The Gems of Fool’s Gold
Think along the lines of Cedar Cove mashed with Fantasy Island.
Gardening Wisdom or Not?
Unravel the truths behind long-held gardening myths.
Be Frank With Me
Be Frank with Me, is a witty and touching novel by Julia Claiborne Johnson. Alice Whitley, the narrator of the story, is a young publishing associate from New York City … Continued
Dirty Grandpa is Super Dirty
I like it when comedies have heart. Dirty Grandpa is a movie about love and loss, of doing what makes you happy and being your own person. It also features Zac Efron … Continued
Becoming a Jackal
Becoming a Jackal is the debut long-play presentation of the songwriting of Conor J. O’Brien, an Irish singer and multi-instrumentalist with the band Villagers. Comfortable manipulating multiple harmonic forms integrated into … Continued
The War of the End of the World
The best contemporary fiction of any era provides some insight into the moment of its creation, possessing a specificzeitgeist, or peering through a particular weltanschauung. In the ink or ribbon or … Continued
Ordinary Victories
With Ordinary Victories and its concluding volume, Ordinary Victories: What is Precious, Manu Larcenet describes the common state of humanity in our contemporary moment. Ordinary Victories is a primeval and … Continued
Burning Valley
Burning Valley is perhaps the most political novel of Southwestern Pennsylvania ever written. Published in 1953, the book is set in the depths of a hollow on the outskirts of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, in the years … Continued
August Wilson’s Pittsburgh
At a performance of any one of the ten plays in August Wilson’s “Century Cycle” (also known as his “Pittsburgh Cycle”), the experience of the African American community in the … Continued
Everything I never told you
A story about an unsolved crime, a family tragedy and a moving portait of a mixed race family living in small-town America.