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Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn | Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
Tue, January 21, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Penn Museum | Harrison Auditorium | 3260 South Street
Cost: $40/$55 - pre-signed book included with ticket
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Two Tickets/One Book Penn Museum, Harrison Auditorium, 3260 South Street. Please use the 33rd St entrance. The first married couple to win the Pulitzer Prize, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are acclaimed for their reportage of international social injustices, women’s issues, and…
Paul Krugman | Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
Thu, January 30, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Penn Museum | Harrison Auditorium | 3260 South Street
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Two Tickets/One Book Penn Museum, Harrison Auditorium, 3260 South Street In conversation with Mark Zandi, Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics “The most celebrated economist of his generation” ( Economist ), Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his work in international…
EJ Dionne | Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country
Thu, February 6, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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In conversation with Dick Polman “Substantial” and “notably fair minded” ( New York Times Book Review ), E.J. Dionne Jr. is a syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in the Washington Post and nearly 100 other newspapers, a senior fellow at the…
Diane Keaton | Brother & Sister
Fri, February 7, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Penn Museum | Harrison Auditorium | 3260 South Street
Cost: EVENT SOLD OUT
Penn Museum, Harrison Auditorium, 3260 South Street. Please use the 33rd Street entrance. “Talented, iconic,” and “quirky” ( Elle ), Diane Keaton has starred in some of the most acclaimed movies of the last half-century, including Annie Hall , Reds , the Godfather…
John Sayles | Yellow Earth
Mon, February 10, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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Referred to by Roger Ebert as “the conscience of American independent filmmaking,” John Sayles is the writer/director of 18 movies, including Matewan , Lone Star , Eight Men Out , and Passion Fish . In addition to writing more than 100 screenplays, he is the author of four novels and…
Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons and Justine Simmons | Old School Love: And Why it Works
Wed, February 12, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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Walk this way for an evening with Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons, frontman for the mega-influential hip-hop trio Run-DMC. Regarded as the driving force behind ushering rap into the mainstream, the group was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and inducted into the Rock & Roll…
Sam Sifton | See You on Sunday: A Cookbook for Family and Friends
Thu, February 20, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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The food editor at the New York Times and the founding editor of the Times ’s digital cookbook, NYT Cooking , Sam Sifton is one of America’s most popular culinary writers. He formerly worked as the Gray Lady’s national news editor, restaurant critic, and…
Dan Pfeiffer | UnTrumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
Mon, February 24, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15/$32 - ticket/ticket with book
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The White House director of communications in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2013, Dan Pfeiffer is the New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can , an “amusing and insightful” ( Esquire ) account of the shifting tides of politics of the internet age and a guide to…
John Feinstein | The Back Roads to March: The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a College Basketball Season
Thu, March 5, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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“One of the best sportswriters alive” ( USA Today ), John Feinstein is the author of the bestselling A Good Walk Spoiled , A Season on the Brink , and Where Nobody Knows Your Name , among almost two dozen other books. He has been a staff columnist for the Washington Post…
Maira Kalman | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated
Mon, March 9, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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An illustrator, writer, artist, and designer, Maira Kalman is the author of a dozen children’s books, has designed fabric and accessories for Isaac Mizrahi and Kate Spade, created sets for stage productions, shown her work in nearly two dozen galleries, and, with her late husband, made…
David Plouffe | A Citizen’s Guide to Beating Donald Trump
Tue, March 10, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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The campaign manager for Barack Obama’s 2008 primary and general election victories, David Plouffe later served on the White House staff as a senior advisor and was largely credited with the 44th president’s 2012 win. He formerly worked as a leading Democratic Party media consultant…
Rebecca Solnit | Recollections of My Nonexistence
Thu, March 12, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $32/$47 - book included with ticket
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Two Tickets/One Book In conversation with Jia Tolentino, New Yorker staff writer and author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion “Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scathing” ( Salon ), activist, historian, and author Rebecca Solnit’s more than…
Hilary Mantel | The Mirror and the Light
Tue, March 17, 2020
8:00 P.M.
Zellerbach Theatre | 3680 Walnut Street
Cost: $40/$55 - pre-signed book included with ticket
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Two Tickets/One Book Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut Street Hilary Mantel won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize for Wolf Hall , a “darkly brilliant reimagining” ( Boston Globe ) of Thomas Cromwell’s emergence as a power in the court of King Henry…
Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other
Mon, March 30, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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Bernardine Evaristo won the 2019 Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other , “a breathtaking symphony of black women’s voices” that explores the confluences of identity and Britain’s African and Caribbean colonial history. Her other works include the books The…
Ruchir Sharma | The 10 Rules of Successful Nations
Tue, March 31, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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The head of emerging markets and chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Ruchir Sharma is one of the world’s largest investors. A contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and a contributing editor at Newsweek , he is also the author of the bestselling…
James Shapiro | Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
Thu, April 2, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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“Brilliantly readable and revealing” ( Guardian ), James Shapiro’s immersive dives into the world of the Bard of Avon include The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 , A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 , and Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? A professor at…
Mark Morris and Wesley Stace | Out Loud: A Memoir
Wed, April 22, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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Celebrated dancer and choreographer Mark Morris has created nearly 150 original works for his eponymous dance company, the Mark Morris Dance Group. He is the former director of dance at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and in 1990 founded the White Oak Dance…
André Gregory | This is Not My Memoir
Mon, May 11, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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In conversation with co-author Todd London, Head of the MFA Playwriting Program at the New School, School of Drama A theater director in New York for more than 50 years, the legendary André Gregory has collaborated on film adaptations of his productions with the likes of Louis Malle and…
David Allen Sibley | What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why
Sat, May 16, 2020
12:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $10/$34 - ticket/ticket with book
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A contemporary John James Audubon, ornithologist and scientific illustrator David Allen Sibley is perhaps North America’s preeminent birder and is the author of the wildly popular series of eponymous nature guides. Celebrated for its artistic avian renderings and concise, elegant…