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VIRTUAL - Julia Alvarez | Afterlife
Tue, April 7, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Follow us on Crowdcast to watch our event with Julia Alvarez live at 7:30 p.m. And be sure to register in advance! Help us provide digital content during the closure with your contributions . Named “Woman of the Year” by Latina magazine in…
VIRTUAL - David Fajgenbaum | Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope into Action
Tue, April 14, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Follow us on Crowdcast to watch our event with David Fajgenbaum live at 7:30 p.m. And be sure to register in advance! Help us provide digital content during the closure with your contributions . A professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and associate…
CANCELLED - Dalia Sofer | Man of My Time
Thu, April 16, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Dalia Sofer is the author of the National Jewish Book Award finalist The Septembers of Shiraz , a “lyrical and sometimes haunting” ( Miami Herald ) bestselling debut novel about a gem dealer wrongly accused of espionage in the wake of the Iranian revolution. Winner of the PEN/Robert…
CANCELLED - Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem with Denice Frohman
Tue, April 21, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
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 member of the…
VIRTUAL - Mark Morris and Wesley Stace | Out Loud: A Memoir
Wed, April 22, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Follow us on Crowdcast to watch our event with Mark Morris and Wesley Stace live at 7:30 p.m. And be sure to register in advance! Help us provide digital content during the closure with your contributions . Celebrated dancer and choreographer Mark…
CANCELLED - Ottessa Moshfegh | Death in Her Hands with Taffy Brodesser-Akner | Fleishman Is in Trouble
Thu, April 23, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Eileen , Ottessa Moshfegh ’s “always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious” ( Washington Post ) novel about a young woman trapped between equally bleak work and home lives, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and was shortlisted for the…
VIRTUAL - Frank B. Wilderson III | Afropessimism
Tue, April 28, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Follow us on Crowdcast to watch our event with Frank Wilderson live at 7:30 p.m. And be sure to register in advance! Help us provide digital content during the closure with your contributions . Frank B. Wilderson III spent more than five years in South Africa,…
CANCELLED - Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. | Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Wed, April 29, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
The chair of the Department of African American Studies and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the author of the acclaimed book Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul . “One of the most…
VIRTUAL - Samantha Irby | Wow, No Thank You.
Thu, April 30, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Follow us Crowdcast to watch our event with Samantha Irby live at 7:30 p.m. And be sure to register in advance! Help us provide digital content during the closure with your contributions . In her popular long-running blog, bitches gotta eat , Samantha…
CANCELLED - Jeanine Cummins | American Dirt
Tue, May 5, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
EVENT CANCELLED.
David Wallace-Wells | The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Tue, May 5, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Please note: This event has been rescheduled from March 24, 2020. In conversation with Dr. Rachel Valletta, Environmental Scientist at The Franklin Institute and director of all climate change education and outreach programming. A columnist and deputy editor at New York magazine,…
Susan Choi | Trust Exercise with Jacqueline Woodson | Red at the Bone
Thu, May 7, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for fiction, Trust Exercise follows a star-crossed suburban teen romance in a 1980s performing arts high school. Susan Choi ’s novels are known for excavating the hidden corners of the human heart and acclaimed for their “nuance, psychological…
Jennifer Steinhauer | The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress
Tue, May 12, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
A reporter for the New York Times for 25 years, Jennifer Steinhauer has covered the United States Congress since 2010. Her former assignments include Los Angeles bureau chief and New York City Hall bureau chief. The winner of the Newswoman’s Club of New York Front Page Deadline…
Seanan McGuire | Middlegame and Imaginary Numbers
Thu, May 14, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
One of contemporary sci-fi/fantasy’s most popular writers, Seanan McGuire won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for the Wayward Children series of books. Also the author of, among other books, the October Day series and the InCryptid series, she writes science fiction/horror under the pen…