Submitted by Penguin Bookshop on Sat, 02/13/2010 - 1:28pm
Feb 20 2010 2:00 pm
At 2:00 PM we will welcome: David Belczyk author of the collection of poems titled, Sometimes Form sometimes Vessel, J.L. Beck author of Royal Injustice, Jennifer Keating-Miller author of Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature.
At 4:00 PM come meet two authors with close ties to Sewickley Tripp Clarke and Prentiss Orr. They will present Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred and Beyond, a discussion of the book they co-authored and their exciting new ventures. Word Around Pittsburgh (Tripp) and Boyd& Blair Potato Vodka (Prentiss). We'll have copies of the book for purchase and signing and samples of the vodka to taste and enjoy.
Jodi Beck
Royal Injustice
Jodi Beck is a single mother in Poland,
OH she wrote this book for someone very close to her. Royal Injustice is the story
of a father’s struggle to gain his rightful time with his children after a
nasty divorce.
David Belczyk
Sometimes
Form Sometimes Vessel
Call It Perpetual
David Belczyk grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He earned his Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Notre Dame
and his Juris Doctorate with honors from The George Washington University Law
School. He spent two years in Chicago and has now returned home, and to the
roots of his art.
http://www.davidbelczyk.com/
Jennifer Keating-Miller
Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary
Irish Literature
Jennifer
Keating-Miller was born in Cobh, Co. Cork Ireland and moved to Santa Monica,
California as a child.She attended the
University of Rochester, NY as an undergraduate and the University of
Pittsburgh for a Ph.D. in English Literature.She currently teaches for Carnegie Mellon
University and lives in Sewickley with her husband, Billy, and son, Liam.
Tripp Clarke
Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred
Tripp
Clarke grew-up in Sewickley and currently resides in Aspinwall with his wife,
three kids, a dog and a cat. He is President of ETC Creative Group, a sales and
marketing consultancy firm. His more creative pursuits include producing the
series of critically-acclaimed radio documentaries American Soundways for
public radio (americansoundways.com). He recently
co-authored “Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred” for the Heinz History Center and
he is now working on a photography project Word Around Pittsburgh (wordaroundpittsburgh.com) that spells
various neighborhoods with iconic images found in those neighborhoods.
C. Prentiss Orr
Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred
A veteran of Pittsburgh ad agencies and
founder of Outlook Advertising, Prentiss Orr has been marketing Pittsburgh and
Pittsburgh companies for more than 30 years.He conceived the idea of Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred while serving
as Vice President of the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce.About that time, he was also thinking of
making vodka, especially from Pennsylvania-grown potatoes.In 2008, both came to life.To date, Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred has
sold some 5,000-plus copies, and Boyd & Blair Potato Vodka is now the #5
best-selling super premium vodka in Pennsylvania.
