Arts & Entertainment
Snapshot: Another Lakewood Native Releases a Book
Long-time writer Erin O'Brien released "The Irish Hungarian Guide to Domestic Arts" Thursday.
Lakewood is full of writers.
Just in the last few months, we've seen release a hand-made children's book, announce his 20-page comic-zine on the anecdotes and philosophies of urban farming.
Now Erin O'Brien's throwing her hat into the ring with "The Irish Hungarian Guide to Domestic Arts," which she unveiled at a book releasing party Thursday at .
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"This book is a love letter to the middle class," said O'Brien, a 1983 graduate of . "It's a food memoir for the rest of us."
The book, as O'Brien describes it, is a little saucy, and about falling in love in and with Cleveland.
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"It's about the beauty of our everyday lives, and why there's beauty in a bowl of corn chowder," she said.
Red Giant Books, an independent publishing company in Cleveland, published 150 copies, and nearly 100 have already been sold.
Remaining copies can be found at Local Girl Gallery and on Amazon, which also has a version for Kindle.