David Hoppe

David Hoppe is available
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David Hoppe has a new book.

Midcentury Boy: My Suburban Childhood: From Ike to the BeatlesLetters from Michiana
Reflections Along Lake Michigan's Southern Shore

In this collection of essays, David Hoppe reflects on his everyday exper- ience of life in Michiana, the dunes country on the southern shore of Lake Michigan. Spanning the pandemic, these letters are an intimate meditation on community, peoples' relationship with the natural world and the pressures of economic and social development.

Letters from Michiana is about what it means to live in a beautiful place.  

Here's what other writers say:

"David Hoppe's Letters from Michiana captures life along the beautiful scoop of Lake Michigan, a kind of secret world..."  
— Barbara Shoup, author of An American Tune
"A master of the short essay...provocative and infomative..."
— William O'Rourke, author of Politics and the American Language
"Wise and witty..."
— Scott Russell Sanders, author of The Way of Imagination
"Hoppe's mastery of his sense of place will inspire readers to appreciate their own..."
— Jim Poyser, author of The Last Actor and Other Stories and Climate Follies

Available on Amazon.


I am a writer and cultural strategist.

"You surely know what the great sportswriter Red Smith said about writing, that it was easy, that all you did was open a vein and bleed. You bleed real good, and your heart is where the blood comes from. If you ever wonder what in hell you think you're doing with your life, let me remind you that you are telling people as reasonable and humane as yourself what they desperately need to hear, that others feel as they do." -- Kurt Vonnegut

Available for freelance writing and editing assignments; and consulting with commercial and nonprofit cultural organizations. Resume and references available upon request.

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