Books & Literature
3 baseball books kick up some fresh dirt
About six weeks into the Major League Baseball season, several recent baseball books have come streaking through my strike zone."American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith" edited by Daniel Okrent (The Library of America, 560 pages, $29.95)One of the finest aspects of baseball is being able to read about ...
Ohio-linked authors to converge in Columbus
The Ohioana Book Festival takes place on Saturday at the Fort Hayes Metropolitan Educational Center in Columbus. This event, the seventh annual festival, celebrates reading and writing. More than 100 authors with Ohio connections will be signing their books there and mingling with the public. Some authors will also be ...
Shakespeare marathon to help charity
The entire works of William Shakespeare will be brought to life during a week-long reading marathon titled “Shakespeare for Life.” The event will kick off with the reading of “As You Like It” on Friday evening, April 26, and conclude on Friday, May 3, with the dramatization of “Hamlet.” Over ...
Bernie Gunther series gets even stronger
Bernie Gunther is back. He has worn numerous hats during this long running series by Philip Kerr; police detective, hotel detective, soldier, fake physician and in this latest book, “A Man Without Breath,” he’s a war crimes investigator. Gunther is German. In the 1930s he was a homicide detective in ...
Downtrodden outcasts pack (and receive) punches
The author Frank Bill lives in the town of Corydon in southern Indiana and has observed as manufacturing in the area has declined. Some of his fellow citizens have turned to crime. There were a proliferation of rural meth labs and a surge in amphetamine addiction. Hard times have contributed ...
Tsunami survivor’s account tells of terror
As we remember the devastating flood that swept through Dayton a century ago, it is difficult to grasp the scope of the disaster that took place when flood waters inundated communities across a wide region. No actual eyewitnesses remain.“Wave,” a new book by Sonali Deraniyagala, is the firsthand account of ...
Authors write (and rewrite) the book on tackling a job
Nothing like hanging out with some of the most successful authors in the country to change your perspective on what it takes to be great.Maybe you’re like I was, assuming there are the haves and the have-nots.The haves would be those super-successful people, in this case, authors, who simply have ...
A surviving member of cult band writes stirring memoir
I remember the first time I heard the band Joy Division. I was clerking in a record store. We stocked imports, records shipped over from England. We received an album called “Unknown Pleasures” by this group called Joy Division.We popped the record onto the turntable (remember those?). We had never ...
High School Sports results
BOYS BASKETBALL Saturday’s Results Carlisle 70, TC North 45 Cin. Christian 77, Miami Valley Chr. 60 Dayton Christian 66, Badin 52 Hamilton 48, Milford 35 Little Miami 41, Edgewood 33 Madison 65, Midd. Christian 37 Northwest 64, Talawanda 58 Ross 65, Mt. Healthy 59 Winton Woods 75, Middletown 61 ...
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