Jason Michael Bacasa

A 2009 reproduction of the 1821 gazette.

A sketch book of submissions that illustrate the process of arts administration in collaboration with the Arts Administration Symposium: Creating Context.

This novel centers around the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh and the Squirrel Hill Cafe, affectionately referred to as "The Squirrel Cage." The young protagonist, Jacob, struggles here with the youthful ambivalence characteristic of his generation. This place serves as a catalyst for Jacob's muddled journeys throughout the country and world and his immense reckoning with sense of place.

Urbesque is a collection of short (in the sense that most, though not all, of the pieces are shorter than forty pages) fiction (because they are untrue except, of course, for the parts that are). The characters who populate these stories do not travel to India or hang out with matadors. They do, however, go to job fairs, make furniture, leave their swords in the lockers at work, write letters to the objects that surround them and take pictures of it all, years after the fact, to remind them not to forget. If, one day, a copy of Urbesque should appear unannounced on your doorstep, looking a little worse for wear, with whiskey on its breath, invite it in. Make room for it on your couch or bookshelf. Or, better yet, read it. - Abstract from Green Lantern website