Local author Terri Mash has created a book of poems, short stories and charming illustrations that capture what life was like growing up in rural Southeast Ohio in the 1960s. ... Read More

This seminar will also look at opening passages in various works of fiction and analyze what the narrative voice in each promises the reader. With Amy Coombs, MFA

Librarian Todd will read, "The Writer in the Family", which originally appeared in the August 1984 issue of Esquire Magazine.  Afterwards there will be time for a brief group discussion.... Read More

The late Walter Tevis, a former Athenian and admired English professor at Ohio U, wrote several critically-acclaimed novels that inspired Hollywood filmmaking (The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth, etc).... Read More

Please enjoy this bracing Victorian tale of mystery, adventure and detection, as read and characterized by librarian Todd.  A short discussion will follow the live reading.

Come meet Athens' very own Poet Laureate, and celebrate her new collection of poetry, Zero, a Door, published by The Orchard Street Press.  Hear poems from this new chapbook, and learn... Read More

Casual book talk & light refreshments.

Historical Fiction author Alan Hlad visits the Kate Love Simpson Library