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…
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Post-Apocaylptic Pittsburgh
The good news: Viggo is coming. The bad news: he’s coming to film The Road. The producers filming Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer prizewinning The Road decided that Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania…
O’Nan and Pancake and Lee, oh my
Monday: Stewart O’Nan reads in the evening at Pitt, in the 5th floor room where we have workshop, featuring arching gothic windows and the occasional wintry breeze. Afterwards a few…
Just when you say the name Stewart O’Nan
The man shows up and starts reading. At least that’s how it worked on Monday, when I blogged that he was coming and then he appeared later that night. O’Nan,…
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…
Dave Eggers in Pittsburgh & the LA Times and more
Eggers is the youngest ever Heinz Award winner, and he’s giving all $250,000 of it to the 826 nonprofits. Read all about it in the Los Angeles Times; I reported…
