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One Book, One Philadelphia: True Biz Discussion
Thu, May 16, 2024
6:00 P.M.
Haddington Library
Join the Haddington Library for a discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection. True Biz is a fast-moving novel following students of the fictional River Valley School for the Deaf, "a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil…
One Book, One Philadelphia: True Biz Discussion
Sat, May 18, 2024
3:00 P.M.
Walnut Street West Library
Join the Walnut Street West Library for a discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection. True Biz is a fast-moving novel following students of the fictional River Valley School for the Deaf, "a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability…
One Book, One Philadelphia: True Biz Discussion
Mon, May 20, 2024
5:00 P.M.
Oak Lane Library
Join the Oak Lane Library for a discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection. True Biz is a fast-moving novel following students of the fictional River Valley School for the Deaf, "a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil…
One Book, One Philadelphia: True Biz Discussion
Mon, May 20, 2024
5:30 P.M.
Fox Chase Library
Join the Fox Chase Library for a discussion of the One Book, One Philadelphia selection. True Biz is a fast-moving novel following students of the fictional River Valley School for the Deaf, "a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil…
One Book, One Philadelphia Finale Celebration: A Conversation with Sara Nović and Ilya Kaminsky
Wed, May 22, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Free
Join us at 7:30 p.m. at the Parkway Central Library for a celebration to conclude the One Book, One Philadelphia 2024 season, featuring a conversation between True Biz author Sara Nović and poet Ilya Kaminsky, author of 2019 National Book Award finalist Deaf Republic . Books will be…
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
Cost: Pay What You Wish
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…
Authors and Their Typewriters: Octavia Butler
Now through Fri, May 31, 2024
5:00 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Visit the Literature Department on the 2nd floor of Parkway Central to learn about author Octavia Butler and type on the same model of typewriter she used, an Olivetti Studio 46 . You can also check out this booklist to explore all things Octavia. The typewriter is on loan from Philly…
Mark Harman (Centenary Celebration) | Kafka: Selected Stories
Tue, June 4, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
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
Cost: Pay What You Wish
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
Cost: Pay What You Wish
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…
“A Piece of Her Mind: Dorothy Parker & The World She Lived In”
Fri, June 7, 2024
11:00 A.M.
Senior Services
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Parkway Central Library
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) had a special gift for puncturing male pomposity and calling out male stupidity. A noted poet, journalist and wit, Parker was a charter member of New York’s Algonquin Round Table in the 1920s and 30s. Her friends, rivals and sparring partners including Harpo…
Mr. Los Angeles: "Raymond Chandler & His World"
Fri, June 14, 2024
11:00 A.M.
Senior Services
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Parkway Central Library
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was one of the greatest mystery writers that America ever produced. His eight classic novels and the six movies that followed brought the dark, disturbing underbelly of Los Angeles fully alive in a way that no other writer has been able to match. His…
Samuel R. Delany | Pride Month: How Science Fiction Dances to the Music of Time
Sat, June 15, 2024
3:30 P.M.
Music Department
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Parkway Central Library
“A visionary novelist & a revolutionary chronicler of gay life” ( The New Yorker ), Samuel R. Delany speaks with Music Department library trainee & Hollywood indie film composer Mark Inchoco on the intersections between science fiction & music. Hear how great…
Steven Rowley | The Guncle Abroad
Mon, June 17, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Pay What You Wish
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 …
Rachel Cusk | Parade: A Novel
Tue, June 18, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $17.50 Auditorium
TICKETS In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning edition. Rachel Cusk is the author of the Outline trilogy, a “brilliant, insightful” ( The Guardian ) series of experimental autobiographical novels that won wide critical acclaim and popular…
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
Cost: Pay What You Wish
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…
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…