Page Count

About Page Count

Page Count, presented by the Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library, features interviews with authors, librarians, booksellers, illustrators, publishing professionals, and literary advocates in and from the state of Ohio.

Publisher

Ohio Center for the Book

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Apr 2022

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

124 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   On Genre, Gender, and More with Aubrey Hirsch & Virginia Konchan

   The Ohio Center for the Book presented Ohio authors Aubrey Hirsch and Virginia Konchan in conversation "On Genre, Gender, and More" at Literary Cleveland's Inkubator Writing Conference in September 2026. Held at Cleveland Public Library, Inkubator is the largest free writing conference in the country and continues to grow every year. Their conversation touched on adult topics and includes adult language, so listener discretion is advised. Aubrey Hirsch is the author of Graphic Rage: Comics on Gender, Justice, and Life as a Woman in America, and the story collection, Why We Never Talk About Sugar. Her stories, essays, and comics have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Vox, Time, The Nib, Black Warrior Review, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. Virginia Konchan is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Requiem, and the short story collection Anatomical Gift. Her publications include poems in The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The Atlantic, essays and criticisms in the Boston Review and American Poetry Review, and her translations from French in The Brooklyn Rail, Asymptote and Circumference, and fiction in Story Quarterly, Joyland, and Memorious. In This Episode Aubrey Hirsch: Stories. Essays. Comics (official website) Graphic Rage with Aubrey Hirsch (Substack) Virginia Konchan (official website) Inkubator Writing Conference (official website)

2. 

   15 Sept 2026

   Celebrating the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards with Kortney Morrow

   Kortney Morrow is the Program Director of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the nation's only juried literary prize dedicated to honoring authors that are writing about race and diversity. The Awards were created in Cleveland and sponsored by the Saturday Review from their founding in the 1930s to 1963. At that time, Ohio became home to the Awards with the Cleveland Foundation taking over administration of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Morrow herself is also a poet, arts advocate, and organizational strategist with over ten years of experience advocating for literacy and the literary arts. Morrow talks with Ohio Center for the Book Coordinator Don Boozer about her work, the history of the Awards, how they're chosen, the unique venue where the Awards Ceremony is now held, and much more. In This Episode Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (official website) Announcement of the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards finalists (Cleveland Foundation, March 3, 2026) 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners examine race amid complex times (Ideastream Public Media, April 10, 2025) Why One of America’s most important literary awards calls Cleveland home (Signal Cleveland, Sept. 1, 2026) Kortney Morrow (official website)

3. 

   1 Sept 2026

   Behind the Scenes at the National Book Festival with Suzanne Walker

   In this episode, Page Count welcomes Suzanne Walker, Center for the Book Program Manager at the Library of Congress. The conversation with Ohio Center for the Book Coordinator, Don Boozer, highlights the National Book Festival, the signature event of the year for the affiliate Center for the Book network. Suzanne and Don talk about what goes into planning the National Book Festival, what attendees experience there, and the activities that the Centers for the Book take part in while in Washington, DC. They also discuss The Source, one of the newest "attractions" at the Library of Congress. Suzanne also recounts her history with libraries and the Centers for the Book, first in Indiana and now in Washington, DC. The official Center for the Book website (Library of Congress) Affiliate Centers for the Book (Library of Congress) The Source at the Library of Congress Library of Congress National Book Festival Videos from the 2026 National Book Festival and prior years as well The Center for the Book is a State of Mind with Guy Lamolinara (2024 Page Count episode with Suzanne Walker's predecessor at the Library of Congress Center for the Book) Escaping the Drawer with Sammy and Annisha (2022 Page Count episode featuring Suzanne Walker as Manager of the Indiana Center for the Book and "Sammy the Toucan")

Who has been a guest on Page Count

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Karen Henry Clark
• Dr Kim Kiehl
• Dr Taylor Byas
• Loung Ung

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

4.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100

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Quality

51

Social presence

91

YouTube

0

Engagement

68

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