Author: Doug Dangler

How not to starve as an artist

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Screen Shot 2014-06-10 at 6.30.47 AMMaking a living as an artist has often been a challenge. I recall one smart and talented art student I knew who also earned a business degree. Why? “Because people are going to pay me for my art,” she replied.

Author and accountant Elaine Grogan Luttrall would approve of that attitude, I think, because she helps artists and member of the creative class achieve financial success to go along with artistic success. We talked about how to do this after she left a comment on this blog following my interview with author Chang Rae Lee, who doesn’t talk to his students much about finances.

Listen in to my talk with Elaine Grogran Luttrall about how to do the work you love and make a living at it.

India’s social and sexual revolution

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Sally Howard

Sally Howard

Journalist Sally Howard has written for The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, and Forbes on topics such as travel and celebrities like Daryl Hannah, Jimmy Choo, and Colin Firth. Read more about her at her website or follow her on Twitter @wanderingsal. Her latest book, The Kama Sutra Diaries: Intimate Journeys through Modern India, covers her travels in India and her exploration of what she sees as a sexual and social revolution in that country. She uncovers territories from little-known, at least in the west, ancient erotic Indian statues to the surprisingly little-understood, like India’s consumption of explicit web material.

Listen to Sally Howard on Craft

Kama Sutra Diaries Cover image

Kama Sutra Diaries Cover image

 

Laura Bickle: Ohioana Book Festival Featured author

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Laura BickleOhioana Book Festival featured author Laura Bickle has a serious investment in crime, since she has a dual background in criminology and library science (hey, library fees are serious in my house).

Her novel, The Hallowed Ones, follows an Amish heroine during a zombie apocalypse, great reading while The Walking Dead is on a break. Tune in to find out why she set the series in Amish country.

 

Lynn Cullen: Evenings with Authors

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Lynn Cullen head shot

Lynn Cullen head shot

Did Edgar Allan Poe have an affair with an aspiring poet? Thurber House guest Lynn Cullen makes some guesses at the Poe mystery with her historical novel Mrs. Poe. She’ll be at the Thurber House on Tuesday, May 6.

In our interview, we discuss how fans of Poe’s “The Raven” would follow him down the street, flapping their arms and the truly bizarre behaviour of Poe’s main rival and literary executor, Rufus Wilmot Griswold.

Charlene Fix: Poet and paper aficionado

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Charlene Fix

Charlene Fix

How can you tell when a poet is getting ready to do a lot of writing? Like birds nesting in the spring, he or she will start to gather paper. Or so it was with Columbus College of Art and Design professor
 English and featured author at the 2014 Ohioana book festival, Charlene Fix.

Check out other habits of poets in my interview with Charlene Fix.

Confirmed: JK Rowling interview next week!

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The Wand of Power given to me by JK Rowling’s publishing company

I’ll interview JK Rowling next week about her new book, Wizarding for Dummies! This will be her first non-fiction book and the first to lay bare the physics and real-world applications of many of the events within her books. Harry Potter will join us via three-way connection near the end to discuss the Afterlife.

 

Ready to take a bike ride across the United States?

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cover of Bruce Weber's book

Bruce Weber was. And his book Life is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America is the result. We discussed why anyone would want to undertake such a trip, especially when one has already done it once. And what kind of retribution the state of Ohio visited upon him for revealing that he is a Wolverine.

He’ll be in Columbus on Wednesday, April 9, with the Thurber House and our interview will air next week on WCBE, 90.5 FM.