Edited by Ben Gwin

A close look at Pittsburgh’s varied neighborhoods. The city has over ninety neighborhoods. The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook can’t cover them all, but it explores the contrasts that shape them through personal stories from residents. Edited by Ben Gwin (Clean Time), it includes pieces about Old Lawrenceville, Garfield, Squirrel Hill, Swisshelm Park, Oakland, Crafton-Ingram, Thorn Street, and Dormont’s bars. With more than thirty poems and essays by lifelong residents, newcomers, and short-term visitors, the book shows a city praised for its comeback but still marked by wealth gaps, gentrification, and racism.

Dimensions: 6”W x 9”H

160 pages. Paperback. Publisher: Belt Publishing.