| Philadelphia Book Festival: April 13-19, 2014 Join the Free Library for a celebration of literacy and the arts at the eighth annual Philadelphia Book Festival! This beloved celebration continues with events at neighborhood libraries throughout the city, along with headlining author events in the Parkway Central Library's Montgomery Auditorium every evening during National Library week from April 13-19, 2014. The Book Festival now stretches into every Philadelphia community, ensuring that book worms and literacy lovers from across the city can get in on the fun! *Please note: The 2014 Philadelphia Book Festival will NOT feature a street fair. |
| Pat and Gina Neely | Back Home with the Neelys: Comfort Food from Our Southern Kitchen to Yours Monday, April 14, 2014 at 7:30 PM; FREE No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341  Food Network stars Pat and Gina Neely have charmed fans across the country with their "down-home, food-and-booty jubilance" (Ebony). In their new cookbook, Pat and Gina return to their roots with recipes framed by family history. |
| Frank Sherlock | Poet Laureate of Philadelphia | Inaugural Reading Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 7:00 PM; FREE No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341  Frank Sherlock was named Poet Laureate of Philadelphia in January 2014. His inaugural reading as Laureate coincides with the release of his new collection, Space between These Lines Not Dedicated. Committed to engaging poetry as an interactive art form, he views the work as a call to action and conversation with public spaces. He will serve a two-year appointment as Poet Laureate. |
| Debbie Macomber | Blossom Street Brides Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 7:30 PM; FREE No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341  The "reigning queen of women's fiction" (The Sacramento Bee), Debbie Macomber is the author of more than 150 books. In the latest installment in her beloved Blossom Street series, wedding bells are ringing in the close community that gathers around a knitting store in a leafy Seattle neighborhood. |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | Living with a Wild God: A MemoirWednesday, April 16, 2014 at 7:30 PM; FREE No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341  "Veteran muckraker" (The New Yorker)Barbara Ehrenreich is the New York Timesbestselling author of 14 books, including the working class exposé Nickel and Dimed. In her new memoir, Ehrenreich--a staunch atheist and rationalist--sets out to reconstruct the philosophical inquiry of her youth. |
| Anne Perry | Death on Blackheath Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 7:30 PM; FREE No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341  With memorable characters, historical accuracy, and knife's-edge suspense, Anne Perry's acclaimed Victorian mysteries "would make Dickens's eyes pop out" (New York Times Book Review). Her new novel Death on Blackheath features a naval weapons expert, love, betrayal, scandal, and murder. |
| Lydia Davis | Can't and Won't: Stories Friday, April 18, 2014 at 7:30 PM; FREE No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341  "One of the quiet giants of American fiction," (The Los Angeles Times Book Review),Lydia Davis received the 2013 Man Booker International Prize for her witty, poetic, and minimalist fiction. Can't and Won't is her fifth collection of stories. |
| Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy | I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan Saturday, April 19, 2014 at 2:00 PM; FREE No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341  For the New York Times bestselling The Tenth Parallel, Eliza Griswold spent seven years traveling the ideological fronts in Africa and Asia where Christianity and Islam collide. In her new book, she travels to Afghanistan to anthologize poems written by a diverse group of women who challenge the image of the voiceless figure under the burqa. Seamus Murphy's photography from Afghanistan, begun in 1994, chronicles the tumultuous life of the Afghan people. A collection of this work, titled A Darkness Visible was published as a book in 2008 and produced into an award-winning film. |
| Vincent Feldman | City Abandoned Saturday, April 19, 2014 at 4:00 PM; FREE No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341  Lifelong Philadelphia resident Vincent Feldman has spent the last three decades photographing the city's architectural character. City Abandoned makes a passionate argument for preservation and renovation of some of Philadelphia's most important but neglected buildings. |
| Doug Fine | Hemp Bound Saturday, April 19, 2014 at 7:30 PM; FREE No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341  Author of the "eye-opening and persuasive" (The New York Times Book Review) best-seller Too High to Fail, Doug Fine peeks into dank corners to find the straight dope on the American hemp industry. In Hemp Bound, Fine investigates the misunderstood plant's pioneering 21st century uses. |
| Book Festival HIghlights Below are some highlights of the events happening at our neighborhood libraries throughout the week. Please see the onlineFestival Program for a full listing of events. Poetry with Dan and Dave Simpson Monday, April 14, 2014 at 3:00PM Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped  Dan Simpson and his identical twin, Dave, were born blind in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1952. Dan has published his work inPrairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, andThe Atlanta Review. He published four of his poems in Beauty Is A Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. Dave's poetry has appeared in numerous journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, River Styx, The Cortland Review,and Verse Daily. |
| The Spaces Between Your Fingers Project | Your Autobiography: Here April 14-18, 2014 at 5:00 PM; Parkway Central Lobby  The Spaces Between Your Fingers provides free biographers for people with Alzheimer's. Each memory is inscribed on a custom postcard with a photo on the front. The postcards are sent to the participant's family, and a copy is archived for future generations in the vault at the Free Library of Philadelphia. SBYF biographers will be on site at the book festival to conduct interviews and add to our ever-growing archive. |
| Meet the Author: Lori Tharps Monday, April 14, 2014 at 7:00PM; Wadsworth Branch  Lori L. Tharps is the author of two critically acclaimed non-fiction books, Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America and Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain. Her debut novel Substitute Me was released in August 2010. She teaches journalism classes at Temple University. |
| A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin with author Jen Bryant Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 10:30AM; Central Library  The Central Children's Department welcomes author Jen Bryant for a presentation about her book A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin at 10:30 a.m. in the Montgomery Auditorium. School groups, please call 215-686-5369 to register. Presented as part of the Margaret S. Halloran Family Literacy Programming series. |
| Dismantle: The VONA Anthology Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 5:00PM; Paschalville Branch  Dismantle is the first ever anthology of work from writers and teachers from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop for writers of color. Founded in 1999, VONA has nurtured over 2000 writers. The anthology features an introduction by co-founder and award winning author Junot Diaz. This event will introduce the anthology and feature readings by:Mitchell S. Jackson, Cynthia Dewi Oka, andMarissa Johnson-Valenzuela. |
Meet the Author: Noreen Mallory
Saturday, April 19, 2014 at 2:00PM Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library  Noreen Mallory, author of Harlem in the Twentieth Century, has been a staff writer and editor for a number of newspapers in Philadelphia and Boston. Her next book,Classic Philadelphia Eats: A Delectable History will be published in 2014. |
| Meet the Author: Justin Kramon Saturday, April 19, 2014 at 1:30PM; Chestnut Hill Branch  Justin Kramon is the author of the novelsFinny and The Preservationist. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has received honors from the Michener-Copernicus Society of America, Best American Short Stories, the Hawthornden International Writers' Fellowship, and the Bogliasco Foundation. |
Of Interest
Welcome To My World: Homicide Detective Tim Scally Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 10:00 AM; FREE Parkway Central Room #108. For more info: 215-686-5331  Please forget the detectives you've met through books or on television. If you want to know how murders are really investigated and solved, this is your chance to find out. In a time when formal credentials are more important than ever before, you'll find that Detective Scally has a PhD in the ways of the human heart. |
Also of Interest
Film Screening and Discussion: The Rocket Sunday, April 13, 2014 at 1:30 PM; FREE  Set against the backdrop of a war-ravaged country on the brink of change, a Laotian boy believed to be bad luck meets an orphan and her uncle, an ex-soldier with a rice-wine habit and a fetish for James Brown. They embark in search of a new home, building a giant rocket to enter a lucrative but dangerous competition. This film will be followed by a discussion with its writer and director, Kim Mordaunt. |
| Free Library Author Events Andy Kahan, Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Director, Author Events Laura Kovacs, Associate Director Jason Freeman, Program Assistant phone: 215-567-4341 email: authorevents@freelibrary.org |
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