We’ll Drink to Old Ohio ’til We Wobble in Our Shoes

On the weekend of 9/14 to 9/16 I’ll be headed back to Ohio State, to old Columbus town, for the first ever OSU Creative Writing Alumni Bookfair and Festival.

This literary hootenanny features such luminaries as:

All events are free and open to the public. Here’s where you can catch me:

Friday, 9/14. 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Interview and Q&A. Thompson Library, Rm. 150b.

Friday, 9/14. 6:30 p.m. Reading at The OSU Bookstore/Barnes and Noble. w/Betsy Wheeler and Letitia Trent.

Saturday, 9/15. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Panel on Publishing a First Book of Prose. w/Claire Vaye Watkins, Michael Kardos, Christoper Coake, and Donald Ray Pollock. Thompson Library, Rm. 165.

Saturday, 9/15. 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Panel on Finding (and Keeping) a Tenure-track Job. w/Claire Vaye Watkins, Michael Kardos, Catherine Pierce, and Christopher Coake. Thompson Library, Rm. 165.

Sunday, 9/16. 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Panel on the Connection between Poetry and Nonfiction. w/Catherine Pierce, and Letitia Trent. Thompson Library, Rm. 202.

ALSO REMEMBER THAT WATERSHED WILL BE PLAYING TWO SHOWS ON SATURDAY, 9/15. THE INDEPENDENT’S DAY FESTIVAL AT 6:00 PM AND ACE OF CUPS AT 10:00 PM.

TRIVIAL SIDENOTE: The lines, And when we win the game, we’ll buy a keg of booze. And drink to ______ ’til we wobble in our shoes from “I Wanna Go Back to Ohio State” also appear in the “California Drinking Song,” as sung by the Cal-Berkeley Bears, the very team that OSU will line up against on Saturday, 9/15. Winner keeps the lyrics!