Category Archives: New books

NEIL GAIMAN and AMANDA PALMER on Craft

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Traveling or working out this Thanksgiving? Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman have suggestions for you about audiobooks and what to do if you find yourself in an audio booth reading from one of your uber-popular books, like Palmer’s The Art … Continue reading →

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Kara Cooney: Making the Ancient Engaging

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Egyptologist Kara Cooney makes dusty old topics fun. An associate professor at UCLA’s Near Eastern Languages and Cultures program, she’s a great mix of engaging speaker and public intellectual. My talk with her was one of most fun and smartest I’ve … Continue reading →

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Lee Child and Doug Dangler: This Time, It’s Personal

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Several years ago, when Lee Child was in town with the Thurber House, I was scheduled to interview him. Unfortunately, I had to go out of town unexpectedly and missed him. Fortunately, I was able to catch up with him … Continue reading →

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How to kill someone in a hospital

Posted on August 31, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Surgeon Kelly Parsons wrote Doing Harm in the off hours over the past 8 years to give an insider’s look at how murders are secretly committed in hospitals. Perhaps I should label the above [satire] like Facebook is apparently doing just … Continue reading →

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Mindy McGinnis makes you want to drink deeply

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Thirsty for a great interview? Mindy McGinnis, a young adult librarian, author, and active blogger, is a must-meet individual whose talent and comical personality make for one refreshing conversation. In her two post-apocalyptic novels, Not a Drop to Drink and … Continue reading →

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Veronica Roth’s Divergent View of Grad School

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Veronica Roth seems like one of the nicest authors I’ve talked to in a while and her Divergent series has racked up huge sales. But we did have different views on one important aspect of our shared experiences. Listen in … Continue reading →

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Ask Veronica Roth, author of Divergent, a question; win her book!

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Now is YOUR chance to ask Veronica Roth about her hit books Divergent and Insurgent and the movie version of Divergent, as well as her brand new book Four, a collection of short stories set in Roth’s dystopian Chicago told from … Continue reading →

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Superman’s Real Home Is Cleveland!

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Doug Dangler

What if I told you Superman was real? Or that some characters in the Superman comic book series were real? At the 2014 Ohioana Book Festival, Craft summer intern Kayla talked with the good-humored Brad Ricca, author of Super Boys: The … Continue reading →

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David Giffels: So Much More than Devo and Beavis and Butthead

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Journalist and essayist David Giffels has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Grantland, and Redbook among others. His most recent book is The Hard Way on Purpose, a collection of essays about growing up near … Continue reading →

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India’s social and sexual revolution

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Journalist Sally Howard has written for The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, and Forbes on topics such as travel and celebrities like Daryl Hannah, Jimmy Choo, and Colin Firth. Read more about her at her website or follow her on Twitter @wanderingsal. … Continue reading →

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