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VIRTUAL - Richard Thompson | Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975
Thu, April 8, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $33.00-Signed Book with Ticket
PURCHASE TICKETS In conversation with musician, novelist, and teacher Wesley Stace “One of rock’s MVPs since the mid-Sixties” ( Rolling Stone ), Richard Thompson is a beloved singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His prolific body of work includes 18 solo studio albums, eight…
Virtual - Blake Bailey | Philip Roth: The Biography
Mon, April 12, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The Border , The Force , The Cartel, Power of the Dog , Savages, and Broken , his new collection of six short novels. Blake Bailey is acclaimed for his “meticulously researched,…
VIRTUAL - Phillip Lopate | The Golden Age of the American Essay: 1945-1970
Thu, April 15, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with novelist, screenwriter, and creative writing teacher Max Apple Phillip Lopate’s “observant, elegiac, and far-reaching” ( New York Times ) essay collections include Bachelorhood , Against Joie de Vivre , and Portrait Inside My Head . His…
VIRTUAL - Larry Krasner | For the People: A Story of Justice and Power
Tue, April 20, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Winning on a platform of prison reform in a city notorious for its high incarceration rates, Larry Krasner was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia in 2018 with more than 50% of the vote. He worked as a public defender and civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia for more than…
Black Invention: Imagining New Ways to Speak
Wed, April 21, 2021
6:00 P.M.
Online
Presented in collaboration with Paul Robeson House & Museum and Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library. One of the many hallmarks of Jericho Brown's collection, The Tradition, is the original poetic form Brown invented called the duplex. The form is a…
VIRTUAL - Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem with Denice Frohman
Wed, April 21, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Natalie Diaz is the author of When My Brother Was an Aztec , an “ambitious . . . beautiful” ( New York Times ) American Book Award–winning poetry collection that ruminates on her sibling’s drug addiction. A former professional basketball player, an enrolled…
Tongues Untied Screening and Accessing Archives with Steven G. Fullwood
Thu, April 22, 2021
7:00 P.M.
Online
Presented in collaboration with Scribe Video Center. Screening at 7:00 p.m., Accessing Archives Presentation at 8:00 p.m. “Black men loving Black men is the revolutionary act *snap!”–Marlon Riggs (1957–1994). Riggs’s groundbreaking film Tongues…
VIRTUAL - Rickie Lee Jones | Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour
Thu, April 22, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $33.00-Book with Ticket
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE Carole Phillips Memorial Lecture In conversation with singer, songwriter, and novelist Wesley Stace Acclaimed for “her hauntingly beautiful voice and fearless experimentation” (NPR), singer–-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones has remained one of music’s…
VIRTUAL - Senator Mazie K. Hirono | Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story
Mon, April 26, 2021
6:00 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $10.00-Ticket or $33.00-Book with Ticket
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE A “hero on the left” ( Washington Post ) for her vocal support of progressive legislation and issues, Mazie K. Hirono is the only immigrant and the first Asian American woman in the United States Senate. Hawaii’s junior Senator since 2013, she…
Virtual - Paul Farmer | Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
Tue, April 27, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture In conversation with Dr. Steven Larson, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Acclaimed for his “exceptional empathy and care” ( Boston Globe ) as a physician,…
“Death by a Thousand Cuts: How a Broken Promise and a Boston Brahmin Destroyed Joe McCarthy” with Peter Siskind
Wed, April 28, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual Program
Lies. Alternative facts. Demonizing the opponent. Former Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) has been dead for 63 years, but the political tools and techniques that he pioneered are very much alive. They are as fresh as today’s headlines. The Free Library is proud to present…
Making Her Mark Spotlight: Generation to Generation | Digital Discussion
Thu, May 6, 2021
5:30 P.M.
Zoom
Join curators from regional institutions whose exhibitions look at the multi-generational women-led movement building around voter rights and enfranchisement leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment and beyond. This discussion will provide additional context on exhibitions accessible…
“The Strange Afterlife of Roy Cohn” with Marie Brenner
Mon, May 10, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual Program
Lies. Alternative facts. Demonizing the opponent. Former Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) has been dead for 63 years, but the political tools and techniques that he pioneered are very much alive. They are as fresh as today’s headlines. The Free Library is proud to present…
Looking Out and Building Up: Imagining Black Masculinities After Patriarchy
Wed, May 12, 2021
6:30 P.M.
Online
Moving through the themes of Black masculinity discussed in Jericho Brown's The Tradition , this intergenerational conversation will focus on deconstructing and reimagining the narratives and myths that define life for Black men and other Black masculine people. Panelists will explore…
Boundless Love: Black Queerness and Spirituality
Tue, May 25, 2021
6:30 P.M.
Online
Presented with Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library Jericho Brown writes about religion and spirituality from his personal perspective and lived experiences of being a queer Black man, reflecting on both the ugliness of institutional violence and the beauty and expansiveness of personal…
Re-Creating a New World: One Book, One Philadelphia Finale with Jericho Brown
Wed, June 9, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Online
Join us to celebrate a season of discussing The Tradition . Following a reading and conversation with One Book, One Philadelphia 2021author, Jericho Brown, and Philadelphia poet Ursula Rucker, we’ll listen to an intergenerational panel of artists, activists, and community space-holders.…