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Pittsburgh writers on how COVID-19 is affecting their work

Jul 2, 2020

Every important historical event inevitably changes how writers view the world. Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage and Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were created in the aftermath of the Civil War...

Pittsburgh writers on how COVID-19 is affecting their work

Alex North's The Shadows doesn't stick

By Jordan Snowden
Jul 2, 2020
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture is a book everyone should read

By Jordan Snowden
Jun 30, 2020
Jean Kyoung Frazier's Pizza Girl is an unapologetic standout debut novel

By Jordan Snowden
Jun 26, 2020
Pittsburgh mourns the loss of Jeffrey "Boosie" Bolden

By Amanda Waltz
Jun 26, 2020
Poets Richard Gegick and Bob Pajich publish gritty poetry books out of a kitchen in Forest Hills

By Rege Behe
Jun 25, 2020
Kim Rooney named City Books' second Writer-in-Residence

By Jordan Snowden
Jun 24, 2020
The Hunger Games prequel is completely unnecessary

By Jordan Snowden
Jun 19, 2020
Support #BlackoutBestsellerList with these titles from The Tiny Bookstore

By Jordan Snowden
Jun 18, 2020
How and when local bookstores are reopening

By Jordan Snowden
Jun 18, 2020
The Vanishing Half melds fiction and fantasy, but its insights into Black identity in America couldn’t be more real

By Jordan Snowden
Jun 12, 2020
Black Pittsburgh authors you should know

By Jordan Snowden
Jun 10, 2020
June's most anticipated fiction releases: Kevin Kwan, Jean Kyoung Frazier, and more

By Jordan Snowden
Jun 2, 2020
Mikel Jollett chronicles life after a cult in debut memoir Hollywood Park

By Jordan Snowden
May 27, 2020
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires is a dark read to distract from these dark times

By Jordan Snowden
May 18, 2020
Girl at the Edge explores what it's like to be the daughter of a mass murderer

By Jordan Snowden
May 13, 2020
What's left to say about Andy Warhol? NYT contributor Blake Gopnik found plenty

By Rege Behe
May 11, 2020
The most anticipated May book releases

By Jordan Snowden
May 8, 2020
Godshot is a modern feminist dystopia

By Jordan Snowden
May 4, 2020
Libraries may be closed, but here are four ways to read books for free

By Jordan Snowden
Apr 28, 2020
Bart Solarczyk's poetry confronts grief and healing with humor and insight

By Rege Behe
Apr 22, 2020