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Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan | Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus
Tue, January 28, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
In conversation with Dr. Jen Ashton, Chief Medical Correspondent for ABC News and author of The Self-Care Solution: A Year of Becoming Happier, Healthier, and Fitter--One Month at a Time A professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University, Jennifer S. Hirsch also codirects the…
Eoin Colfer | Highfire
Mon, February 3, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
In conversation with Jon McGoran, author of Splintered Eoin Colfer is the internationally acclaimed author of the Artemis Fowl series, which chronicles the “magical” ( Washington Post ) adventures of a young antihero criminal mastermind. The novels and their companion books have sold…
David Zucchino | Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
Tue, February 4, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
In conversation with Mark Bowden, most recently author of The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation David Zucchino is a contributing writer for The New York Times . He has covered wars and civil conflicts in more than three dozen countries. Zucchino was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for…
Gretchen Sorin | Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
Tue, February 11, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
In conversation with Rick Burns, Peabody and Emmy Award–winning documentarian A curator with more than 30 years’ experience, Dr. Gretchen Sorin has consulted for more than 250 institutions, including the Smithsonian, the Jewish Museum, and the New York State Historical Association.…
Jenny Offill | The Weather
Thu, February 13, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation , “an effortless-seeming downhill ride that picks up astonishing narrative speed as it goes” ( New York Review of Books ), tells the story of a once heady marriage at its breaking point. It was named to scores of 2014 “Best of the…
Sayed Kashua | Track Changes with Isabella Hammad | The Parisian
Tue, February 18, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
“A master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society” ( New York Times ), Sayed Kashua is an Arab Israeli who has lived in Jerusalem for most of his life. He writes a weekly column for Haaretz , published a book of essays titled Native: Dispatches from an…
Gish Jen | The Resisters
Tue, February 25, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Gish Jen’s many novels include Typical American , World and Town , and Mona in the Promised Land . She is also the author of two nonfiction works that explore the differences in East-West notions of art and culture, and her short stories have appeared dozens of publications, including the…
Steven Levy | Facebook: The Inside Story
Wed, February 26, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
In conversation with Michael A. Smerconish Editor at large at Wired and a technology writer for more than 30 years, Steven Levy is the author of seven books, including In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives ; Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in…
R. Eric Thomas | Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America
Thu, February 27, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
R. Eric Thomas is the creator of Elle ’s “Eric Reads the News,” a daily humor column that lambasts pop culture, celebrity, and politics that has been praised by Lin-Manuel Miranda as “Sedaris-level laugh-out-loud funny.” Also a renowned playwright, his work has been…
Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez | Legendary Children: The First Decade of Rupaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life
Tue, March 3, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
The creators of the immensely popular eponymous blog Tom and Lorenzo , Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez entertain millions of readers a month with their singular perspective on fashion and pop culture. They are frequent guests on Sundance Channel’s All on the Line with Joe Zee and Sirius…
Adam Hochschild | Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
Wed, March 4, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Historian Adam Hochschild’s ten “carefully researched and vigorously told” ( Houston Chronicle ) books include King Leopold’s Ghost , a haunting portrait of Belgium’s 19th-century brutal colonization of the Congo, and To End All Wars , the little-told story of the…
James McBride | Deacon King Kong
Wed, March 11, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
“Boisterous, highly entertaining,” and “altogether original” ( Washington Post ), James McBride is the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird , in which a young boy born into slavery joins abolitionist John Brown’s doomed crusade.…
Anne Enright | Actress
Tue, March 17, 2020
6:00 P.M.
Zellerbach Theatre | 3680 Walnut Street
Cost: FREE
Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut Street Anne Enright won the Man Booker Prize for The Gathering , “a moving splendor of a novel” ( Boston Globe ) that follows three generations of an Irish family assembled for the funeral of a wayward scion. Acclaimed for their gritty realism, her…
Neil Shubin | Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
Wed, March 18, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin was a member of the field team that made the 2004 landmark discovery of Tiktaalik roseae, a 375-million-year-old fossil dubbed the "missing link" between fish and land animals. The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish and The Universe Within , Shubin…
Katie Roiphe | The Power Notebooks
Thu, March 19, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Feminist author and journalist Kate Roiphe is the author of In Praise of Messy Lives , a “daring, vivid, combative” ( Wall Street Journal ) collection of essays that explores everything from Joan Didion to Mad Men . Her other books include The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism ;…
Harry Dodge | My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing
Mon, March 23, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Visual artist Harry Dodge has exhibited work in some of the world’s most prestigious institutions, including the Getty, the Whitney, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Hammer Museum. A professor at the California Institute of the Arts and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Dodge was…
David Wallace-Wells | The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Tue, March 24, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
A columnist and deputy editor at New York magazine, David Wallace-Wells has written extensively about the environment and the future of science, including a widely read—and hotly debated—2017 article about worst-case climate change scenarios. He formerly was a National…
Emily St. John Mandel | The Glass Hotel
Thu, March 26, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
A finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling Station 11 vacillates in time between the world that we know and the dystopic travails of a Shakespearean acting troupe in the years following a global plague. Her other novels include…
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
A professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and associate director of the university’s Orphan Disease Center, Dr. David Fajgenbaum holds an MBA from the Wharton School, earned a master of science at Oxford, and graduated from Georgetown, where he was a football quarterback.…
Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem
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…