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Next time on Craft: Cary Grant, Steve McQueen, and Alfred Hitchcock visit. It’s my talk with Rich Corsi, CAPA VP of Programming about the 2014 summer movie series. Tune in to find out what will be on the big screen this summer and which film will feature the machine that goes “ping!”
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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 Akron and Cleveland, an area he sees as embodying a sense of place, but “a weird, surreal place,” The Rust Belt.
We discussed The Rust Belt, shared stories of destroyed places of our youth (his in Cleveland, mine in Toledo), and ended with a look at his experiences writing for Bevis and Butthead and a book on Devo.
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Celtic band Switchback, Martin McCormack and Brian FitzGerald, will be in Columbus for two concerts this weekend, June 13 and 14: Friday night at Hoover House Concerts (contact Nancy Tomei at 740-965-3935 for tickets) and Saturday night at Hey, Hey Bar and Grill. Brian filled me in on songwriting, Celtic music, and how my cruelty as a writing teacher was ruining students.
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Making a living as an artist has often been a challenge. I recall one smart and talented art student I knew who also earned a business degree. Why? “Because people are going to pay me for my art,” she replied.
Author and accountant Elaine Grogan Luttrall would approve of that attitude, I think, because she helps artists and member of the creative class achieve financial success to go along with artistic success. We talked about how to do this after she left a comment on this blog following my interview with author Chang Rae Lee, who doesn’t talk to his students much about finances.
Listen in to my talk with Elaine Grogran Luttrall about how to do the work you love and make a living at it.
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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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Ohioana 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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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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Ohioana 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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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.
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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