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Dave Newman worked as a house painter, a truck driver, a bookstore manager and a college teacher before taking on his latest job as an award-winning…
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In celebration of what would have been jazz legend Billy Strayhorn's 98th birthday, janera solomon, executive director of the Kelly Strayhorn Theater,…
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Woodland Hills math teacher Justin Aion uses young adult novels in the classroom and enjoys genre fiction in his downtime. Lately he's been reading:Orson…
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Author and Pittsburgh native Mason Radkoff talks down and out characters, fatherhood, day-to-day reality in writing, and the comeback of the short…
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When he's not busy representing Pittsburgh's East End in the state House of Representatives, Rep. Dan Frankel enjoys pleasure-reads about the political…
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Tim Cook, founding director of the nonprofit The Saxifrage School, speaks about grounded ideas, finding the fantastic wherever we are, reserving winter…
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Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Forest Hills) likes page-turning crime dramas and thrillers with a political bent. He has a unique vantage point on novels set in…
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Karen Dietrich is the author of a memoir, "The Girl Factory" (Globe Pequot Press, 2013). She earned an MFA in poetry from New England College. Her writing…
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Brian O’Neill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer and author of "The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the Twenty-First Century," muses on the value of…
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Braddock Mayor John Fetterman speaks on the lessons he has learned from literary accounts of history. Joshua Wolf Shenk, “Lincoln’s Melancholy”"Lincoln’s…