The Creative Nonfiction Foundation will accept submissions for a series of three books about Pittsburgh to be published over the next five years. The project, called “Writing Pittsburgh,” will launch at “Neighborhood Stories. Well Told,” an interactive evening of storytelling at 7 p.m. April 22 at the Carnegie Lecture Hall in Oakland.
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I think the foundation and roots of this project are very compelling, and will yield a very interesting narrative of Pittsburgh as a modern city. I do hope, however, that the curators of the project(s) will remain open to the evolution of the stories collected and told. One of the only questionable aspects of this project that I can discern is that even now - though the project is still in its collecting and researching phase - the curators already know what type of content they will exclude from the books. In excluding the nostalgic neighborly recollections, the authors risk excluding and alienating a tremendous part the Pittsburgh identity. For such a neighborhood-based city, and for a city so short on skyscrapers, such exclusions result in stilted views of the city. I really hope these books yield a successful, holistic account of Pittsburgh today. It is a city I love dearly, and the stories that lie in its quirks are truly what set it apart in my mind from anywhere else in the world.
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