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VIRTUAL - Hala Alyan | The Arsonists’ City
Tue, March 16, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Alix Gerz, Vice President of Communications, Free Library of Philadelphia Hala Alyan’s novel Salt Houses , a “heart-wrenching, lyrical and timely” ( Dallas Morning News ) study of three generations in a Palestinian family, won the…
VIRTUAL - Viet Thanh Nguyen | The Committed
Tue, March 23, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $5.00-Ticket or $32.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE In conversation with Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh , The Queen of the Night , and How To Write An Autobiographical Novel , and associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College Viet Thanh Nguyen won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for …
VIRTUAL - Book Discussion Group
Thu, March 25, 2021
2:00 P.M.
Workplace
at
Parkway Central Library
This month we will be talking about Middlemarch: A Study in Provincial Life , by George Eliot . Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is exactly what it claims. Its multiple plots center around the inhabitants of a fictitious Midlands town and their evolving relationships…
Virtual - Blake Bailey | Philip Roth: The Biography
Mon, April 12, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Blake Bailey is acclaimed for his “meticulously researched, judicious, and critically perceptive” ( Boston Globe ) biographies of some of the 20th century’s most complicated writers, including John Cheever, Charles Jackson, and Richard Yates. His many honors…