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VIRTUAL - Elias Rodriques | All the Water I’ve Seen is Running
Thu, June 24, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with author and State Senator, Nikil Saval Co-sponsored by n+1 and Blue Stoop Elias Rodriques currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and in the fall of 2021 will start as an assistant professor of African American literature at Sarah Lawrence College.…
VIRTUAL - Joshua Cohen | The Netanyahus with Rivka Galchen | Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Mon, June 28, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Joshua Cohen ’s acclaimed novels include Moving Kings , Witz , and Book of Numbers , “a fascinating look at the dark heart of the Web” and “one of the best novels ever written about the Internet” ( Rolling Stone ). One of Granta ’s Best of Young…
VIRTUAL - Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993
Tue, June 29, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Jason Villemez, editor of the Philadelphia Gay News A decades-long activist for LGBTQ+ rights and women’s empowerment, Sarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty novels, nonfiction books, screenplays, and stage plays. Her other work has…
Virtual - Bobby Rush | I Ain’t Studdin’ Ya: My American Blues Story
Wed, June 30, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $10.00 General Admission; $36.00-Book w/Ticket and Signed Book Plate
PURCHASE TICKET In conversation with Jonny Meister, host of The Blues Show on WXPN In his five decades in blues music, Grammy-winner Bobby Rush has recorded hundreds of his own songs, collaborated with the likes of Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters, and headlined music festivals all over the…
VIRTUAL - Scott Ellsworth | The Ground Breaking: An American City's Search for Justice
Thu, July 1, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning journalist and broadcaster Scott Ellsworth is the author of Death in a Promised Land , an in-depth book about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, one of modern history’s most horrific incidents of racial violence against Black…
VIRTUAL – T.J. Newman | Falling
Tue, July 13, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE A former bookseller turned flight attendant, T. J. Newman flew for Virgin America and Alaska Airlines from 2011 until this year. While her passengers were asleep on cross-country red-eye flights, she began to write a novel on whatever she could find during her shifts, including…
VIRTUAL - Yaa Gyasi | Transcendent Kingdom
Wed, July 14, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $23.00-Book with Ticket and Signed Book Plate
PURCHASE TICKETS In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition Celebrated for her “stellar instincts, sturdy craftsmanship and penetrating wisdom” ( San Francisco Chronicle ), Yaa Gyasi is the author of Homegoing . Winner of the National Book Critics…
VIRTUAL - William di Canzio | Alec
Thu, July 15, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Wendy Moffat, Professor of English and Curley Chair of Global Education at Dickinson College and author of the prize-winning biography, A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster A professor in the Pennoni Honors College of Drexel…
VIRTUAL - Robin DiAngelo | Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
Tue, July 20, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Resmaa Menakem, bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Robin DiAngelo ’s New York Times bestseller White Fragility , a “methodical, irrefutable exposure of racism in…
VIRTUAL - Jessamyn Stanley | Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance
Wed, July 21, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with adrienne maree brown Internationally sought-after wellness expert Jessamyn Stanley is the author of Every Body Yoga , “a clever memoir of a millennial woman’s search for self-acceptance” ( Elle ) wrapped inside a beginner’s…
VIRTUAL - Omar El Akkad | What Strange Paradise
Thu, July 22, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Omar El Akkad is the author of American War , a “poignant and horrifying” ( Washington Post ) dystopian novel that imagines a future civil war born from the U.S.’s current destructive policies and impulses. It was an international bestseller,…