Category: Ohio
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Edmond Hamilton Day
People who think small towns are uncool are crazy. Kinsman, OH (shout out!) is proof of the opposite. They have Clarence Darrow Day, and now Edmond Hamilton Day. In the future, there should also be a Leigh Brackett Day, with The Empire Strikes Back on a big screen in the town square all day…
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Artscape Article
I did a phone interview with Columbus Alive this past Monday about me, my writing, and my upcoming reading at Thurber House next Wednesday (which you should come to if you can!). Here’s a link to the article. The writer/interviewer was very cool. She’d actually read a bunch of my stories and books (which isn’t…
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Next Week
If anyone out there will be nearby to Columbus next Wednesday on July 22nd, you should totally come out and see me read along with David Giffels and James J. Siegel at Thurber House’s literary picnic evening for emerging voices in Ohio writing. It’ll be fun, and the menu looks great. I’m still not sure…
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YSU-Ytown Reading Series
Just a brief announcement that I, along with my assistant Mona Lisi (yes, it’s her real name, and it’s awesome, isn’t it?), have been doing the work to start promoting awareness of a new YSU-Ytown Reading Series, a new monthly event (during the college school year) I’ve created to bridge university activities with the community…
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Excuse me, But I’m From Ohio
A really wonderful column in today’s Washington Post about growing up in Ohio, missing Ohio, being annoyed with the rest of the nation’s stereotypes of Ohio (and much of the Midwest in general), being annoyed with oneself for leaving Ohio, and more. I think the Midwest is a blank spot on the mental maps of…