October 2, 2008 
Reading Warhol: Amanda Gluibizzi, Fine Arts Library and Wexner Center colleagues Jim Petsche and Amanda Potter shared readings and reflections on the life and work of Andy Warhol and pop art including poetry from Warhol-o-Rama – a “serial portrait” by Peter Oresick, “Andy Warhol: My True Story” – his famous interview from 1966, selections from the Andy Warhol Diaries, Claes Oldenburg’s “I am for an art”… and Richard Hamilton’s letter to Peter and Alison Smithson.
October 9, 2008
Starry-Eyed: Fans of Celebrities a ReadAloud in Second Life organized by Leta Hendricks, Gretchen Donelson, and Linda Skelley, Fine Arts Library, and Jen Johnson, Kent State MLS student, read a variety of essays on the subject for our Wexner Center audience as well as for the audience in Second Life.
Oct. 16, 2008
Lenore Schottenstein shared selections from New York Times columnist Bob Morris’ poignant and humorous memoir Assisted Loving. Library Communications director Larry Allen read some of his favorite selections from Dave Barry’s History of the Millenium (so far)
October 23, 2008
Dr. Mark Moritz, Department of Anthropology, read “How to Write About Africa” an essay by Binyavanga Wainaina, published in 2005 in Granta 92: The View from Africa. Jason Payne, Department of Comparative Studies, and veteran ReadAloud participant, read from Stephen Fry in America
October 30, 2008
Our annual Halloween ReadAloud featured another scary, educational and off-the-beaten literary path program. Maryann Walther-Keisel , from the Center for East European and Slavic Studies, read from the epic vampire novel The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Kenny Walther-Keisel, Columbus Alternative High School, read from The Keep, by F. Paul Wilson.
November 6, 2009
Sean Connors, College of Education and Human Ecology, read from Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and colleague Dr. Anna Soter shared short excerpts from a selection of Australian authors including Tim Winton’s That Eye, The Sky and a short story from his collection, Scission “Getting Ahead”, Katharine Susannah Prichard’s novel Coonardoo, Peter Carey’s Bliss, and several poems of her own on Australia.
November 13, 2008
Celebrating Tribal Nations: America’s Great Partners.
The Libraries Diversity Committee presented a special program in honor of Native Peoples month. Leta Hendricks read from Great Speeches by Native Americans and Open Letter From Leonard Peltier to Barack Obama By Leonard Peltier. Gerry Greenberg shared a moving selection from Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West .
November 20, 2008
Shashi Matta, Fisher College of Business, read the essay “The End of Imagination” by Arundhati Roy, published in August 1998. Ohioana award winner Terri Paul shared some of her own poetry.
