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2 months ago | 
pittsburghquarterly.com | Richard Peterson |Brian O'Neill |Bill Christine |Fred Shaw
A. G. Spalding once claimed that baseball likely began with the simple act of a boy tossing a ball into the air. The poet Donald Hall, who wrote a book about Pirates maverick pitcher Dock Ellis saw this simple act evolving into “sons playing catch with fathers” and eventually into a game “on a diamond that encloses what we are.”Baseball has a way of bringing out our best by linking us together.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
pittsburghquarterly.com | Fred Shaw |Dennis Unkovic
Home › Article › Dilworth Explores Coming-of-Age Themes in To Be Marquette Set mainly in the 1970s, Sharon Dilworth’s recent book, To Be Marquette, sometimes makes small moments feel symbolic by utilizing music from the era — think Bob Dylan and Peter Frampton — to help establish tone.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
pittsburghquarterly.com | Fred Shaw |Dennis Unkovic
Noted sci-fi novelist and pioneering computer scientist Vernor Vinge wrote in a 1993 paper for NASA that “Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.” If so, this tipping point, which he called a “technological singularity,” is upon mankind, one in which the intelligence of machines possesses and then exceeds that of humans. Is such a process avoidable?
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
pittsburghquarterly.com | Fred Shaw |Dennis Unkovic
For some, Pittsburgh is french fries on salads, rabid Steelers fans and Iron City beer. For others, it’s Andy Warhol, steel mills and pierogies. For Lee Gutkind, it’s the city where creative nonfiction, that nebulous, energetic literary genre he continues to champion, grew into prominence.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
pittsburghquarterly.com | Fred Shaw |Dennis Unkovic |Stuart Sheppard
Until the closing of Carmody’s Restaurant in Franklin Park after 62 years, turtle soup remained a fixture on its menu. Once a staple of fine dining, turtle soup typically came paired with a shot of sherry to both sweeten and thin the stew-y broth.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
pittsburghquarterly.com | Fred Shaw |Dennis Unkovic
Home › Article › Miss Me Forever Hits “Home” with Bhutanese Protagonist Tulsi Gurung is in a jam. that could be the abridged version of Erie native Eugene Cross’s latest novel, Miss Me Forever, in which his likable protagonist gets put through the paces.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
pittsburghquarterly.com | Fred Shaw |Stuart Sheppard
Part monomyth, part road-trip adventure, Scenic Overlook, Carnegie Mellon University grad Anne Ray’s debut collection of linked stories has the feel of a throwback. Mostly set in the analog, though not uncomplicated, time of the late 1990s, Ray uses 13 narratives to build something novelistic as her protagonist, Katie Hight, a 21-year-old college student on the verge of graduating, feels her life shift after the sudden loss of her father.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
pittsburghquarterly.com | Dennis Unkovic |Fred Shaw |Stuart Sheppard |David J. Garrow
Many in the West are convinced that modern China is an invincible regime. We watched China transition in just a few decades from a poor agricultural society into a manufacturing and industrial colossus. We witnessed Xi Jinping become the undisputed leader of China in 2013 and emerge even more powerful than Mao Zedong at the height of his reign. We know that Xi’s ultimate goal is for China to replace the United States as the world’s economic and military leader.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
pittsburghquarterly.com | Richard Peterson |Brian O'Neill |Bill Christine |Fred Shaw
Early in the 1974 season, with the Pirates struggling after finishing April at 6-12, Dock Ellis took the mound against the Cincinnati Reds. In spring training, Ellis vowed that he would hit the first five Reds batters because the Pirates had lost their aggressiveness and self-respect ever since their painful loss to the Reds in the 1972 National League Championship Series.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
pittsburghquarterly.com | Fred Shaw |Stuart Sheppard |David J. Garrow
The notion behind IG Publishing’s “Bookmarked” series is to allow contemporary authors to reflect on how a particular book influenced their journey to becoming writers. “Part autobiography, part literary criticism,” the series aims to guide readers through a deep dive of a single book.
