| Loganberry News August 2023 
Loganberry News August 2023 Let's do this month by the numbers: 1: Annex Gallery opening 4: National Book Launches!!!! 5: Book Discussion group me  | Let's do this month by the numbers: 1: Annex Gallery opening
4: National Book Launches!!!!
5: Book Discussion group meetings
5: Off-site author events
6: Monarch butterfly chrysalides ready to eclose
7: Rust Belt Poets reading
8: Stages of Translation
9: Staff Recommendations of great works in translation by women to explore
15: Cleveland Noir contributors (including 3 current/past Loganberry staff!)
20: Authors at our Author Alley Fiction event
20: Years at this old garage on Larchmere (check out archival photos in the store or on social media)
20,000: Thank-Yous for keeping us going! | National Book Launch Daniel Kraus: Whalefall: A Novel in conversation with Dan Chaon
Tuesday, August 8, 7pm
~at Beachwood Public Library~
Along with Cuyahoga Co. Public Library, we're excited to co-host the national launch of New York Times-bestselling author Daniel Kraus' one-of-a-kind (and scientifically accurate!) thriller, Whalefall! Daniel will appear in conversation with acclaimed author Dan Chaon for an evening of thrilling writing and the latest whale science. Preorder a signed copy here! Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. Out at sea, Jay is caught in a giant squid’s tentacles and swallowed by a sperm whale. He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out—one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale. Daniel Kraus is the New York Times-bestselling author of more than a dozen novels and graphic novels. He coauthored The Living Dead with George A. Romero and The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro. Also with del Toro, Kraus coauthored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. Daniel lives with his wife in Chicago. Held at Cuyahoga County Public Library - Beachwood Branch (25501 Shaker Blvd.) Attendance is free, but RSVPs are requested here. | Broadsides & Ephemera Rust Belt City Tour: Septet of Poets
Wednesday, August 9, 7pm
~in-store~
Join us for a very special evening of not one, not two, but SEVEN poets from across the region! We'll hear work from: Angel James : Becoming Friends With Chaos, a collection of works inspired by the life and music of Bob Dylan, is her first book of poetry. Felicia Krol is a Michigan-based writer and educator. She works as a Writer-in-Residence with Detroit's InsideOut Literary Arts Project. Jason Storms is a writer, musician, and critic living in Detroit by way of Interlochen. He is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Jonie McIntire is the first female Poet Laureate of Lucas County, Ohio and poetry editor at Of Rust and Glass. She hosts a monthly reading series called Uncloistered Poetry from Toledo, Ohio. Karen Schubert, a graduate of the Northeast Ohio MFA, grew up in Buffalo and lives in Youngstown. She's the author of The Compost Reader and five chapbooks, and is founding director of LitYoungstown. Mitch James is a Professor of Composition and Literature at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, OH and the Managing Editor at Great Lakes Review. Paul Trombley was born, raised and lives in Detroit, Michigan. He earned a BA in English from the University of Detroit. | National Book Launch Laura Meckler: Dream Town: Shaker Heights & the Quest for Racial Equity
Tuesday, August 22, 2023, 7pm
~in-store~
Come celebrate with Washington Post journalist (and Shaker Heights-raised!) Laura Meckler! She's coming to Loganberry to launch Dream Town, her much-anticipated exploration of Shaker Heights' complex history of racial equity. Preorder a signed copy here! In the late 1950s, Shaker Heights became a national model for housing integration. And beginning in the seventies, it was known as a crown jewel in the national move to racially integrate schools. The school district built a national reputation for academic excellence and diversity, serving as a model for how white and Black Americans can not just coexist but thrive together. Dream Town asks: Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? What does success look like and has Shaker achieved it? What are Black Americans asked to sacrifice and what will white people have to give up? The result is a complex portrait of a place that, while never perfect, has achieved more than most, and a road map for communities that seek to do the same. | Book Talk Laura Meckler in conversation with Paul Mason: Dream Town
Saturday, August 26, 2pm
Held at Shaker Library - Main Branch (16500 Van Aken Blvd, Shaker Heights)
Laura Meckler (Shaker Heights Class of 1986) will be discussing new book, Dream Town, in conversation with fellow journalist Paul Mason (Shaker Heights Class of 1963), son of Ludlow Community Association pioneer Beverly Mason. Free and open to all; Loganberry will be present selling books for signing. Cosponsored by the Shaker Historical Society. | National Book Launch Cleveland Noir edited by Miesha W. Wilson and Michael Ruhlman
Tuesday, August 1, 7pm
~in-store~
Finally, the Akashic Noir series comes to Cleveland! “Cleveland is a working-class town, though its great institutions were founded by twentieth-century robber barons and magnates . . . It’s this mix of the wealthy and the working class that makes this city—an urban center of brick and girders surrounded by verdant suburbs—a perfect backdrop for lawlessness" (from the introduction by editors Miesha Wilson Headen and Michael Ruhlman). For the launch of this book, hosted by editors Miesha Headen and Michael Ruhlman and several of the book's authors, we will entertain in game-show style. Come spin the wheel to learn what setting, weapon, inspiration or deep dirty secret each contributing writer has for their contribution. Preorder your copy here! Authors include: J.D. Belcher, Jill Bialosky, Sam Conrad, Angela Crook, Alex DiFrancesco, Mary Grimm, Miesha Wilson Headen, Paula McLain, Dana McSwain, Susan Petrone, D.M. Pulley, Michael Ruhlman, Daniel Stashower, Thrity Umrigar, and Abby L. Vandiver. PLUS: Noir at the Bar on August 31 is a dinner-theater style celebration of Cleevalnd Noir hosted at The Music Box! Authors will be live, and Loganberry will be selling books. More details and reservations available here. | Book Launch Matthew Rarey: Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic
Wednesday, August 2, 6pm
~At ATNSC - 11808 Cromwell Avenue in Cleveland~
Please join us for a special event with our neighbors at ATNSC! In his new book Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets carried in the Black Atlantic world from the 17th to 19th centuries. These amulet pouches, commonly known as “mandingas,” were used across Africa, Brazil, and Portugal and contained myriad objects, from herbs and Islamic prayers to shells and coins. Rarey shows how mandingas functioned as portable archives of their makers’ experiences of enslavement, displacement, and diaspora. Matthew Francis Rarey is Associate Professor of African and Black Atlantic Art History at Oberlin College. A lifelong resident of the Midwest, he is a fifth-generation Ohioan. ATNSC: Center for Healing + Creative Leadership is an interdisciplinary, socially engaged, urban retreat, residency, research and exhibition space located in the Buckeye-Shaker neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. . | Author Alley Fiction
Saturday, August 12, 12-4:30pm
~Second Saturdays, June-September~
From realistic fiction that seems like it could take place next door to sci-fi set in the furthest galaxies, this month's Author Alley gathering highlights novelists and story writers in a range of genres. Stop by the Alley to meet Tony Marini, Kathryn Church, Vivien Chien, Andrew Mcmillan, Michael J Jordan, Brooke Bobincheck, Dominique King, Destiny D Hawkins, Armani G Borden, Matt Marshall, Jordan D King, Joseph Sieracki, LB Huckleberry, Vanessa Poulson, David A. Edmonds, Daniel Arman, Eryka Parker, Victoria C. Perkins, Gary W. Beckley, Julia Tvardovskaya, and more! On Saturday, September 9, Children's and Illustrated book authors will close out this year's Author Alley series. Click here for this summer's full Author Alley schedule. | Naturalist's Notebook All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
Sunday, August 20, 1pm
~at Shaker Lakes Nature Center, 2600 S Park Blvd, and online~
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson is a collection of essays by women in the forefront of climate activism from around the world, across generations and from multiple perspectives to include scientists, farmers, lawyers, poets etc. This is a book about our future that leaves you with a touch of hope. This will be a hybrid event. Free to attend online or in person but registration is required here. Buy a copy of the book for 10% off from Loganberry here. | Annex Gallery Bahar Ghasemi: Spring Art Studio
August 3-September 3, 2023
Opening reception on Thursday, August 3, 6-8pm
Join us for the opening of our July art exhibition, featuring the work of local artist Bahar Ghasemi of Spring Art Studio! Based in Cleveland, Bahar Ghasemi creates whimsical and beautiful ceramic art to delight all ages. | NOBS Forum Dan Freidus: Expat Cookbooks
Thursday, August 24, 7pm
~in-store and online~
NOBS member Dan Freidus has been collecting cookbooks for his entire adult life. He stumbled into collecting expat cookbooks when he found a community cookbook from an Episcopal church in Cairo, Egypt. Dan’s collection now numbers about 1,000 expat cookbooks from dozens of countries going back to before 1920. Join us to learn about Dan’s unique collection! Join in-person at Loganberry or on Zoom here. Meeting ID: 880 2442 0013
Passcode: 907804 | Save the Date Lit Cleveland Inkubator
September 18-23, 2023
~annual~
Mark you calendar for the biggest literary event of the Cleveland year, and one of the largest free writing festivals in the country: Inkubator, Lit Cleveland's free literary festival, part of Cleveland Book Week. We'll be there, as will be amazing writers from around the country. More information here and coming soon! | On Sale This Month During the month of August, we're featuring at 20% off all fiction in translation! No matter the language it was originally written in, no matter whether it's horror, mystery, romance, or autofiction--if it's translated from another language and it's fiction in the LitArts room, it's on sale all through August! | Collectible Books for Any Budget! Our collectible book recommendation for this month is a signed copy of The Eight Stages of Translation by Robert Bly, which includes the essay "The Eight Stages of Translation" and 10 poems in 7 different languages, each presented in their original and with Bly's translation, showing how both the original and the work in translation are works of art. Browse our ever-expanding collectible listings here, or email wendy@logan.com for a personalized suggestion for any budget! | Great Gifts Loganberry's building our awesome sticker collections! A majority of our vinyl stickers are weatherproof and waterproof, so you can add them to your water bottle, computer, phone, or car. FYI: a fun new sticker or two on notebooks or lunchboxes can also help with the back-to-school scaries! | Used Book Buying Mondays and Fridays are our buying days, but please call us before you come in. As usual, we offer cash or 20% more in store credit for used and collectible books that we deem saleable, and you'll need to take away any we decline to purchase. You can find more details about our buying procedures here. We look forward to seeing your treasures! | Bulk Order Discounts Does your church, synagogue, school, book club, or company need to order 10 or more copies of a book for a group read or special event? Order from Loganberry and receive a discount! We can even deliver to your location free of charge! Contact elisabeth@logan.com for more details! | Click any title below to purchase a book for mailing or in-store pickup! | Harriett recommends On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera, translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney: "This beautiful slim volume is a travelogue, meditation, literary history, and poetry all in one. And like the famous lighthouses it discusses and dissects, it is a narrative that at its heart is quiet, somber, majestic, transcendent, and sturdy in a storm. And it's in translation? Yes, yes it is." | Cat recommends Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, translated from Spanish by Sarah Moses: "This dystopian novel is set in a society in which animal meat is no longer edible, causing the legalization of cannibalism. We follow the protagonist of the story as he suffers a moral crisis about eating human flesh while also experiencing obstacles within his job and marriage. The balance of horror story and what feels like a 'slice of life' novel is fascinating, as is the exploration of how society dehumanizes others for financial gain and 'survival.' " | J.D. recommends The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, translated from French by Ali Anderson: "This novel, translated from French into more than 40 languages, centers on Renée Michel, a brilliant autodidact concierge surrounded by bourgeois tenants in an apartment building on the luxurious Rue de Grenelle in Paris. It cleverly exposes the subtle complexities and boundaries of privileged society by intertwining her relationships with building residents, including a subtle romance with a Japanese businessman and a friendship with a lonely 12-year-old girl." | *Sarah recommends The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, translated from German by Shaun Whiteside:* "This is a classic dystopia survivalist page turner. I’m not giving anything away by saying it’s about a woman who wakes up in the Austrian mountains to find an invisible wall has come down, cutting her off from the world. Written in 1963, it is still relevant and unforgettable." | Devon recommends Tentacle by Rita Indiana, translated from Spanish by Achy Obejas: "This is a strange, time-bending novel follows a former sex worker trying to save up enough money for his transition. It is set in the Dominican Republic of a climate disaster-ridden world; and our main character, Acilde, finds himself in a position to possibly save the Earth!" | Toni recommends Trinity, Trinity, Trinity by Erika Kobayashi, translated from Japanese by Brian Bergstrom
"In this summer of Oppenheimer, I am recommending a strange and resonant Japanese novel that examines the fallout of the nuclear age in Japan (which in its way began with the Trinity test in Los Alamos). In this story of speculative fiction and female family connections, it's nine years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster. Japan is preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and an unnamed narrator wakes up unable to recall her past. Across the country, the elderly begin to hear voices emanating from black stones, symptom of a disease called “Trinity.” | Thanks for reading,
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