Author Archives: Miesha

Podcast – Honor, with Thrity Umrigar and Paula McLain

Episode Link: https://anchor.fm/loganberrybooks/episodes/Honor–with-Thrity-Umrigar-and-Paula-McLain-e1e4gl7 Subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts: https://anchor.fm/s/22cf5e28/podcast/rss This week on our podcast Lines from Loganberry, we talk to author Thrity Umrigar (@ThrityUmrigar) about her new novel Honor, in conversation with fellow authors Paula McLain, and … Continue reading

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Podcast – Footnotes, with Caseen Gaines and Aseelah Shareef

Episode Link: https://anchor.fm/loganberrybooks/episodes/Footnotes–with-Caseen-Gaines-and-Aseelah-Shareef-e184muv Subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts: https://anchor.fm/s/22cf5e28/podcast/rss This week on our podcast Lines from Loganberry, Aseelah Shareef of Cleveland’s Karamu House Theater interviews author Caseen Gaines (@caseengaines) on his new book Footnotes: The Black Artists … Continue reading

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Podcast – Reflections on Cancer Survival, with Penny Casselman and Jackie Acho

Episode Link: https://anchor.fm/loganberrybooks/episodes/Reflections-on-Cancer-Survival–with-Penny-Casselman-and-Jackie-Acho-e17oeqn Subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts: https://anchor.fm/s/22cf5e28/podcast/rss This week on our podcast Lines from Loganberry, we are hosting interviews with cancer survivors Penny Casselman, author of How To Get A Free Boob Job, and Jacqueline … Continue reading

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2021 Author Alley: Nonfiction Day, Saturday, August 21st

Author Alley is Loganberry Books free annual event where readers can walk around tables to meet the region’s best writers, buy their books, and get personalized signatures. Writers will read portions of their books throughout the day. It’s a day … Continue reading

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2021 Author Alley: Fiction Day on Saturday, August 14th

Author Alley is Loganberry’s free annual event where readers can walk around tables to meet the region’s best writers, buy their books, and get personalized signatures. Writers will read portions of their books throughout the day. It’s a day of … Continue reading

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2021 BIPOC Author Showcase on Saturday, August 7th

Loganberry’s BIPOC Author Showcase is the only book fair of its kind- promoting diversity and inclusion in the literary arts- in northern Ohio through an independent bookstore. Continue reading

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Loganberry Books 15th Annual Author Alley and BIPOC Author Showcase

Loganberry Books 15th Annual BIPOC Author Showcase and Author Alley — Ohio’s largest book fair and author readings organized by an independent bookstore — is back in August 2021. In-person, rain or shine, the lawn beside Loganberry Books will be … Continue reading

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Terry Gilbert Lays Bare the Cleveland Legal System in Trying Times.

“Many of the legal battles in this book speak to the long tradition of radical lawyering in the style of the great Clarence Darrow, based on the realization that eventual outcomes are not always determined by legal proceedings but rather … Continue reading

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A Literary Desegregationist Selects 11 Works Published by Black Women Writers in 2020

To witness is to humanize. Reading is an act of both witnessing and humanization. The passive activity of reading – sitting silent in a room and devoting one’s full attention to a printed page – is a powerful action. A … Continue reading

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Afrofuturism: The Diaspora Strikes Back

In an irony, new walls against immigration imperil the people who were the slave triangle’s abductees and source of capital. Black people are confined in places capital abandoned. Continue reading

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