Books

The Columbus Metropolitan Library celebrates its 150th birthday this weekend as a grand opening for a new Gahanna branch library is held Saturday, March 4.

Dolly Parton was the special guest at a luncheon held by Ohio First Lady Fran DeWine in Columbus Tuesday.

If you’re packing for your summer getaway check out All Sides Weekend with Christopher Purdy. You may learn about a book or two you might want to kick back and relax with on the beach, in the mountains or your backyard.

A former Vogue model and one of Ernest Hemingway’s ex-wives were two of six women who not only made history but also covered it. We’ll learn about the challenges they overcame to get the stories, succeed in a man’s world, and the toll it took on them.

The discovery of an unpublished manuscript by an author can have a lot of reactions. We’ll look at the issues surrounding an author’s unpublished works.

Between October 2017 and February 2020, educator, poet and Atlantic staff writer Clint Smith visited nine places in the U.S. and abroad where, as he puts it, “the story of slavery in America lives on.” We talk with Smith about his new book, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.

Summer is here and it's time to gather books to read at the beach, the pool or wherever you go. Our panelists will provide tips on the latest literary releases.

Poets laureate and other literary luminaries from all 50 states plus D.C. and Puerto Rico recommend quintessential reads that illuminate where they live.

Today on All Sides Weekend Books with Christopher Purdy, we celebrate Michelle Herman, a long-time Professor of Creative Writing at OSU, and her new novel Close Up which was published earlier this week.

In the book SWEAT: A History of Exercise, author Bill Hayes tells the story of the modern obsession with exercising along with its ancient origins. We talk with Hayes about the cultural and scientific history of why and how we exercise, as well as how the human body works.