City Books

10/16/2024

Picture yourself here. City Books is accepting applications for our Spring 2025 Writer-in-Residence. Deadline is midnight Nov 30. Details at citybookspgh.com/apply

10/04/2024

Friday, Oct 4. Closing at 4 PM today. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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06/20/2024

City Books is pleased to welcome Lexi McDonald and Kendall Snee as the Fall 2024 Writers-in-Residence from July 1 – November 30, 2024. For full bios and details please see our website citybookspgh.com/fall24 or visit the link in our bio. 📚❤️🎤

06/12/2024

City Books is thrilled to announce a special POP-UP EVENT with The Laufey Book Club June 16-26 in advance of Laufey’s two sold out shows with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Featuring selections from the , we will have exclusive hats, totes, and vinyl copies of her album BELOVED (while supplies last). We will also be selling books & merchandise at on the nights of ’s shows, June 24-25. Join us!

03/30/2024

ONE MONTH FROM TODAY is the deadline for Fall 2024 Writer-in-Residence applications. If you aren't ready to take the next step in your writing, share this or tag someone who is. (You are, though. I know you are.) More on our website: https://buff.ly/3ipHiRm http://citybookspgh.com/apply/

03/23/2024

March is here and now is the time to start thinking about applying for the City Books Writer-in-Residence position(s). It's competitive, yes, but we believe in you. Full details >> https://buff.ly/3ipHiRm http://citybookspgh.com/apply/

03/20/2024

Please share—it’s not just indie bookstores that are at risk! With the FTC investigating Amazon for anticompetitive practices that hurt countless small businesses, the time has come for the to dump Amazon as a co-sponsor of National Small Business Week.

03/16/2024

First of MANY reminders that we will be taking applications for our Fall 24 Writer-in-Residence until midnight on April 30. Check out our website for details. >>> https://buff.ly/3ccTEYo

03/10/2024

Monday, April 15, 7 PM. Excited to announce our first writers in residence reading held at Poetry Lounge, 313 North Ave., Millvale. Additional information will be available on our website (coming soon!).

01/27/2024

City Books is pleased to announce that Tresa Murphy Green and Trevor Moffa have been selected as our Spring 2024 Writers-in-Residence. Info and bios are available at citybookspgh.com/spring24. (This is a repost with corrected link.)

01/27/2024

City Books is pleased to announce our Spring 2024 Writers-in-Residence, Tresa Murphy Green and Trevor Moffa. The term runs February 1-June 30. Full story at buff.ly/3u8R2bM.

01/26/2024

City Books and Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation will host Gertrude Stein Day on Saturday, February 3, in honor of the writer’s 150th birthday. The event will take place from 12-4 PM at the shop located at 908 Galveston Ave on the Northside. Councilman Bobby Wilson will present the City of Pittsburgh “Gertrude Stein Day” proclamation at 1:00 pm at the bookstore.

The event will feature Stein’s work, giveaways, and refreshments while supplies last. The first 30 guests will receive a red rose. Kathleen Dixon Donnelly, author of Such Friends: The Literary 1920s and scholar specializing in Gertrude Stein and the Americans in Paris, will lead an informal discussion of the Pittsburgher’s international legacy and a walk to the front of the author’s birthplace, weather permitting.



Beyond Gertrude Stein’s intellectual pursuits, she was a prominent LGBTQ+ icon—despite the N**i occupation of France—where she lived most of her adult life in partnership with Alice B. Toklas. She was close friends with Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp and an early collector of the works of Henri Matisse and Paul Cezanne. As a result, Stein’s legacy and influence spans literature, art, and LGBTQ+ visibility.



City Books is honored to be leading the worldwide commemoration of Gertrude Stein’s 150th birthday. We hope you will join us at the bookstore to celebrate her enduring legacy. More information can be found on our website citybookspgh.com/stein.