Free Event at City of Asylum @ Alphabet City
City of Asylum @ Alphabet City, located at 40 West North Avenue, is the permanent home for City of Asylum programming and the arts. It promises to be a hub for Pittsburgh’s readers and writers, jazz and small-scale music and performance, and artistic experimentation. It is a home for diverse voices from around the globe – a place where Pittsburgh meets the world and the world meets Pittsburgh. It also serves as a home for many partnering artists and organizations in our own community. To view all of the events that are scheduled, visit the City of Asylum @ Alphabet City website.
Reading with Patrick McCabe and Henry Glassie
Wednesday, March 15 at 8:00 pm
Spend an evening enjoying a free reading with Irish writer Patrick McCabe and US folklorist Henry Glassie. Patrick McCabe, born in Ireland in 1955, has authored many novels including The Dead School, The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, Winterwood and Hello Mr. Bones. McCabe is delighted to be in Pittsburgh and America and to be in the company of Henry Glassie, whose work he has described as “magnificent” and the equal of Faulkner. Henry Glassie, recently retired College Professor of Folklore at Indiana University, has received many awards for his work. Three of his works have been named among the notable books of the year by The New York Times. Patrick Mccabe will be reading from his novel The Butcher Boy and Henry Glassie will read from his folklore ethnography The Stars of Ballymenone.
