Mon, April 6, 2020 6:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Nausheen Eusuf holds a PhD in English from Boston University and an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. Her poetry has won a Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in The American Scholar, PN Review, Southwest Review, Salmagundi, World Literature Today, and Best American Poetry 2018 &…

Tue, April 7, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Follow us on  Crowdcast  to watch our event with Julia Alvarez live at 7:30 p.m. And be sure to register in advance!  Help us provide digital content during the closure with your  contributions . Named “Woman of the Year” by  Latina  magazine in…

Tue, April 14, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Follow us on  Crowdcast  to watch our event with David Fajgenbaum live at 7:30 p.m. And be sure to register in advance!  Help us provide digital content during the closure with your contributions . A professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and associate…

Thu, April 16, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Dalia Sofer is the author of the National Jewish Book Award finalist The Septembers of Shiraz , a “lyrical and sometimes haunting” ( Miami Herald ) bestselling debut novel about a gem dealer wrongly accused of espionage in the wake of the Iranian revolution. Winner of the PEN/Robert…

Mon, April 20, 2020 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Book Talk: Catherine Littlefield: A Life in Dance  by Sharon Skeel. Join us for this multi-media event celebrating Philadelphia dancer/choreographer Catherine Littlefield (1905-1951).  In her ground-breaking career as a Ziegfeld girl, ballerina, teacher, entrepreneur, and director of…

Tue, April 21, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

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 member of the…

Wed, April 22, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Follow us on  Crowdcast  to watch our event with  Mark Morris and Wesley Stace live at 7:30 p.m. And be sure to register in advance!  Help us provide digital content during the closure with your  contributions . Celebrated dancer and choreographer  Mark…

Thu, April 23, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Eileen , Ottessa Moshfegh ’s “always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious” ( Washington Post ) novel about a young woman trapped between equally bleak work and home lives, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and was shortlisted for the…

Sat, April 25, 2020 11:00 A.M.
Cecil B. Moore Library

Cost: FREE

Crystal Evans author of “Road to Riches Financial Literacy Guide for Teens” invites you to a book signing party at Cecil B. Moore Library. Authors and contributors will present local teachers and leadership with awards for their commitment to promoting sound financial foundations in…

Mon, April 27, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $33/$48 - book included with ticket

Event cancelled. Full refunds have been issued. You do not need to contact us in order to receive a refund.  Two Tickets/One Book A former combat officer in Afghanistan, Rhodes Scholar, and White House Fellow to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Wes Moore is the author of the…

Tue, April 28, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Follow us on  Crowdcast  to watch our event with Frank Wilderson  live at 7:30 p.m. And be sure to register in advance!  Help us provide digital content during the closure with your  contributions . Frank B. Wilderson III spent more than five years in South Africa,…

Wed, April 29, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

The chair of the Department of African American Studies and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the author of the acclaimed book Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul . “One of the most…

Thu, April 30, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Follow us  Crowdcast  to watch our event with Samantha Irby  live at 7:30 p.m. And be sure to register in advance!  Help us provide digital content during the closure with your  contributions . In her popular long-running blog,  bitches gotta eat , Samantha…

Mon, May 4, 2020 6:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Join Monday Poets as we celebrate the publication of new books by Ellen Bass and Eleanor Wilner.  Eleanor Wilner’s books of poetry include maya (1979), Shekhinah (1984), Sarah’s Choice (1989), Otherwise (1993), Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems (1998), The Girl…

Tue, May 5, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Please note: This event has been rescheduled from March 24, 2020. In conversation with Dr. Rachel Valletta, Environmental Scientist at The Franklin Institute and director of all climate change education and outreach programming. A columnist and deputy editor at  New York  magazine,…

Tue, May 5, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

EVENT CANCELLED.

Thu, May 7, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for fiction, Trust Exercise follows a star-crossed suburban teen romance in a 1980s performing arts high school. Susan Choi ’s novels are known for excavating the hidden corners of the human heart and acclaimed for their “nuance, psychological…

Fri, May 8, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $32 - book included with ticket

Event cancelled. Full refunds will be issued in the coming week. You do not need to contact us in order to receive a refund. Signed books are NOT available through author events.

Mon, May 11, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $15.00
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In conversation with co-author Todd London, Head of the MFA Playwriting Program at the New School, School of Drama A theater director in New York for more than 50 years, the legendary André Gregory has collaborated on film adaptations of his productions with the likes of Louis Malle and…

Tue, May 12, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

A reporter for the  New York Times  for 25 years, Jennifer Steinhauer has covered the United States Congress since 2010. Her former assignments include Los Angeles bureau chief and New York City Hall bureau chief. The winner of the Newswoman’s Club of New York Front Page Deadline…