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The Dehumanization of Jews in Russian and Soviet Cartoons

On December 16 at 6:00 p.m. at Parkway Central Library , the Social Science and History Department will host Bob Weinberg, Professor of History and International Relations at Swarthmore College. Weinberg is the author of the new book…

A Smithsonian Curator on the Lead-Up to the U.S. Civil War

On Thursday, October 10 , in the Fourth Floor Skyline Room at Parkway Central Library , the Social Science and History Department will host Jon Grinspan , curator of political history at the Smithsonian Institution’s National…

Author of Unique Local History to Speak at the Free Library

On Friday, October 4 at 2:00 p.m. , the Social Science and History Department will host Antje Ulrike Mattheus , the author of a unique book on Philadelphia history. Cresheim Farm: An American History of Conquest,…

Hispanic Heritage Month in the Social Science and History Department

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Social Science and History Department at Parkway Central Library is excited to host three programs covering different aspects of the Hispanic-American experience. The first program…

Announcing the 2024–2025 Author Series

After a milestone 30th anniversary season, we are thrilled to announce the 2024–2025 Author Events series will kick off on September 11, brought to you by the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation! Upcoming Fall Author Series…

Author Event: The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration

Philadelphia has the highest incarceration rate of any city in Pennsylvania, and the most locked-up census tracts in North Philadelphia have 17 times as many people behind bars as census tracts in Center City, according to the Prison…

Join Us for the One Book, One Philadelphia Finale Celebration

The 2024 One Book, One Philadelphia season is coming to a close with an exciting finale event ! Join True Biz author Sara Nović and poet Ilya Kaminsky — author of 2019 National Book Award finalist …

Author Events Upcoming Spring and Summer Highlights

The Free Library’s Author Events program recently added numerous events to its spring and summer lineups. Here are ten events we’re excited about — along with some accompanying media: Karen…

19th Century True Crime at the Free Library

From classics like In Cold Blood and Helter Skelter to recent bestsellers like In Light of All Darkness and If You Tell , readers love true crime. In addition to generating chills and thrills, a good true crime account sheds light on…

Compelling Black Stories from the Free Library Podcast

The Free Library's podcast archive dates back more than 25 years and features scores of author talks to help you commemorate, celebrate, and reflect on Black History Month . Even in just this last year, we’ve hosted an…

Upcoming Author Events for Winter/Spring 2024

As we dash into 2024, the Free Library is looking forward to another season of its venerable Author Events series. Brave the cold and warm up with a red-hot slate of talks by some of today’s leading novelists, memoirists,…

10 Free Library Podcast Episodes Perfect for Thanksgiving

In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, we present a curated collection of podcasts from our Author Events series archive. Thanksgiving is often traditionally associated with America’s indigenous peoples, but what is the real…

Elevate Your Writing: 10 Author Events Podcasts Perfect for NaNoWriMo

November is National Novel Writing Month. That’s right, the goal is to write a whole novel in a month. For more information about National Novel Writing Month, check out NaNoWriMo.org . While the very idea of writing a whole…

5 Author Events To Catch This September

While it’s a bit of a bummer that summer is drawing to a close, we’re happy to welcome in some cooler weather alongside a brisk fall season of Free Library Author Events. And what a lineup we have! Let’s take an autumn…

Enjoy These Free Library Author Events Podcast "Beach Reads"

It’s summer, and whether you’re lying in a hammock, soaking up the sun at the beach, taking a road trip, or — and we hope this isn’t the case — taking SEPTA to work, it’s the perfect time of year to…

Check Out Our Immigrant Heritage Month Author Events YouTube Playlist

June is Immigrant Heritage Month , and you can celebrate the extraordinary, far-reaching, and diverse contributions immigrants have woven into the American tapestry through this curated video playlist on our author…

The Big Send Off of One Book, One Philadelphia

Thursday, June 22 marks the finale of One Book, One Philadelphia and we over here in the One Book office are working up the nerve to say goodbye to this incredible season of events. After nine weeks of community workshops,…

Bryn Ziegler's Don’t Look Into The Abyss and Other Philadelphia Comics

The Art Department is thrilled to host the launch of Don’t Look Into The Abyss , a new graphic novel illustrated and published by Bryn Ziegler . Ziegler is a book and comic artist specializing in intimate,…

Honoring Juneteenth at the Free Library

Honor Juneteenth with the Free Library of Philadelphia! This year, we celebrate Juneteenth for the third time as a federal holiday, but it has been an important celebration for nearly 200 years! Juneteenth is the oldest known…

LGBTQ+ Authors on the Free Library Podcast

June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month and the Free Library’s Author Events program has an extensive archive of podcasts and videos to help you celebrate a diverse range of writers working across a wide array of topics and fields. Before we…

Omar Tyree | Flyy Girl

The Author Events Series presents Omar Tyree | Flyy Girl REGISTER The bestselling urban classic novel about a young woman coming of age in the late 1980s. Tracy Ellison, a young knockout with tall hair and attitude, is living life as…

Paul Muldoon | Joy in Service on Rue Tagore: Poems

The Author Events Series presents Paul Muldoon | Joy in Service on Rue Tagore: Poems REGISTER In Conversation with Daisy Fried Since his 1973 debut, New Weather, Paul Muldoon has created some of the most original…

Dr. Judith Joseph | High Functioning

The Author Events Series presents Dr. Judith Joseph | High Functioning REGISTER The first book to unmask the hidden face of depression. If you look fine on the outside but don't feel fine on the inside, learn five tools to…

Author Talk: Jeanne Bonner

Literary translator Jeanne Bonner will read from her translation, This Darkness Will Never End, a short story collection written in Italian by Hungarian-born writer, Edith Bruck, who survived the Holocaust and has been publishing works…

Elie Mystal | Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America

The Author Events Series presents Elie Mystal | Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America REGISTER In Bad Law, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the…

Rhodri Lewis | Shakespeare's Tragic Art

The Author Events Series presents Rhodri Lewis | Shakespeare's Tragic Art REGISTER In Conversation with Emily Wilson In Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as…

Denne Michele Norris | When the Harvest Comes

The Author Events Series presents Denne Michele Norris | When the Harvest Comes REGISTER The venerated Reverend Doctor John Freeman did not raise his son, Davis, to be touched by any man, let alone a white man. He did not raise…

Jennifer Haigh | Rabbit Moon

The Author Events Series presents Jennifer Haigh | Rabbit Moon REGISTER Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak get a phone call no parent is prepared for: their 22-year-old daughter Lindsey, teaching…

Arepas for Breakfast: Bilingual Author Storytime!

Come meet author Alejandra Rivas Mintz. She will be doing a bilingual book reading of Arepas for Breakfast. This session will be followed by a Q and A and a coloring session. Attendees will receive a copy of the book, limited…

Dr. Anthony Fauci | On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

The Author Events Series presents Dr. Anthony Fauci | On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT! In Conversation with Dave Davies Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous - and most…

Maria Shriver | I Am Maria

The Author Events Series presents Maria Shriver | I Am Maria Tickets to the Montgomery Auditorium are now sold out, but you can still get tickets for the simulcast live screening in Room 108. REGISTER In Conversation…

Molly Russakoff | Red Tape

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…

Samantha Harvey | Orbital

The Author Events Series presents Samantha Harvey | Orbital REGISTER WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six…

Blake Gopnik | The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream

The Author Events Series presents Blake Gopnik | The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream REGISTER Endowed Lecture Sheldon & Jill Bonovitz A fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes,…

Laurie Woolever | Care and Feeding: A Memoir

The Author Events Series presents Laurie Woolever | Care and Feeding: A Memoir REGISTER In Conversation with Reem Kassis In this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood…

Author Talk: Jill Eicher| Mellon vs. Churchill

Virtual Program Andrew Mellon, one of the most accomplished businessmen of his era, faced the daunting task of collecting the war debts from European governments still devastated by World War I. Dealing with the U.S. Congress and the…

Joshua Bennett | Spoken Word: A Cultural History

The Author Events Series presents Joshua Bennett | Spoken Word: A Cultural History REGISTER In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for the Obamas, at the same White House…

Author Talk: Bill Konstant

Join local author and wildlife biologist as we discuss Jewel of the Wissahickon: Rewilding the Dixon Meadow , by Bill Konstant and Glenn Mason. The Dixon Meadow Preserve is 14 acres of former farmland on the Wissahickon Creek that was…

A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250

Juliette Wells will offer a sneak preiew of the Morgan Library & Museum's upcoming Austen exhibition, "A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250,"for which she is the guest co-curator. The exhibition will run from June 6…

Lauren Francis-Sharma | Casualties of Truth

The Author Events Series presents Lauren Francis-Sharma | Casualties of Truth REGISTER In Conversation with Airea D. Matthews Prudence Wright seems to have it all: a loving husband, Davis; a spacious home in Washington, D.C.; and…

Free Library of Philadelphia Podcasts

Marlene Daut | The First and Last King of Haiti

The Author Events Series presents Marlene Daut | The First and Last King of Haiti REGISTER In Conversation with Grace Sanders Johnson Slave, revolutionary, traitor, king, and suicide, Henry Christophe was, in his time, popular and…

Judy Giesberg & Lee Hawkins | Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families AND I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free

The Author Events Series presents Judy Giesberg & Lee Hawkins | Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families AND I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free REGISTER In…

Brian Kelly | How to Win at Travel

The Author Events Series presents Brian Kelly | How to Win at Travel REGISTER In Conversation with Haley Sacks In How to Win at Travel, Brian Kelly shares his greatest tips and strategies to experience the world in ways you never…

Juan Williams | New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement

The Author Events Series presents Juan Williams | New Prize for These Eyes REGISTER In Conversation with Marsha Levick In New Prize for These Eyes, award-winning author Juan Williams shines a light on this historic, new movement. Who…

Uché Blackstock | Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

The Author Events Series presents Uché Blackstock | Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine REGISTER In Conversation with Dr. Joel Bervell The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine,…

Caroline Eden | Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels

The Author Events Series presents Caroline Eden | Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels REGISTER In Conversation with Jonathan Deutsch From the author of Red Sands, a New Yorker "Best Cookbook of the Year," a cozy, thoughtful memoir…

The Intertextual Self: New Approaches to the Memoir

The Author Events Series presents The Intertextual Self: New Approaches to the Memoir REGISTER Memoirists most often focus on the authenticity of their own voice and experience, and how best to render on the page the intersection of…

Bill Clinton | Citizen: My Life After the White House

The Author Events Series presents Bill Clinton | Citizen: My Life After the White House REGISTER In Conversation with Jonathan Capehart A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like…

Lori Ginzberg | Tangled Journeys

The Author Events Series presents Lori Ginzberg | Tangled Journeys REGISTER In conversation with Tamala Edwards In 1830 Richard Walpole Cogdell, a husband, father, and bank clerk in Charleston, South Carolina, purchased a…

Andre Robert Lee | A Conversation with the Documentary Filmmaker and Author

The Author Events Series presents Andre Robert Lee | A Conversation with the Documentary Filmmaker and Author REGISTER In Conversation with Cherri Gregg André Robert Lee most recently served as the Executive Producer of Notes From…

Maira Kalman | Still Life with Remorse

From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty, My Favorite Things, and Women Holding Things comes a moving meditation in words and pictures on remorse, joy, ancestry, and…

Malcolm Gladwell | Revenge of the Tipping Point

Congregation Rodeph Shalom 615 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123 Enter at 1339 Green Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123 The Author Events Series presents Malcolm Gladwell | Revenge of the Tipping Point REGISTER In conversation…

Paola Mendoza | Solis: A Companion to Sanctuary

The Author Events Series presents Paola Mendoza | Solis: A Companion to Sanctuary REGISTER In conversation with AJ Hikes From the authors of Sanctuary comes a haunting near-future companion tale about undocumented immigrants subjected…

Francis Collins | The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust

The Author Events Series presents Francis Collins | The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust REGISTER In conversation with Kathleen Hall Jamieson In The Road to Wisdom , Francis Collins reminds us of the four core…

Carrie Rickey | A Complicated Passion, The Life and Work of Agnès Varda

The Author Events Series presents Carrie Rickey | A Complicated Passion, The Life and Work of Agnès Varda REGISTER In conversation with Gary Kramer Born in Los Angeles, Carrie Rickey is an award-winning film critic, art critic, and…

SOLD OUT! Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack | What's Next: A Backstage Pass to the West Wing

SOLD OUT The Author Events Series presents Melissa Fitzgerald & Mary McCormack | What's Next: A Backstage Pass to the West Wing REGISTER WHAT’S NEXT: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of…

Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld | The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics

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…