Fred Shaw
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Coming of Age in Sewickley: Girls — Anna Bruno Captures the Search for Truth in Fine Young People - Pittsburgh Quarterly (opens the original)
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If there were a writing recipe for Anna Bruno’s successful coming-of-age novel, Fine Young People (Algonquin Books, $29), it might go something like this: Start with Sewickley, that quaint, upper-class enclave 12 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, as a backdrop. Next, combine a plucky young protagonist with the keys to finding the answers she’s looking for among the legacy of unsolved tragedies surrounding St. Ignatius High School and its winning hockey team. Then, let it bake over the course of 296
Coming of Age in Sewickley: Boys — Former Point Park Professor Looks at How to be a Man - Pittsburgh Quarterly (opens the original)
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In his debut novel, City of Clans, University of Pittsburgh master of fine arts grad and former Point Park professor Geoff Peck uses Pittsburgh’s 2009 G-20 summit as a tonal backdrop for a millennial coming-of-age tale. We get the first-person scoop from Jeremy “Big Jerm” Starcevic, a recent Sewickley Academy graduate who moves in with his best bud, Scott “Scotty Ballgame” Melloy. The son of a World Series-winning catcher for the Pirates nicknamed “Bulldog,” Jeremy finds himself immersed in all
Glasco's Biography Examines August Wilson's Pittsburgh Origins and Voice - Pittsburgh Quarterly (opens the original)
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In 1918–19 in Zurich, Switzerland, English painter Frank Budgen found himself often drinking wine while enjoying long talks about writing with James Joyce, author of the controversial novel Ulysses. It was during one of those discussions that the self-exiled Irish writer shared his vision on getting the detailed setting of that masterpiece right: “I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth, it could be reconstructed out of my book.” The sa
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