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Naomi Klein, bestselling author of No Logo , is back with another polemic, this time aiming to "[explode] the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically" and to expose "the puppet… continue reading Naomi Klein's Viral Video, Oscar-Nominated Director Does Nonfiction Book Ad
By written by Communications Office September 21, 2007
The Colbert Report on Comedy Central may seem like an improbable venue for serious literary discussion (and it is), but that doesn't discourage noted authors from stopping by to promote their… continue reading Stephen Colbert Doesn't Read
By written by Communications Office September 20, 2007
Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry will be appearing at the Central Library's Montgomery Auditorium tomorrow, Thursday , September 20 , at 12:00 p.m. (This event is free ; no tickets… continue reading Take Five with . . . Dave Barry
By written by Communications Office September 19, 2007
Diane Ackerman, acclaimed author of A Natural History of the Senses , will be appearing at the Central Library's Montgomery Auditorium this Thursday , September 20 , at 8:00 p.m. (Click here to… continue reading Take Five with . . . Diane Ackerman
By written by Communications Office September 18, 2007
"Very dull" and "a dreary record of typical family bickering, petty annoyances and adolescent emotions"--so wrote a staff reader for Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., the publisher who subsequently rejected… continue reading Anne Frank Rejected, Among Others
By written by Communications Office September 17, 2007 2
This past Saturday's installment of National Public Radio's All Things Considered featured an interview with astronaut Janice Voss , who was inspired as a young reader by Madeleine L'Engle's A… continue reading Astronaut Mourns Madeleine L'Engle
By written by Communications Office September 11, 2007
Lovers of words and web-based social networks will rejoice upon discovering Wordie , yet another internet rabbit hole to tumble down, this one encouraging you to wile away abstracted hours… continue reading Like Flickr for Logophiles
By written by Communications Office September 10, 2007
Tomorrow is International Literacy Day . Check out what organizations are doing around the world to promote "literacy as an integral aspect of the universal right to education." There's also no… continue reading 774 Million Adults Lack Minimum Literacy Skills
By written by Communications Office September 7, 2007
Radio One's 100.3 The Beat and the Free Library partnered this morning to present a Start the School Year Right Anti-Violence Rally in the Central Library's Main Lobby. The program featured a… continue reading Young Philadelphians Start the School Year Right
By written by Communications Office September 5, 2007 2
Comic actor and travel documentary host Michael Palin will appear at the Central Library's Montgomery Auditorium this Thursday , September 6 , at 7:00 p.m. (This event is free ; no tickets… continue reading Dead Parrot Salesman to Visit Central
By written by Communications Office September 4, 2007
There can be only one . . . next mayor of Philadelphia, and the Free Library wants you to be a well-informed electorate--so mark your calendars for Wednesday , September 5 at 7:00 p.m. when our… continue reading Talk About It! Wants to Hear from You
By written by Communications Office August 30, 2007
The latest installment in local art bloggers Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof's Look! series takes viewers on a tour of the Book of War exhibit currently on display at the Philadelphia Museum of… continue reading War Is Good for Illustrated Folios, Fallon and Rosof Look! at the Book of War at the PMA
By written by Communications Office August 29, 2007
Writers and musicians are inspired by one another in an artistic feedback loop that has given us, among other things, High Fidelity and The Crane Wife . While this stimulating interconnectivity… continue reading Musical Writers on Literary Music and Vice Versa, Or Some Combination Thereof
By written by Communications Office August 28, 2007
You may have encountered this story in the news already. An Associated Press-Ipsos poll based on interviews conducted earlier this month and released last week indicates that one in four Americans… continue reading One in Four Americans Read No Books Last Year, Not Even Harry Potter
By written by Communications Office August 27, 2007
Nan Talese, publisher and James Frey advocate, made a stir late last month when she spoke at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference in Grapevine, Texas and lambasted Oprah Winfrey as… continue reading Speaking One's Emotional Truth and/or Lying, 2006 Literary Scandalizers Still in the News
By written by Communications Office August 24, 2007
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Jack Kerouac's On the Road . Since 1957, the now-iconic book has been graphically interpreted in the form of dozens of book covers… continue reading On the Road, A World-Historical Tour in Book Covers
By written by Communications Office August 22, 2007
Check out this synopsis of four thousand years of "miniature writing," from cuneiform clay tablets to a 180,568-word version of the New Testament inscribed in 24-karat gold on a silicon chip, with… continue reading Think Small
By written by Communications Office August 21, 2007
Regardless of how one feels about the United States' ongoing and obscured operations at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp , the camp's function relative to the current administration's War on… continue reading The Detainees Speak?
By written by Communications Office August 20, 2007
And Tango Makes Three , the American Library Association's Most Challenged Book of 2006 , was released in paperback in the United Kingdom last month and was received with minimal squabbling and… continue reading Same-Sex Penguin Parenting Not an Issue in the UK
By written by Communications Office August 16, 2007
In 2006 Ann Patchett , celebrated author of the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel Bel Canto , unwittingly found herself at the center of a campus and community controversy in Clemson, South… continue reading Don't Mess with Ann Patchett
By written by Communications Office August 15, 2007 1