Marylynne Pitz

Dec 20, 2023 | lebomag.com | Marylynne Pitz

Artificial intelligence programs are altering the creative process. Many people wonder and worry about how this rapidly changing technology, which generates images and text, will affect the careers of artists, architects, filmmakers, game designers and interior decorators. Programs like DALL-E 2, DreamUp, Midjourney and Stability Diffusion can help and hurt the creative class, but your view of this technology may depend on if you are already established or an aspiring newcomer.

Nov 27, 2023 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Stuart Sheppard |Ben Moyer |Marylynne Pitz |Vicky A. Clark

In trying to describe the essence of strong writing – and ultimately, all art — the poet Wallace Stevens said, “A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect, but most likely, the opposite.”  What we have in David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” (1975) is the embodiment of this ethos, as the play brings us into the lives of three of the most mundane people imaginable.

Sep 27, 2023 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Ben Moyer |Stuart Sheppard |Marylynne Pitz |Douglas Heuck

When Rachel Sager bought a house, she didn’t know it came with a coal mine. Obscured by woods in her “backyard,” and flanking the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) bike trail, are the sprawling ruins of the once robust Banning No. 2 coal mine: a labyrinth of crumbling brick and weathered concrete, wedged between bluffs and the Youghiogheny River’s floodplain at Whitsett, Fayette County. The house she bought was once the mine’s office.

Sep 14, 2023 | post-gazette.com | TNTaco Meatloaf |MIGreen Beans |Marylynne Pitz

NEW YORK — Prize-winning fiction writer Deesha Philyaw, who struggled to find a publisher for what became her acclaimed debut “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” has a 7-figure deal for her next two books. Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Thursday that it had signed up Ms. Philyaw and will publish her novel “True Confessions” in 2025.

Sep 5, 2023 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Marylynne Pitz |Stuart Sheppard |Douglas Heuck |Elizabeth Castonguay

After his father died and his eldest brother disappeared, James Bryce became, at age 14, the head of a large family. So, he began learning the “art, trade and mystery” of glass blowing at Bakewell, Page & Bakewell in Downtown Pittsburgh. The year was 1827 and by then, the Scottish immigrant had four years of experience because he was 10 when he started working on the shop floor, earning $1.25 a week.