<< “Woodward is the yo-yo string,” says his good friend and sterling researcher, Gregg Sutter, 56. Relocated to L.A., Sutter grew up on the east side, and when he catches the red-eye to Detroit “it’s like taking the Woodward Avenue bus.”
“Woodward is Elmore’s ‘Heart of Darkness.’ It’s ‘The River Runs Through It,’?” Sutter says, building up steam and literary allusions. “The street runs through all his stories, his consciousness from child to now.” >>