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5 Questions With… Jacob Bacharach

Five Questions With… is a series of short interviews with local authors and persons of interest. Today we’re featuring Pittsburgh author Jacob Bacharach, who will make an appearance at CLP – Main on Wednesday, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm. Bacharach has written two books, The Bend of the World and The Doorposts of Your House and On Your Gates. Both novels feature Pittsburgh, and both have been described as “madcap” by reviewers. Think UFOs, legendary monsters and re-framing Biblical stories.

Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic

Riveting, disturbing and well-researched; this book illuminates the complicated forces that have converged to create the opiate epidemic.

Jason, Just Jason…

Jason – just Jason – is a Norwegian graphic novelist/illustrator and master of deadpan comedy and minimalism.

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles will visit Pittsburgh, courtesy of Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures, and speak at the Library’s Lecture Hall on May 11th. Get your tickets today!

Gene Luen Yang Challenges Us to Read Without Walls

I recently had the great pleasure of meeting award-winning author Gene Luen Yang during his Words and Pictures visit hosted by Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures. In addition to chatting with him in the green room about favorite manga, the joys of mentoring teens and how the heck metal fuses with glass (I had just come back from a road trip to the Corning Museum of Glass!), I was also able to ask him four library-related questions as well as introduce him to the stage!

Photo of author Maggie Nelson in a plaid shirt, starring straight at the camera

Maggie Nelson Reading List

I wanted to write a blog post about Maggie Nelson. About how her books are genre- and gender-defying works of incredible, articulate genius. How her sentences are so meticulously edited … Continued

Pastel on illustration board depicting Langston Hughes, chin in hand as if in thought.

The Blues and Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was a poet, novelist, and playwright who captured and chronicled the collective and individual experiences of African Americans. First recognized as a literary figure during the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes … Continued

The Black Count

The Black Count is the real-life story of General Alex Dumas, father of the famous novelist Alexandre Dumas, author of the Three Musketeers. As a biracial man in Revolutionary France, General Dumas battled racism as well as the aristocracy to become a respected leader of the French Revolution….until Napoleon’s betrayal destroyed his career. History that reads like a novel, perfect for Black History Month, or any month!