Mon, March 2, 2020 6:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

David Ebenbach is the author of the poetry collections Some Unimaginable Animal (2019), and We Were the People Who Moved (2015). His other books include The Artist’s Torah (2012), a nonfiction guide to creativity, and the novel Miss Portland (2017). He teaches creative writing and…

Tue, March 3, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

The creators of the immensely popular eponymous blog Tom and Lorenzo , Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez entertain millions of readers a month with their singular perspective on fashion and pop culture. They are frequent guests on Sundance Channel’s All on the Line with Joe Zee and Sirius…

Wed, March 4, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Historian Adam Hochschild’s ten “carefully researched and vigorously told” ( Houston Chronicle ) books include King Leopold’s Ghost , a haunting portrait of Belgium’s 19th-century brutal colonization of the Congo, and To End All Wars , the little-told story of the…

Thu, March 5, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $15.00
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“One of the best sportswriters alive” ( USA Today ), John Feinstein is the author of the bestselling  A Good Walk Spoiled , A Season on the Brink , and Where Nobody Knows Your Name , among almost two dozen other books. He has been a staff columnist for the  Washington Post…

Mon, March 9, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $15.00
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An illustrator, writer, artist, and designer, Maira Kalman is the author of a dozen children’s books, has designed fabric and accessories for Isaac Mizrahi and Kate Spade, created sets for stage productions, shown her work in nearly two dozen galleries, and, with her late husband, made…

Tue, March 10, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $15.00
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Auditorium Sold Out; In-house Simulcast TIckets Available The campaign manager for Barack Obama’s 2008 primary and general election victories, David Plouffe later served on the White House staff as a senior advisor and was largely credited with the 44th president’s 2012 win. He…

Wed, March 11, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

“Boisterous, highly entertaining,” and “altogether original” ( Washington Post ), James McBride is the author of the National Book Award–winning  The Good Lord Bird , in which a young boy born into slavery joins abolitionist John Brown’s doomed crusade.…

Thu, March 12, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $32/$47 - book included with ticket
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Two Tickets/One Book In conversation with Jia Tolentino, New Yorker staff writer and author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion “Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scathing” ( Salon ), activist, historian, and author Rebecca Solnit’s more than…

Tue, March 17, 2020 6:00 P.M.
Zellerbach Theatre | 3680 Walnut Street

Cost: FREE

Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut Street Anne Enright won the Man Booker Prize for The Gathering , “a moving splendor of a novel” ( Boston Globe ) that follows three generations of an Irish family assembled for the funeral of a wayward scion. Acclaimed for their gritty realism, her…

Tue, March 17, 2020 8:00 P.M.
Zellerbach Theatre | 3680 Walnut Street

Cost: $40/$55 - pre-signed book included with ticket
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Two Tickets/One Book Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut Street Hilary Mantel won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize for Wolf Hall , a “darkly brilliant reimagining” ( Boston Globe ) of Thomas Cromwell’s emergence as a power in the court of King Henry…

Wed, March 18, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin was a member of the field team that made the 2004 landmark discovery of Tiktaalik roseae, a 375-million-year-old fossil dubbed the "missing link" between fish and land animals. The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish and The Universe Within , Shubin…

Thu, March 19, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Feminist author and journalist Kate Roiphe is the author of In Praise of Messy Lives , a “daring, vivid, combative” ( Wall Street Journal ) collection of essays that explores everything from Joan Didion to Mad Men . Her other books include The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism ;…

Mon, March 23, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Visual artist Harry Dodge has exhibited work in some of the world’s most prestigious institutions, including the Getty, the Whitney, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Hammer Museum. A professor at the California Institute of the Arts and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Dodge was…

Tue, March 24, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

A columnist and deputy editor at  New York  magazine, David Wallace-Wells has written extensively about the environment and the future of science, including a widely read—and hotly debated—2017 article about worst-case climate change scenarios. He formerly was a National…

Thu, March 26, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

A finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling Station 11 vacillates in time between the world that we know and the dystopic travails of a Shakespearean acting troupe in the years following a global plague. Her other novels include…

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

Cost: $15.00
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Bernardine Evaristo won the 2019 Booker Prize for  Girl, Woman, Other , “a breathtaking symphony of black women’s voices” that explores the confluences of identity and Britain’s African and Caribbean colonial history. Her other works include the books  The…

Tue, March 31, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $15.00
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The head of emerging markets and chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Ruchir Sharma is one of the world’s largest investors. A contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and a contributing editor at Newsweek , he is also the author of the bestselling…

Thu, April 2, 2020 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $15.00
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“Brilliantly readable and revealing” ( Guardian ), James Shapiro’s immersive dives into the world of the Bard of Avon include The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 , A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 , and Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? A professor at…

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

Cost: FREE

A professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and associate director of the university’s Orphan Disease Center, Dr. David Fajgenbaum holds an MBA from the Wharton School, earned a master of science at Oxford, and graduated from Georgetown, where he was a football quarterback.…