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Writing Elsewhere

How China’s 36th-Best Car Company Saved Volvo

May 24, 2018 By Bryan

For this cover story, I traveled to Sweden, where I interviewed a CEO for the first and probably last time in somebody’s master bedroom. Had some fantastic meals, too.

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The Nursing Home Operator Trying to Save the Iron Range

March 21, 2018 By Bryan

Hanging with the subject of this story in northern Minnesota in January was great fun. Alas, Tom Clarke hasn’t always been great fun for his investors and lenders.

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My Novel Trilogy Isn’t a Memoir, Except …

June 13, 2017 By Bryan

Of Starvation Lake, mothers and sons, and the sometimes thin lines between fiction and life.

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The Best Writer I’ll Ever Know

May 28, 2017 By Bryan

Brian Doyle was my college pal and writing hero. His too-early death was a huge loss for readers everywhere. Look for his name in BLEAK HARBOR.

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The Cottage We Loved and Lost

May 24, 2017 By Bryan

A personal tale of the northern Michigan lake house my parents bought in 1971 and how my siblings and I dealt with it after Mom and Dad died.

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