Books

Step Into Your Favorite Children’s Books at Kansas City’s Rabbit hOle Museum

Imagine you could step foot into the worlds of your favorite children’s books. One minute you’re slumbering in the great green room of Margaret...

Findlay, Ohio, Mazza Museum Brings Children’s Book Art to Life

There’s an aardvark who lives in a small building in Findlay, Ohio. He wears circular glasses and sits at a human-sized desk, pencil in...

Bookmobiles Have Delivered Books to Ohioans for More than a Century. What’s Next?

In 2022, Chillicothe and Ross County Public Library unveiled the “Bee.” With the tagline “pollinating the community with good things,” the Bee is not...

Columbus’ 32-Room Bookstore Is a Book Lover’s Dream

Imagine 32 rooms of books in a labyrinthine old building, open to early birds and night owls alike, with discounted books to boot. A...

Madame Bovary, But Make It Midwest: A Review of Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty Red”

Published in October 2024, Louise Erdrich’s 19th novel, “The Mighty Red” is a raucous Shakespearean tragicomedy, a refreshingly new and pertinent narrative from a...

Capote’s Tangled Truth: How a Rural Kansas Town Birthed a Literary Genre

After spending much of his life writing for The New Yorker in the Big Apple, renowned journalist and author Truman Capote made his way...

The “Oz” Tourism Industry Brings Travelers to Rural Kansas

In “The Wizard of Oz,” Dorothy Gale’s adventure across yellow brick roads, poppy fields and emerald cities is a beloved, technicolor dream. But where...

Listening for Wonder With the U.S. Poet Laureate at Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Still, there are mysteries below our sky:the whale song, the songbird singingits call in the bough of a wind-shaken tree. We are creatures of constant...

In Cleveland, a Book Award Celebrates Literature’s Power for “World Repair”

Edith Anisfield-Wolf, a Jewish poet and philanthropist based in Cleveland, founded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards out of a belief among Jewish communities called “tikkun...

Children’s Authors Thriving in the Buckeye State (And Four You Didn’t Know Were From Ohio)

“I have everything here that I need.” Will Hillenbrand has been writing and illustrating children’s books for over 33 years. His bibliography, which includes the...

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