I’ve read a lot of Mary Roach’s books. And whether the topic is sex, death, or wildlife, you always know you’re in for an experience.

My heroes are leaving. The giants are leaving us. It's hard not to feel this way. It's hard not to take it personally, even though death is the way of the

Perhaps the most anticipated collection of the year by an American poet isn’t yet available to Americans. The Poems of Sylvia Plath (Faber & Faber, 944pp,

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

“In the matter of fans,” the Gotham Book Mart proclaimed in 1940, “you can only compare with a moving-picture star in Hollywood.” Even taking into

What is there left to say about Dolly Parton? About her stupendous talent. About her remarkable philanthropy that should put all of the billionaires and

Dolly Parton died on Tuesday. The next tropical storm in the Atlantic will, coincidentally, carry her name.

Over this summer PRoB will be featuring the work of upcoming readers that will be appearing at Pittsburgh’s venerable Hemingway’s Poetry Series, now

Over this summer PRoB will be featuring the work of upcoming readers that will be appearing at Pittsburgh’s venerable Hemingway’s Poetry Series, now

Sheila-Na-Gig Editions First Chap Contest:  Accepting Submissions July 1-31, 2026      Sheila-Na-Gig Editions invites entries for our annual First Chap contest. Please follow the guidelines below to b...

HOMOCORE was a queer punk zine, published in San Francisco from September 1988 through Spring 1991. This paragraph on the first page of every issue...

Jane McCafferty Receives Inaugural Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Literary Citizenship Award

PREORDERS OPEN! FIRST 75 ORDERS COME WITH A LIMITED EDITION POSTER! ALL ORDERS WILL SHIP BY JUNE 15TH. Fluke 23: From The Ground Down marks the...

Rita Dove will be appearing as guest of the International Poetry Forum on April 18th at 2PM in the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall.

Welcome to the Red Stage! READ THE ROOM is more than a reading; it is an experience of collective vulnerability and defiant joy. We are committed to building audiences for poetry in all its forms, tra...

Judith Vollmer's collection "The Pavese Stone" will be released with a lecture as part of Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures on Thursday March 12, 2026 at 7PM in

In early modern Europe, couriers represented the increased connectivity of the Continent. They travelled faster and...

Marjorie Maddox is the host of WPSU's <i>Poetry Moment </i>for the 2024-25 season. She is Professor Emerita of English and creative writing at the Lock Haven campus of Commonwealth University. Maddox ...

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Sex and Death Book Club is a free, live reading series—where Pittsburgh writers perform their hottest, heaviest work alongside touring authors—that feels much

Please support PRoB in its ongoing mission to promote the humanities and to connect scholars with their public.

On January 7th at 1:15 p.m., John Robinson Block and Allan Block, the 71-year-old twin co-publishers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the largest and oldest

10. "A New Magazine of Pittsburgh" by Ed Simon

“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.”

We are tethered to reality through the material world. Yet competing interpretations, motivations, and claims to truth muddle our ability to (co-)construct

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I’ve known about Beth Macy for a very long time. A number of her books take place in the geography of my childhood. She is friends with some of my dearest

In Central European folklore, Krampus represents the shadow side of the Yule Time celebrations. An anthropomorphic goat/demon, he goes about...

Mapmaking, if you do it properly, is a time-consuming and money-consuming business. You have to do field surveys and travel to multiple locations, some of which can’t be accessed in a vehicle. You …

In Central European folklore, Krampus represents the shadow side of the Yule Time celebrations. An anthropomorphic goat/demon, he goes about...