Step inside Thurber House, the restored 1873 Victorian home in Columbus, Ohio, where humorist James Thurber lived from 1913-1917. The following photos are from Page Count‘s recent visit to Thurber House, where Literature Department Manager Don Boozer and Ohio Center for the Book Fellow Laura Maylene Walter toured the home to learn about Thurber’s life, …
Read More Inside the Thurber HouseAre 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
This year, we had the opportunity to celebrate National Poetry Month with events and to provide some recommendations for poetry for those looking to explore this medium of expression. We encourage everyone to take a look at the links to our recordings below; to try several of the suggestions from Ohio writers, academics, and librarians; …
Read More Relive National Poetry Month 2024
Saturday, August 17 Cleveland Public Library’s downtown Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium located at 525 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. In partnership with the Jane Austen Society of North America – Ohio North Coast Region, join us in celebrating Jane Austen, the person who arguably revolutionized English fiction. We’ll be highlighting her continuing relevance in the 21st …
Read More Awesome (Jane) Austen: A Mini Film Festival and Talk