Tagged Author Events
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…
Daniel Seddiqui, Most Traveled Person of America
Daniel Seddiqui is a multi-time international bestselling author, inspiring keynote speaker, and educational and travel entrepreneur. His unwavering curiosity and love of people has led him to become the Most Traveled Person in…
Pierce Freelon's Books + Beats!
Picture book author and Grammy-nominated artist Pierce Freelon brings two worlds together with Books + Beats: an interactive book reading and performance, featuring Pierce’s two children's picture books published by Little,…
Wednesdays of Wonder: Pierce Freelon's Books + Beats!
Pierce Freelon is a GRAMMY® nominated artist, picture book author and podcaster. His GRAMMY® nominated children’s music albums AnceStars (2023) and Black to the Future (2021) have been featured on Today Show, NPR and…
Thembi Palmer Author Visit!
Experience a fun-filled, interactive visit with author Thembi Palmer! With This Book May Make You Do Things! , Thembi will have both adults and children on their feet! This session is jam-packed with props, actions, instruments,…
Thembi Palmer Author Visit!
Experience a fun-filled, interactive visit with author Thembi Palmer! With This Book May Make You Do Things! , Thembi will have both adults and children on their feet! This session is jam-packed with props, actions, instruments,…
Music and Motion Storytime: An Author Visit with Thembi Palmer
Join local storyteller Thembi Palmer on an action-packed adventure as she reads from her book "This Book Will Make You Do Things." Thembi's storytime will be full of instruments, dancing, and an obstacle course that will…
Nadia Salomon and London Ladd Author and Illustrator Visit
Join us for an exciting author and illustrator presentation with Nadia Salomon and London Ladd who will both be in Philadelphia for the American Library Association Annual Conference. A VOICE OF HOPE just won the Black…
Caro De Robertis | So Many Stars
The Author Events Series presents Caro De Robertis | So Many Stars REGISTER In Conversation with Dr. Michelle Taylor So Many Stars knits together the voices of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and two-spirit elders of color as they share…
Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson | Original Sin
The Author Events Series presents Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson | Original Sin 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…
Jonathan Capehart | Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home
The Author Events Series presents Jonathan Capehart | Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home Tickets to the Montgomery Auditorium are now sold out, but you can still get tickets for the simulcast live screening in…
Senator Ron Wyden | It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change
The Author Events Series presents Senator Ron Wyden | It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change REGISTER In Conversation with Michael Solomonov Endowed Lecture: Pine Tree Foundation It Takes Chutzpah is an…
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 and memorable…
Dr. Judith Joseph | High Functioning
The Author Events Series presents Dr. Judith Joseph | High Functioning REGISTER In Conversation with Hannah Williams Emcee - Dr. Dalesa Rueda The first book to unmask the hidden face of depression. If you look fine on the outside but…
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 Conversation with Cherri Gregg In Bad Law, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s…
Mike Sielski | Magic in the Air
The Author Events Series presents Mike Sielski | Magic in the Air REGISTER In Conversation with Buzz Bissinger The evolution of basketball, and much of the social and cultural change in America, can be traced through one powerful act…
Rebecca Romney | Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
The Author Events Series presents Rebecca Romney | Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend REGISTER In Conversation with Allie Alvis Jane Austen's Bookshelf investigates…
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 Shakespeare wrote…
Jaap de Roode | Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves
The Author Events Series presents Jaap de Roode | Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves REGISTER Ages before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of nature's pharmacy to…
Katie Kitamura | Audition
The Author Events Series presents Katie Kitamura | Audition: A Novel REGISTER In Conversation with Adam Dalva One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we…
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 revered - doctor in…
Maria Shriver | I Am Maria
The Author Events Series presents Maria Shriver | I Am Maria REGISTER In Conversation with Dr. Martha Beck Special Guests: Bob Roth & Kate Baer Please join us in celebrating Maria Shriver’s I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on…
Fawn Weaver | Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest
The Author Events Series presents Fawn Weaver | Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest REGISTER In Conversation with Michelle Miller…
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 to…
Chris Hayes | The Sirens’ Call
The Author Events Series presents Chris Hayes | The Sirens’ Call REGISTER In Conversation with Kate Shaw We all feel it--the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the…
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…