Page Count, an interview-format podcast presented by Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library, celebrates authors, librarians, booksellers, illustrators, publishing professionals, and literary advocates in and from the state of Ohio.
Guests range from internationally recognized and bestselling authors to professionals working on a grassroots level to improve access to books and literacy resources. Page Count is honored to have welcomed Hanif Abdurraqib, Derf Backderf, Matt Bell, Douglas Brinkley, Terry Ellen Cross Davis, Madeline ffitch, Ross Gay, Will Hillenbrand, Alison Stine, Tracy Subisak, Elissa Washuta, Jacqueline Woodson, Thrity Umrigar, and many esteemed authors as guests.
A new episode is released every other Tuesday. Every episode is ad-free.
Latest Episodes
Visit individual episode pages below for show notes and transcripts:
- Literary Screening: The Tender Bar with RW Franklin
- Literary Screening: American Fiction with Literary Cleveland
- Season 4 Trailer
- Page Count Turns Three!
- Experimental Fiction with Mary Grimm
- Celebrating James Baldwin with Quartez Harris
- Defending Goals & Breaking Barriers with Kelcey Ervick
- Page Count Live: Writing Toward Peace with Loung Ung
- New Year’s Resolutions for Writers
- Literary Cleveland Presents: Ruth Awad & Maggie Smith
- The Art of Audiobook Narration
- Holiday Gift Recommendations from Gathering Volumes
- Making Light with Julia Kuo
- Among the Graves in Ohio’s Cemeteries
- Be a Cockroach at the Columbus Book Festival
- 40 Years of Poetry with David Hassler
- Settling Ohio with Timothy G. Anderson & Brian Schoen
- Carving a Story with Chiquita Mullins Lee & Carmella Van Vleet
- Exploring the Myth of Annie Oakley with Sara Moore Wagner
- Touring the Thurber House
- At the Sewanee Writers’ Conference with Leah Stewart
- The Center for the Book Is a State of Mind
- 100 Years of Writer’s Digest
- Rediscovering Dawn Powell
- Page Count Live with Hanif Abdurraqib & Jacqueline Woodson
- Season 3 Trailer
- Page Count Turns Two!
- 2024 Ohioana Book Festival Preview
- Alchemy of Writing with Claire McMillan
- Writers Unplugged Presents: Susan Petrone
- Cringe & Controversy with Brian Broome
- Touring the Toni Morrison Reading Room
- Finding Magic: In Memory of Echo Brown
- Book Club Fiction with Jessica Strawser
- Page Count Live: Trash & Delight with Ross Gay & Alison Stine
- Index for Continuance Presents: Sarah Rose Etter on Running a Reading Series
- Holiday Gift Ideas from Mac’s Backs & Downbound Books
- Something to Say with Lake Erie Ink
- Page Count Live: Literary Magic with Elissa Washuta
- Mystery & Memory with Katharine Beutner
- Navigating Loneliness with Athena Dixon
- The Asterisk Presents: Tiya Miles
- Superman’s Origin Story with Dr. Valentino Zullo
- Storytelling in Appalachian Ohio with Madeline ffitch
- Taking a Hike with Michelle Houts & Erica Magnus
- Cleveland Noir with Michael Ruhlman & Miesha Wilson Headen
- Into the Sewer with Jay B. Kalagayan
- Revising Nancy Drew with Jennifer Fisher
- Panelists Weigh In: Applying for an OAC Grant, Part 2
- Applying for an OAC Grant, Part 1: Chaz O’Neil
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About the Host
Laura Maylene Walter is the Ohio Center for the Book Fellow and author of the novel Body of Stars (Dutton/Penguin Random House) and the story collection Living Arrangements (BkMk Press). Her writing has appeared in Poets & Writers, Kenyon Review, The Sun, Slate, Ninth Letter, Literary Hub, The Masters Review, and many other publications.
Walter has received fellowships, residencies, or grants from Tin House, Yaddo, the Ohio Arts Council, the Ohioana Library Association, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Chautauqua Institution, and Art Omi: Writers. She is also a founding editor of Literary Cleveland’s Gordon Square Review.
Contact Us
If you have feedback, questions, or ideas for future episodes, email The Ohio Center For the Book. (If suggesting a guest, feel free to include their Ohio connection!)