{"id":819,"date":"2009-10-09T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=819"},"modified":"2009-10-19T11:01:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T15:01:28","slug":"join-us-for-books-by-the-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2009\/10\/join-us-for-books-by-the-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Join us for Books by the Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-821\" title=\"bbtb\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bbtb1.jpg\" alt=\"bbtb\" width=\"144\" height=\"145\" \/>Join nationally known authors Jennifer Weiner, Garth Stein, and Jeannette Walls along with local favorites Greg Rhodes, Ellen Schreiber, and Thayne Maynard to celebrate the joy and reading of books at Books by the Banks: Cincinnati USA Book Festival, Saturday, October 17, 10am-4pm, Duke Energy Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>The day-long festival will feature over 80 regional and national authors, book signings, author panels, and activities for the entire family to enjoy. <strong>All events are free and open to the public<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_822\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-822\" class=\"size-full wp-image-822\" title=\"posterartBBTB09\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/posterartBBTB09.jpg\" alt=\"Poster art by Ryan Ostrander\" width=\"216\" height=\"288\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poster art by Ryan Ostrander<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At the festival, attendees will have the opportunity to meet authors and to purchase signed copies of their books. Books by the Banks features writers in various categories including fiction, non-fiction, cooking, children&#8217;s literature, sports, and more.<\/p>\n<p>University of Cincinnati authors representing the McMicken College of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.uc.edu\/\">Arts and Sciences<\/a>, the College of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daap.uc.edu\/\">Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning<\/a> (DAAP), and the College of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.med.uc.edu\/\">Medicine<\/a> will be among the 80+ authors at the festival. The UC authors are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>James Braziel,<\/strong> adjunct assistant professor of English &amp; Comparative Literature for the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences (A&amp;S). Braziel was also featured at the festival last year. This year for the fiction category, he\u2019ll feature <em>Snakeskin Road<\/em>, described as a woman\u2019s harrowing journey of survival along a passageway of terror and hope.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joseph Clark<\/strong>, professor of neurology in the College of Medicine. Clark\u2019s book, <em>My Ambulance Education: Life and Death on the Streets of the City<\/em>, describes his experience working as an ambulance attendant on the most dangerous streets of New York beginning at the age of 18, a job to pay his way through college.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Melissa Kramer<\/strong>, UC journalism student, A&amp;S Kramer\u2019s first book, <em>The Inclines of Cincinnati<\/em>, was released last March. The book, part of Arcadia\u2019s \u201cImages of Rail\u201d series, examines a time when Cincinnati\u2019s streetcars carried locals and tourists to the peaks of Mount Adams, Mount Auburn, Clifton and Price Hill, and explores reasons for the disappearance of the city\u2019s number one tourist attraction, the Mt. Adams incline.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carol Tyler<\/strong>, UC adjunct instructor of fine arts in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP). Tyler is an internationally acclaimed award-winning artist and writer who lives in Avondale. Her graphic novel, <em>You\u2019ll Never Know. Book 1: A Good and Decent Man<\/em>, is the first of a three-part series that uses comics and graphics to help veterans and their families deal with the effects of war.<\/li>\n<li><strong>James Wilson<\/strong>, professor of English &amp; Comparative Literature, A&amp;S. Wilson\u2019s memoir, <em>Weather Reports from the Autism Front:<\/em> <em>A Father\u2019s Memoir of His Autistic Son<\/em>, is an honest portrayal of life with an autistic child and the challenges and joins that brings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Books by the Banks is organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\">UC Libraries<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnatimagazine.com\/\"><em>Cincinnati Magazine<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercantilelibrary.com\/\">The Mercantile Library<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnatilibrary.org\/\">Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josephbeth.com\/Landing.aspx\">Joseph-Beth Booksellers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksbythebanks.org\">Books by the Banks Web site<\/a> has information on the authors scheduled to appear at the event, a schedule of panel sessions, activities scheduled in the Target Kids Corner, as well as directions and parking information for Duke Energy Convention Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join nationally known authors Jennifer Weiner, Garth Stein, and Jeannette Walls along with local favorites Greg Rhodes, Ellen Schreiber, and Thayne Maynard to celebrate the joy and reading of books at Books by the Banks: Cincinnati USA Book Festival, Saturday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2009\/10\/join-us-for-books-by-the-banks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,13],"tags":[45,21,22,814,27,35],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uc","category-uclibraries","tag-books-and-more","tag-cincinnati","tag-didyaknow","tag-events","tag-information","tag-just-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}