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Bettina L. Love | Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
Mon, September 25, 2023
7:30 P.M.
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REGISTER In conversation with Marc Lamont Hill Bettina L. Love is the author of the bestseller We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom , winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award. The William F. Russell…
Emily Wilson | The Iliad
Tue, September 26, 2023
7:30 P.M.
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REGISTER In conversation with Sheila Murnaghan, chair of the classics department at the University of Pennsylvania “A cultural landmark” ( The Guardian ), Emily Wilson ’s 2017 translation of The Odyssey was hailed for its fresh and unpretentious rendition of the classical poem…
Safiya Sinclair | How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
Thu, October 5, 2023
1:00 P.M.
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REGISTER In conversation with Philadelphia Poet Laureate Airea D Matthews Hailed by Tara Westover as “Dazzling. Potent Vital. A light shining on the path of self-deliverance,” Safiya Sinclair ’s memoir How to Say Babylon recounts her struggle to break…
Ayana Mathis | The Unsettled: A Novel
Tue, October 10, 2023
7:30 P.M.
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REGISTER In conversation with Asali Solomon Ayana Mathis is the author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie , “a remarkable page-turner of a novel” ( Chicago Tribune ) that follows the harrowing fortunes of a 15-year-old from Georgia to Philadelphia during the Great Migration. A New York…
Nikhil Goyal | Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
Thu, October 19, 2023
7:30 P.M.
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REGISTER In conversation with author and Pennsylvania State Senator, Nikil Saval In Live to See the Day , Nikhil Goyal offers a searing portrait of three Puerto Rican children struggling to survive in Philadelphia’s impoverished Kensington neighborhood. Drawing on nearly a decade of…
Melissa Broder | Death Valley: A Novel with Hilary Leichter | Terrace Story: A Novel
Wed, October 25, 2023
7:30 P.M.
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REGISTER Melissa Broder is the author of Milk Fed , the “sensuous and delightfully delirious tale” ( O, The Oprah Magazine ) of a calorie-obsessed lapsed Jewish woman who falls under the spell of a zaftig Orthodox frozen yogurt store employee. Her other work includes the novel The…
Cristina García | Vanishing Maps: A Novel
Thu, October 26, 2023
7:30 P.M.
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REGISTER In conversation with Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, Professor of Latinx Studies, Temple University Cristina García is the author of eight “languid and sensual, curt and surprising” ( The New York Times Book Review ) novels, including The Lady…
Joseph Sassoon | The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
Thu, November 2, 2023
7:30 P.M.
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REGISTER “A marvelous epitaph to a monumental family, makers of several worlds and keepers of none” ( The Wall Street Journal ), Joseph Sassoon ’s eponymous historical volume The Sassoons charts the remarkable 19th-century rise and 20th-century fall of his illustrious…
Tanisha Ford | Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
Wed, November 8, 2023
7:30 P.M.
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REGISTER In conversation with Marc Lamont Hill Tanisha Ford ’s Our Secret Society is a biography of Mollie Moon, the socialite, powerbroker, and founder of the National Urban League Guild, who was a key fundraiser for the Civil Rights Movement. It also serves as a social history and…
Sigrid Nunez | The Vulnerables: A Novel with Henry Hoke | Open Throat: A Novel
Thu, November 16, 2023
7:30 P.M.
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REGISTER Sigrid Nunez won the 2018 National Book Award for The Friend , a “beautiful” novel “crammed with a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love” ( The Wall Street Journal ) in which a woman is forced to adopt her deceased best friend’s Great Dane. The…
Beth Kephart | My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera
Tue, November 28, 2023
7:30 P.M.
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REGISTER Renowned for her ability “to generalize from her personal experience to the greater human one” ( The Washington Post ), Beth Kephart is the author of more than 30 books across a wide range of genres, including poetry, young adult fiction, and, most notably, the memoir. These…
Raquel Willis | The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation
Wed, November 29, 2023
7:30 P.M.
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REGISTER A writer, activist, and media strategist dedicated to Black transgender liberation, Raquel Willis has served as director of communications for Ms. Foundation for Women, a national organizer for the Transgender Law Center, and executive editor of Out magazine. In 2017, she spoke at the…
Sohla El-Waylly | Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook: A Cookbook
Tue, December 5, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
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THE AUDITORIUM IS FULL! REGISTER FOR THE OVERFLOW ROOM In conversation with Reem Kassis A chef, writer, video producer, and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly hosts Mystery Menu for The New York Times Cooking YouTube channel and The History Channel’s Ancient Recipes with Sohla , and…