Literature
Virtual Bandits Book Club/NCBC
"Virtual Bandits" is our online version of the Next Chapter Book Club, a reading group inclusive of developmentally disabled adults. If you want to join us, please register, making sure... Read More
Winter Book Club: The Underground Railroad (In 3 parts) [VIRTUAL PROGRAM]
Winner of the National Book Award (2016), The Pulitzer Prize (2017) and the Arthur C. Clarke Award (2017), Colson Whitehead's novel of slaves seeking escape from thralldom in 19th Century... Read More
Play Discussion: Tantrum Theater’s Spring Awakening [VIRTUAL PROGRAM]
Discussing a play elicits added dimensions for analysis. Read a copy of the play by Frank Wedekind that is the source for the 2006 musical of the same name by Steven... Read More
Beowulf Book Club: A New Translation, Part 1 of 3 [VIRTUAL PROGRAM]
Fantasy-writer Maria Dahvana Headley, gives Beowulf a contemporary, cool, punk, and most especially feminist spin, redressing a tradition of translation with a 19th & 20th century masculine bias that has... Read More
Meet the Author: Terri Mash and The Cultured Girl [VIRTUAL PROGRAM]
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
Fiction Writing: Finding Your Narrative Voice [VIRTUAL PROGRAM]
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
Live Storytime for Adults: A Short Story by E. L. Doctorow [VIRTUAL PROGRAM]
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
Summer Book Club: The Queen’s Gambit (3 meetings) [VIRTUAL PROGRAM]
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
Storytime for Adults: Sherlock Holmes
Athens Public Library 30 Home Street, Athens, OH, United StatesPlease 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.
Zero, a Door: A reading with Athens Poet Laureate Wendy McVicker
Stuart's Opera House 52 Public Square, Nelsonville, OH, United StatesPlease come and join Athens Poet Laureate, Wendy McVicker, as she shares from her NEW collection, “Zero, a Door” on September 25th. This FREE event will be hosted in the... Read More