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Rachel Moss finds deep cultural connection ‘In the Girls’ Room’

‘When I think of my bedroom now, it was almost this little incubator for what my life would become as a writer and researcher, getting to explore things I liked without anybody watching or commenting on it.’

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‘The whole time we were chasing our dreams, we were actually living the dream’

Long-running Columbus power-pop band Watershed will celebrate the reissue of Joe Oestreich’s memoir ‘Hitless Wonder’ with a conversation at Used Kids Records and a sold-out concert at Natalie’s Grandview.

Read Rob Harvilla’s foreword to the 15th anniversary edition of ‘Hitless Wonder’

'[This] is a book about how and why this wonderful and awe-inspiringly resilient band won’t ever stop.'

Dorian Ham names the monsters in the room with ‘In 250 Degrees I Revolve’

The Columbus poet’s new chapbook uses the anniversary of American independence to explore the repetitive nature of history, the politics of fear, and the need to push back rather than accepting ‘the badness of a thing.’

Paul Tremblay seeks out a human connection

The author, who will be in town this weekend for the Columbus Book Festival, finds inspiration in the insidiousness of Big Tech for his latest novel, ‘Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep.’

The Columbus Book Festival summer reading list

Here are 13 books to get you hyped for this weekend’s fest and to help you while away the remainder of these sweltering summer days.

Dear Ms. Stevi can finally see everything

The Columbus poet will read this week at Streetlight Guild to kick off the open mic miniseries ‘All the Words.’

‘He was going to change the world’: Friends and family remember the life of Tomás Pacheco

The Columbus writer, who died on June 16 at age 24, leaves behind a legacy that those interviewed said will endure long after his passing.

The urgency of the moment leads Christopher Sunami to ‘Free Your Mind’

The Columbus philosopher and author hopes to spark a larger conversation with his new collection, which he’ll celebrate with a release event at Clintonville Books on Wednesday, July 1.

Hanif Abdurraqib named recipient of the 2026 Weston International Award

The celebrated Columbus poet and author is the latest winner of the literary award for nonfiction, given each year by the Writers’ Trust of Canada.