November 2018 Ohioana Newsletter

In This Issue

The Director’s Chair ...... 1 2018 Ohioana Awards ...... 1 Transitions ...... 4 Coming Soon ...... 4 New Books ...... 5 Shop and Support Ohioana ...... 14

Connecting Readers and Ohio Writers November 2018

Celebrating the The Director’s Chair

2018 Ohioana Awards! Dear Friends,

It was a perfect night for readers to gather and celebrate Ohio’s great It’s another autumn in beautiful books and writers. The 77th annual presentation of the Ohioana Awards Ohio. With it comes many took place Thursday, October 18, in the beautiful Atrium of Ohio’s wonderful literary events around historic Statehouse. It was a wonderful evening of good food, good the state, including our own people, and good times. Ohioana Awards, which took place on October 18. It was a night to First presented in 1942, the Ohioana Awards are the second oldest, remember, as you can see from our and among the most prestigious, state literary prizes in the nation. The cover story! inaugural winner was James “Scotty” Reston, who went on to win two Pulitzer Prizes. Since then, there have been few major Ohio authors who We’ve proudly taken part in two have not been honored with an Ohioana Award. Many distinguished non- other major events since then: the Ohio authors have also been recognized for their books on Ohio subjects. 12th annual Books by the Banks— Cincinnati Regional Book Festival on October 20 and the Pickerington Public Library’s popular Teen Book Fest on October 27. Coming up: the 31st annual Buckeye Book Fair in Wooster on November 3. For people who like to give books as presents, it’s a shopper’s dream!

And speaking of shopping, did you know that you can now support the Ohioana Library when you shop online? See page 14 for more information.

As noted in our story on the Ohioana Awards, our October 18 The 2018 Ohioana Award Winners (l to r): Ruth Awad, Celeste Ng, Ohioana Executive event also marked the kickoff of Director David Weaver, Tamara Bundy, Brian Alexander, Sally Derby, and Deanne Stillman. Ohioana’s 90th anniversary year,

1 Ohioana Director David Weaver served as emcee for the program. which you’ll be hearing more about Dan Shuey, president of the Ohioana Board of Trustees, welcomed the in the weeks and months ahead. audience and noted that the occasion was doubly significant: not only for presenting the Ohioana Awards, but also marking the official start of the One of the highlights will be the library’s 90th anniversary year. 2019 Ohioana Book Festival, presented for the first time at the The ceremony began with the awarding of the 29th Walter Rumsey event’s new home: the beautiful Marvin Grant to Christopher Alexander Gellert of Shaker Heights. A main branch of the Columbus competitive award for Ohio writers age 30 or younger who have not yet Metropolitan Library. Being at published a book, the Marvin Grant has helped launch many successful CML’s recently renovated and authors, including 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Doerr. Gellert, expanded facility will help make the who currently lives and studies in France, appeared on video. His parents, festival bigger and better than ever. Juliet Kostritsky and Brad Gellert, accepted the grant on his behalf. Mark your calendars now to join us Christopher’s prize-winning story, “Why Cleveland?!,” is featured in the there on Saturday, April 27, 2019. fall issue of the Ohioana Quarterly. Finally, as Thanksgiving is just The presentation of the Ohioana Book Awards followed: around the corner, may I say how truly grateful all of us at Ohioana Juvenile Literature: Sally Derby, A New School Year are for wonderful friends like Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature and Readers’ Choice: you. Ninety years of collecting, Tamara Bundy, Walking with Miss Millie preserving, and celebrating Ohio About Ohio or an Ohioan: Brian Alexander, Glass House literature—it wouldn’t be possible Poetry: Ruth Awad, Set to Music a Wildfire without you. Thank you. Nonfiction: Deanne Stillman, Blood Brothers Fiction: Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere David E. Weaver Executive Director All the Ohioana Book Award winners were present for the ceremony, and afterward signed copies of their books, which were available at the event thanks to the Statehouse Museum Shop.

The event drew a full house. Among the guests in attendance were Ohio Poet Laureate and past Ohioana Award winner Dave Lucas, who presented the book award in poetry, and former Columbus Mayor Greg Lashutka and his wife, Catherine Adams, who were guests of award sponsor Tom Dailey and the Tom E. Dailey Foundation.

The Ohio Channel streamed the awards ceremony live, and the program is now airing statewide via cable on public television stations. It can also be viewed on The Ohio Channel’s website at ohiochannel.org. Calling All Our thanks to all who attended, and a special thanks to the sponsors and Ohio Authors! contributors whose generous support made the event possible. Finally, thanks and congratulations once again to this year’s winners! Ohioana is now taking applications for Ohio authors interested in participating in the 2019 Ohioana Book Festival. For details and an application, visit www.ohioana.org.

2 The Ohioana Library Association thanks the following groups for their generous support of the 2018 Ohioana Awards:

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3 Also in September, Governor Kasich reappointed transitions Carol Garner of Mount Vernon for a four-year term.

Ohio, and Ohioana, lost one of its most illustrious At Ohioana’s annual meeting on October 18, Ellen historians with the passing of George Knepper at age McDevitt-Stredney of Columbus was elected as a new 92 on October 20. George was a long-time friend and member of the Ohioana board of trustees. McDevitt- supporter of Ohioana, a trustee emeritus of our board, Stredney is a writer for Ologie, a Columbus-based and a two-time Ohioana Award winner, including the marketing and branding agency. Re-elected at the 1990 Career Medal for his lifetime achievements as a annual meeting were trustees Gillian Berchowitz of writer, teacher, and historian. Two years later, he won Athens, Louise Musser of Delaware, John Sullivan of the Ohioana Book Award for Quilts in Community: Plain City, and Jacqueline Vaughan of Dublin. Ohio’s Traditions. Elected as officers for 2018-20 were Daniel Shuey Earlier this fall, Ohioana welcomed two new members (President), John Sullivan (Vice-President), Bryan Loar to its board of trustees. Brian M. Perera of Columbus (Secretary), and Jay Yurkiw (Treasurer). was named by Governor John Kasich in September to a two-year term as one of the board’s four gubernatorial Congratulations to all these new and returning appointees. Perera is Assistant Vice-President for State trustees, and our thanks for their dedicated service. Government Relations at The Ohio State University. Coming Soon

I, Too, Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100 Ends January 20, 2019, Columbus Museum of Art The exhibition, curated by two-time Ohioana Award–winning author Wil Haygood, is the centerpiece of a community-wide celebration of the Harlem Renaissance’s impact on African American literature, music, and art, with events taking place throughout Central Ohio. For more information, visit https://cbusharlem100.org.

Buckeye Book Fair November 3, 2018, 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Fisher Auditorium, Wooster The 31st annual book fair is a great chance to get a jump on holiday shopping, with more than 100 authors and illustrators. For more information, visit www.buckeyebookfair.com.

Brews + Prose November 13, 2018, 7:00 p.m., Market Garden Brewery, Cleveland R.O. Kwon (The Incendiaries) and Huda Al-Marashi (First Comes Marriage) read from their works for the popular literary series, now in its seventh season. For more information, visit www.brewsandprose.com.

Ohioana Book Club November 14, 2018, 10:00 a.m. – noon, Ohioana Library, Columbus The book for November is 2018 Ohioana Award winner Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. If you would like to attend, please e-mail us at [email protected].

An Evening with Jorma Kaukonen November 15, 2018, 6:30 p.m., Gramercy Books, Bexley The profoundly influential guitarist of the rock bands Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna and 2010 Ohioana Award winner shares his new memoir, Been So Long: My Life and Music, filled with tales of the road, the stage, and a life made of music. For more information and tickets, visit www.gramercybooksbexley.com/event/songwriter-spotlight-evening-jorma-kaukonen.

Thurber Prize for American Humor December 5, 2018, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m., Columbus Athenaeum, Columbus The event celebrating America’s highest prize for humor returns to Thurber’s hometown. For more information and tickets, visit www.thurberhouse.org/thurber-prize-event.

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Little, by the individual parish churches cartel—assaulted small towns Brown and Company (New York, and are stored at the archives of the and midsized cities across the NY) 2018. HC $28.00. Archdiocese of Cincinnati. This country, driven by a brilliant, Beth Macy takes us into the index contains baptismal records almost unbeatable marketing and epicenter of America’s twenty- of all twenty-five existing Roman distribution system. Together these plus year struggle with opioid Catholic churches in Hamilton phenomena continue to lay waste addiction. From distressed small County, Ohio between January to communities from Tennessee to communities in Central Appalachia 1850 and December 1859. Due to Oregon, Indiana to New Mexico. to wealthy suburbs; from disparate the size of the publication, it has Introducing a memorable cast of cities to once-idyllic farm towns; been divided into two books. 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In his three years at Factory Man, the unemployed use headed freaks, even “Ambassadors Crozer between 1948 and 1951, painkillers both to numb the pain from Mars.” Back home, their King delivered dozens of sermons of joblessness and pay their bills, mother never accepted that they around the Philadelphia area, while privileged teens trade pills in were “gone” and spent twenty- had a gun pointed at him (twice), cul-de-sacs, and even high school eight years trying to get them back. played on the basketball team, standouts fall prey to prostitution, Through hundreds of interviews and eventually became student jail, and death. Through unsparing, and decades of research, Beth Macy body president. These experiences yet deeply human portraits of expertly explores a central and shaped him into a man ready to the families and first responders difficult question: Where were the take on even greater challenges. struggling to ameliorate this brothers better off? 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Little, Brown and Company during the Civil War. In addition, George Washington chose “Mad” (New York, NY) 2016. HC $28.00. his fellow seminarians were almost Anthony Wayne to defend America The year was 1899 and the place all older; some were soldiers who from a potentially devastating a sweltering tobacco farm in the had fought in World War II, others threat. Native forces had decimated Jim Crow South town of Truevine, pacifists who had chosen jail the standing army, and Washington Virginia. George and Willie Muse instead of enlisting. ML was facing needed a champion to open the were two little boys born to a challenges he’d barely dreamed country stretching from the Ohio sharecropper family. One day a of. A prankster and a late-night, River westward to the headwaters white man offered them a piece chain-smoking pool player, ML of the Mississippi for settlement. 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And Daniel was not the man that either enough incentive and resources when the culprit is finally revealed, of them believed him to be—and were to connect and exploit these the discovery will leave everyone that his murder is more complex issues, the American people wondering if perhaps some than either of them imagined. would be largely powerless to stop mysteries should remain unsolved. them. Jack must risk his life and Otis, Abbey Mei. Alien Virus Love reputation to get to the bottom of Sanders, Yolonda Tonette. In Times Disaster: Stories. Small Beer Press the story before the disturbing plot of Trouble. Strebor Books (New (Easthampton, MA) 2018. he and his team have uncovered York, NY) 2013. PB $7.99. PB $16.00. becomes reality. Divorced, single-mother Lisa These short stories put humans Hampton has been able to start a under an alien microscope and Sanders, Yolonda Tonette. 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HC $17.99. eventually invites kids to join in the hours as permeable as clay” Jacqueline Woodson’s first middle- the fun by wiggling their fingers, and “dust lifting across the road / grade novel since National walking like a robot, and more. as though to form a human shape.” Book Award winner Brown Girl By juxtaposing euphony and clear, Dreaming celebrates the healing Mora, Pat. Illus. by Raúl Colón. startling imagery, Ramspeck’s that can occur when a group of Bookjoy Wordjoy. Lee & Low novelistic new collection molds the students share their stories. It all Books, Inc. (New York, NY) 2018. landscape to reflect the speaker’s starts when six kids have to meet HC $18.95. memories and the challenges of for a weekly chat—by themselves, Whether we are collecting words, growing up in a dysfunctional with no adults to listen in. There, in reading favorite books in the family. 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Vivid illustrations Late one night in a dingy Los are together, they can express the by Raúl Colón bring the poems to Angeles club, Nate and Cameron feelings and fears they hide from life and interpret the magic of the meet and discover they have much the rest of the world. And together, language with captivating images more in common than their love they can grow braver and more in a style influenced by Mexican of an obscure indie band. But ready for the rest of their lives. muralists. Together the poems when Nate learns that Cameron and illustrations inspire creative is the heir to a soul-sucking Children’s wordplay in readers of all ages. record label—the very one that Bonilla, Lindsay. Illus. by Cinta destroyed his father’s life—he runs Villalobos. Polar Bear Island. Sherbin, Jan. With photos by away as fast as he can. The only Sterling Children’s Books (New the Cincinnati Zoo. Hip, Hippo, evidence of their brief but intense York, NY) 2018. HC $16.95. Hooray for Fiona! 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