Bill SteigerwaldRemembering the Fricking Great Tommy LasordaBefore two games in 1986 I hung out with the colorful LA Dodgers manager in his office under Dodger Stadium. This is the X-rated version…Jan 9, 2021Jan 9, 2021
Bill SteigerwaldWhy John Steinbeck panned the JFK-Nixon TV DebateToo polite, too dullSep 29, 2020Sep 29, 2020
Bill SteigerwaldPittsburgh’s greatest journalist Ray Sprigle spent a month living like a black man in the…‘I quit being white, and free, and an American citizen when I climbed aboard that Jim Crow coach. . . . From then on, until I came up out…Aug 10, 2020Aug 10, 2020
Bill SteigerwaldReviewing ‘SMOKETOWN’ —A good look back at the forgotten black cultural renaissance in 1930s-1950s PittsburghMar 7, 2018Mar 7, 2018
Bill SteigerwaldTimothy Leary never went Hollywood.Don’t want to pee on anyone’s observance of the Academy Awards ceremony on March 4.Feb 23, 2018Feb 23, 2018
Bill SteigerwaldCitizen Jane loves Uber …In 2001 — about 8 BU (Before Uber) — I interviewed urbanologist Jane Jacobs several times by phone. She was in Toronto and I was a…Jan 9, 2018Jan 9, 2018
Bill SteigerwaldHow to Meet the Queen of the NetherlandsFirst come up with the idea to write an American road book by retracing the iconic journey around America that John Steinbeck took in 1960…Dec 1, 2017Dec 1, 2017
Bill SteigerwaldNew York, New York, the morning after …On my way to Brooklyn just after dawn on Nov. 1, at about 50 mph on the arching Bayonne Bridge connecting Bayonne, N.J., with Staten…Nov 2, 2017Nov 2, 2017
Bill SteigerwaldChasing John SteinbeckSeven Septembers ago, after lots of library research, I set out to retrace the 10,000-mile road trip around the USA that John Steinbeck…Sep 19, 2017Sep 19, 2017
Bill SteigerwaldA good Jim Crow book for your reviewExcuse me, Medium readers, but I am in full self-promotion mode, trying to alert the book world to the existence of my fine civil…Jun 27, 2017Jun 27, 2017