Michael Steinberg

Living in Michigan, Dreaming Manhattan: Selected Essays and Memoirs 1990-2015.

Eleven selected personal essays and memoirs on/about childhood, baseball, place, aging, travel, teaching, and writing

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BOOKS

Living in Michigan, Dreaming Manhattan: Selected Essays and Memoirs 1990-2015.

Memoir

Still Pitching: A Memoir

“My favorite book of the year. An astonishing look at the pains of growing up.”

--Dan Smith, WVTF Virginia, Public Radio

Collection/Anthology

Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs From Michigan

“Wherever readers look, they’ll find a different essay, a different voice, a different Michigan.”

-- Crab Orchard Review

Anthology of/on Creative Nonfiction

The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction Robert Root/Michael Steinberg

“Offers the most thorough and teachable introduction available to this exciting genre.”

--John Boe, Editor, Writing on the Edge

Stage Play

I'm Almost Famous (stage play) Bob Baldori/Michael Steinberg

"An evening of energy, hot music, laughs and sheer entertainment." Lansing State Journal

Teaching/Writing

Those Who Do, Can: Teachers Writing, Writers Teaching -- A Sourcebook Robert Root/ Michael Steinberg

"Root and Steinberg will be on the shelf near my desk that holds the most important books about the teaching of writing." -Donald Murray, A Writer Teaches Writing and Write to Learn

Literary Journal

Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (Founding Editor)

"Fourth Genre is the Paris Review of nonfiction journals." Newpages.com

Writing/Teaching Text

The Writer's Way: A Process-to-Product Approach to Writing Michael Steinberg/ Clinton S. Burhans

“The Writer’s Way is the best book I’ve found yet for teaching first quarter Freshmen their first English writing sequence….” Dr. Sheila Coghill, Moorhead State University.

SELECTED SINGLE WORKS