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'The Carbon-Free Home' Explains How to Really Go Greennew
The Hrens' 320-page book categorizes shows how, on a budget, they stopped contributing to global warming and resource depletion, and also saved money.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
06-16-2008 |
Nonfiction
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
Sensuality and Storytelling Rulenew
Sheryl St. Germain offers a kind of time-lapse of two decades of her life and art -- it's a passionate, sometimes wrenching compendium with a few notable weaknesses.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
02-04-2008 |
Poetry
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
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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
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
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
In the Pursuit of Happinessnew
Jane Bernstein's Rachel in the World describes the challenges facing developmentally delayed adults and their families.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
12-10-2007 |
Nonfiction
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
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
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
