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February 2007
February 10, 2007
PAL partners with Joseph-Beth Booksellers
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures is please to announce our partnership with Joseph-Beth Booksellers.
In an effort to bring our audience members the very best customer service, a wide variety of authors and titles, and time-saving convenience, Joseph-Beth Booksellers will be on hand at the Drue Heinz Lectures and Black, White & Read All Over to cater to your purchasing needs. Count on the very best selections in hard-cover and trade paperback, knowledgeable staff to answer your questions, and the ease of multiple payment methods. You can visit the Joseph Beth website at: www.josephbeth.com or call their Southside store at 412-381 3600
February 11, 2007
We Moved!
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures recently moved our administrative offices to
301 S. Craig Street, Suite 200 , Pittsburgh , PA
15213
Please make a note of our new mailing address, fax number, and ‘info’ e-mail address.
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures will continue to bring audiences the best in literary arts, through our three distinctive series:
- The Drue Heinz Lectures, at the
Carnegie
Music Hall
,
Oakland
- Black White and Readl All Over at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall,
Oakland
- American Shorts
Reading
Series, The New Hazlett Theatre, Northside
February 11, 2007
Award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead at the next Drue Heinz Lectures
MacArthur Fellow Colson Whitehead will be the next featured author at The Drue Heinz Lectures on Monday, February 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Whitehead has been called one of the leading writers of serious fiction of his generation. Booklist compared his work to that of George Orwell, Ralph Ellison, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon, yet also found it “resoundingly original.” His multi-layered novel John Henry Days was short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize, and has been called “a feast for famished readers” by Newsweek. His latest, Apex Hides the Hurt, is a satirical look at American identity politics, racial identity, and corporate values. Tickets are $19 each, $8 for students with current ID, and are available by calling 412.622.8866
February 11, 2007
Illustrator/author Eric Rohmann (Time Flies, My Friend Rabbit) next guest at Black, White & Read All Over
On Saturday morning, February 17, at 10:30 am,
Oakland
. Tickets are $7. Special group rates are available. To order, call 412.622.8866 between 9:30 am and 5:00 pm on weekdays.
On Saturday morning, February 17, at 10:30 am,
Oakland
. Tickets are $7. Special group rates are available. To order, call 412.622.8866 between 9:30 am and 5:00 pm on weekdays.