Bookfest

I probably don't mention it enough, but Pittsburgh is a stellar town for reading, writing, publishing. Yesterday I took a quick bike ride and landed squarely in the Pittsburgh Book Festival. A bunch of my friends and Uppagus contributors were reading, listening, and selling the fruits of their labor.

It reminded me that a huge portion of my to-read/recently-read book list is made up of authors I have personally met. Here's a small sample, many of which I just picked up this weekend:

• Skydog by Jan Beatty
• Letters to My Younger Self by Shaheen Dil*
• Missing You, Metropolis by Gary Jackson
• Every Hard Sweetness by Sheila Carter Jones*
• Ghost Friends – in Praise of Jean Valentine by Gail Langstroth
• Jubal Rising by Michael Simms
• The Red Glass Cat by Matt Ussia
• Cleburne by Michael Wurster*

*Read and recommended

It's good to live here. If you are an Uppagus contributor coming through Pittsburgh, please let me know and we'll see if we can make a reading happen!