Craft: Exploring Creativity

Oct 23 2024 203 ep. 16 mins 590

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Discussion about how creative people have worked on their craft to become experts.

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Finding Gold in Horror Poetry: Maxwell I. Gold

Oct 16 2024 8 mins

The days are getting shorter, a chill is in the air, and pumpkins are attacked mercilessly by knife-wielding maniacs: it must be Halloween season. It’s also one of the favorite times of year of Maxwell I. Gold, a Columbus native, … Continue reading →

2024 Ohio Book Award Winner Sarah Lohman on the Eight Flavors of American Cuisine

Oct 09 2024 28 mins

Blogger and food writer Sarah Lohman won not one but two 2024Ohio Book Awards: the Ohio Book Award in Nonfiction and the Reader’s Choice Award for her book Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Food. The Ohioana Library will present the Ohio … Continue reading →

Ruth Moody: You’ve Got 5 Minutes – Write a Hit!

Singer-songwriter Ruth Moody will be in Columbus on September 27 with Six String Concerts. We discussed her new solo album “Wanderer,” her first in a decade, which reflects on motherhood, grief, and love. The album, recorded in Nashville, is deeply … Continue reading →

George Bilgere: Cheap Motels of My Youth and in Berlin

Poet George Bilgere, aka, Our Man in Berlin, drops by to discuss his latest, Cheap Motels of My Youth, which began at a café in Berlin and won the Rattle Magazine chapbook contest. We talk about his writing process, family, … Continue reading →

Multitalented: The Accidentals visit Columbus

Mar 04 2022 12 mins

Violinist Savannah Buist, cellist Katie Larson, and percussionist Michael Dause make up The Accidentals, who will perform in Columbus on March 12 with Six String Concerts. I spoke with Sav and Katie about their time as musicians, how the pandemic … Continue reading →

Love and loss in the Gulf Coast: Columbus author Karin Cecile Davidson gives insight into her new novel

Feb 09 2021 24 mins

If you’re looking for a break from the various crises filling our lives right now, you might find some solace in reading up on a volatile moment in the United States’ past. This week we talk to Columbus author Karin … Continue reading →

Public School Teaching: Glamorous or Does It Suck?

Aug 19 2020 15 mins

My father was a school administrator for many years and I heard his enthusiasm for schools throughout my childhood. So I was intrigued by the title of Doris Caceres-Schumick’s book Public School Teaching Sucks, Period.: A Memoir of a Special Education/ESL … Continue reading →

Bobby Thompson: The story that the US government doesn’t want you to know

Aug 13 2020 16 mins

Ohioana 2020 author Jodi Andes has worked at the Columbus Dispatch and was a senior investigator at The Ohio Attorney General’s office, where she conducted an inquiry into the con artist Bobby Thompson, the subject of her book, Master of … Continue reading →

2020 Ohioana Book Festival Author Kiya Renae

Aug 05 2020 11 mins

Currently a doctoral candidate at Xavier University, 2020 Ohioana Book Festival author Kiya Renae has written three books: Through Her Own Eyes: This is Only the Beginning; It’s Ok to Be Broken: Highs, Lows, and Happy Mediums; and an as-yet … Continue reading →

This old guy talks to the creators of another Old Guy: Gabrielle C. Burton and Peri Gilpin

Jul 15 2020 12 mins

Along with her four sisters, Columbus, Ohio, resident Gabrielle C. Burton make up Five Sisters productions. Their recent YouTube release Old Guy features their late father Roger Burton as a man re-entering the acting field after having been away from … Continue reading →