Bill O’Driscoll reviews the first fifty pages of three new, local works in City Paper:
[bctt tweet=”An epic poem, a paperboy’s memoir, & local ties to a space-age landmark in @PGHCityPaper”]“To the House of the Sun ranks among both the most curious and the most ambitious literary products to come out of Pittsburgh this year. The 360-page epic poem set during the Civil War is both strikingly original and, by author Miller’s enthusiastic acknowledgement, grandly derivative.
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Growing up in Mount Lebanon, the son of a charity-minded doctor, Hohman delivered the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (then as now, the morning route) from the 1976 into the early ’80s. Each of [Paperboy Days’] 18 episodic chapters starts with a time-stamped P-G headline, with Hohman a cheerful raconteur with an eye for detail and an affection for youthful hijinks.
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Short is a professor of environmental science at Robert Morris University; this book reflects his obsession with the 140-foot tall, 900,000-pound Unisphere, the stainless-steel replica of Earth that famously still stands in Flushing Meadow Park, in Queens.”
"To the House of the Sun ranks among both the most curious and the most ambitious literary products to come out of Pittsburgh this year…" – Pittsburgh City Paper
Posted by Littsburgh on Wednesday, November 25, 2015
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