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Giving Voice to the Disappeared
Pittsburgh activist Julia Whiteker bears witness for those disappeared by ICE.
Shining Gleaming Flaxen Waxen
“One time…at a $5 punk salon… a guy with jiggy clippers… said, ‘Are you a model?’ and I, feeling model beautiful, indestructible, let him do whatever and ended up looking like a city rat gnawed my scalp bloody on one side.”
Every Part Strengthens a Part
Max Callimanopulos reviews and reflects on James Salter’s “Light Years” for its fiftieth anniversary.
No Punches Pulled; No Kinks Shamed
Discovering Pittsburgh’s raunchiest and most welcoming book club: Sex and Death.
Meaning in Minneapolis
“Abernathy may be outnumbered, but he is not alone. This is a picture of two [...]
Author Joseph Bathanti’s East Liberty
“As with Joyce’s Dublin, place isn’t simply geographical–it is inherent in the working-class culture in which characters live. The tension remains across stories because it is, at root, based in economics and class status.”
“Art is [still] a Weapon”: A Brief History of the Protest Novel
“Every time he saw another building in Pittsburgh being spray washed to remove the decades of soot… he would think of their legacies being slowly erased.”
King Cool: Ed Ochester and The Pittsburgh School of Poetry
A celebration of Ed Ochester’s life and legacy reveals how a poet from Queens transformed Pittsburgh’s literary scene.
In Search of Lost Process; or, How I Wrote My First Book
“I was young, full of creative energy, filling black notebooks with pressed ballpoint ink. Time dilated because I was unbothered by the reality of lugging my dirty laundry down to the laundromat every few weeks or eating rice and beans day after day.”
Ghosts of the American Left in Millvale
By Timothy R. Grieve-Carlson “Ihave a question,” said the gentleman who approached me after I [...]
How The Welding Machine Works
“I thought I would not miss him. I was wrong.”
Climb Through
By Sheila Squillante Climb Through –after “Climb Through” by Huck Beard We appreciate a workaround, [...]
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