The Ohio State University

September 21, 2006
Joanna Anderson and Andrea Cooper from the University Libraries
Development and Communications Offices reading selections from A House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and selected poems of Charles Bukowski.

September 28, 2006  
featured readers: Nancy Courtney, University Libraries, reading from Daughters and Rebels by Jessica Mitford and Joe Shaw, University Libraries, reading “The Replacements” from the book To Own a Dragon by Donald Miller

October 5, 2006 
featured readers: Dean Joan Herbers, College of Biological Sciences reading from Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Dean Richard Freeman, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences reading from Richard Russo’s Straight Man.

October 12, 2006
featured a reading at the Wexner Center Cafe of the essay “The Bean-Field” from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden in celebration of the harvest from artist Michael Mercil’s Beanfield installation along College Rd.

October 19, 2006 
featured Scott Savage, Head of Reference and Library Instruction at OSU Mansfield Library, reading excerpts from Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

October 26, 2006 
featured Dona Straley, University Libraries Coordinator for Collections reading
Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery by Deborah and James Howe.

November 2, 2006 
featured readers from Yoga On High including: Marcia Miller reading a selection from Jaber Crow by Wendell Berry.

Martha Marcom reading After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows
Wise on the Spiritual Path by Jack Kornfield, from the chapter entitled, “This Very Body, the Buddha”.

Linda Oshins reading from Patrick Lane’s What the Stones Remember

November 9th, 2006  

Featured Ohioana readers celebrating the work of Ohio writers including:
Janet Hickman: the author of seven novels for young people. For her book, Jericho, she received a 1995 Ohioana Book Award. Jericho was also a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book. Janet recently retired from the Ohio State University were she was an Associate Professor in the College of Education.
Janet read from Columbus native Stephanie Tolan’s Newbery Awarding book, Surviving the Applewhites. Stephanie is also a playwright and she assisted with the adaptation of the book for a new play, which premiered on October 26, 2006 at the Columbus Children’s Theatre.

Jerry Roscoe: is a salesman and a poet. In 2002, the book, Two Midwest Voices received the Ohioana Book Award in the category of Poetry. One of the voices was Jerry Roscoe and he read from his half of the book which is titled Mirror Lake, as well as selected poems from his soon to be published work S-E-X.

Terri Paul read from Glass Hearts which received the 2000 Ohioana Book Award in fiction. Her book is based on the memories of Ms. Paul’s aunt Sarah and family members who lived in a small Hungarian village before World War I and then their eventual exodus to America to make their home in Ohio.

November 16, 2006 
Christopher Andersen, Office of University Outreach and Engagement, read selections from A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck and Joe Shaw, University Libraries, read “The No-Talent Kid” from Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut

November 30, 2006 
Bill Tyler,Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, reading excerpts from “A Tale of Trouble from the Bar Roulette” by Tachibana Sotoo (1894-1959) which was written and published in 1936.