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VIRTUAL - Carole Adrienne | Healing a Divided Nation: How the American Civil War Revolutionized Western Medicine
Tue, August 9, 2022
7:00 P.M.
Social Science and History Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
REGISTER In conversation with Robert D. Hicks, Senior Consulting Scholar and William Maul Measey Chair for the History of Medicine of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The Civil War marked a revolution in healthcare as a whole, laying the foundations for the system we know today. In…
Outdoor Author visit with Greg Pizzoli!
Thu, August 18, 2022
10:30 A.M.
Children's Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Celebrate Summertime with a special visit from award-winning children’s author and Philadelphia native Greg Pizzoli! Come hear stories and learn about Greg’s artistic process. This event will be held outdoors in Shakespeare Park. In case of bad weather, the rain date is:…
IN PERSON - Jenifer Lewis | Walking in My Joy: In these Streets
Mon, September 12, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $13.20
TICKETS ON SALE TO THE PUBLIC ON THIS PAGE, AUGUST 24 at 10:00 A.M. In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning journalist and interviewer Co-star of the ABC mega-hit show Black-ish , Jenifer Lewis’ nearly 35-year career has featured roles in some of Hollywood’s most…
IN PERSON - Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan | Mad Honey
Wed, October 5, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: To Come
TICKETS ON SALE TO THE PUBLIC ON THIS PAGE, AUGUST 24 at 10:00 A.M. THIS IS A BOOK WITH TICKET EVENT. DETAILS TO COME. A “quite prescient and worthwhile” writer who “understands her characters inside and out” ( The New York Times Book Review ), Jodi Picoult has…
IN-PERSON - Maggie Haberman | Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Tue, October 25, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: TO COME
TICKETS ON SALE TO THE PUBLIC ON THIS PAGE, AUGUST 24 at 10:00 A.M. DETAILS TO COME. In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition Maggie Haberman was part of a team that won a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for its reportage of the investigations into then-President…
In Conversation with Lucasta Miller, author of Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph (online)
Wed, November 9, 2022
2:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
Cost: FREE
The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone – ‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water’ – seemingly damned him to oblivion. When he died at the age of twenty-five, having taken a battering from the conservative press, few critics imagined he would be…
In Conversation with Stephanie Feldman, author of Saturnalia (In-Person)
Wed, December 14, 2022
6:00 P.M.
The Rosenbach
Cost: FREE
Stephanie Feldman’s novel Saturnalia takes place during a citywide winter solstice celebration in Philadelphia on the brink of climate collapse. The novel draws inspiration from lore and customs of the winter solstice, Philadelphia’s history, the old English Christmas ghost story…