Join the Aldus Society of Central Ohio at the Thurber Center for a speaker event with Kari Gunter-Seymore! Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour will discuss literature derived from the 32 Ohio counties “nestled within the western foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.” The Aldus Society brings literary events and programming to book lovers and educational opportunities to members. Some of our … Read More
Aldus Society Speaker Series: Rhiannon Knol
Join the Aldus Society of Central Ohio at the Thurber Center for a speaker event with Rhiannon Knol! Rhiannon Knol will speak about the role wrong ideas have played in Renaissance and early modern science, focusing on the writings of Aristotle, Christopher Columbus, and Athanasius Kircher—and reactions by their readers, from Galileo and Harvey to Sor Juana de la Cruz—and … Read More
Aldus Society Speaker Series: Alan Farmer
Join the Aldus Society of Central Ohio at the Thurber Center for a speaker event with Alan Farmer! Farmer will discuss recent advances in estimating the numbers of lost books to consider how lost books might reshape our view of the early modern English book trade and the cultural history of England from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century. The … Read More
Aldus Society Speaker Series: Roger Jerome
Join the Aldus Society of Central Ohio at the Thurber Center for a speaker event with Roger Jerome! Roger Jerome will speak about Charles Dickens in Ohio. Few people know that the great novelist visited most parts of Ohio in 1842 and wrote about it. Roger has studied his travels in detail and promises original details. The Aldus Society brings … Read More
Author Talk with R. Derek Black
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join R. Derek Black to discuss their memoir, The Klansman’s Son. The Klansman’s Son is an astonishing memoir of a childhood built on fear and of breaking from a community of hate. Derek Black was raised to take over the white nationalist movement in the United States. Their father, … Read More
Author Talk with Robin Judd
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Robin Judd to discuss her book, Between Two Worlds. Historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the Jewish women who lived through genocide and went on to wed American, Canadian and British military personnel after the war. … Read More
Author Talk with Dr. Alex Kor
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Dr. Alex Kor to discuss his memoir, A Blessing, Not a Burden. By all accounts, Dr. Alex Kor’s life has been a miracle. The son of two Holocaust survivors who narrowly escaped death, Kor grew up in Indiana – a state with Midwestern charm and an ignominious history … Read More
DACO Book Launch and Signing!
Celebrate the release of exhibition curator Caitlin McGurk’s Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund (Fantagraphics, 2024). In her book, McGurk honors the life and art of pioneering cartoonist Barbara Shermund, whose career spanned the heyday of American magazines and helped shape the visual style of The New Yorker. Shermund lived an alternative lifestyle … Read More
Kid’s Day at The J with “Challah For Shabbat”
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Sara Holly Ackerman for a kids’ day centered on her book, Challah For Shabbat! This sweet, rhyming, beautifully illustrated picture book celebrates Jewish joy and intergenerational love as it follows a girl and her grandmother preparing for Shabbat dinner by baking traditional challah from scratch. Join us for … Read More
Author Talk with Lauren Grodstein
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Lauren Grodstein to discuss her book, We Must Not Think of Ourselves. A story inspired by a little-known piece of history in the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II, a project with the code name “Oneg Shabbat.” In 1940, Adam Paskow becomes … Read More