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At 7 pm on Thursday, July 23, 2009, Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures continues its Summer Shorts series at the WYEP Community Broadcast Center on the South Side with "Iran Unveiled," a program featuring two Iranian women authors, Anahita Firouz and Moniro Ravanipour. The program is offered in collaboration with Pittsburgh City of Asylum.

The ten novels on this list all substantiate the belief that books are the most elastic, introspective, human and entertaining form of media that exist. Not movies, not music, not art, not the...

This is part two in a continuing series of articles all of which are designed to inform and guide anyone who might want to know a little bit more about the rich tradition of art, letters and philosophy we have inherited from those who came before us. This article looks specifically at some of the best and most important works of 20th Century American Postmodernism. It discusses authors such as Joseph Heller, John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, Don DeLilo, and David Foster Wallace.

This is part one in a new series of articles all of which are designed to inform and guide anyone who might want to know a little bit more about the rich tradition of art, letters and philosophy we have inherited from those who came before us. As human beings, our connection to the past is one of the greatest resources we have which imparts perpetual significance to the works discussed in this article, no matter how old they are.

This article explores Nick Hornby's brilliant short story, "Nipple Jesus". In it, Hornby tackles religion, politics, sex, family and financial responsibility, art and its relationship with the individual, the artist, and society through a "six foot two and fifteen stone" security guard whose only skill is being big, to profound and entertaining\neffect.

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The preface to Volume 3 of pulp. begins the work with a note on its theme, a variation of medieval aesthetics that, in the form of a storybook rife with illuminated text and "other handcrafted visual elements inspired by the medieval time period," gives its readership "the epic, the tragic, the beautiful, and more than a Happily Ever After."