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Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld | The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics
Tue, May 21, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
REGISTER In conversation with author and Pennsylvania State Senator, Nikil Saval In The Hollow Parties , Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld present a comprehensive history of the rise of American mass party politics through the Jacksonian era up through the years of Barack Obama to the…
MK Asante | Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
Thu, May 23, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
REGISTER In conversation with Molefi Kete Asante MK Asante is a writer, filmmaker, and hip-hop artist, and recipient of the Langston Hughes Award. His books include It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop , the poetry collection Like Water Running Off My Back , and the bestselling…
Omar Tyree| Control
Fri, May 24, 2024
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
REGISTER In conversation with Kimberly S. Reed Omar Tyree is a New York Times bestselling author, a 2001 NAACP Image Award recipient for Outstanding Literature in Fiction, and a 2006 Phillis Wheatley Literary Award Winner for Body of Work in Urban Fiction. He has been cited in…
Emma Copley Eisenberg | Housemates: A Novel
Tue, May 28, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
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REGISTER In conversation with Jennifer Wilson Emma Copley Eisenberg is the author of The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia , the chronicle of a long-reverberating 1980 double murder in a remote area of West Virginia. A New York Times…
Meet Kah Yangni! Illustrator Visit
Mon, June 3, 2024
11:15 A.M.
Philadelphia City Institute
Cost: FREE
Join us for a special visit with local artist and children's book illustrator Kah Yangni, who will share their books and talk about their creative process! Kah is the illustrator of The Making of Butterflies and Not He or She, I'm Me, a 2024 Stonewall Honor Book . Their art can be…
Meet Kah Yangni! Illustrator Visit
Mon, June 3, 2024
12:15 P.M.
Independence Library
Cost: FREE
Join us for a special visit with local artist and children's book illustrator Kah Yangni, who will share their books and talk about their creative process! Kah is the illustrator of The Making of Butterflies and Not He or She, I'm Me, a 2024 Stonewall Honor Book . Their art can be…
Meet Kah Yangni! Illustrator Visit
Tue, June 4, 2024
10:30 A.M.
Haverford Library
Cost: FREE
Join us for a special visit with local artist and children's book illustrator Kah Yangni, who will share their books and talk about their creative process! Kah is the illustrator of The Making of Butterflies and Not He or She, I'm Me, a 2024 Stonewall Honor Book . Their art can be…
Meet Kah Yangni! Illustrator Visit
Tue, June 4, 2024
12:30 P.M.
Walnut Street West Library
Cost: FREE
Join us for a special visit with local artist and children's book illustrator Kah Yangni, who will share their books and talk about their creative process! Kah is the illustrator of The Making of Butterflies and Not He or She, I'm Me, a 2024 Stonewall Honor Book . Their art can be…
Meet Kah Yangni! Illustrator Visit
Tue, June 4, 2024
4:00 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library
Cost: FREE
Join us for a special visit with local artist and children's book illustrator Kah Yangni, who will share their books and talk about their creative process! Kah is the illustrator of The Making of Butterflies and Not He or She, I'm Me, a 2024 Stonewall Honor Book . Their art can be…
Mark Harman (Centenary Celebration) | Kafka: Selected Stories
Tue, June 4, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
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REGISTER Mark Harman gained public recognition for his 1998 translation of Franz Kafka's The Castle , for which he won the Lois Roth Award of the Modern Language Association. Professor Emeritus of German and English at Elizabethtown College, he has translated some of…
Garth Risk Hallberg | The Second Coming: A Novel
Wed, June 5, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
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REGISTER A panoramic pastiche of figures who are forever changed in the darkness of an infamous 1977 power blackout, Garth Risk Hallberg’s debut novel City on Fire was a New York Times bestseller, named a best book of 2015 by a slew of publications, and…
Julian Randall | The Dead Don’t Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit
Thu, June 6, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
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REGISTER In conversation with Kirwyn Sutherland Julian Randall is the author of the poetry collection Refuse , winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He was a contributor to the no. 1 New York Times bestseller Black Boy…
Rev. William J. Barber II | White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
Mon, June 10, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO ATTEND THIS EVENT In conversation with Matthew Desmond A Protestant minister, professor, social activist, and founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, Reverend William J. Barber II is president…
Steven Rowley | The Guncle Abroad
Mon, June 17, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
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REGISTER In conversation with Katie Fulton Steven Rowley is the author of the bestselling novel The Guncle, the “wise and hilarious” ( People ) story of a has-been gay sitcom star who steps up to help his niece and nephew in the aftermath of a family loss. A …
Joseph Earl Thomas | God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer: A Novel with John Vercher | Devil is Fine: A Novel
Wed, June 19, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
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REGISTER Joseph Earl Thomas “constructed a sort of alchemy on the page” ( The New York Times Book Review ) with his first book Sink , a coming-of-age memoir that chronicles the author’s escape from an upbringing of deprivation to a geek culture in…
Ari Berman | Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It
Thu, June 20, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
REGISTER In conversation with Neil Makhija The national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center, Ari Berman is the author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America , a…
Tom McGrath | Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
Tue, June 25, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
REGISTER In conversation with Will Bunch, National Columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer The former editor-in-chief of Philadelphia magazine, Tom McGrath also served as chief content officer of Metro Corp., the parent company of Philadelphia and Boston magazines between 2010 and 2020. During this…