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Joshua Bennett | Spoken Word: A Cultural History
Thu, March 13, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Joshua Bennett | Spoken Word: A Cultural History REGISTER In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for the Obamas, at the same White House "Poetry Jam" where Lin-Manuel Miranda declaimed the…
Author Talk: Marcy Norton | The Tame and the Wild
Tue, March 18, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Room 108 Join University of Pennsylvania Historian Marcy Norton , to discuss her dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. Surekha Davies, in Nature , calls it “A meticulous…
Laurie Woolever | Care and Feeding: A Memoir
Tue, March 18, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Laurie Woolever | Care and Feeding: A Memoir REGISTER In Conversation with Reem Kassis In this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and food publications,…
Fawn Weaver | Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest
Wed, March 19, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Fawn Weaver | Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest REGISTER Embark on a captivating journey with Love & Whiskey. New York Times bestselling…
Blake Gopnik | The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
Thu, March 20, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Blake Gopnik | The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream REGISTER Endowed Lecture Sheldon & Jill Bonovitz A fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to…
Samantha Harvey | Orbital
Mon, March 24, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Samantha Harvey | Orbital REGISTER WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of…
Noliwe Rooks | Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children
Wed, March 26, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Noliwe Rooks | Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children REGISTER In Conversation with Benjamin Herold On May 17, 1954 the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education determined that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Heralded…
Peter Wolf | Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses
Thu, March 27, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Peter Wolf | Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses REGISTER Peter Wolf grew up in the Bronx, a child of "fellow travelers" whose artistic inclinations influenced both his love of music and his initial desire to…
Molly Russakoff | Red Tape
Sat, March 29, 2025
2:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Heim Center Room 131/132 Molly Russakoff will read from her self-published novel, Red Tape. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Red Tape is the story of Helen Goldberg, a woman who is overwhelmed by the barrelling changes, greed and consumerism that has taken over…
Dr. Anthony Fauci | On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
Thu, April 3, 2025
8:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Dr. Anthony Fauci | On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service Montgomery Auditorium is now sold out, but tickets are still available for a live simulcast screening in Room 108 at the Parkway Central Library. REGISTER Anthony Fauci is arguably the most…
Katie Kitamura | Audition
Wed, April 9, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Katie Kitamura | Audition: A Novel REGISTER In Conversation with Adam Dalva One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Two people meet…
Dr. Judith Joseph | High Functioning
Thu, April 10, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Dr. Judith Joseph | High Functioning REGISTER The first book to unmask the hidden face of depression. If you look fine on the outside but don't feel fine on the inside, learn five tools to break the cycle of High Functioning Depression and experience…
Jennifer Haigh | Rabbit Moon
Tue, April 15, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Jennifer Haigh | Rabbit Moon REGISTER Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak get a phone call no parent is prepared for: their 22-year-old daughter Lindsey, teaching English in China during a college gap year, has been critically…
Denne Michele Norris | When the Harvest Comes
Thu, April 17, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Denne Michele Norris | When the Harvest Comes REGISTER The venerated Reverend Doctor John Freeman did not raise his son, Davis, to be touched by any man, let alone a white man. He did not raise his son to whisper that man’s name with tenderness. But…
Jaap de Roode | Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves
Tue, April 22, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Jaap de Roode | Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves REGISTER In Conversation with Bethany Brookshire Ages before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of nature's pharmacy to heal…
Rhodri Lewis | Shakespeare's Tragic Art
Wed, April 23, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Rhodri Lewis | Shakespeare's Tragic Art REGISTER In Conversation with Emily Wilson In Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as Shakespeare wrote it—of what drew him toward tragic drama,…
Rebecca Romney | Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Thu, April 24, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Rebecca Romney | Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend REGISTER Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen. She loved that…
Mike Sielski | Magic in the Air
Tue, April 29, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Mike Sielski | Magic in the Air REGISTER In Conversation with Buzz Bissinger The evolution of basketball, and much of the social and cultural change in America, can be traced through one powerful act on the court: the slam dunk. The dunk's history…
Elie Mystal | Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America
Wed, April 30, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Elie Mystal | Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America REGISTER In Bad Law, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution brings his trademark legal acumen and passionate…
Paul Muldoon | Joy in Service on Rue Tagore: Poems
Wed, May 14, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Paul Muldoon | Joy in Service on Rue Tagore: Poems REGISTER Since his 1973 debut, New Weather, Paul Muldoon has created some of the most original and memorable poetry of the past half century. Joy in Service on Rue Tagore sees him writing with the…