Mon 10/9 @ 7PM
Literary Cleveland is introducing a new program it’s dubbed the Plum City Reading Series (remember the lame slogan from the early 80 “New York’s a Big Apple but Cleveland’s a Plum”? Yeah, most people don’t.)
Anyway, this reading series promises to be better than that lame slogan, fabricated by the Plain Dealer in 1981 as a sop to a city reeling from the misrule of the Kucinich era and default. It will feature authors from around the country whose works come from independent publishers.
The first such evening brings in Northeast Ohio-raised, Philadelphia-based poet/essayist/editor Athena Dixon, author of The Loneliness Files: a memoir in essays (Tin House, Edited by Hanif Abdurraqib), and Chris Bachelder & Jennifer Habel, the Cincinnati-based authors of the just-published Dayswork: A Novel (W.W. Norton) about a woman’s growing obsession with Herman Melville during the pandemic.
The event takes place at Loganberry Books on Larchmere, with an after party immediately after at Literary Cleveland’s offices right across the street. It’s a donation-based “pay what you can” event.
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