Upcoming Events
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Colin Hamilton | The Discarded
Thu, November 21, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Colin Hamilton | The Discarded REGISTER A dazzling array of metafictions, Colin Hamilton’s The Discarded focuses on the lonely work of a solitary librarian assigned to the discard room. This hidden basement space is piled high with books purged from the…
The Intertextual Self: New Approaches to the Memoir
Thu, December 5, 2024
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents The Intertextual Self: New Approaches to the Memoir REGISTER Memoirists most often focus on the authenticity of their own voice and experience, and how best to render on the page the intersection of memory and current insight. This traditional approach creates…
Author Talk: Anna Engels
Tue, December 10, 2024
5:30 P.M.
Falls of Schuylkill Library
Join local author and teacher Anna Engels for a short reading from her book A Fool for an Heir , followed by a look at her process as a writer, and an audience Q&A. Engels grew up in Latvia and currently teaches at Villanova University. A Fool for an Heir is a fictionalized biography…
The Dehumanization of Jews in Russian and Soviet Cartoons
Mon, December 16, 2024
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Room 108 In this evening’s talk Bob Weinberg of Swarthmore College will explore anti-Jewish visual imagery from the late tsarist era to the early years of the Soviet Union to reveal popular and official attitudes toward and perceptions of Russian and Soviet Jewry. Bob Weinberg is the…
Imagine More Story Adventures with Thembi Palmer
Sat, December 21, 2024
12:30 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library
Join the ever amazing Thembi Palmer of Imagine More: Story Adventures for a fantastic story time! Thembi Palmer is committed to promoting literacy by developing a love of reading and books in young children, pre-K through 4th grade. She collaborates with Philadelphia schools, libraries, museums,…
Nathalie Anderson & Lisa Sewell
Thu, January 23, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Nathalie Anderson & Lisa Sewell have been friends in poetry for over twenty-five years, sharing manuscripts, and working together to coordinate events at Swarthmore (where Anderson directed the program in Creative Writing before her recent retirement) and at Villanova (where Sewell…
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow Author Visit
Tue, February 25, 2025
10:30 A.M.
Parkway Central Library
Join us for a special visit with Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow. Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow is a Philadelphia-based author of popular educator-recommended children’s books. She is a two-time winner of the Muslim Bookstagram picture book award, and she has earned the prestigious Walter,…