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Local author, Jason Barger will be signing his book Step Back From the Baggage Claim. Jason spent 7 days and 6548 miles flying to 7 cities living only in the airports and reflecting on what airport experiences can teach us.

Here’s your chance to chat with other film fans and director Peter Bogdanovich at a member-only reception before he introduces his 1972 screwball comedy What’s Up, Doc? at 7 PM. Tickets to Bogdanovich's presentation are on sale to Wexner Center members from December 1 to 13, 2009 to January 3, 2010.

All Evenings with Authors events begin at 7:30 p.m. The featured guest reads from his or her most recent work, chats about writing, and then there is a question-and-answer session with the audience. Each event closes with a coffee and cookies reception and an opportunity to buy the author's book(s) and ... (more)get them signed. - Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 at the door, with discounts for students and seniors. - Full series tickets are $100 for adults, with discounts for students and seniors. - You can also order a mini-series that includes one ticket to any three readings of your choice for $50 for adults and $40 for students/seniors.

During our Shakespeare Saturday Sonnet Slam, meet local poet and special guest sonnet judge Jason Gray! He'll be available to discuss poetry and sign copies of his most recent book, Photographing Eden.

We cap off Shakespeare Saturday with a visit from local author Lisa Klein. Ms. Klein will sign her teen novels Ophelia and Lady Macbeth's Daughter. Meet her and learn how she draws inspiration from the famous plays of Shakespeare.

Hear Percival Everett read from and talk about his writing, including his most recent novel, I Am Not Sidney Poitier.

All Evenings with Authors events begin at 7:30 p.m. The featured guest reads from his or her most recent work, chats about writing, and then there is a question-and-answer session with the audience. Each event closes with a coffee and cookies reception and an opportunity to buy the author's book(s) and ... (more)get them signed. - Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 at the door, with discounts for students and seniors. - Full series tickets are $100 for adults, with discounts for students and seniors. - You can also order a mini-series that includes one ticket to any three readings of your choice for $50 for adults and $40 for students/seniors.

All Evenings with Authors events begin at 7:30 p.m. The featured guest reads from his or her most recent work, chats about writing, and then there is a question-and-answer session with the audience. Each event closes with a coffee and cookies reception and an opportunity to buy the author's book(s) and ... (more)get them signed. - Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 at the door, with discounts for students and seniors. - Full series tickets are $100 for adults, with discounts for students and seniors. - You can also order a mini-series that includes one ticket to any three readings of your choice for $50 for adults and $40 for students/seniors.

Rikki Santer has worked as a journalist, a magazine and book editor, co-founder and managing editor of an alternative city newspaper, a poet-in-the schools, and her all-time favorite job--bagel street vendor. She earned a M.A. degree in journalism from Kent State University and a M.F.A. degree in creative ... (more)writing from The Ohio State University. Her work has won honors from The Poetry Forum (the William Redding Memorial Contest), Black Lawrence Press (the St. Lawrence Book Award Competition), the Ohio Poetry Association, and the Best of Ohio Writer Contest sponsored by the Poets' & Writers' League of Greater Cleveland. She currently lives in Columbus where she teaches literature, writing, and film studies at Upper Arlington High School. Her first poetry collection, Front Nine: A Biography of Place, which explores the mysteries of the Newark, Ohio Earthworks, was published by Kulupi Press.

All Evenings with Authors events begin at 7:30 p.m. The featured guest reads from his or her most recent work, chats about writing, and then there is a question-and-answer session with the audience. Each event closes with a coffee and cookies reception and an opportunity to buy the author's book(s) and ... (more)get them signed. - Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 at the door, with discounts for students and seniors. - Full series tickets are $100 for adults, with discounts for students and seniors. - You can also order a mini-series that includes one ticket to any three readings of your choice for $50 for adults and $40 for students/seniors.

All Evenings with Authors events begin at 7:30 p.m. The featured guest reads from his or her most recent work, chats about writing, and then there is a question-and-answer session with the audience. Each event closes with a coffee and cookies reception and an opportunity to buy the author's book(s) and ... (more)get them signed. - Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 at the door, with discounts for students and seniors. - Full series tickets are $100 for adults, with discounts for students and seniors. - You can also order a mini-series that includes one ticket to any three readings of your choice for $50 for adults and $40 for students/seniors.

All Evenings with Authors events begin at 7:30 p.m. The featured guest reads from his or her most recent work, chats about writing, and then there is a question-and-answer session with the audience. Each event closes with a coffee and cookies reception and an opportunity to buy the author's book(s) and ... (more)get them signed. - Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 at the door, with discounts for students and seniors. - Full series tickets are $100 for adults, with discounts for students and seniors. - You can also order a mini-series that includes one ticket to any three readings of your choice for $50 for adults and $40 for students/seniors.

* PUBLISHED AUTHORS and ASPIRING WRITERS can attend over 100 workshops to learn how to write and get published, how to network, how to promote and how to increase sales. * READERS will enjoy a special three-day program with games, giveaways, prizes and lots of FREE BOOKS as well as attend bestselling ... (more)author lectures in an intimate setting. Authors are at the ready to answer all your book-related questions. * BOOKSELLERS will value a special three-day program that will take you into the future of bookselling with tips on how to increase sales and revenues and how to compete with the chains. You will also learn how to use the internet to supplement your income. * BREAK AWAY from your designated track and check out any other workshop that appeal to you.

All Evenings with Authors events begin at 7:30 p.m. The featured guest reads from his or her most recent work, chats about writing, and then there is a question-and-answer session with the audience. Each event closes with a coffee and cookies reception and an opportunity to buy the author's book(s) and ... (more)get them signed. - Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 at the door, with discounts for students and seniors. - Full series tickets are $100 for adults, with discounts for students and seniors. - You can also order a mini-series that includes one ticket to any three readings of your choice for $50 for adults and $40 for students/seniors.