Hot Metal Hot Metal
Pitt’s online literary magazine Hot Metal Bridge has launched its third issue. I particularly love the short story by Dan Chaon and the interview with Tom Perrotta. But I admit…
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goodbye Julie Granum
One of my first posts about grad school included the note that Julie Granum “is a fine poet.” I didn’t know Julie. I didn’t know that wearing tank tops in…
Everybody wants a piece of Pittsburgh
President Bush was in Pittsburgh today. Yeah, missed that one. Barack Obama is coming to Pittsburgh tomorrow. He will speak at Soldiers & Sailors Hall, which is right next to…
Philip Gourevitch comes to Pitt
Editor of The Paris Review, author of two books — A Cold Case and We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families — former…
present and accounted for
Stewart O’Nan is coming to Pitt in a couple of weeks; today he’s interviewed at the NBCC blog. Find out what Last Night at the Lobster has in common with…
Dave Eggers returns to Pittsburgh
Dave Eggers returns to Pittsburgh with Valentino Achak Deng. They focused on What is the What, Valentino’s story, and showed slides and video from a trip they took to southern…
Getting all Wired
Dzanc Books founders Dan Wickett and Steve Gillis make Wired. I believe Dan is currently joining author Roy Kesey on his book tour, which hits Chicago tonight. Meanwhile, Wired takes…
Vote for me!
Apartment Therapy is holding their 3rd annual fall colors contest, and my humble Pittsburgh abode is in the mix. Enough votes and I can win a gift certificate for furniture…
Right here in little larryville
The New York Times came to Pittsburgh and discovered my neighborhood, Lawrenceville. They’ve put most of the good stuff on the map (and, sadly, the mediocre Piccolo Forno), but they…
A day in George Saundersland
Yesterday Pittsburgh became George Saundersland, with a lunch, a Q&A session, a (rumored) dinner with faculty, and a reading (pictured) at the Frick Fine Arts auditorium. Trust me, that figure…
