Want something low commitment and fun? Be part of the FREE Thurber Prize for American Humor book club! We'll discuss the top three finalist books for this year's Thurber Prize. Which book deserves to win? Read them all and tell us!

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With over 80 million books in print worldwide and fifteen current and upcoming Netflix and Prime series (and counting), Harlan Coben is a master of creating thrilling suspense stories. Join us as he discusses his latest blistering novel, Think Twice.

How can a man who’s already dead be wanted for murder?

Three years ago, sports agent Myron Bolitar gave a eulogy at the funeral of his client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing. Myron and Greg had history: initially as deeply personal rivals, and later as unexpected business associates. Myron made peace and moved on—until now, when two federal agents walked into his office, demanding to know the whereabouts of Greg Downing.

According to the agents, Greg is still alive—and has been placed at the scene of a double homicide, making him their main suspect. Shocked, Myron starts looking for answers… and soon discovers secrets, lies, and a murderous conspiracy that turns everything he thought he knew about Greg Downing upside down.

This event will be moderated by ABC6/FOX28 lifestyle show host Alissa Henry. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and meet Harlan Coben after the event.

Awarded annually, The Thurber Prize for American Humor is one of the highest recognitions of humor writing in the United States. Past winners and finalists include Steven Rowley, James McBride, Patricia Lockwood, Trevor Noah, David Sedaris, Patricia Marx, Mike Birbiglia, Alan Zweibel, and Dave Barry.

Join us for The 23rd Thurber Prize for American Humor award show! Celebrate humor, art, and literary brilliance in Columbus, OH as we honor James Thurber's legacy and mark Thurber House's 40th anniversary. This special anniversary year, we've reimagined The Thurber Prize show into an unforgettable evening at the Columbus Museum of Art.  We're excited to introduce the first Thurber Prize in Cartoon Art alongside the esteemed Thurber Prize for American Humor in Writing, blending tradition with a new era of excellence. The winners of both awards will be announced live at the show.

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and rising.

In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. They have been given names like the “Truck Stop Killer,” who rigged a traveling torture chamber in the rear of his truck and is suspected to have killed fifty women, and “The Interstate Strangler,” who once answered a phone call from his mother while killing one of his dozen victims. The crisis was such that the FBI opened a special unit, the Highway Serial Killings Initiative. In many cases, the victims—often at-risk women—are picked up at truck stops in one jurisdiction, sexually assaulted and murdered in another, and dumped along a highway in a third place. The transient nature of the offenders and multiple jurisdictions involved make these cases incredibly difficult to solve.

Based on his own on-the-ground research and drawing on his twenty-five-year career as an FBI special agent, Frank Figliuzzi investigates the most terrifying cases. He also rides in a big-rig with a long-haul trucker for thousands of miles, gaining an intimate understanding of the life and habits of drivers and their roadside culture. And he interviews the courageous trafficked victims of these crimes, and their inspiring efforts to now help others avoid similar fates.

Long Haul is a gripping exploration of a violent, disordered world hiding in plain sight, and the heroes racing to end the horror. It will forever unsettle how you travel on the road.

You will have the opportunity to ask the speaker questions after the event, purchase books, and get your books signed.

Mo Rocca is a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries, host of the hit Mobituaries podcast, and host of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation. He’s also a frequent panelist on NPR’s hit weekly quiz show Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the fascinating triumphs of famous people who made their biggest marks late in life.

Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist, humorist, and history buff Mo Rocca and co-author Jonathan Greenberg introduce us to the people past and present who peaked when they could have been puttering—breaking out as writers, selling out concert halls, attempting to set land-speed records—and in the case of one ninety-year tortoise, becoming a first-time father. (Take that, Al Pacino!)

In the vein of Mobituaries, Roctogenarians is a collection of entertaining and unexpected profiles of these unretired titans—some long gone (a cancer-stricken Henri Matisse, who began work on his celebrated cut-outs when he could no longer paint), some very much still living (Rita Moreno, the EGOT who’s still got it). The amazing cast of characters also includes Mary Church Terrell, who at eighty-six helped lead sit-ins at segregated Washington, DC, lunch counters in the 1950s, and Carol Channing, who married the love of her life at eighty-two. Then there’s Peter Mark Roget, who began working on his thesaurus in his twenties and completed it at seventy-three (because sometimes finding the right word takes time).

After the event, you will have the opportunity to ask questions and meet/take a photo with Mo, as well as get your book personalized.