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IN-PERSON - Vladimir Sorokin and Max Lawton | Telluria and Their Four Hearts
Mon, October 3, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $16.50
TICKETS In conversation with Mark Krotov, publisher and editor of n+1 Vladimir Sorokin is one of contemporary Russian literature’s most popular writers. Banned by the Soviet Union, his numerous novels include The Queue , The Blizzard , Day of the…
IN PERSON - Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan | Mad Honey
Wed, October 5, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $37.95-book with ticket; 33.00 book with ticket--in-library simulcast
TICKETS In conversation with Jo Piazza A “quite prescient and worthwhile” writer who “understands her characters inside and out” ( The New York Times Book Review ), Jodi Picoult has authored many No. 1 bestsellers that are renowned for combining controversial…
IN-PERSON - Yiyun Li | The Book of Goose with Elizabeth McCracken | The Hero of this Book
Thu, October 6, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
TICKETS Yiyun Li ’s “remarkable” ( The Washington Post ) debut fiction collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers , won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Guardian First Book Award. Her other work includes the…
IN-PERSON - Celeste Ng | Our Missing Hearts
Fri, October 7, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Academy of Natural Sciences | 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Cost: $16.50 ticket or $36.30 book with ticket
TICKETS Venue: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway In conversation with Anthony Marra Writing “with the wisdom of a hundred lives lived” ( Harper’s Bazaar ), Celeste Ng is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling…
IN-PERSON - Orhan Pamuk | Nights of Plague
Thu, October 20, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $16.50 ticket or $41.90 book with ticket
TICKETS In conversation with Laura McGrath, Assistant Professor of English at Temple University The winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk “is one of the great novelists of his generation” (The Washington Post). Characterized by…
VIRTUAL - John Banville | The Singularities
Fri, November 4, 2022
12:00 P.M.
VIRTUAL
Cost: $11-virtual ticket; $34-virtual ticket with book;
TICKETS “The heir to Nabokov” ( The Sunday Telegraph ), Irish novelist John Banville won the Man Booker Prize for The Sea , a story of loss and the fickle nature of memory. His many other novels include The Book of Evidence, Mrs. Osmond, The Untouchable,…