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PulpFest 50 marks a half-century of gatherings by appreciators of the influential fiction magazines
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Pittsburgh-based author Deesha Philyaw won the prestigious PEN/Faulker Award for Fiction on Tuesday. Philyaw, one of five finalists, won the prize for her…
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Eliese Goldbach didn’t start out with “steel-mill worker” as a life-goal.Growing up in Cleveland, in the 1990s, she wanted to be a nun.Goldbach reassessed…
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Dr. Azra Raza has many stories to tell about cancer and its treatment.Loved ones she’s lost to cancer include her husband; her daughter’s 22-year-old best…
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“The world is not tender with Black women,” write Deesha Philyaw and Vanessa German. “And we are not always tender with ourselves, or with each other.…
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Names like Gottfried Leibniz and Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II are not exactly trending at the moment. So what possesses a young writer to build his debut…
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Chuck Kinder was a widely known author whose novels got favorably reviewed in national publications. But closer to home, Kinder was also a beloved,…
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When he was a kid, recalls John Fried, he “read a lot of coming-of-age books.” Even then, he preferred the ones that reflected his own experience as a…
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Most journalists don’t write much about themselves. Neither did Brittany Hailer.The North Carolina native and graduate of Chatham University’s writing…
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Turkish author Asli Erdoğan is acclaimed around the world. She’s written four works of fiction, and her writings have been translated into 20 languages,…