Upcoming Events
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Michael E. Mann | Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
Wed, September 27, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
REGISTER The Presidential Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania, climatologist and geophysicist Michael E. Mann has greatly contributed to science’s understanding of humanity’s 1,000-year role…
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich | Lidia's From Our Family Table to Yours: More Than 100 Recipes Made with Love for All Occasions
Thu, September 28, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
TICKETS In conversation with Heather Marold Thomason, Butcher & Founder of Primal Supply “The cookbook author who changed the way Americans cook Italian food” ( The New York Times ), Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is the author of 15 beloved culinary guides, as well a 2019…
Malcolm Jenkins | What Winners Won't Tell You: Lessons from a Legendary Defender
Tue, October 3, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
TICKETS In conversation with Michael Eric Dyson One of pro football’s all-time defensive greats, Malcolm Jenkins won Super Bowls with the Philadelphia Eagles and New Orleans Saints, and appeared in three Pro Bowls. He won the prestigious Jim Thorpe Award as a senior at the Ohio State…
Raven Society Happy Hour
Wed, October 4, 2023
6:00 P.M.
Kite & Key 1838 Callowhill Street
Raven Society members are invited to join us for a Happy Hour and the first round's on us! At 7:15 p.m. we'll walk to the Free Library (and claim our reserved seats) for Sarah Cooper's conversation with Philly comedian Chanel Ali. Your ticket for the author event must be purchased in…
Sarah Cooper | Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation
Wed, October 4, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
TICKETS In conversation with comedian Chanel Ali Referred to by Amy Schumer as “the funniest, smartest person I know,” Sarah Cooper is best known for her hilarious lip-syncing videos of Donald Trump sound bites. The author of 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings and How to…
Safiya Sinclair | How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
Thu, October 5, 2023
1:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
REGISTER In conversation with Philadelphia Poet Laureate Airea D Matthews Hailed by Tara Westover as “Dazzling. Potent Vital. A light shining on the path of self-deliverance,” Safiya Sinclair ’s memoir How to Say Babylon recounts her struggle to break…
Siddhartha Mukherjee | The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Thu, October 5, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
TICKETS In conversation with Carl H. June, MD, Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania Siddhartha Mukherjee won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for The Emperor of All Maladies , a “meticulously researched, panoramic history” ( The…
Author Visit: Thom Nickels
Tue, October 10, 2023
5:00 P.M.
Wynnefield Library
Join us for a conversation with award winning journalist and author, Thom Nickels, to discuss his newest book, "Death in Philadelphia". When the body of a young female jogger was found at the bottom of a stairwell near Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square in the early morning hours…
Ayana Mathis | The Unsettled: A Novel
Tue, October 10, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
REGISTER In conversation with Asali Solomon Ayana Mathis is the author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie , “a remarkable page-turner of a novel” ( Chicago Tribune ) that follows the harrowing fortunes of a 15-year-old from Georgia to Philadelphia during the Great Migration. A New York…
Drew Gilpin Faust | Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
Wed, October 11, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
TICKETS In conversation with Rev. Dr. Jonathan Lee Walton A postwar coming-of-age memoir about life in a conservative family in segregated Virginia, Drew Gilpin Faust ’s Necessary Trouble recounts her break from the racial and gender norms of the era and the means by which her involvement…
Angus Deaton | Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
Thu, October 12, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
TICKETS In conversation with Binyamin Appelbaum Angus Deaton won the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics for his study of poverty, consumption, and welfare. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus and Senior Scholar at Princeton University, he is a fellow of…
Rachel Maddow | Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
Sun, October 15, 2023
4:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
AUDITORIUM SOLD OUT! IN-LIBRARY SIMULCAST TICKET You will watch the event in a room at the library. Rachel Maddow is host of the Emmy Award–winning The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, as well as the #1 New York Times bestselling author…
Author Talk: Lynn Levin, House Parties: Short Stories
Mon, October 16, 2023
4:30 P.M.
Philadelphia City Institute
Author Lynn Levin will present her collection of short stories, House Parties . The 20 stories in House Parties present a broad range of characters who ardently, foolishly, and often with weird invention relentlessly spar with their fates. Philadelphia Magazine…
29th Season of Monday Poets Continues!
Mon, October 16, 2023
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Join us as we kick off one the longest continously running programs at FLP! Monday Poets 29th season and this year we are back onsite and the readings will take place in the Literature Department on the second floor. Please mark your calendars for the third Monday of each month to…
Viet Thanh Nguyen | A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
Mon, October 16, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
TICKETS In conversation with Don Lee Referred to by Joyce Carol Oates in The New Yorker as “one of our great chroniclers of displacement,” Viet Thanh Nguyen won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Sympathizer , the tale of a South Vietnamese army captain who immigrates…
Martin Baron | Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post
Tue, October 17, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
TICKETS Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture In conversation with David Boardman In Collision of Power , Martin Baron tells the inside story of the monumental power struggle between the venerable newspaper The Washington Post , its demanding and ultra-wealthy owner Jeff Bezos,…
Author Talk: Ann deForest, Sterling Duns and Nathaniel Popkin
Wed, October 18, 2023
6:30 P.M.
Falls of Schuylkill Library
Ann deForest 's writing often centers on the resonance of place. Her short stories, essays, and award-winning poems have appeared most recently in Quarter after Eight , Gyroscope Review, and Royal Beauty , a collection of ekphrastic writing. She is the editor of Ways of Walking ,…
Nikhil Goyal | Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
Thu, October 19, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
REGISTER In conversation with author and Pennsylvania State Senator, Nikil Saval In Live to See the Day , Nikhil Goyal offers a searing portrait of three Puerto Rican children struggling to survive in Philadelphia’s impoverished Kensington neighborhood. Drawing on nearly a decade of…
David Zucker | Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane
Mon, October 23, 2023
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
TICKETS In conversation with comedian and author James "Mur" Murray Surely You Can’t Be Serious is a behind-the-scenes making-of oral history of the 1980 comedy classic Airplane! , as told by its equally legendary writers and directors David Zucker , Jim Abrahams, and…
Author Talk: Thom Nickels, Death in Philadelphia: The Murder of Kimberly Ernest
Tue, October 24, 2023
5:30 P.M.
Philadelphia City Institute
Author Thom Nickels will present his book, Death in Philadelphia: The Murder of Kimberly Ernest , which is a reporter's behind-the-scenes account of the investigation of the 1995 Center City jogger murder. Thom Nickels is an award winning journalist and the author of sixteen…