India’s social and sexual revolution

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Doug Dangler
Sally Howard

Sally Howard

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. Her latest book, The Kama Sutra Diaries: Intimate Journeys through Modern India, covers her travels in India and her exploration of what she sees as a sexual and social revolution in that country. She uncovers territories from little-known, at least in the west, ancient erotic Indian statues to the surprisingly little-understood, like India’s consumption of explicit web material.

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Kama Sutra Diaries Cover image

Kama Sutra Diaries Cover image

 

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Laura Bickle: Ohioana Book Festival Featured author

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Laura BickleOhioana Book Festival featured author Laura Bickle has a serious investment in crime, since she has a dual background in criminology and library science (hey, library fees are serious in my house).

Her novel, The Hallowed Ones, follows an Amish heroine during a zombie apocalypse, great reading while The Walking Dead is on a break. Tune in to find out why she set the series in Amish country.

 

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Lynn Cullen: Evenings with Authors

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Doug Dangler
Lynn Cullen head shot

Lynn Cullen head shot

Did Edgar Allan Poe have an affair with an aspiring poet? Thurber House guest Lynn Cullen makes some guesses at the Poe mystery with her historical novel Mrs. Poe. She’ll be at the Thurber House on Tuesday, May 6.

In our interview, we discuss how fans of Poe’s “The Raven” would follow him down the street, flapping their arms and the truly bizarre behaviour of Poe’s main rival and literary executor, Rufus Wilmot Griswold.

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Matt Kish: A Whale of a Book

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Matt KishOhioana Book Festival featured author Matt Kish likes big projects – big like a whale projects. He created one illustration for each page of Moby Dick, and then did the same thing for each page of Heart of Darkness. After following two compulsives into the harrowing depths of obsession, what will Matt’s next project be? Tune into find out.

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Put Pleased To Meet Me on your must see list

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Pleased to Meet Me the movie had its Columbus, Ohio, premiere last Saturday and I talked with director/cowriter Archie Borders and director of photography Michael Fitzer afterwards. Check it out on Youtube to learn about how the movie was made and what joke one young member of our audience didn’t get.

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Patty Larkin

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Doug Dangler

Patty Larkin cd cover

Singer-songwriter Patty Larkin is renowned for her guitar work as well as songwriting. She is touring in support of the release of her 14th recording, Still Green, the writing and recording of which we discussed on Craft.

CAPA presents Patty Larkin at the Lincoln Theatre (769 E. Long St.) on Friday, April 25, at 8 pm.

 

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Charlene Fix: Poet and paper aficionado

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Doug Dangler
Charlene Fix

Charlene Fix

How can you tell when a poet is getting ready to do a lot of writing? Like birds nesting in the spring, he or she will start to gather paper. Or so it was with Columbus College of Art and Design professor
 English and featured author at the 2014 Ohioana book festival, Charlene Fix.

Check out other habits of poets in my interview with Charlene Fix.

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Confirmed: JK Rowling interview next week!

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Doug Dangler
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The Wand of Power given to me by JK Rowling’s publishing company

I’ll interview JK Rowling next week about her new book, Wizarding for Dummies! This will be her first non-fiction book and the first to lay bare the physics and real-world applications of many of the events within her books. Harry Potter will join us via three-way connection near the end to discuss the Afterlife.

 

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Ready to take a bike ride across the United States?

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Doug Dangler

cover of Bruce Weber's book

Bruce Weber was. And his book Life is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America is the result. We discussed why anyone would want to undertake such a trip, especially when one has already done it once. And what kind of retribution the state of Ohio visited upon him for revealing that he is a Wolverine.

He’ll be in Columbus on Wednesday, April 9, with the Thurber House and our interview will air next week on WCBE, 90.5 FM.

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Time To See a Starry Night

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Doug Dangler
Starry Night participant

Starry Night participant

Part 2 of the double header this week on Craft: My interview with Amy Raubenolt.

On Sunday, April 6 from 2-6pm, Westerville South High School will host Starry Night, which its organizers, Amy Raubenolt and Michael Wander, describe as a multi-disciplinary festival for elementary and middle school families, combining art science and engineering to encourage innovation creativity and critical thinking.

Check out my Columbus Underground article on the event and my audio interview with Amy.

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