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Book Sale Donation Drive

The Friends of the Library are collecting book donations for their annual book sale. Drop off book donations between August 12 – September 12 at:

LaPorte County Convention & Visitors Bureau
(@ the Old Marquette Mall next to Planet Fitness)
4073 S. Franklin Street
Michigan City, IN 46360
(219) 872-5055

David Hoppe

Writing Out Loud Author Series

The 40th season of Writing Out Loud, our annual author series, begins in September 2024. The Friends of the Michigan City Public Library will host a reception following each program.

David Hoppe and Martin Buechley
Saturday, September 7, 7:30pm

David Hoppe and Martin Buechley will offer an evening of jazz and prose. Martin’s jazz performance will open the program, followed by David’s reading from his satirical novel, Mondo POTUS: An American Love Story. David was the founder of Writing Out Loud in 1984.

David Hoppe’s writing explores the intersections of politics and culture. He has been a writer, editor and columnist for NUVO since 1998, serving, at different times, as Associate Editor and Arts Editor. He has received nine First Place awards from the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists in a variety of categories. His book, Personal Indianapolis (Hawthorne Publishing), is a collection of NUVO columns written since 2001.

Hoppe is also author of the book, Food For Thought: An Indiana Harvest (Indiana Humanities) on the burgeoning food scene in the Hoosier state, and is co-author, with Van Kirby, of On the Table By the Window (Dog Ear Publishing), Kirby’s memoir about his struggle to be the first gay man in Indiana to win custody of his children. He has edited two collections of essays, Where We Live: Essays About Indiana (Indiana University Press) and Hard Pieces: Dan Carpenter’s Indiana (Indiana University Press).

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