Mark Whitaker’s new book Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance re-examines Pittsburgh’s past
Black renaissance in Pittsburgh suited the city itself: Born of commerce and business, it was brawny, corporeal and expressive
By Jody DiPerna
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance, Mark Whitaker, My Long Trip Home, Robert L. Vann, Gus Greenlee, Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
New book Kings of the Bluff recalls a time when Duquesne basketball was the greatest game in town
“The Dukes were, well, they were the shit in the 1950s.”
Tags: Sports News, Duquesne basketball, David Finoli, Kings of the Bluff: The Next Chapter, Sihugo Green, Dick Ricketts
A conversation with Jennifer Egan
The author discusses her new novel, Manhattan Beach
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Jennifer Egan, Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach, Carnegie Music Hall
A visit by Homegoing author Yaa Gyasi
“I wanted to be able to watch things, slavery and colonialism, as they shifted very gradually over time.”
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi, Cape Coast Castle
Marcus Rediker on history’s most notable abolitionist Quaker dwarf
The author discusses his new biography, The Fearless Benjamin Lay
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Marcus Rediker, Benjamin Lay, The Fearless Benjamin Lay, The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist, University Club, Pitt
Matthew Newton explores the history and mystique of the shopping mall
Local writer’s book is part critique, part memoir
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Matthew Newton, Shopping Mall, Bloomsbury Press
Young Pitt Panthers looking for more than just another average season
“We do have a chip on our shoulder and want to prove everybody wrong.”
Tags: Sports News, Pitt, football, college, Pat Narduzzi, Brian O’Neil, Panthers, Slideshow
Bill Steigerwald tells the story of the Pittsburgh journalist who went undercover as a black man in the Jim Crow South
Ray Sprigle was a driven journalist always on the hunt for a good story
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Bill Steigerwald, Ray Sprigle, 30 Days a Black Man, Pittsburgh Courier, John Wesley Dobbs
A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates
“In retrospect, the novel feels prophetic — but I wish it had not been.”
Tags: Book Reviews + Features, Books, Joyce Carol Oates, A Book of American Martyrs, Twitter
New book, The Slide, chronicles the decline and resurrection of the Pittsburgh Pirates
“Without PNC Park, there would be no Pirates; without Kevin McClatchy, there would be no PNC Park.”
Tags: Pirates Preview, Pirates Preview, Pittsburgh Pirates, book, The Slide, PNC Park, Kevin McClatchy
By Mars Johnson
Both the Evergreen Cafe owner and his adversaries are calling authorities over the new loading zone
By Matt Petras
Confessions of a non-monogamous, compulsively caregiving eldest daughter
By Jessie Sage
Ed Piskor exhibition postponed over sexual misconduct allegations
Is Pittsburgh headed for a Catholic renaissance?
By Colin Williams