All Episodes
Craft: Exploring Creativity — 248 episodes
Desiree Cooper: Finding Nature in the City
Dublin Irish Festival: Where Else Can You Throw a Telephone Pole?
Erik John Slangerup: Get to the Action!
Sarah Gailey: Staying on the Good Side of Hell’s Angels
Steve Hofstetter: Finding Your Crowd
A Hidden History of Black Soldiers
Bill Cohen: Join the Folk!
Steven Rowley: The Guncle Back in Competition
What would the dead want to discuss? wonders Thurber Prize finalist Alison Espach
How to write a lot of songs? John Gorka says, “Schedule it”
Seriously, why do it, Seth Walker wants to know
Ben Berens: Giving kids ways to handle challenges
Leslie Mendelson wants to know, “Where’s my Rock and Roll?”
Lucy Darling brings her magic to Columbus
Ben De Le Cour: Writing the darkness of people
Yack to the Future: A talk with David Josefsberg
Who had the worst husband?: Emma Elizabeth Smith on Henry the VIII
Haley Reinhart: Bringing powerful vocals to Columbus for Christmas
Lia L Shoshann: What singing in another language does to your audience
Tim Kazurinsky: My introduction to Saturday Night Live
Bobcat Goldthwait: Coming soon to a comic-con near you!
The Accidentals: Sometimes You’ve Just Gotta Say #$%^&!
David Wilcox: Songwriting as Therapy
Columbus Authors Diane Callahan and David Dixon Navigate The Ship and The Storm
Brandy Gleason: Living the Best of Ohio
Meg Cabot: From The Princess Diaries to Westerville
Abby Posner: How many instruments can one person play?
The Cat-like Comedy Reflexes of Bridget Mendy
Victoria Christopher Murray: Finding the Past
Steve Hofstetter: Getting to Know Comedians
Gregg Hurwitz: The Upside of Getting Choked Out
Amal El-Mohtar: This is How You Win the Writing Game
From Animorphs to Odd Otters, Katherine Applegate Brings the Talent
Iris Dement is Workin’ on a World, and We’re the Better for It
Nora Neus: Writing “People-Centered Stories for a More Equitable World”
Vashti Harrison: Big Honors for a Great Writer
Mary Robinette Kowal: What if 1950s Space Exploration Were Very Different?
Robert Bordone: Is Conflict an Obstacle or an Opportunity?
David Francey: A Poet Writing Songs
Brother Brothers
Happy Hard-Boiled Holiday! Tod Goldberg’s Dark Hanukkah
Erika Engelhaupt says, Go to Hell (in a nice way)
Darren C. Demaree: Making Writing Sweet
David Nihill and the Shelf Help Tour
Craft 2024 Halloween: “Hannah” by Rami Ungar
Finding Gold in Horror Poetry: Maxwell I. Gold
2024 Ohio Book Award Winner Sarah Lohman on the Eight Flavors of American Cuisine
Ruth Moody: You’ve Got 5 Minutes – Write a Hit!
George Bilgere: Cheap Motels of My Youth and in Berlin
Multitalented: The Accidentals visit Columbus
Love and loss in the Gulf Coast: Columbus author Karin Cecile Davidson gives insight into her new novel
Public School Teaching: Glamorous or Does It Suck?
Bobby Thompson: The story that the US government doesn’t want you to know
2020 Ohioana Book Festival Author Kiya Renae
This old guy talks to the creators of another Old Guy: Gabrielle C. Burton and Peri Gilpin
Connie Schultz’s move from reporting to fiction
CoronaVirus Update with Dr. Iahn Gonsenhauser from the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
How a Super Scientist Helps a Superhero: Nadya Mason Rescues Paul Rudd (someday)
A message to Dino Tripodis’s mother: He’s working!
Paul M. Sutter Puts You in Your Place in the Universe
Margaret Peterson Haddix and the Children of Exile
Spamalot comes to Columbus’s Palace Theater
Think you know mitochondria? Think again says Michael W Gray
Happy Halloween 2018
Celeste Ng receives 2018 Ohioana award for fiction
Henry Alford: So you think you can contact improv?
Billy Boyd: Art imitates life
Thomas Ian Nicholas: From actor to producer to musician
Steven Wright’s favorite joke
Heather Whaling: Spring cleaning your social media profile
John Gorka: The past never dies. It comes back as songs
Visual Trumpery or How Alberto Cairo Confronts Fake News and Statistics
Michael Kardos: A book so good, it’s magic
Christine Hayes: Lost Restaurants of Central Ohio and Columbus
Steve Goble: Writing the pirate seas
Amanda Petford-Long: Let’s Get Small
Dustin Meadows: Weezer, NuMetal, and finding your voice as a comedian
Lori Erickson: Monks Don’t Make the Best Interview Subjects
Matthew Kahle: Did Archimedes build a death ray?
Craft Intern Adam Hribar hosts WCBE’s Johnny DiLoretto
Rebecca Reczek: Are you spending your food dollars wisely?
Loudon Wainwright III returns to Columbus
Masha Hamilton on the perfume of people in war
Ohio State University Professor Ruchika Prakash on mindfulness
Brian Kilmeade co-authors book on Andrew Jackson
Craft Halloween Special 2017
Marisa Silver: Sometimes you have to change
Lisa Black: Murder in Cleveland
Sally Fingerett: Raised by wolves
Bruce Campbell: Columbus and the Evil Dead
How to Survive a Summer: Nick White tells all
Ikea Idea
Comedy from pain: Columbus comic Leslie Battle
Letting the past have its say: Jennifer Schlueter and Patience Worth
And the winner is…Colson Whitehead!
Cara Malek: How to zip a two-headed dragon
Jennifer Chiaverini on the women around John Wilkes Booth
C. F. Payne: Matching heads and bodies on a magazine cover near you
Junk: It’s not what you think
Author and filmmaker e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Professor John Beacom Gives Us All Security Clearance
The Sun Never Sets
Essayist Phillip Lopate returns to exploration of family
The surprising inspiration for Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World
Matthew Sullivan: How learning about the ocean’s tiniest creature helps humans
Jonathan Byrd: From bed springs to the world’s stages
The Prometheus Protocol
The Mystery of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew: Julie Rubini and Marilyn Greenwald
Mark Erelli: How to grab an audience’s attention softly
That time a Pulitzer Prize winner accidentally called me a journalist: Connie Schultz
Mariah Carey on Craft!
Jeff Black songs can get you out of speeding tickets (probably not)
Thanksgiving special 2016
Maureen Metcalf and Dale Meyerrose
Craft Halloween 2016
Improv! This weekend!
BIll Shkurti on The Ohio State University in the Sixties: The Unraveling of the Old Order
Kate Clifford Larson – Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Life is Ruff: Suzanne Berne on The Dogs of Littlefield
A Brief History of Vice
Patty Larkin: Finding the Miraculous
Ann Hood: What book matters most to you?
Arch City Comedy Festival performer Tim Northern
Andrew Miller: no names changed to protect the (not-so) innocent
NPR reporter Noah Adams in Columbus with WCBE, July 26
Mark Singer on Donald Trump: Unmolested by the rumbling of a soul
“Weird Al”: still the best way I know Michael Jackson songs
Late One Night with Lee Martin
Guest host Whimsy Slattershot talks with Tony Anderson about surviving The Road
Jim Obergefell visits Columbus with the Pride brunch
Joe Hill: the fireman is coming to your town
Jessica Knoll: working through anger
John Hegenberger at the Ohioana Book Festival
Larry Smith’s six words for Columbus
Peter Mulvey: Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Sheboygan and Columbus
Honey and Blue: which is honey and which is blue?
Laura Lippman: writing about her hometown with fact and fiction
Jill Bialosky: The Players in our lives
John Scalzi: how to stay employed as a writer
Dara Naraghi and Brent Bowman: creators of Persia Blues
Tracy Chevalier: at the edge of the orchard and history
David Myles: a man out of time
Tim Dorsey and the coconut cowboy
Fergus Bordewich: Congress is historically contentious
The Steel Wheels: leaving home is never easy
Stephen Takacs: how do I fit this camera into my Kia?
Samantha Tucker: so funny, you’ll have a kidney stone
Melanie Benjamin: ruffling the feathers on the Swans of Fifth Avenue
John Gorka and Anna Nalick: Together without knowing it
Catie Curtis and the best place to find inexpensive treasures
Brad Feinknopf: What a hip, cool photographer really wants [Part 2]
Brad Feinknopf: What a hip, cool photographer really wants [Part 1]
Nicole Reber: Frank Lloyd Wright in his underwear and other literary writing topics
Eating soup (and grasshoppers) without a spoon with Jeffrey Cohen
Rebecca Redux: Frazier back in town with Six String Concerts
How can business goals and social conscience co-exist?
Jason Gay: Little victories add up
Fourth Messenger and the Migration Crisis
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler’s Wife author brings the ghosts
Mike Vial: Balancing joy, sadness, and teaching as a songwriter
Top two reasons to be fearful: The Craft Halloween 2015 Show Stories
Get Wicked with Gregory Maguire
October 24 Comedy special
Sloane Crosley: “cracked in the head”
Caroline Cotter: How Craft led to a Great Song
How to Make Money with a 1973 Dodge Polara: Author/Director Eric Dean Seaton
Karin Slaughter: Writing murder from life’s tragedies
Poetry, Shapeshifting, and the Magic of Parenting with Maggie Smith
How Do You Pronounce Sumukh Torgalkar?
How Well Do You Know Paula Poundstone?
Stewart Huff – On the Road and in Danger
Saturday MegaSpecial with Cokie Roberts, Larry Smith, Erin Foley, and Ali Wentworth
The Speakeasy Saturday afternoon special
The Complex Legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jeff Shaara’s History of Writing
Journalist makes the supernatural personal
Columbus Unscripted, part 3
Columbus Unscripted, Part 2
Columbus Unscripted, Part 1
John Lescroart: I’m Sorry But I Have to Kill You
Marisa de los Santos and writing “minute by minute”
Kanon Brings Questions, Not Answers, In Visit to Columbus
Ellis Paul on crowdfunding and canoodling
Jennifer Chiaverini tells the strange tale of the wife of Ulysses S. Grant
Irene Kelley: From Led Zeppelin to Dolly Parton
Neil Gaiman, Veronica Roth, and Vienna Teng on Creativity
The Return of Erin Foley
Matt Burgess: Writing Great Characters and Ambition
Rebecca Frazier and the most dangerous band bus in Bluegrass
Thunder and Lightening! It’s Harmony Evans
NEIL GAIMAN and AMANDA PALMER on Craft
Garth Stein at the Thurber House with A Sudden Light
Janet Evanovich and writing about “hot guys”
2014 Craft Halloween show
Kara Cooney: Making the Ancient Engaging
Nicholson Baker: The next writer of James Bond?
Can you catch the Sex Criminals? You can at CCAD on Oct 23
Lindsay Ward, Ohioana Book Festival Featured Author
Improve your Improv: Attend Columbus Unscripted October 8-11
October 10 – Ohio Art League’s One Night
Catch a Code
Lee Child and Doug Dangler: This Time, It’s Personal
How to kill someone in a hospital
Mindy McGinnis makes you want to drink deeply
Veronica Roth’s Divergent View of Grad School
Thurber House author Tony Mendoza’s favorite part of America might be yours as well
Craft’s Nightmare Affair
The Gilded Age visits the Thurber House on July 23
Thurber House Author Loves Columbus
Superman’s Real Home Is Cleveland!
David Giffels: So Much More than Devo and Beavis and Butthead
Time for a Switchback to Celtic music
How not to starve as an artist
India’s social and sexual revolution
Lynn Cullen: Evenings with Authors
Matt Kish: A Whale of a Book
Patty Larkin
Charlene Fix: Poet and paper aficionado
Ready to take a bike ride across the United States?
Time To See a Starry Night
Richard Shindell: The International Monetary Fund is a great basis for a song
Carl Hoffman talks cannibals and what gifts to bring your children from your travels
Creative Commons’ Cable Green Opens Up about Content
Craft March 22 Humor Special
Cleveland native Kelsey Kinney hits town with Second City Improv
How to Liv Forever with Amy Talkington
How to plan a murder
Chang-rae Lee’s “On Such a Full Sea”
Aaron Jay Kernis
The Steel Wheels Roll into Columbus with Six String Concerts
Craft has Cracked!
Broadcaster Jane Pauley terms me “adorable”
Decreasing your risk of breast cancer: A talk with surgeon and author Dr. Christine Horner
The very funny Erin Foley stops by to talk sports and laugh at my pain
Best selling memoirist Mitch Albom discusses Phone Calls from Heaven
Daniel H. Pink: We’re all selling something and how to get kids to clean their rooms
Definition of a Data Scientist: Someone Who Likes to be Wrong
What’s next on Craft, you ask?
Checking out the Back 40 with Robin and Linda Williams
Dar Williams talks about how Columbus helped her get a duet partner
What’s the Password?
The 2013 Halloween show
The 2013 Craft Halloween author interview
I Go Off Script with Columbus Unscripted
Interview with Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid
As Promised: Vienna Teng
Maureen Metcalf and the Innovative Leader’s Guide
Sneak peak at the first Craft episode on August 7