In this interview conducted at City of Asylum Pittsburgh, Canadian writer and filmmaker David Bezmozgis discusses his latest novel, The Free World, the immigrant tale of three generations of Russian Jews who flee Soviet Latvia and head for Rome.
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Gary Shteyngart, who read for City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, became the first American to win the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction for his novel Super Sad True Love Story.
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Sampsonia Way’s caldendar lists events in the Pittsburgh literary scene, including a RECTL Variety Show and a Poetry Slam sponsored by Fleeting Pages bookstore.
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Read an excerpt from The Free World, David Bezmozgis’s debut novel, a heartfelt multigenerational saga of great historical scope set in Rome. In May 2011, Bezmozgis visited City of Asylum Pittsburgh for a PEN World Voices event.
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In this video, Gary Shteyngart reads an excerpt from his 2010 novel Super Sad True Love Story. Shteyngart visited Sampsonia Way on May 11 of 2011 to give a reading at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
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Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, who has been detained since April by the Chinese government, was allowed to see his wife for the first time, according to The New York Times and AP.
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At salon-style readings, City of Asylum/ Pittsburgh hosts international writers like Iranian novelist Shahriar Mandanipour to read for the Northside community.
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