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'What Happened to Anna K.' Reimagines Tolstoy's Heroine in Contemporary Queensnew

Irina Reyn, who teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh, has taken the plot of Anna Karenina, based it in Queens, and turned it into a considerably shorter novel very much dependent on its present-day setting.
Pittsburgh City Paper  |  Adam Colman  |  09-08-2008  |  Fiction

Talk is Plentiful in 'Ohio River Dialogues'new

Anyone who's ever talked deep with a small group of friends and thought it might make for art should look into William Zink's experimental novel.
Pittsburgh City Paper  |  Bill O'Driscoll  |  01-14-2008  |  Fiction

Ahead of the Classnew

Artist Frank Santoro's cult-classic graphic novella Storeyville -- released before Borders had a manga section -- gets another shot at commercial success.
Pittsburgh City Paper  |  Bill O'Driscoll  |  12-10-2007  |  Fiction

Kirk Nesset's Short Stories Shine in the Drue Heinz Winnernew

What makes Paradise Road most pleasurable is Nesset's supple style, capable of bluntness and lyricism alike. In any mode, he hardly seems capable of writing an uninteresting sentence.
Pittsburgh City Paper  |  Bill O'Driscoll  |  10-15-2007  |  Fiction

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