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The Afterlife of Gertrude Stein
Walking through Gertude Stein’s biographical and literary legacy with devotion in Francesca Wade’s “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.”
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.”
The Language Equation
A conversation with Patrick McGinty on new language, narration, and queer identity in his new novel “Town College City Road.”
“First Lady” at PICT Classic Theatre
“The play is set in a ‘modern banana republic’ in a vaguely defined Mesopotamia, in the midst of a popular uprising against an oppressive authoritarian president.”
Meaning and Michigan in Cal Freeman
“Yet Freeman’s musings on language are more than melancholy; they take the reader on a metaphysical investigation of language itself.”
Ghosts of the American Left in Millvale
By Timothy R. Grieve-Carlson “Ihave a question,” said the gentleman who approached me after I [...]
Robert Gibb’s Rust Belt Poetry
Robert Gibb is a real poet, which says a lot.
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, [...]
Endure
By Anthony Swofford The iceberg, edges as sharp as an old sailor’s regret, glinted under [...]
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