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The author of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and the creator of numerous New Yorker magazine cover cartoons was born in Columbus on December 8, 1894. The son of a civil clerk, no one would have guessed that James… [Read More]
What comes to mind for you when you think about an octopus? For Valerie Starr, octopodes symbolize an adventurous spirit. “I have been fascinated with octopodes for quite some time,” says Starr. “They really are amazing creatures. Recent studies have… [Read More]
Some of you helped fund this project, and now the final product is here. Matthew Hance used Kickstarter to successfully raise over $4,400 to get his idea for a science-fiction inspired collection of stories published. The Memory Eater anthology ended… [Read More]
“What if there was a machine that could erase a human memory?” That question spurred so many ideas in Matt Hance’s head that the author decided to curate a collection of stories based on the question. He put out a… [Read More]
Winners for the 2012 James Beard Foundation Book Awards were announced tonight. Jeni Britton Bauer’s book Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams At Home was nominated in the Baking & Dessert category. Earlier tonight, Jeni updated on Facebook with a picture of… [Read More]
Julia’s Story has a new home in the Short North. Lauren Woodrow originally opened the children’s bookstore in Bexley in 2002. Eventually, she relocated it to Canal Winchester, so she could work closer to home, but ended up shuttering the… [Read More]
In the opening pages of Giants Beware! written by Jorge Aguirre and illustrated by Rafael Rosado, you might immediately think that Claudette, the redhead tomboy, is a contentious little trouble-maker. That’s what the grown-ups in her village seem to think…. [Read More]
New author and Westerville resident Wendi Farquharson Finn’s debut book, One Fateful Night, is having a launch party today, February 17, 2012. The book explores the life of Kate Kennedy, a teenager going through high school and a rising hopeful… [Read More]
When life takes you on very unexpected paths, it is sometimes helpful to step away from your situation and look at it in a new light. Carole and Troy Amber were told their baby boy TJ was diagnosed with a… [Read More]
Trinie Dalton’s latest book, Baby Geisha, is a dreamlike montage of stories that manage to be both prose poetry and descriptive narrative, and somehow make it work. Deeply sexual and subtly alluring, these stories pull the reader into a world… [Read More]
Brad Pauquette, Columbus Creative Cooperative Director, likes local produce, local businesses, and local music, so he and other CCC members are making it their mission to bring local writing talent to Columbus readers. Pauquette says that CCC has a two-fold… [Read More]
Many of you are familiar with Breakfast with Nick, the fantastic blog Nick Dekker has been doing as a hobby since 2007. Since it’s start, he has reviewed over 60 of Columbus’ breakfast and brunch spots and has reviewed another… [Read More]
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Thurber House—home of humorist, author and New Yorker cartoonist James Thurber—is a non-profit literary center and museum and a unique national treasure. Thurber House programs include the Thurber Prize for Humor, the… [Read More]
A new book titled “Ohio Statehouse: A Building for the Ages” was made available last week in the Statehouse Museum Shop. This new 80-page book features over 120 historic images of the buildings, grounds and events at the Ohio Statehouse… [Read More]
In case you missed the Book Release Party last Saturday at the Wexner Center, you can now get yourself a copy of Jeni Britton Bauer’s debut cookbook Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home. Published by Artisan, the hardcover book is… [Read More]
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