Montreal Gazette
These stories are polished and raw at the same time.


Quill & Quire
The pieces collected ... display the sure hand of a skilled writer.


Globe and Mail
Blaise has the writer's gift of recalling childhood textures in cinematic detail.


Book Description
Pittsburgh Stories is the second volume in Clark Blaise's Selected Stories. The first collection, Southern Stories, was published last fall. A total of four volumes is projected. Pittsburgh Stories contains such familiar Blaise standards as `Grids and Doglegs' and `The Seizure' but also offers entirely new uncollected stories such as `Sitting Shiva with Cousin Benny' and `The Waffle Maker' which reveal Blaise at the height of his powers. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English says of Clark Blaise: `His short stories are widely considered to represent his central achievement.' These forthcoming volumes can only enhance his considerable international reputation.


About the Author
Clark Blaise has taught in Montreal, Toronto, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, as well as at Skidmore College, Columbia University, Iowa, NYU, Sarah Lawrence and Emory. For several years he directed the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Among the most widely travelled of authors, he has taught or lectured around the world. He now lives in San Francisco with his wife, Bharati Mukherjee, and teaches at the University of California-Berkeley.