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Lidia Matticchio Bastianich | Lidia's From Our Family Table to Yours: More Than 100 Recipes Made with Love for All Occasions
Thu, September 28, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $17.50 or $42.00 book with ticket
TICKETS In conversation with Heather Marold Thomason, Butcher & Founder of Primal Supply “The cookbook author who changed the way Americans cook Italian food” ( The New York Times ), Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is the author of 15 beloved culinary guides, as well a 2019…
Malcolm Jenkins | What Winners Won't Tell You: Lessons from a Legendary Defender
Tue, October 3, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $38 book with ticket
TICKETS In conversation with Michael Eric Dyson One of pro football’s all-time defensive greats, Malcolm Jenkins won Super Bowls with the Philadelphia Eagles and New Orleans Saints, and appeared in three Pro Bowls. He won the prestigious Jim Thorpe Award as a senior at the Ohio State…
Sarah Cooper | Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation
Wed, October 4, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $17.50 or $36.50 book with ticket
TICKETS In conversation with comedian Chanel Ali Referred to by Amy Schumer as “the funniest, smartest person I know,” Sarah Cooper is best known for her hilarious lip-syncing videos of Donald Trump sound bites. The author of 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings and How to…
Safiya Sinclair | How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
Thu, October 5, 2023
1:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
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…
Drew Gilpin Faust | Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
Wed, October 11, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $17.50 Auditorium
TICKETS In conversation with Rev. Dr. Jonathan Lee Walton A postwar coming-of-age memoir about life in a conservative family in segregated Virginia, Drew Gilpin Faust ’s Necessary Trouble recounts her break from the racial and gender norms of the era and the means by which her involvement…
Angus Deaton | Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
Thu, October 12, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $17.50 Auditorium
TICKETS In conversation with Binyamin Appelbaum Angus Deaton won the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics for his study of poverty, consumption, and welfare. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus and Senior Scholar at Princeton University, he is a fellow of…
Viet Thanh Nguyen | A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
Mon, October 16, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $17.50 Auditorium
TICKETS In conversation with Don Lee Referred to by Joyce Carol Oates in The New Yorker as “one of our great chroniclers of displacement,” Viet Thanh Nguyen won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Sympathizer , the tale of a South Vietnamese army captain who immigrates…
Martin Baron | Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post
Tue, October 17, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $17.50 Auditorium
TICKETS Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture In conversation with David Boardman In Collision of Power , Martin Baron tells the inside story of the monumental power struggle between the venerable newspaper The Washington Post , its demanding and ultra-wealthy owner Jeff Bezos,…
Nikhil Goyal | Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
Thu, October 19, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
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…
David Zucker | Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane
Mon, October 23, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $17.50 ticket
TICKETS In conversation with comedian and author James "Mur" Murray Surely You Can’t Be Serious is a behind-the-scenes making-of oral history of the 1980 comedy classic Airplane! , as told by its equally legendary writers and directors David Zucker , Jim Abrahams, and…
Roz Chast | I Must be Dreaming
Mon, October 30, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $36.00 book w/ticket
TICKETS Renowned for her “extraordinarily honest, searing and hilarious” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) takes on modern life, Roz Chast has published more than 1,000 cartoons in The New Yorker since 1978. She has written or illustrated more than a dozen books, including…
And Now, Love
Wed, November 1, 2023
6:00 P.M.
Education Philosophy and Religion Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Join the Free Library of Philadelphia's Education, Philosophy & Religion Department for a screening of And Now, Love a feature documentary directed, written and produced by Jill Demby Guest and narrated by Emmy winner Peter Coyote. Born to immigrant parents in…
Stephanie Land | Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger and Higher Education
Thu, November 9, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15 ticket or $35 book with ticket; $10 student rush on event night (limited number)
TICKETS In conversation with Errin Haines Stephanie Land is the author of the bestseller Maid , a memoir that “nails the sheer terror that comes with being poor, the exhausting vigilance of knowing that any misstep or twist of fate will push you deeper into the hole” ( The Boston…
Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter | The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are
Sat, November 18, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $37 book with ticket
TICKETS The winner of three Grammy Awards and three NAACP Image Awards, Tariq Trotter , aka Black Thought , is the MC and co-founder of The Roots. The Philly-based hip-hop group has produced 11 albums and is the house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon .…
Beth Kephart | My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera
Tue, November 28, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
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.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
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…