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

National Book Critics Circle Finalists Donika Kelly and Melissa Febos will read in person at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, on Thursday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the... Read More