Libraries are safe spaces where anyone can have free and open access to information. Unfortunately, in today’s diverse political climate, books and other materials are often challenged as being offensive based on their content or are being banned which removes them from library shelves. To support the right to read and to bring awareness to …
Read More Banned Books Week 2024 (September 22-28)
Each season in our newsletter, we highlight a few literary and historical connections with Ohio with which readers may not be familiar. September 1, 1954, & September 12, 1825: Two Ohio Librarians of Congress Lawrence Quincy Mumford was the 11th Librarian of Congress, beginning his tenure on September 1, 1954. Mumford had several Ohio connections. …
Read More Ohio Literary and Historical Connections & Resources: Fall 2024
On Saturday, August 24, the Ohio Center for the Book will once again be participating in the National Book Festival in Washington, DC, along our colleagues at all the affiliate Centers for the Book across the country! You’ll find us in the Roadmap to Reading area of the Festival at the Washington Convention Center. Meet …
Read More Join Us At the National Book Festival!Are you nostalgic for the days of typewriters, or does the thought of returning to the pre-internet age make you cling to your smart phone in a panic? Either way, enjoy these images from the February 1924 issue of Writer’s Digest magazine. Typewriter ads, correspondence schools, complicated envelope etiquette…it’s all here, courtesy of Writer’s Digest. …
Read More The Life of a Writer in 1924
This fall, the Ohio Center for the Book is pleased to collaborate with Ursuline College and Case Western Reserve University in co-hosting a series of book discussions dedicated to the 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Award winners. All sessions take place at 6:30 pm at Bookhouse Brewing in Cleveland. Your Hosts Dr. Jamie Hickner, Anisfield-Wolf Teaching Fellow in the English …
Read More 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Award Book Discussions
Through the gracious permission and generosity of the author* and editor,** we are able to share an interview with Phillip Kennedy Johnson, one of the premier writers in the comics world today entrusted with telling Superman’s stories to a contemporary audience… “To me, Superman is the living antithesis to the adage that absolute power corrupts …
Read More An Interview with Phillip Kennedy JohnsonF. Scott Fitzgerald Becomes Incensed Although he seems to have only read about it rather than having read it himself, F. Scott Fitzgerald was so incensed about a “dreary,” “unimaginative,” stereotypical and derivative novel* entitled Samuel Drummond that he excoriated both it and its Ohio author — twenty-seven-year-old Defiance native Thomas Boyd — in a …
Read More How Thomas Boyd of Defiance, Ohio, Lost A Friend
The Ohio Center for the Book is partnering with the Michigan Center for the Book to promote an online event with Ohio author and Oberlin College assistant professor of creative writing Ghassan Zeineddine, author of the short story collection Dearborn (Tin House, 2023)… Michigan Notable Book Authors Ghassan Zeineddine and RS DereenMay 30, 2024, 6:30pm …
Read More Online Event with Ohio Author Ghassan Zeineddine
This Thursday, May 16, Don Boozer, the Ohio Center for the Book Coordinator, will join Kathleen Kuo, Coordinator of the Nevada Center for the Book hosted by the Nevada Humanities Council, for their Humanities At Play live stream series at 3:00 pm Eastern (12 pm Pacific Time). The first hour of the live stream (3-4 …
Read More Ohio Joins Nevada (for a conversation)
Every year since 2002, the Ohio Center for the Book has had the honor of selecting a book to represent our state in the national Great Reads from Great Places initiative. Those titles are highlighted at the annual National Book Festival in Washington, DC, as well as being placed on the permanent list of honoree titles. Each state selects …
Read More 2024 Great Reads from Great Places