Tagged Literature
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss Jeffrey Eugenides' "The Marriage Plot". To register and borrow a copy of the book, please see Mr. Kessler in the Humanities Department, or call 215-685-0513. Most…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss Jeffrey Eugenides' "The Marriage Plot". To register and borrow a copy of the book, please see Mr. Kessler in the Humanities Department, or call…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss Joe Hill's "NOS4A2". To register and borrow a copy of the book, please see Mr. Kessler in the Humanities Department, or call 215-685-0513. Most sessions will take…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss Joe Hill's "NOS4A2". To register and borrow a copy of the book, please see Mr. Kessler in the Humanities Department, or call 215-685-0513. Most…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss Joe Hill's "NOS4A2". To register and borrow a copy of the book, please see Mr. Kessler in the Humanities Department, or call 215-685-0513. Most…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss Yann Martel's "The Life of Pi". This program includes an audio lecture from The Skeptic's Guide to Great Books and a film screening. To register and borrow a copy of the…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss Yann Martel's "The Life of Pi". This program includes an audio lecture from The Skeptic's Guide to Great Books and a film screening. To register and…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss Art Spiegelman's powerful graphic novel "Maus". To register and borrow a copy of the book, please see Mr. Kessler in the Humanities Department, or…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss Art Spiegelman's powerful graphic novel "Maus". To register and borrow a copy of the book, please see Mr. Kessler in the Humanities Department, or call 215-685-0513.…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss John LeCarre's "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold". This program includes an audio lecture from The Skeptic's Guide to Great Books and a film screening.…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss John LeCarre's "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold". This program includes an audio lecture from The Skeptic's Guide to Great Books and a film screening. To register and…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss P. D. Jame's "Death of an Expert Witness". This program includes an audio lecture from The Skeptic's Guide to Great Books and a film screening. To…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss P. D. Jame's "Death of an Expert Witness". This program includes an audio lecture from The Skeptic's Guide to Great Books and a film screening. To register and borrow a copy…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss Markus Zuzak's "The Book Thief". This program includes an audio lecture from The Skeptic's Guide to Great Books and a film screening. To register and borrow a copy of the…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss Markus Zuzak's "The Book Thief". This program includes an audio lecture from The Skeptic's Guide to Great Books and a film screening. To register and…
Ntozake Shange | Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems
“Extraordinary and wonderful” ( New York Times ), Ntozake Shange wrote the Broadway-staged Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf , the groundbreaking prose poem/theater…
Jed Perl | Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940
Buy tickets here on Tuesday, August 22nd at 10 AM! “Few people write about art as beautifully” ( Wall Street Journal ) as Jed Perl, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and the former 20-year art critic for…
Bill McKibben | Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance
Bill McKibben gave one of the earliest cautions about global warming with his 1989 book The End of Nature . His myriad other bestselling books about the environment include Deep Economy, Eaarth , and Oil and Honey , a call to arms…
Walter Isaacson | Leonardo da Vinci
Buy tickets here on Tuesday, August 22nd at 10 AM! Released just weeks after the tech guru’s death, Walter Isaacson’s “staggering” ( The New York Times ) portrait of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs instantly became…
Book Discussion Group
Join us for a book discussion. This month we'll discuss Mikhail Bulgakov's's "The Master and Margarita". This program includes an audio lecture from The Skeptic's Guide to Great Books and a film…
Poetry in Translation
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Poetry - Novels in Verse
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Poetry - Great Contemporary Poetry
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Lawrence Wright | The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
In conversation with Dick Polman, "Writer in Residence" at the University of Pennsylvania, and national political columnist at WHYY's Newsworks.org A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker , Lawrence Wright won the Pulitzer Prize for…
Kevin Hearne | Besieged with Chuck Wendig | Star Wars: The Aftermath Trilogy and Fran Wilde | Updraft
In conversation with Dena Heilik, Department Head of Philbrick Hall, the fiction department of the Central Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Kevin Hearne is the author of the New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles,…
Zinzi Clemmons | What We Lose
A cofounder and former publisher of Apogee Journal and a contributing editor for Literary Hub , Zinzi Clemmons has had work published in a variety of literary magazines, including Zoetrope: All Story, The Paris Review Daily , and…
Douglas Brunt | Trophy Son in conversation with Megyn Kelly
In conversation with Megyn Kelly, host of Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly Ghosts of Manhattan , Douglas Brunt’s New York Times bestselling debut novel about a flawed but highflying Bear Stearns bond trader, took “a smart shot at the…
Richard Russo | Everybody’s Fool and Trajectory
Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Empire Falls , Richard Russo is acclaimed for capturing the “foolishness of this lonely world, but also the humor, friendship and love that abide” ( San Francisco Chronicle ). His many…
Patricia Lockwood | Priestdaddy: A Memoir
Patricia Lockwood, “The Poet Laureate of Twitter” (unofficial), is the author of 2014’s groundbreaking Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals , a book of obscene, angry, funny verse that “is unforgettable, literally: once read, it cannot…
Yaa Gyasi | Homegoing with Kei Miller | Augustown
Yaa Gyasi’s breakout debut novel Homegoing , a multigenerational tale that “brims with compassion” ( NPR Books ), follows two half-sisters on opposite sides of the 18th-century Ghanaian slave trade and their descendants. It was a New…
Janet Benton | Lilli de Jong
In conversation with Sam Katz, civic entrepreneur and executive producer of History Making Productions. Janet Benton’s writing has appeared in some of America’s most prestigious periodicals and literary journals, including The New York…
Joshua Ferris | The Dinner Party with Jim Shepard | The World to Come
Then We Came to the End , Joshua Ferris ’s “truly affecting novel about work, trust, love, and loneliness” (Seattle Times), won the 2008 PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His other…
Dennis Lehane | Since We Fell
Dennis Lehane’s “raw, harrowing, and unsentimental” ( Washington Post Book World ) bestselling crime novels include Mystic River; Shutter Island; Gone, Baby, Gone ; and Live by Night , all of which have been adapted into critically…
Colm Tóibín | House of Names
“His generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” ( Los Angeles Times ), Colm Tóibín is the author of an impressive list of novels, short stories, essays, plays, poetry, and criticism. His novels The…
China Miéville | October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
In conversation with Joel Nichols, Data Strategy & Evaluation Administrator, Strategic Initiatives Acclaimed for his “unparalleled inventiveness” ( Chicago Tribune ), China Miéville is the author of a score of fantasy novels, comics,…
Jo Nesbø | The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel
Starring a hard-bitten and self-destructive maverick Oslo police detective, Jo Nesbø’s “maddeningly addictive” ( Vanity Fair ) Harry Hole novels have sold more than 23 million copies and have been translated into more than 50 languages.…
Richard Ford | Between Them: Remembering My Parents
In conversation with Andy Kahan, Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams director of author events. “A talent as strong and varied as American fiction has to offer" ( The New York Review of Books ), Richard Ford won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize and…
Elizabeth Strout | Anything Is Possible*
In conversation with Laura Kovacs Possessed of “a magnificent gift for humanizing characters,” ( San Francisco Chronicle ), Elizabeth Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for the 2008 bestseller Olive Kitteridge , a linked collection of…
Anthony Doerr | All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for All the Light We Cannot See , “a beautiful, daring, heartbreaking, oddly joyous novel” ( Seattle Times ) about a blind French girl and a German boy navigating the carnage of World War II.…
Lauren Grodstein | Our Short History with Tom McAllister | The Young Widower's Handbook
Employing “agile prose and clever observations” ( New York Times Book Review ), Lauren Grodstein is the author of four novels, including the New York Times bestseller A Friend of the Family and the Washington Post Book of the Year The…
Colum McCann | Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
In conversation with Jason Freeman Colum McCann won the 2009 National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin , a tale of 1970s New Yorkers marveling at a tightrope walker’s death-defying feats. His other novels include Song Dogs, This…
Roxane Gay | Difficult Women
Roxane Gay’s “commanding debut” ( The New Yorker ) novel An Untamed State , the tale of a willful Haitian kidnap victim, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of the acclaimed essay collection…
Richard Holmes | This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
“Almost unfairly gifted both as a writer of living, luminous prose and as a tireless researcher” ( Time ), Richard Holmes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a knight in the Order of the…
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