Cost: FREE

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 Joeville, the fictional city of her birth. The story takes place in a very-near-future (maybe a couple of months from now), and follows Helen's travails as she tries to navigate a path forward for herself, her anorexic daughter and indigent mother.

Molly Russakoff has been an active member of the city's literary and small business communities since the late 1970s. Her poems have been published in The Paris Review, American Poetry Review and other magazines. She received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts for poetry in 1993.

She co-owns Molly's Books & Records in South Philly's Italian Market and recently facilitated the library's Novels in Progress reading series.