Even Library staff can struggle to keep up with all the bookish news out there. From social media to local papers, books are a hot topic. In this monthly post we are highlighting some regional literary news and connecting you with our library collections so you can keep your finger on the pulse of Pittsburgh. Check out what was trending and topical this past month.

 

News Story – Pittsburgh Post–Gazette: ‘Angel of Greenwood’ author meets with Pine-Richland students after book rejected as district core text

Book mentioned: Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink

“In 1921 in the “Black Wall Street” of Tulsa, Oklahoma, seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson, a troublemaker with a secret passion for reading, and sixteen-year-old Angel Hill, a loner whose peers disregard her as a “goody-goody,” find themselves suddenly spending a lot of time together when their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library. But as the two grow closer, their lives change drastically after a white mob destroys their community and leaves the residents displaced.”

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby, in eAudio on Libby, and in eAudio on Hoopla.

 

     

News Story – WESA: Maps & Poems: Two books pursue the essence of Pittsburgh

Book mentioned: Pittsburgh in 50 Maps by Stentor Danielson
“Pittsburgh in 50 Maps offers unique new views of a city at a crossroads–culturally, economically, and demographically.”

Book mentioned: Gulf Tower Forecasts Rain: Pittsburgh Poems, edited by Doralee Brooks
Description from WESA: “The Gulf Tower Forecasts Rain” (Main Street Rag) is an ambitious anthology edited by Doralee Brooks and featuring 140 poems, all either about or set in Pittsburgh, by 90 living poets.”

 

News Story – QBurgh: Winter reads to help you ride out the chill

Book Mentioned: Private Rites by Julia Armfield
“As the sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes come together to clear the grand glass house that is the pinnacle of their father’s legacy, they begin to sense that the magnetic influence of their father lives on through it.”

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby, and in eAudio on Libby.

 

News Story – City Paper: Karen Lillis’ Pittsburgh When I’m Hungry serves up the city’s most inviting restaurants in photos

Book Mentioned: Pittsburgh When I’m Hungry by Karen Lillis
“Photographs of Pittsburgh restaurants taken by author and bookseller Karen Lillis between 2006 and 2024 focusing on interiors and signage and emphasizing the emptiness of post-pandemic urban spaces.”

 

News Story – WESA: First known cookbook by a Black American woman gets new edition 160 years later

Book Mentioned: Domestic Cookbook by Melinda Russell
“A Domestic Cook Book (1866) by Malinda Russell is the oldest known published cookbook written by an African American woman.”

 

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