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Thank you for listening to Radio CLP, the official podcast of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh! Radio CLP was a special 20-episode project initiated by librarians at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. We hope you enjoyed the weekly book reviews, lectures, poetry and fiction readings we offered.

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RadioCLP020: “In Which You Are More Like Brian Wilson Than You Ever Imagined:” A Poetry Reading

“When You Drink,” “Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother” and “In Which You Are More Like Brian Wilson Than You Ever Imagined” are among the poems Taylor Grieshober shares in this excerpt from her appearance at the Carnegie Library Sunday Poetry and Reading Series.

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RadioCLP019: Honey is a Lot Like Wine

Find out from Pittsburgh beekeeper Christina Joy Neumann why honey is like wine, why beekeepers have to go to the gym, and how bees keep warm in winter without furnaces or space heaters.

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RadioCLP018: Why I’m Sitting Here and Not Downtown: Hill District Oral History

Happy Black History Month! In this week’s podcast, poet, playwright and oral historian Kelli Stevens Kane shares from her oral history project of Pittsburgh’s Hill District.

Be sure to check out CLP’s month-long  “A Taste of…” Black History Month celebration, with highlights from our collections and special events at our locations.

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RadioCLP017: Find a Job You Love

Do you know what you want to be when you grow up?  If not, Pittsburgh Career Coach Neal Griebling can help you figure it out.  In this excerpt from Mr. Griebling’s talk at the Job & Career Education Center’s Skills for Success Speaker Series, he suggests we look inside ourselves and go with the flow.

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RadioCLP016: Andrew Carnegie: Angel, Monster, Man

In this episode, Robert J. Gangwere, author of Palace of Culture: Andrew Carnegie’s Museums and Library in Pittsburgh reveals how Andrew Carnegie’s ideals and ambitions are reflected in the very architecture of the Carnegie Library and Museums of Pittsburgh building, one of the many institutions he founded. Andrew Carnegie was as controversial in his time as he is today. His fans and critics interpreted his actions, including his philanthropic endeavors, as the works of an angel or a devil. What did Mark Twain think of Andrew Carnegie? What about Theodore Roosevelt? Find out in this episode of Radio CLP.

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RadioCLP015: Get Your Cover Letter Read

What’s the number one way to get your cover letter read? Career Consultant Karen Litzinger answers that question and more in this excerpt from a presentation she gave during the Job & Career Education Center’s Skills for Success Speaker Series at CLP - Main.

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RadioCLP014: The Bone Song: A Poetry Reading

“Close your eyes and listen,” poet David Herrle implores in this excerpt from his appearance at Carnegie Library’s Sunday Poetry and Reading Series.  His reading journeys through poems about The Bone Song, revolution in the subway, memory and time travel, and Christina Aguilera.

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Happy New Year!

Radio CLP is taking a vacation this week, but we’ll be back next Wednesday with a brand new episode.

Thank you for listening and Happy New Year!

RadioCLP013: Pittsburgh, Time Travel and Steamy Art History

In this excerpt from her appearance at The People’s University, romance author Gwyn Cready talks about Pittsburgh, time travel and the road to becoming a romance writer. She also reads from her novel Flirting with Forever, in which an art historian struggling to spice up her Anthony Van Dyck biography unwittingly discovers a portal to a steamy new side of seventeenth century art.

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