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Scott Lasser

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Detroit, Michigan, The United States

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Scott Lasser is the author of four novels: Battle Creek, All I Could Get, The Year That Follows, and Say Nice Things About Detroit. His non-fiction has appeared in magazines ranging from Dealmaker (for which he wrote a regular book column) to the New Yorker. He splits his time between Los Angeles and Colorado.

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	Say Nice Things About Detroit 3.28 avg rating — 1,143 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year That Follows by Scott Lasser (Goodreads Author), Mel Foster (Narrator), Tanya Eby Sirois (Narrator) 3.38 avg rating — 720 ratings — published 2009 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Battle Creek 3.49 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All I Could Get: A Novel 3.29 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All I Could Get 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Detroit, South Detroit, and the NYT.com

Today the New York Times published an Op-Ed piece I wrote about Detroit. As you can see by clicking here, it's called "When the Lights Go Down in the City." Please, check it out.

The title of the piece obviously comes from the Journey song of the same name. I am grateful that the New York Times came calling; I only wish we could have used a title from a Detroit band, or at least a song about Detroi Read more of this blog post »

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“Dearborn, the home of Ford and Arabic street signs. Not many brothers out there, which, of course, had always been old man Ford’s design. Keeping Arabs out had probably never occurred to him.”
― Scott Lasser, Say Nice Things About Detroit: A Novel

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“Most people considered options a good thing, the American way, but one tended to squander those choices, or to choose badly, and then to call a bad outcome fate, as if the choices made had nothing to do with it.”
― Scott Lasser, Say Nice Things About Detroit

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“He wondered what ever had made him go into this business. He couldn’t remember, exactly. He’d always been a good student, able to write papers and take tests, at the top of his class. What worried him were his abilities in the real world. Perhaps he’d settled on law because it seemed the career that was most like school.”
― Scott Lasser, Say Nice Things About Detroit: A Novel

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