BookTuber Olive Fellows checks in from Pittsburgh to tell Book Post how local book cultures helped turn a declining steel town into a thriving twenty-first-century crossroads
Lovely piece about Pittsburgh's literary thriving literary channels and tributaries--as a former Pittsburgh girl. My sister still lives there and is one of the most literate people I know. She is always introducing me to books. Maybe I'll come home again. Thanks for this vibrant reintroduction.
I haven't traveled on the East Coast, but this post makes Pittsburgh sound so interesting. I can't wait to travel that area after I retire in a couple of years. I'm fascinated with the Carnegie Libraries and Carnegie himself and want to know more about both. I love going to all the Indie bookstores that I can find when I go to a new city—such fun.
Good job, Olive. Please add to your list of Pittsburgh books my footnote-free, tragically under-publicized history book about Pittsburgh's greatest journalist, Ray Sprigle of the Post-Gazette, and the important, daring but forgotten undercover journalism mission he undertook in the Jim Crow South of 1948. '30 Days a Black Man' -- written by a former Pittsburgh newspaper journalist, me -- not only provides a good snapshot of 1948 Pittsburgh. It also provides lots of often shocking details of the oppression, discrimination and humiliation 10 million blacks suffered each day under America's system of apartheid. Here's all you need to know -- on Substack. https://clips.substack.com/p/exposing-old-jim-crow-1948
Lovely piece about Pittsburgh's literary thriving literary channels and tributaries--as a former Pittsburgh girl. My sister still lives there and is one of the most literate people I know. She is always introducing me to books. Maybe I'll come home again. Thanks for this vibrant reintroduction.
I haven't traveled on the East Coast, but this post makes Pittsburgh sound so interesting. I can't wait to travel that area after I retire in a couple of years. I'm fascinated with the Carnegie Libraries and Carnegie himself and want to know more about both. I love going to all the Indie bookstores that I can find when I go to a new city—such fun.
Good job, Olive. Please add to your list of Pittsburgh books my footnote-free, tragically under-publicized history book about Pittsburgh's greatest journalist, Ray Sprigle of the Post-Gazette, and the important, daring but forgotten undercover journalism mission he undertook in the Jim Crow South of 1948. '30 Days a Black Man' -- written by a former Pittsburgh newspaper journalist, me -- not only provides a good snapshot of 1948 Pittsburgh. It also provides lots of often shocking details of the oppression, discrimination and humiliation 10 million blacks suffered each day under America's system of apartheid. Here's all you need to know -- on Substack. https://clips.substack.com/p/exposing-old-jim-crow-1948