Craft: Exploring Creativity

Craft: Exploring Creativity
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Craft: Exploring Creativity

Discussion about how creative people have worked on their craft to become experts.

  1. 12/19/2024

    Brother Brothers

    Identical twins Adam and David Moss perform as the Brother Brothers, and they’ll be in Columbus on January 10, 2024, with Six String Concerts. Their latest release is The January Album, so named because they recorded it in January 2021. … Continue reading →

    7 min

  2. 12/18/2024

    Happy Hard-Boiled Holiday! Tod Goldberg’s Dark Hanukkah

    New York Times best-selling author Tod Goldberg has turned to editing for his latest work, Hanukkah Noir: Eight Very Bad Nights. The collection features 11 stories by critically acclaimed authors and explores the dark, noir side of Hanukkah. As Goldberg puts it:  Hanukkah is the perfect holiday for a noir setup because it's eight nights. By about the third night, if you're with your family, you're ready to kill somebody. When he isn't destroying a beloved holiday, Goldberg is a professor wf writing as well as a hardboiled author who specializes in " bad people doing bad things to worse people." Check out his anthology and maybe dip into his very interesting back catalog that includes original novelizations for the TV show Burn Notice.

    18 min

  3. 12/11/2024

    Erika Engelhaupt says, Go to Hell (in a nice way)

    Science writer Erika Engelhaupt, author of one of my favorite recent books, Gory Details: Adventures From the Dark Side of Science, joins me to discuss her new book Go to Hell: A Traveler’s Guide to Earth’s Most Otherworldly Destinations. It’s … Continue reading →

    17 min

  4. 11/27/2024

    Darren C. Demaree: Making Writing Sweet

    Columbus poet Darren C. Demaree makes his returns to Craft to discuss his latest poetry collection, his 23rd: So Much More. He explores death, fatherhood, nature, and empathy, along with other topics. Demaree discusses his approach to poetry, emphasizing the … Continue reading →

    14 min

  5. 11/13/2024

    David Nihill and the Shelf Help Tour

    What does is take to be a successful comedian, like David Nihill? Practice. And a desire to tell people interesting facts, like Columbus used to have the oldest captive gorilla and currently has the longest span, single tower S-shaped suspension … Continue reading →

    18 min

  6. 11/02/2024

    Craft 2024 Halloween: “Hannah” by Rami Ungar

    Most scary Halloween stories work because evil creatures or people threaten the protagonist is threatened by. “Torture the women!” Hitchcock famously said. But this year’s halloween story considers the question of “Who’s the monster?” something worth considering at any time … Continue reading →

    39 min

  7. 10/16/2024

    Finding Gold in Horror Poetry: Maxwell I. Gold

    The days are getting shorter, a chill is in the air, and pumpkins are attacked mercilessly by knife-wielding maniacs: it must be Halloween season. It’s also one of the favorite times of year of Maxwell I. Gold, a Columbus native, … Continue reading →

    9 min

  8. 10/10/2024

    2024 Ohio Book Award Winner Sarah Lohman on the Eight Flavors of American Cuisine

    Blogger and food writer Sarah Lohman won not one but two 2024Ohio Book Awards: the Ohio Book Award in Nonfiction and the Reader’s Choice Award for her book Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Food. The Ohioana Library will present the Ohio … Continue reading →

    29 min
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