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Care Crisis: A Time Capsule of Art & Curating During a Pandemic
Mon, March 8, 2021
9:00 A.M.
Telephone
Enforced social isolation resulting from the pandemic threatens to leave local seniors more disconnected than ever before. To help combat the potential stress of this isolation, Parkway Central Library’s Senior Services and ART-LIT departments have collaborated with Moore College of Art…
Care Crisis: A Time Capsule of Art & Curating During a Pandemic
Mon, March 15, 2021
9:00 A.M.
Telephone
Enforced social isolation resulting from the pandemic threatens to leave local seniors more disconnected than ever before. To help combat the potential stress of this isolation, Parkway Central Library’s Senior Services and ART-LIT departments have collaborated with Moore College of Art…
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 - Quiara Alegría Hudes | My Broken Language
Wed, April 7, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Quiara Alegría Hudes won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Water by the Spoonful , a story of “shimmering, sustaining warmth” ( New York Times ) that follows an Iraq War veteran struggling for purchase after returning home. She also…
Making Her Mark Spotlight: Poetry and Movement Building | Digital Readings
Thu, April 8, 2021
6:30 P.M.
Zoom
Live readings of historical and contemporary poetry that center movement building. Movements to expand voting rights have always used spoken word and poetry as modes of expression and connection. Join staff from the Free Library's Division of Cultural and Civic Engagement and the Literature…
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…
VIRTUAL - Phillip Lopate | The Golden Age of the American Essay: 1945-1970
Thu, April 15, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with novelist, screenwriter, and creative writing teacher Max Apple Phillip Lopate’s “observant, elegiac, and far-reaching” ( New York Times ) essay collections include Bachelorhood , Against Joie de Vivre , and Portrait Inside My Head . His…
VIRTUAL - Natalie Diaz | Postcolonial Love Poem with Denice Frohman
Wed, April 21, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Natalie Diaz is the author of When My Brother Was an Aztec , an “ambitious . . . beautiful” ( New York Times ) American Book Award–winning poetry collection that ruminates on her sibling’s drug addiction. A former professional basketball player, an enrolled…