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'The Pittsburgh Novel' catalogs Western Pennsylvania fiction back to the late 1700s
Tribune-Review, Greensburg, Pa. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDec. 15—As a young man in the early 1960s, Peter Oresick stopped at his local library and borrowed a copy of "Request for Sherwood Anderson," a story collection by fellow Ford City native Frank ...
Wilhelm: Clyde's famous sons
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 10 months agoClyde has produced a number of famous people, not the least of whom was Gen. James B. McPherson, who many believe would have been the Sandusky Countian to become U.S. President if he had not ...
Tom Perrotta on James Baldwin, 'Jane Eyre,' and the Book That Shaped His Worldview
Elle via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWelcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads....
Resisting sentimentality, Laird Hunt's latest book is an elegy for a lost generation
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA little more than a century ago, Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” introduced a new kind of American novel: one composed of short stories that share a setting and that elevate, one by one ...
‘Sister Carrie’ leaves the mean streets of Chicago for Paris in Daniel Nearing’s bold premiere, now...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“I read ‘Sister Carrie’ when I was 18 or 19 and thought it was terrible,” says filmmaker and professor Daniel Nearing. Then he picked it up again in his 50s. “And in the intervening years,” ...
The scariest town in Illinois does not exist. But you can visit in ‘Halloween Ends’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCHICAGO — Haddonfield, Illinois, does not exist. It has never existed. It is arguably the most...
Books set in Ohio
WCMH via Yahoo News· 4 months agoEvery state has its hallmark writers. Mississippi has William Faulkner and his incomparable (fictional) Yoknapatawpha County and Missouri can lay claim to Mark Twain. The state of Maine is gifted ...