Lake Street Studios host authors Robertson, Oomen

From staff reports

Like so many who love this area, Jenny Robertson and Anne-Marie Oomen claim a kinship of place with Leelanau County and the Glen Arbor area—no matter where they happen to be living. In addition, both have entered literary spaces with great passion and dedication. In fact, Oomen mentored Robertson as she began her efforts to become a writer. Whereas Oomen’s journey is now decades long, and she celebrates that story with the new book The Long Fields, a compilation of all the essays published over those decades, Robertson’s writerly journey is launching with her exciting first book Hoist House, a collection of short stories which has garnered positive reviews.

Both books are being published by the same press, Cornerstone, out of University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, an up-and-coming press that honors Midwestern and Great Lakes writers. So it seems utterly appropriate that the two should team up for a book launch at the very place where Robertson married her husband, Ian Richardson, and where Oomen has performed many times, the open yard of Lake Street Studios in Glen Arbor. With special permission, they will partner for a celebratory launch on Thursday, August 24, at 7 pm. Please join them for a reading that will tease and tempt you, make you nostalgic and hopeful. Beverages/light fare provided.