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James B. Stewart | Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law
Wed, October 23, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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Tickets on sale Wednesday September 18, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist James B. Stewart is the author of the number-one New York Times bestseller Den of Thieves , the story of the most notorious insider-trading ring in financial history; DisneyWar , the boardroom…
Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, and Ella Morton | Atlas Obscura | 2nd Edition: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders
Thu, October 24, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00; $38.00 with book
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The bestselling Atlas Obscura garnered popular acclaim in 2016 as a joyous plunge into some of Earth’s weirdest and most mysterious places. Replete with rigorous research, lavish charts and illustrations, and brisk writing, a revised and updated second edition treats readers to 120 new…
Joey Baldino and Adam Erace | Dinner at the Club: 100 Years of Stories and Recipes from South Philly's Palizzi Social Club
Mon, October 28, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
In conversation with Michael Klein, editor/producer of inquirer.com/food and @phillyinsider Originally a meeting place for South Philly’s Abruzzi-American community, the members-only Palizzi Social Club is now one of America’s hottest restaurants. Since owner and chef Joey Baldino…
Gail Collins | No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America
Tue, October 29, 2019
12:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT A columnist for the New York Times and a member of its editorial board since 1995, Gail Collins was the Gray Lady’s editorial page editor from 2001 to 2007, the first woman to hold that position. Her books include America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges,…
Sean Brock | South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations
Tue, October 29, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $55/$40 two seats + book/seat + book
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In conversation with Jason Freeman Praised as “an absolutely transformative figure” by the late Anthony Bourdain, Sean Brock is the founding chef of the Husk restaurant group, which has four locations in South Carolina and Georgia. In 2015, he won the James Beard Award for Best…
Booker T. Jones | Time Is Tight: My Life Note by Note
Wed, October 30, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
EVENT POSTPONED. NEW DATE TO COME. In conversation with musician and writer, Wesley Stace The frontman for R&B band Booker T. & the M.G.’s, songwriter, producer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist Booker T. Jones was a driving figure in the creation of the Memphis soul sound,…
Sally Field | In Pieces
Fri, November 1, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $25.00
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Tickets on sale Friday October 11, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. In conversation with Marty Moss-Coane, host of WHYY's Radio Times The winner of two Academy Awards and three Primetime Emmy Awards, screen icon Sally Field is acclaimed for roles including a flying nun, a Depression-era Texas widow, a…
Stephanie Taylor Presents: I Can Change Everything
Mon, November 4, 2019
4:00 P.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Come join us in the Story Hour Room for a reading and activity with writer and activist Stephanie Taylor to celebrate her new book, I Can Change Everything. Free event for children and families. There will be an opportunity to purchase the book and have it signed by the author. Children…
Paul Hendrickson | Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
Mon, November 4, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Paul Hendrickson’s books include Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961 , a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; Sons of Mississippi , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and…
Erica Armstrong Dunbar | She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Tue, November 5, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
In conversation with Lorene Cary , author of Black Ice , The Price of a Child , Ladysitting and the forthcoming Arden Theatre production of My General Tubman Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the author of the National Book Award finalist Never Caught, the story of Ona Judge, a young enslaved person who…
Becoming Philadelphia: Jericho Brown
Wed, November 6, 2019
6:30 P.M.
Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library
Cost: FREE
Join the Free Library of Philadelphia and First Person Arts for a festival series of poetry readings and story circles that lift up stories of migration and put storytelling at the heart of the library. Hear some of the most dynamic poets of our day explore what it means to leave one home to…
Michael Beschloss | Presidents of War
Wed, November 6, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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Auditorium sold out; in-house simulcast tickets available A “deft researcher and a first-rate storyteller” ( Washington Post ), Michael Beschloss is the author of nine books on the American presidency, including two volumes on Lyndon Johnson, the bestsellers Presidential Courage and…
Becoming Philadelphia: Ladan Osman
Thu, November 7, 2019
6:30 P.M.
Kingsessing Library
Cost: FREE
Join the Free Library of Philadelphia and First Person Arts for a festival series of poetry readings and story circles that lift up stories of migration and put storytelling at the heart of the library. Hear some of the most dynamic poets of our day explore what it means to leave one home to…
Carmen Maria Machado | In the Dream House
Thu, November 7, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
In conversation with Emma Eisenberg, author of the forthcoming book The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia Carmen Maria Machado’s bestselling debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties , was a finalist for the National Book Award and is being…
Becoming Philadelphia: Taylor Mali
Sun, November 10, 2019
2:30 P.M.
South Philadelphia Library
Cost: FREE
Join the Free Library of Philadelphia and First Person Arts for a festival series of poetry readings and story circles that lift up stories of migration and put storytelling at the heart of the library. Hear some of the most dynamic poets of our day explore what it means to leave one home to…
Becoming Philadelphia: Geffrey Davis
Tue, November 12, 2019
6:30 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
Cost: FREE
Join the Free Library of Philadelphia and First Person Arts for a festival series of poetry readings and story circles that lift up stories of migration and put storytelling at the heart of the library. Hear some of the most dynamic poets of our day explore what it means to leave one home to…
Saeed Jones | How We Fight for Our Lives with Clifford Thompson | What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues
Tue, November 12, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Saeed Jones is the author of the “hard and glaring and brilliant” ( NPR Book Review ) poetry collection Prelude to Bruise , winner of the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award. He is also the co-host of BuzzFeed’s morning show AM to DM and was the…
An Evening with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
Wed, November 13, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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Co-sponsored by Monday Poets This year, Joy Harjo became the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American honored with this position. Her 16 poetry collections include She Had Some Horses , Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings , and, most recently, An American Sunrise . She is also…
Susan Orlean | The Library Book
Thu, November 14, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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A staff writer for the New Yorker since 1992, Susan Orlean won wide acclaim for the 1998 New York Times bestseller The Orchid Thief , the story of a renegade Florida swamp plant poacher that was adapted into an Academy Award–winning film by Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze.…
Becoming Philadelphia: Tina Chang
Sat, November 16, 2019
2:00 P.M.
Independence Library
Cost: FREE
Join the Free Library of Philadelphia and First Person Arts for a festival series of poetry readings and story circles that lift up stories of migration and put storytelling at the heart of the library. Hear some of the most dynamic poets of our day explore what it means to leave one home to…