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Thurber House is Pleased to Announce the 2008 Literary Picnics Line-Up
Thurber House is pleased to offer you another fantastic line-up of outdoor picnics and readings with authors who have an Ohio connection. This season, you can meet a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a Great Lakes Book Award winner, a Columbus native with a love for the game of pool, and a novelist with a wonderful sense of the absurd. We'll kick off the 23rd season with an evening of humor and the winners of the 2008 Thurber Treat writing contest. So please join us on the Thurber House lawn for five evenings of good friends, good food, and great books.
Each picnic runs as follows:
5:20 p.m. - Guided tours of the house given by our Young Docents.
6:15 p.m. - Dinner is served. Order one of our festive catered dinners, made fresh by Party Panach catering, or pack your own.
7:00 p.m. - The reading begins. Thurber House remains open after the reading for tours, book buying, and signing.
Please bring your own lawn chairs or blankets. You are also welcome to bring alcoholic beverages. Parking is free after 6:00 p.m. at the meters along Jefferson Avenue. In case of rain, join us at State Auto Insurance, 518 E. Broad St. for all picnics.
Wednesday, June 11: A Thurber Treat. This year writers were asked to compose advice column parodies similar to those that James Thurber wrote in his story, "The Pet Department," which is collected in the best-selling The Thurber Carnival. Katharine Moore, Executive Director of the German Village Society, and part-time director of the Jefferson Center for Learning and the Arts, will host the evening and read excerpts from Thurber's story, then the contest winners will read their entries.
Wednesday, June 25: Lee Martin. Lee Martin is a professor and Director of Creative Writing at The Ohio State University. He is the author of several books including the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, The Bright Forever. He will read from his latest novel, River of Heaven, a striking story about the high cost of living a lie, the chains that bind us to our past, and the obligations we have to those we love.
Wednesday, July 9: Katrina Kittle. Dayton, Ohio native Katrina Kittle will read from her latest novel, The Kindness of Strangers, which creates a haunting vision of the secret lives of people we think we know. It is a poignant tale of how the tragedy of a single family in a small town can affect so many. She is also the author of Traveling Light and Two Truths and a Lie.
Wednesday, July 23: Heather Byer. Heather Byer is a freelance writer and editor in New York City, as well as a copy editor at a management consulting firm. Sweet: An Eight-Ball Odyssey is her first book, which recounts her first fumbling attempts to learn a game that beckoned her for years. She describes the hypnotic pull that surrounds the sport of pool, and the constant quest for the win. Byer was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio.
Wednesday, August 6: Brock Clarke. Brock Clarke will read from his latest novel, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, a delightfully dark story of "accidental arsonist and murderer" Sam Pulsifier, who leads readers through a flame-filled adventure starting when he accidentally burns down the historic home of Emily Dickenson. Clarke teaches creative writing at the University of Cincinnati.
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