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Barry Lopez on a Writer's Responsibility in a Time of Environmental Crisisnew
Every couple of years, Barry Lopez assigns himself a trip that he knows "will knock me over backwards." And it's not the sort of travel you might expect from the naturalist author of such classics as Of Wolves and Men and Arctic Dreams.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
02-08-2010 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
John Hoerr Returns to the Steel-Making McKeesport of His Youth in His First Novelnew
Unlike his first three books, Monongahela Dusk is a work of fiction. But readers will find plenty of familiar ground, from Hoerr's thoughts on how workers -- not just managers -- can make steel better; the ubiquity of gambling rackets in mill towns; and the red-baiting.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Kate Giammarise |
08-31-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'The Scramble for Africa' Argues that Western Activists Have Darfur All Wrongnew
Steven Fake and Kevin Funk agree: When it comes to Darfur, even people who share their leftist politics mostly don't get it.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
11-11-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Lawrence C. Connolly Crossbreeds Crime Thriller and Fantasy Tale in Debut Novelnew
In Veins, the interweaving of nature's dark beauty and the destructive majesty of heavy industry informs the story's crossbreeding of crime thriller with fantasy with special potency.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
10-28-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lawrence C. Connolly, Veins
Mark Doty Shies Away From the Title 'Political Poet'new
"Because when you say 'political poetry,' it sounds sort of dutiful, like, 'Oh, that's going to be work to read that,'" he says.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Paul Ruggiero |
06-30-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Novelist Junot Diaz on the Reader as Immigrantnew
Diaz's own tales of generations of families stretch across the Caribbean, from the Dominican Republic to New York and New Jersey.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Melissa Meinzer |
03-31-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Elizabeth Kolbert Shares Her 'Field Notes From a Catastrophe'new
Global warming's gone mainstream, in part due to Al Gore, and partially due to Kolbert's 2006 release of Field Notes.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
03-03-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Why the Inattention?new
A Pittsburgh author and historian asks why we're not marking the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
02-25-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Acclaimed Poet Ben Lerner Heads to Pittsburghnew
Lerner began teaching at Pitt this semester. In the classroom, he emphasizes his approach towards poetry as a craft. "My consistent focus is on how the structure of a work determines its sense and vice versa," he says.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Claire Donato |
01-28-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Lerner
Devra Davis Discusses Carcinogens and Curesnew
In her new book, The Secret History of the War on Cancer, the head of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh unveils the ignorance and corruption that have plagued cancer research.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Young |
01-07-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bruce Ledewitz Says Secularists Could Use a Little Religion in Their Politicsnew
The Duquesne University law professor is working on a follow-up to American Religious Democracy, tentatively titled Hallowed Secularism: A Guide for the Nonbeliever.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
11-20-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
George Saunders Talks Fiction, Vonnegut, & Johnny Tremainnew
Saunders is an anthropologist of American culture who issues his findings in terms of crazily inventive fiction.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
10-01-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Kathryn Miller Haines Creates Winner in Rosie Winternew
Pittsburgh mystery author's Miss Winter was published in June; Haines has completed a sequel, The Winter of Her Discontent, due out next June.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Staff |
09-25-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Danialewski Challenges Readers with Second Novelnew
Even seasoned readers might feel a twinge of confusion, frustration or panic upon first opening Only Revolutions. Each page offers either three or four patches of text, rendered in as many different fonts and type sizes; at least one patch is upside down.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
09-25-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Wred Fright, Zinester Novelistnew
"Wred Fright" is the nom-de-zine of Dr. Fred Wright, an English professor outside Cleveland who wrote his doctoral thesis on zine culture -- he talks about his latest novel.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
07-24-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
