Free Library Story Booth Recording Session

Fri, August 30, 2019 2:00 P.M.
Lovett Memorial Library

Do you have stories to share? The Free Library Story Booth is coming to our library and is open for drop-in sessions. Step inside the booth for a casual interview, and have your voice recorded to be part of the neighborhood libraries oral history archive. The audio of your story will be posted…

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Mobile Story Booth

Wed, September 11, 2019 2:00 P.M.
Fumo Family Library

Do you have stories to share? The Free Library Story Booth is coming to Fumo Library! Step inside the booth for a casual interview, and have your voice recorded to be part of the neighborhood libraries oral history archive. The audio of your story will be posted online at StoryCorps and the…

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Free Library Story Booth Recording Session

Fri, September 20, 2019 2:00 P.M.
Logan Library

Do you have stories to share? The Free Library Story Booth is coming to our library and is open for drop-in sessions. Step inside the booth for a casual interview, and have your voice recorded to be part of the neighborhood libraries oral history archive. The audio of your story will be posted…

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Debbie Harry | Face It

Tue, October 8, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts 3680 Walnut Street

Cost: $44/$46 - pre-signed book included with ticket

In conversation with Blondie co-founder and renowned photographer  Chris Stein , and multidisciplinary artist and director, Rob Roth —accompanied by a visual presentation. Tickets on sale September 9th at 10:00 a.m. here. Debbie Harry is an acclaimed musician, actor, and style icon.…

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Susan Rice | Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For

Thu, October 10, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $15.00; $35.00 with book

Tickets on sale September 9, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013 and President Obama’s national security advisor from 2013 to 2017, Susan Rice has been at the forefront of…

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Adam Rippon | Beautiful on the Outside

Thu, October 17, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $15.00; $34.00 with book

Tickets on sale September 9, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. In conversation with Tracey Matisak The first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a winter Olympics medal, Adam Rippon earned bronze as part of the figure skating team event at the 2018 games. He was also the winner of the 2016 U.S. National…

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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: TK

Tickets on sale September 9, 2019 at 10:00 a.m.   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, …

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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

Tickets on sale September 9, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. 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, selling millions of records and collaborating…

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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…

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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

Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the author of the National Book Award finalist Never Caught, the story of Ona Judge, a young enslaved person who risked her life to escape servitude under President George Washington. Named the National Director of the Association of Black Women Historians and the first…

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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…

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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…

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Artist talk: Gail Gaines

Thu, November 14, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Art Department at 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,…

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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

Tickets on sale September 9, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. In convesation with Larry Platt Philadelphia Eagles long-snapper Jon Dorenbos played in two Pro Bowls and had an illustrious 14-year career in the NFL. Also a gifted magician, he was a finalist on the 11th season of America’s Got Talent and…

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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

Tickets on sale September 9, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. 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…

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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…

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