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Alex Mar | Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy

Thu, March 30, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

REGISTER In conversation with Shane Claiborne Seventy Times Seven book trailer Alex Mar is the author of  Seventy Times Seven , a chronicle of the brutal 1985 Indiana murder of an elderly white woman by a fifteen-year-old Black girl.  “A probing examination of the…

Vanessa Hua | Forbidden City

Mon, April 3, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: Free

REGISTER In conversation with Pia Sarkar A former longtime columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle , Vanessa Hua has written about Asia and the diaspora from countries such as China, Burma, and South Korea, and has contributed articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The…

Matthew Desmond | Poverty, by America

Tue, April 4, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $16.50/$38.00 book w/ticket

TICKETS Sociologist Matthew Desmond won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City , the “exhaustively researched, vividly realized and, above all, unignorable” ( The New…

Jennifer Senior | On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory

Mon, April 10, 2023 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

TICKETS In conversation with Mike Sielski A staff writer at The Atlantic, Jennifer Senior won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for “Twenty Years Gone,” an account of a family still reeling from the loss of a loved one on 9/11. Her critically acclaimed 2015 book All Joy and…

Mark Bowden | Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader

Tue, April 11, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: Free

REGISTER ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 12, THE EVENT HAS MOVED TO APRIL 11th. In conversation with Bill Marimow Renowned for his “signature blend of deep reportage and character-driven storytelling ( The New York Times Book Review ),” Mark Bowden is a former national correspondent…

This Book May Make You Do Things!

Thu, April 13, 2023 4:30 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library

Cost: FREE

This Book May Make You Do Things! is a colorful collage picture book that engages both the reader and the listener. The words come alive in this movement adventure that is sure to keep children entertained while reading and exploring just how fun moving can be. The deal is , whatever this book…

Mary Louise Kelly | It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

Thu, April 13, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $16.50 or $37.30 book with ticket

TICKETS In conversation with award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey Matisak Barbara Gohn Day Memorial Lecture An NPR reporter for more than two decades, Mary Louise Kelly currently co-hosts the network’s flagship program  All Things Considered , the most listened-to radio…

Read, Play & Imagine with Thembi Palmer!

Fri, April 14, 2023 3:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Join local author and storyteller Thembi Palmer  in the Children's Department's Story Hour Room on TWO dates this Spring (catch us in the morning on Tuesday March 21st , too) for an hour of fun centered around her new interactive movement adventure book: This Book May Make You Do…

Michelle Zauner | Crying in H Mart

Fri, April 14, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $28-Overflow Room(s)

TICKETS AUDITORIUM SOLD OUT. In conversation with Homay King The lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist of the indie rock outfit Japanese Breakfast, Michelle Zauner has garnered wide acclaim for her shoegaze-inspired pop earworms. These works include  Psychopomp ,  Soft Sounds from…

Neil King Jr. | American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal

Tue, April 18, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: Free

REGISTER In conversation with Signe Wilkinson A Wall Street Journal correspondent for two decades, Neil King Jr. reported from more than 50 countries, served as the newspaper’s chief diplomatic correspondent, national political reporter, and global economics editor in Washington, D.C., and…

David Grann | The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Wed, April 19, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $16.50/$39.50 book w/ticket

TICKETS David Grann is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI , an account of the chilling true-life story of one of the most sinister conspiracies in U.S. history. A finalist for the National Book Award and winner of…

Eileen Myles | a “Working Life”

Tue, April 25, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: Free

REGISTER “Unflinching but also irrepressibly humorous” ( The New York Times Book Review ), Eileen Myles is the celebrated author of nearly two dozen books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays, and performance pieces, including Pathetic Literature, For Now, Chelsea Girls, I Must Be…

Simon Winchester | Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

Wed, April 26, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $16.50

TICKETS Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture Exuding “the comfort and charm of a beloved encyclopedia come to life” ( The New Yorker ), Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of nearly 30 nonfiction books that explore some of the world’s most consequential people, places,…

Chad L. Williams | The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War

Thu, April 27, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: Free

REGISTER In conversation with Mia Bay Chad L. Williams is the author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era , winner of the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians. The Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History…

Camille Dungy | Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden

Mon, May 1, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

REGISTER In conversation with Abra Lee Camille T. Dungy  is the author of  Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History , a debut personal essay collection that was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of four…

VIRTUAL – Sarah Bakewell | Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

Tue, May 2, 2023 5:30 P.M.
VIRTUAL

Cost: Free or $34.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate

TICKETS Acclaimed for “wonderfully readable” fusions of “biography, philosophy, history, cultural analysis and personal reflection” ( The Independent ), Sarah Bakewell is the author of At the Existentialist Café , a rousing and comprehensive account of the 20th…

Dave Barry | Swamp Story: A Novel

Wed, May 3, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $17.50 ticket or $40.00-Book with ticket

TICKETS A “genuine genius” ( The New York Times Book Review ), Dave Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1988. He wrote for the Miami Herald for 30 years, where his column was syndicated in more than 500 newspapers. His dozens of bestselling works of fiction, nonfiction,…

Thomas Byrne Edsall | The Point of No Return: American Democracy at the Crossroads

Thu, May 4, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

REGISTER A weekly opinion columnist for  The New York Times  since 2011,  Thomas Byrne Edsall  is the author of  Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics , written in collaboration with Mary D. Edsall, which was a…

Daniel Torday | The 12th Commandment with Nana Kwame Adjie-Brenyah | Chain Gang All-Stars

Mon, May 8, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: Free or add The 12th Commandment $27.99 and/or Chain Gang All-Stars $27

REGISTER/TICKETS With characters situated in surreal,  Twilight Zone -esque, yet all-too-familiar positions of oppression within our most venerable institutions,  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah ’s 2018 debut fiction collection,  Friday Black , was praised as a…

Hernan Diaz | Trust

Tue, May 9, 2023 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $11-ticket; $24-book with ticket

TICKETS Hernan Diaz ’s bestselling novel  Trust , "a genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City’s elite in the roaring ’20s and Great Depression” ( Vanity Fair ), presents a literary puzzle about the reality-bending power of money. Named one of the…