marketing slogan was "Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo." Now that I've had time to get to know the place, I can confirm that not only does Kalamazoo exist, it's actually much more interesting than it gets credit for, with vibrant art, food and beer scenes fueled by a young, college-educated population, according to City-Data.com, and reasonable cost of living.
On my last swing through town, I stopped in at the Michigan News Agency, downtown's only remaining independent bookstore, where I discovered that Kalamazoo also has a surprisingly robust literary scene that includes a number of National Book Award finalists - writers like Bonnie Jo Campbell, whose short stories have been recognized with the Pushcart Prize.
"Long winters mean many of us are great readers," says Dean Hauck, whose family-run bookshop has been in business since 1947. It has one of the largest magazine newsstands in the country, with 7,000 titles ranging from the Bourbon Review to the Paris Review. After browsing the stacks - "cruising the News," as Hauck encourages passersby to do - I walked a few blocks farther down Michigan Avenue and stumbled upon Sydney, a boutique in the lobby of the Radisson Hotel. That's where I found my perfect souvenir: a super-soft, made-in-Michigan t-shirt with green lettering that reads, "Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo."
When David told me he lived in Kalamazoo, I didn't believe it was a real place. I thought maybe Creedence Clearwater Revival just made it up so they'd have a rhyme with "kazoo." And I'm not the only one, apparently: Once upon a time, the town's official marketing slogan was "Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo." Now that I've had time to get to know the place, I can confirm that not only does Kalamazoo exist, it's actually much more interesting than it gets credit for, with vibrant art, food and beer scenes fueled by a young, college-educated population, according to City-Data.com, and reasonable cost of living.
On my last swing through town, I stopped in at the Michigan News Agency, downtown's only remaining independent bookstore, where I discovered that Kalamazoo also has a surprisingly robust literary scene that includes a number of National Book Award finalists - writers like Bonnie Jo Campbell, whose short stories have been recognized with the Pushcart Prize.
"Long winters mean many of us are great readers," says Dean Hauck, whose family-run bookshop has been in business since 1947. It has one of the largest magazine newsstands in the country, with 7,000 titles ranging from the Bourbon Review to the Paris Review. After browsing the stacks - "cruising the News," as Hauck encourages passersby to do - I walked a few blocks farther down Michigan Avenue and stumbled upon Sydney, a boutique in the lobby of the Radisson Hotel. That's where I found my perfect souvenir: a super-soft, made-in-Michigan t-shirt with green lettering that reads, "Yes, there really is a Kalamazoo."
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