Michael Zadoorian

Michael Zadoorian is the critically praised author of The Leisure Seeker—basis for the Sony Pictures Classics film starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland. His other books are Second Hand, Beautiful Music, The Narcissism of Small Differences, The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit: Stories, and Beat Girl: A Novel of Edie Kerouac to be published in March 2027.
 
His fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Literary Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, American Short Fiction, Witness, Great Lakes Review, North American Review, Literary Hub, The Millions, Rust Belt Magazine, Huffington Post and others and the anthologies Bob Seger’s House, Looping Detroit, On The Clock, and Detroit Noir. His work has been translated into over twenty-five languages worldwide. He also hosts a weekly free-form radio show called RETRO GROOVE on FerndaleRadio.com from 7-9 pm ET Fridays & Sundays.