By OCB Staff on
8/28/2012 11:28 AM
October is quickly approaching, and in Northeast Ohio that means Octavofest will soon be upon us. Dozens of events are already posted in the Octavofest Events Calendar. Be sure to check back as more events will be added as we get closer to October.
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By OCB Staff on
8/24/2012 12:22 PM
Jennifer Crusie is a New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of twenty-one novels and winner of two RITA awards from the Romance Writers of America.
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By OCB Staff on
8/24/2012 11:41 AM
"For a brief time I was here; and for a brief time I mattered." A self-reflection by Harlan Ellison
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By OCB Staff on
8/24/2012 9:04 AM
Challenging Victorian precepts on women and gender roles, Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson helped to usher in the "New Woman" of contemporary American literature.
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By OCB Staff on
8/11/2012 4:03 PM
"I should like the reader to be aware that a book of mine is written in the English language, which I love with all my heart and write to the best of my ability and with the most honorable of intentions – which is to say, I am peddling no quackery, masking no intent to tyrannize, and asking nobody’s pity. (I suspect that I am trying to save my own soul, but that’s nobody else’s business)."
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By OCB Staff on
8/11/2012 12:24 PM
A novelist, short story writer, and public intellectual, Chesnutt rejected Victorian hypocrisy about miscegenation, lynching, and "passing" and exposed the deformed logic of Jim Crow.
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By OCB Staff on
8/11/2012 12:08 PM
One of the most acclaimed writers in her field, Bujold has won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record.
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By OCB Staff on
8/6/2012 4:44 PM
Langston Hughes was "always intensely subjective, passionate, keenly sensitive to beauty and possessed of an unfaltering musical sense."
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By OCB Staff on
8/3/2012 4:30 PM
For three decades, Dayton native Erma Bombeck chronicled life's absurdities in a syndicated column carried by hundreds of newspapers.
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