Monthly Archives: October 2014

2014 Craft Halloween show

In case you don’t want to (or like me, really can’t) stay up until 12 AM Saturday for the Craft Halloween special tonight on WCBE (90.5 FM), you can listen here for storyteller Kevin Cordi, ghost-story collector Robin Smith, spiritual … Continue reading

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Kara Cooney: Making the Ancient Engaging

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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Can you Crack a Buckeye?

This week’s podcast featured a riddle from The Ohio State University Podcasting Club’s podcast Tough Nut to Crack. First person to solve it (leave comments below) gets the 5 book prize back below (for pick up at 540 Jack Gibbs … Continue reading

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Nicholson Baker: The next writer of James Bond?

Nicholson Baker is a novelist, humorist, and social critic. His most recent release is The Paul Chowder Chronicles, which brings together two novels about Paul Chowder: The Anthologist and Traveling Sprinkler. Baker received a National Book Critics Circle Award in … Continue reading

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Can you catch the Sex Criminals? You can at CCAD on Oct 23

Matt Fraction (Twitter) writes comic books and won the first-ever PEN USA Literary Award for Graphic Novels. His comic collaborations and solo projects have won Eisners, Harveys, and Eagles, with his signature piece, Sex Criminals winning TIME Magazine’s Best Comic … Continue reading

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Lindsay Ward, Ohioana Book Festival Featured Author

-Kayla If you’ve ever seen the design of a Lindsay Ward book, you realize reality is overrated. Ward is an accomplished children’s book illustrator and author who published Please Bring Balloons, When Blue Met Egg, and Pelly and Mr. Harrison Visit the … Continue reading

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