My grandfather, Henry Beitzel (top left, suit), in the parking lot of Mesta Machine in Homestead on the day that Nikita Kruschev visited Pittsburgh in 1959.
I am a writer and journalist from Western Pennsylvania. I've written essays, many about class and culture, for Guernica, Oxford American, and The Rumpus, and my reporting has appeared in the Atlantic, Esquire, Forbes, and Spin.
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