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Gary Terner of Mt. Lebanon was blown away by the new short story collection from George Saunders.George Saunders, Tenth of DecemberOne of the most…
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Lori Jakiela is a poet, a memoirist and a devotee of sparse, unsentimental prose. A few of the books you might encounter in her writing class at Chatham…
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Pittsburgh City Councilman Patrick Dowd started out as a historian, and while he's no longer in academia, his reading still reflects that background.…
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Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures executive director Jayne Adair's reading list is as rich and varied as her schedule of speakers.Nathaniel Philbrick, Bunker…
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Matthias Sundberg, from Point Breeze, likes action and adventure stories tinged with social realism. Dan Baum, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New…
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Writer and Mt. Lebanon resident Mary Frailey Calland does intensive research for her Civil War era novels. In between deep dives in the archives, she…
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Dr. Mario Fischetti is a clinical psychologist with the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, and the moderator of its ongoing "Reading Fiction with Freud"…
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When Pittsburgh Controller Michael Lamb isn't busy minding the city's books, he's reading history and genre fiction. John LeCarre, Tinker Tailor Soldier…
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North Sider Betsy O'Neill admits: "In a previous life, I probably lived in the 19th century." In her present incarnation, she spent the summer of 2012…
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As the popular British drama "Call the Midwife" returns for a second season on PBS, Morgantown-based author and certified nurse-midwife Patricia Harman…