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Jeanine Basinger | The Movie Musical!
Tue, November 19, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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In conversation with Carrie Rickey, former film critic for the Inquirer Mentor to some of contemporary cinema’s top directors (Joss Whedon and Michael Bay) and founder of the department of film studies at Wesleyan University, Jeanine Basinger built the program into one of the best in the…
Deirdre Bair | Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me
Thu, November 21, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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Deirdre Bair won the National Book Award for her “blockbuster biography” of Samuel Beckett, “the best introduction to an enigmatic giant of 20th-century literature” ( Christian Science Monitor ). Her other acclaimed biographies include portraits of Simone de Beauvoir,…
Ronan Farrow | Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Tue, November 26, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00; $34.00 with book
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Auditorium sold out; in-house simlucast tickets on sale New Yorker writer Ronan Farrow has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, a National Magazine Award, and a George Polk Award for his “indefatigable and imaginative” ( Globe and Mail ) reportage of some of the most important…
André Aciman | Find Me
Tue, December 3, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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In conversation with Gary Kramer, a writer and film critic based in Philadelphia André Aciman is the author of the nationwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name , a novel that chronicles the bittersweet love story of a teenage boy and the young academic staying at his family’s mansion…
Salman Rushdie | Quichotte
Tue, December 10, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00; $34.00 with book
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Auditorium sold out; in-house simulcast tickets still available In conversation with novelist and musician Wesley Stace “One of the major literary voices of our time” ( San Francisco Chronicle ), Salman Rushdie is the author of more than a dozen novels, including The…
Elaine Sciolino | The Seine: The River That Made Paris
Thu, December 12, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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A former Paris bureau chief and contributing writer for the New York Times , Elaine Sciolino is acclaimed for her “deliciously detailed and smart” ( Vogue ) chronicles of French culture and history. Her books include the bestsellers The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des…