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SUMMARY:Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures "New & Noted" — Ayad Akhtar
DESCRIPTION:Reserve your tickets here. Please note that this is a paid event. \n\nA mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and an investigation in Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar’s most daring work yet—a visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture—”bordering at times on the ineffable” (Mary Gaitskill). \nWhen a hit-and-run shatters more than his body\, a writer is caught between revelation and madness as an uncanny pull toward a brilliant campus colleague ensnares him in a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into erotic entanglement\, the exposure of a family secret\, and the mystery surrounding the narrator’s accident—both the violence and its aftermath. \nMoving between rural America and Europe\, Islam and Christianity\, the intimate and the metaphysical\, The Radiance is of our American moment and beyond it—asking not only what has broken\, but what radiance remains. \n\nAyad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama\, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction\, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, among other honors. Akhtar is the author of the novels American Dervish\, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year\, and Homeland Elegies\, named one of 10 Best Books of 2020 by The New York Times. He has also authored the plays McNeal\, Junk\, Disgraced\, The Who & The What\, and The Invisible Hand. Akhtar was named the New York State Author in 2021.
URL:https://carnegielibrary.org/event/pittsburgh-arts-lectures-new-noted-ayad-akhtar/
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SUMMARY:Hispanic and Latin Heritage Month Celebration with Author Talk: Jared Lemus
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Hispanic and Latin Heritage Month featuring an author talk with Jared Lemus. Jared Lemus is a Guatemalan-American author and winner of the 2026 PEN America/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut short story collection for his book\, “Guatemalan Rhapsody.” His stories have appeared in The Atlantic\, The Kenyon Review\, Story\, and elsewhere\, and his debut novel\, “Magic in the Land of Eternal Spring\,” is forthcoming with Ecco-HarperCollins in the Spring of ’27. He holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Memphis. \nThis event will feature small bites\, artwork by Rokita\, live music and give aways copies of Guatemalan Rhapsody: Stories while supplies last. \nThis event is part of our Latin and Hispanic Heritage Month 2026 programming.
URL:https://carnegielibrary.org/event/hispanic-and-latin-heritage-month-celebration-with-author-talk-jared-lemus/
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SUMMARY:Hernan Diaz: "Ply" in conversation with Adriana E. Ramírez
DESCRIPTION:White Whale Bookstore and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh present an evening with Hernan Diaz in conversation with Adriana E. Ramírez \nWhite Whale Bookstore and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh are honored to present an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hernan Diaz in conversation with Adriana E. Ramírez\, to celebrate Hernan Diaz’s new book\, Ply: A Novel. \nThis in-person\, ticketed event will take place at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall in Pittsburgh on October 14th. Doors will open at 6:15 p.m. \nA select number of tickets are available for CLP patrons\, free of charge. Tickets include a signed copy of Ply.  \nRegister here using code CLPDIAZ. Tickets available while supplies last. If you claimed tickets and are no longer able to attend\, please contact events@whitewhalebookstore.com.  \nPlease note: By clicking on the registration link for this event\, you will be leaving a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-managed website. CLP is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of external registration platforms.   \nNote: All books will be pre-signed. There will be no signing line for personalizations\, books from home\, or photos following this event. \n\nHERNAN DIAZ is the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Trust\, one of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the Century. His previous novel\, In the Distance\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Kirkus Prize\, a Whiting Award\, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. \nADRIANA E. RAMÍREZ is a writer\, critic\, and poet based in Pittsburgh. She is the author of The Violence: My Family’s Colombian War (Scribner\, 2026)\, the 2015 PEN/Fusion Emerging Writer’s Prize-winning Dead Boys (Little A\, 2016)\, and The Swallows: Poems (Blue Sketch Press\, 2016). Ramírez is also a former critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times’s Book Section and the former columnist and books editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is the cofounder of Aster(ix) Journal with Angie Cruz. Her writing has also appeared in the Atlantic\, the Boston Globe\, People Magazine\, and elsewhere. She once lost terribly on Jeopardy!. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n“Ply is majestic. A cracked mirror world\, a lot like ours; peopled by survivors\, a lot like us; sentences so fine they break the skin; a plot that swerves through loss\, love\, trust\, betrayal\, art\, science\, society and control.” —David Mitchell \nThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Trust turns to the future with a novel that examines the place of technology in the American imagination \nCenturies from now\, at the dawn of a historical epoch filled with both uncertainty and promise\, an orphan is adrift in a city on the brink of a great transformation. The state has been dismantled\, and humans are reinventing social bonds and learning new ways to coexist with nature. Following a childhood defined by loss\, survival\, and found family\, the orphan grows up to become a “pincher\,” someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market. It’s a high-risk life\, one that brings her into a rich art and music scene where she powers underground concerts. It also leads her to a colossal scientific invention that could change the very fabric of reality. \nAfter rewriting America’s past with his two previous novels\, Hernan Diaz defies expectations with his third and gives us a breathtaking glimpse into the future. A major achievement from a major contemporary writer\, Ply questions the place of technology in the American experiment with a plot that grabs both heart and mind. It is a novel of ideas built from a story of people. Combining Dickensian odyssey\, family drama\, and scientific thriller\, Ply poignantly charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love.
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SUMMARY:Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures "Poets Aloud" — Báez\, Cunningham\, and Ton-Aime
DESCRIPTION:Reserve your tickets here. \n\nA Celebration of International Poetry\nFrank Báez has made a name for himself as one of the Dominican Republic’s most relevant poets and nonfiction writers. He has published six poetry books\, a short story collection\, and four nonfiction books. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies\, and translations of his books of poetry have been published in Arabic\, Dutch\, German\, and Bangla. Two of his books have been translated into English: Last Night I Dreamt I Was a DJ (2014) and The End of the World Came to My Neighborhood (2022). \nP. Scott Cunningham is the author of Self-Portrait as the “i” in Florida (Autumn House\, 2026)\, winner of the 2025 Donald Justice Poetry Prize\, and Ya Te Veo (University of Arkansas\, 2018)\, selected for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and a finalist for the National Poetry Series. His poems\, essays\, and translations have appeared in The Nation\, American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, POETRY\, A Public Space\, Harvard Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Monocle\, and The Guardian\, among others. Born and raised in South Florida\, he lives with his family in Illinois. \nSony Ton-Aime is the Executive Director of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures and the author of Konbit (Carnegie Mellon University Press\, 2026).
URL:https://carnegielibrary.org/event/pittsburgh-arts-lectures-poets-aloud-baez-cunningham-and-ton-aime/
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