One Book, One Philadelphia Kick-Off Lecture with Dave Eggers
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Dave Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s and the author of the bestselling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. His latest book, What Is the What, is the 2008 One Book, One Philadelphia featured reading selection. The collaboratively novelized autobiography of Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng, What Is the What has been hailed by the New York Times as “an eloquent testimony to the power of storytelling” and “an extraordinary work of witness, and of art.”
Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine Street (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-567-4341