Category Archives: Original Craft Productions

Jim Obergefell visits Columbus with the Pride brunch

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Doug Dangler

This week’s tragedy in Orlando brings special urgency to Craft guest Jim Obergefell’s interview and visit to Columbus. Obergefell is a June 19 guest of the Columbus Pride brunch and spoke with guest host Byron Edgington about the book Obergefell co-authored with Debbie Cenziper, Love … Continue reading →

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Joe Hill: the fireman is coming to your town

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Doug Dangler

Author Joe Hill has blazed a trail in horror fiction with 4 novels, and his latest, The Fireman, is burning up bookstores near you. Special guest author interviewer Lucy A Snyder (Craft fans–both of you–will remember Lucy’s great 2015 Halloween story) fans … Continue reading →

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John Scalzi: Ohioan for the drama

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Doug Dangler

Author John Scalzi appeared at the 2016 Ohioana Book festival to discuss his latest novels and assure the world that Ohio is a hub of literary content. In return, I assured him that Ohio is less frequently incarcerating our literary … Continue reading →

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Jessica Knoll: working through anger

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Doug Dangler

Jessica Knoll’s Luckiest Girl Alive was the best-selling debut of 2015 and was optioned for a movie by Reese Witherspoon. Knoll recently wrote an article “What I Know” about some of the experience-based events of Luckiest Girl Alive. Join us for … Continue reading →

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Larry Smith’s six words for Columbus

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Doug Dangler

What are you doing May 19? You could go to this show. It is at the Wexner Center. It features performers describing their lives. They all wrote six word memoirs. Larry Smith hosts; we talked recently Six word memoirs are … Continue reading →

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Honey and Blue: which is honey and which is blue?

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Doug Dangler

I smell of cologne Can he smell my mistake? My heart screams for more But my head’s to blame -Stranger In Your Arms by Honey and Blue Honey and Blue, made up of Stephanie Amber and Adam Darling, is a … Continue reading →

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Laura Lippman: writing about her hometown with fact and fiction

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Doug Dangler

Laura Lippman is the author of six New York Times bestselling novels and an award-winning short story anthology, and the creator of the Private Investigator Tess Monaghan series. Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, before turning to novel … Continue reading →

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Jill Bialosky: The Players in our lives

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Doug Dangler

-Andy Ross Home-runs and stadium chants do not typically fill the pages of a poetry collection, but then again, Jill Bialosky is not your typical poet. The Ohio native’s latest collection, The Players, uses the baseball diamond as a landscape … Continue reading →

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Dara Naraghi and Brent Bowman: creators of Persia Blues

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Doug Dangler

-Andy Ross This past December, local graphic artists Dara Naraghi and Brent Bowman released Persia Blues Volume 2: Love and War on independent publisher NBM. The story interweaves ancient Persian mythology with the story of young Minoo Shirazi coming to … Continue reading →

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Tracy Chevalier: at the edge of the orchard and history

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Doug Dangler

It’s not often that trees, orchards, and apples find themselves at the center of a conflict, but that is exactly the case with Tracy Chevalier’s newest novel, At the Edge of the Orchard. The book follows the saga of the … Continue reading →

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