Peter Werbe

Peter Werbe is a journalist and author who has been a fixture in Detroit radio and alternative media for the last five decades. He was the host of the award-winning "Nightcall" program, the longest running phone-in talk-show in U.S. radio history that celebrated almost 50 years on WRIF. He has been a DJ on all the great Detroit rock stations—WABX, WRIF, WLLZ, and WCSX.

He is a long-time staff member of Detroit’s Fifth Estate magazine that is in its 57th year of publication, and has written many articles and interviews for The Metro Times.

He recently published his first book, "Summer on Fire: A Detroit Novel," set in the city during the hot summer of 1967. It is available in print, as an eBook, and an audiobook from Audible read by poet Robin Eichele.

Its characters are thrust into tumultuous episodes of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, anti-war demonstrations, rock and roll at the Grande Ballroom, drugs, anarchism, the White Panther Party, Wilhelm Reich, and a bomb plot that an editor of the Metro Times wrote, provides “a people’s history and radical folklore of Detroit.”