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Eric Heyl

Eric HeylEric Heyl is a staff columnist and former reporter at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, where his writing has graced the newspaper's pages for 23 years. His witty columns garnered him first place in the humor category for large newspapers in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' 2016 column contest. Judges called his work "laugh out loud funny" with "spot on" comical observations. He is the former president of NSNC, where he also served as vice president of the NSNC Education Foundation.

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Love me, love my cat

(Allia Zobel Nolan and Nicole Hollander's newest book, Women Who Still Love Cats Too Much, will be released in September 2015 but is now available for pre-orders. Enjoy this interview with the author to understand her obsession affection for felines.) Cats are ridiculously popular these days. But it wasn't always so. When and what got you interested in writing about these feline fur babies? Truth is though I always had an affinity for cats, my parents were really 
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Happy birthday, Mr. Watterson, wherever you are

Bill Watterson isn't just the creator of the world's best comic strip. According to the book Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, a biography of the elusive and reclusive cartoonist, Watterson is also a world-class introvert. Watterson refuses to make public appearances, give interviews or talk to fans, although he sometimes responds to fan mail and occasionally corresponds or collaborates with fellow cartoonists. Family and friends have been instructed not to reveal where he lives. (For years, ...
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