Arts & Culture

4 Local Books For A Summer Read

Lounge by the pool with any of these Northeast Ohio native texts.

by Barry Goodrich | Jun. 1, 2016 | 4:00 AM

By day, Ohio’s first poet laureate Amit Majmudar is a diagnostic nuclear radiologist in Columbus. By night, the Highland Heights native is a talented writer whose meter, rhyme, free verse and prose have been described as “nothing less than a torrent of poetic inventiveness” by former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins. “I’m pretty restless,” says Majmudar, whose latest collection, Dothead (Knopf, $26.95), touches on King Lear, immigration and the sex life of Adam and Eve. “This book has so much diversity that it ends up appealing to a lot of people,” he says. “I don’t have an agenda.” 

More local books we love:

Pictures at an Exhibition:
A Petersburg Album
by Philip Metres

True Crime Addict
by James Renner

The Summer that Melted Everything
by Tiffany McDaniel (out July 26)

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