[…] not let it affect everything else in my life. Goldbach: In one section of Rust, I grapple with the memory of a sexual assault that I experienced in college. These passages were the most difficult to capture on the page. For me, writing is always a tough and tiring task. It’s never easy to turn a blank screen into a […]

[…] patient reader for the innovative blend of English/Yiddish: “And so he walked by foot over the schuylkill river toward the citypart in what he knew lived mostly blacks and he passed by underawnish gathersome crowds, not liking to speak to many at once in american or at all until he beheld two yingelakh what were his own age or more […]

[…] fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence – into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all […]

[…] idea came from watching folks going away by the steamcars. No autos, buses, or planes in those days. 106 In 1901, as a police-reporter on the Cleveland Plain Dealer, I passed around copies of my words to the reporters stationed at the Central Police Station. They tried it out with all sorts of tunes, even with wild parodies. Afflicted with […]

[…] from Wiggam’s Glory. The fourth novel, As of The Gods, is a philosophic study of Giles Dabney, the hero, as he faces mid­ dle age. It is of more than passing significance that one of the most authoritative liter­ ary critics of the day in reviewing these novels said, “This is a swift moving narrative of great emotional power, deep […]

[…] celebrating America’s highest prize for humor returns to Thurber’s hometown. For more information and tickets, visit www.thurberhouse.org/thurber-prize-event. transitions Ohio, and Ohioana, lost one of its most illustrious historians with the passing of George Knepper at age 92 on October 20. George was a long-time friend and supporter of Ohioana, a trustee emeritus of our board, and a two-time Ohioana Award […]

[…] of a father, the birth of a child, or the fall of the Twin Towers in New York City. Bialosky illuminates the ways in which particular poems offered insight, com passion, and connection, and shows how poetry can be a blueprint for living. Cawood, Shuly Xochitl. The Going and Goodbye: A Memoir. Platypus Press (London, UK) 2017. PB $10.00. The […]

[…] 3 also was built about this time. Jacob Strader served in one capacity or another, on the boards and in busi­ nesses already mentioned until a few months of his passing, August 28, 1860. While reading and transcribing the 100 to 150 year old letters and docu­ ments of the Strader family (none of which has been used or loaned […]

[…] Dean of Women with the women. We would never have dreamed that this designation could split the student body down the middle! The president, as a gesture to the amenities, passed around a box of dried out cigars. I was too young and stupid to know that I was to say “no, thank you.” Everyone else had. Then the box […]

[…] OF A DIPLOMAT by FOY D. KOHLER I SUPPOSE I CAN LEGITIMATELY be considered an example of authentic Ohioana. While much of my life was spent abroad, my childhood was passed in Paulding, Putnam and Lucas counties and my education was obtained in Toledo and Columbus. Now in my later years, like thousands of my fellow-Ohioans, I have settled under […]