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February 11, 2012
Charles Baxter

Charles Baxter

Midwestern ghosts, midwestern magic

by Keith Taylor

posted 10/15/2003

A few years ago Charles Baxter wrote a love story set in Ann Arbor, The Feast of Love, which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies around the world. Last year I met a couple of Scandinavian writers in Greece who had a vague idea that Detroit made cars and had never heard of the U-M, but they knew Ann Arbor as the town in Baxter's novel. Until I

 
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