Upcoming Events
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Author Event | In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire
Tue, May 21, 2024
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Room 108 Historian Alicia Puglionesi will discuss her latest book, which Kirkus called “ a first-rate work of historical research and storytelling. ” Winding through the US landscape, from Native American earthworks in the Ohio Valley to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico,…
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
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…
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
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…
MK Asante | Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
Thu, May 23, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
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
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
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
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
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…
Giant Presents: "A Lens for the Lighthouse"
Mon, June 3, 2024
4:00 P.M.
Northeast Regional Library
Join author Cynthia Kreilick as she reads her book and shows us how to create lighthouse signal patterns. Participants will receive a free book. This program is for preschool and young school age children. Program paid for by our local Giant Supermarket
Meet Kah Yangni! Illustrator Visit
Tue, June 4, 2024
10:30 A.M.
Haverford Library
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
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
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…
Author Talk | Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
Tue, June 4, 2024
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Room 108 Historian Mia Bay will discuss her latest book, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance , winner of the Bancroft Prize, a riveting, character-rich account of racial segregation in America that reveals just how central travel restrictions were to the creation of Jim Crow…
Mark Harman (Centenary Celebration) | Kafka: Selected Stories
Tue, June 4, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
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
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
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
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…
Imagine More Story Adventures with Thembi Palmer
Sat, June 15, 2024
12:30 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library
Join the ever amazing Thembi Palmer of Imagine More: Story Adventures for a fantastic story time! Thembi Palmer is committed to promoting literacy by developing a love of reading and books in young children, pre-K through 4th grade. She collaborates with Philadelphia schools, libraries, museums,…
Steven Rowley | The Guncle Abroad
Mon, June 17, 2024
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
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
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…