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Creem magazine co-founder Dave Marsh will be honored during three-week virtual celebration. When “The Boss” shows up you know shit is serious, and by serious we mean seriously rock n roll, because Bruce Springsteen is just one of several notable names coming together to celebrate pioneering music writer and Detroit native Dave Marsh. Marsh, 71, the celebrated activist, author, and founding member of
may have coined the term punk rock, who
absolutely played the Who s I Can t Explain 23 times in a row during his stint at a college radio station (which got him fired), called drummer John Bonham Led Zeppelin s “insurmountable flaw,” and dared to describe Freddie Mercury s voice as being “passable” is the honoree at the upcoming “Land of Hope and Dream
Radical Detroit comes alive in Summer of Fire novel set in 1967
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Summer on Fire – Peter Werbe publishes debut novel about the 1967 Detroit uprising
Kurt Anthony Krug
Peter Werbe – who has been a staple in Detroit media for more than 50 years, having hosted “Nightcall” on WRIF-FM from 1971 to 2016 and having contributed countless articles to the counter-culture tabloid called the Fifth Estate – insists he is not the character Paul in his debut novel, “Summer on Fire: A Detroit Novel.”
“Paul is not me,” said Werbe, who lives with Marilyn, his wife of 58 years in Oak Park.
“Summer on Fire” (Black & Red $15.95) is a fictional account of the 1967 Detroit uprising, something Werbe lived through. Werbe and Fifth Estate publisher and founder Harvey Ovshinsky, author of “Scratching the Surface: Adventures in Storytelling” (Wayne State University Press $27.99), will have a virtual conversation about their respective books at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 16 via Facebook. Registration is required for this event, which is sponsored
Leni Sinclair Author, left, along with Deana Clamage and Leon Linderman, looking out windows of the Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam broken by Breakthrough, a right-wing, violent group. Circa 1966.
Peter Werbe is a longtime Detroit political activist, a retired WRIF talk show host, and member of the Fifth Estate magazine editorial group. His new book, Summer on Fire: A Detroit Novel
, is out now. In a summer marked by scorching temperatures and an urban uprising, Werbe s characters are thrust into tumultuous episodes of the 1967 Detroit rebellion, anti-war demonstrations, fighting fascists, rock n roll at the Grande, drugs, anarchism, the White Panther Party, Wilhelm Reich, and a bomb plot that provides what former Metro Times
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 Activist Peter Werbe to hold livestream events to promote his new book, Summer on Fire: A Detroit Novel Posted By Lee DeVito on Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 3:20 PM click to enlarge Leni Sinclair Peter Werbe, left, along with Deana Clamage and Leon Linderman, looking out windows of the Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam broken by Breakthrough, a right-wing, violent group. Circa 1966. This week s
Summer on Fire: A Detroit Novel, a new book by Peter Werbe set in the tumultuous summer of 1967 that
MT senior editor Michael Jackman called a people s history and radical folklore of Detroit.
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