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Patti Smith | Year of the Monkey
Mon, October 21, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St.
Cost: $44 Orchestra/$42 Balcony - book included with ticket
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Patti Smith—dubbed the “punk poet laureate”—won a 2010 National Book Award for Just Kids , a “moving portrait of the artist as a young woman” ( Los Angeles Times ). Her 1975 debut album, Horses , is often cited as one of the greatest in music…
Booker T. Jones | Time Is Tight: My Life Note by Note
Wed, October 30, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
EVENT POSTPONED. NEW DATE TO COME. In conversation with musician and writer, Wesley Stace The frontman for R&B band Booker T. & the M.G.’s, songwriter, producer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist Booker T. Jones was a driving figure in the creation of the Memphis soul sound,…
Sally Field | In Pieces
Fri, November 1, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $25.00
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Tickets on sale Friday October 11, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. In conversation with Marty Moss-Coane, host of WHYY's Radio Times The winner of two Academy Awards and three Primetime Emmy Awards, screen icon Sally Field is acclaimed for roles including a flying nun, a Depression-era Texas widow, a…
Paul Hendrickson | Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
Mon, November 4, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Paul Hendrickson’s books include Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961 , a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; Sons of Mississippi , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and…
Erica Armstrong Dunbar | She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Tue, November 5, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
In conversation with Lorene Cary , author of Black Ice , The Price of a Child , Ladysitting and the forthcoming Arden Theatre production of My General Tubman Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the author of the National Book Award finalist Never Caught, the story of Ona Judge, a young enslaved person who…
Carmen Maria Machado | In the Dream House
Thu, November 7, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
In conversation with Emma Eisenberg, author of the forthcoming book The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia Carmen Maria Machado’s bestselling debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties , was a finalist for the National Book Award and is being…
Saeed Jones | How We Fight for Our Lives with Clifford Thompson | What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues
Tue, November 12, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Saeed Jones is the author of the “hard and glaring and brilliant” ( NPR Book Review ) poetry collection Prelude to Bruise , winner of the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award. He is also the co-host of BuzzFeed’s morning show AM to DM and was the…
Artist talk: Gail Gaines
Thu, November 14, 2019
6:00 P.M.
Art Department
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Parkway Central Library
The Art Department is home to a monumental boot-shaped sculpture entitled Every Little Detail , created by local fashion designer, couturiere and educator Gail Gaines for the 160th anniversary of Moore College of Art & Design. Another Moore alumna, Darla Jackson,…
Jon Dorenbos | Life Is Magic: My Inspiring Journey from Tragedy to Self-Discovery
Mon, November 18, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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In conversation with Larry Platt, co-founder/co-executive director of The Philadelphia Citizen and former editor of the Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia Magazine and co-author of Life is Magic Philadelphia Eagles long-snapper Jon Dorenbos played in two Pro Bowls and had an illustrious…
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…
William D. Cohan | Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short
Thu, December 5, 2019
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
William D. Cohan is the bestselling author of The Last Tycoons , an inside history of Lazard Frères & Co., one of the country’s most venerable investment banks. A former longtime Wall Street mergers and acquisitions banker, the topics of his other books range from the financial…