Littsburgh’s co-founder Rachel Ekstrom Courage (also a literary agent and author) joined Heather Abraham on Talk Pittsburgh this week to talk about Pittsburgh’s literary community and help launch the Talk Pittsburgh Book Club:
Their selection this month: Take What You Need by Idra Novey (set in Western PA, we published an interview with Novey that you can check out right here on Littsburgh)
Rachel’s going to be dropping in to Talk Pittsburgh every month to talk about books and Pittsburgh (and, our favorite: Pittsburgh books!), and we’re so excited to be celebrating Pittsburgh’s literary scene with Heather Abraham and KDKA – so watch this space!
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