Dan Cirucci: Great Authors, Speakers At Philly Free Library!

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Great Authors, Speakers At Philly Free Library!

Check out these upcoming author events at the Free Library of Philadelphia!

Events are in the auditorium of the Main Branch on Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Finally Confirmed!

Leading Voices: Bill McDermott | CEO of SAP | Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at 8:00PM; buy tickets online>>

Bill McDermott is CEO and executive board member of SAP, the world's largest business software company. Heading 66,500 employees who serve hundreds of thousands of customers in 188 countries, McDermott has helped lead SAP into a new era of next-generation business applications and practices. With a 99% approval rating, he was ranked #2 on Glassdoor.com's 2013 list of the world's top CEOs. A former corporate officer at Xerox, Gartner, and Siebel Systems, McDermott began as a working-class kid from Long Island who purchased his first business, a deli, at 16. Injected with colorful anecdotes and practical takeaways from his decades of career experience, Winners Dream is a blueprint for personal and professional success. In conversation with Tracey Matisak *Book included with ticket purchase.

David Grossman | Falling Out of Time
Thursday, December 18, 2014 at 7:30PM; FREE
No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341

Israeli author David Grossman is the author of several novels, including See Under: LOVE, Be My Knife, and To the End of the Land, a meditation on war, family, and loss, praised by The New York Times Book Review as "one of the few novels that feel as though they have made a difference to the world." Grossman is outspoken peace activist and critic of Israel's treatment of Palestine, and his nonfiction, includingThe Yellow Wind and Sleeping on a Wire, has given a human face to this complex and polarizing conflict. Grossman's new book--part play, prose, and poetry--follows a father's search for his dead son and the communal grieving he shares with the bereaved he meets during his journey.

Laurence Steinberg | Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence
Monday, September 22, 2014 at 7:30PM; FREE
No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341

Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Temple University,Laurence Steinberg is one of the world's leading experts on adolescence. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science, he is the author of more than 350 articles and essays on growth and development during the teenage years, and the author or editor of 17 books. He has been a featured guest on numerous television programs, including CBS Morning News, Today, Good Morning America, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. In Age of Opportunity, Steinberg mines innovative research to explain how the plasticity of the adolescent brain, rivaling that of years 0 through 3, suggests new strategies for instilling self-control.

Slavoj Zizek | Event: A Philosophical Journey Through A Concept Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 7:30PM; SOLD OUT

"The most dangerous philosopher in the West" (The New Republic), SlovenianSlavoj Zizek is a towering figure in Marxist ideology, psychoanalysis, and social theory. The author of dozens of books and articles and the subject of a score of interviews and documentaries, his best known volumes in English include The Sublime Object of Ideologyand First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. "The Elvis of cultural theory" (Chronicle of Higher Education), Zizek adopts a radical style in his newspaper op-eds and academic works, which has earned him an international following and relevancy. His new book asks fundamental questions about what is really happening when an event occurs, whether events are interconnected, and if we are really agents of our own fates.

Jeff VanderMeer | Southern Reach Trilogy
Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 7:30PM; FREE
No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341

Jeff VanderMeer is the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy, a "compelling, elegant and existential" (Los Angeles Times) chronicle of a forgotten, foreboding wilderness area called Area X and the mysterious government agency tasked with investigating it. ThinkJurassic Park meets Lost. The multiple World Fantasy Award-winning VanderMeer has written a score of other popular novels, works of nonfiction, and story collections. He is also a widely respected editor, publisher, and teacher of science fiction and fantasy writing. The Academy of Natural Sciences will be at the event with a live owl and rabbit so you can learn more about the creatures that inhabit The Southern Reach's enigmatic Area X. Hosted by Geekadelphia and the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Rosenbach Open House
Saturday, September 27, 2014 at 12 - 6 PM; FREE
2008-2010 Delancey Place, Philadelphia PA 19103

The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia is hosting an free Open House! Bring your friends and family to explore the Rosenbach's incredible collection of rare books and manuscripts, current exhibitions of children's literature and material by Maurice Sendak, and the Rosenbach brothers' beautiful historic house on Delancey Place near Rittenhouse Square. This event is affiliated with Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day. For more info: 215-732-1600

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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About Dan Cirucci

He has been cited by Rush Limbaugh, quoted in the New York Times, featured at Real Clear Politics and Lucianne.com and interviewed on radio, TV and in social media.

He's Dan Cirucci, the founder and editor-in chief of the Dan Cirucci Blog, Matt Rooney's sidekick on Save Jersey's videocasts and one of the most widely honored public relations professionals in his field. He's also been a public relations consultant to numerous organizations and individuals and hosted The Advocates on RVN-TV.

Inducted into the Philadelphia Public Relations Hall of Fame, for many years he served as a Lecturer in Corporate Communication at Penn State University. A former President of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association (PPRA) he has lectured at Rowan University, Temple University, The College of New Jersey and Arcadia University. He has conducted workshops on public relations for thousands of participants throughout the nation and has taught countless others the art of public speaking. He has also advised numerous lawyers, judges, public officials and political candidates.

Cirucci is a prolific writer and his op-ed pieces have appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Courier-Post and other publications.

A native of Camden NJ, Cirucci is a former President of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Cirucci served as Associate Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Association for nearly 30 years. He served as Chair of Penn State University's Professional Advisory Board for the Corporate Communication major at Penn State Abington and on the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Judicial Selection Commission.

He received his MA degree from Rowan University and his BA from Villanova University. He has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rowan's public relations program and received the E. A. "Wally" Richter Leadership Award, the highest honor from the National Association of Bar Executives' Communications Section. He has also been honored by numerous other local, state and national groups.

In his hometown of Camden, Cirucci taught fifth grade at the Ulysses Wiggins Elementary School named for the founder of the Camden NAACP. There he was one of the first teachers in the country to teach African-American history to inner city students. He later served as editor of a local weekly newspaper, as Assistant to the Township Manager of Cherry Hill Township and as Associate Director of Communications at the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Cirucci's passions include politics, the popular culture, books and authors, art, communication, music, theatre, movies, dining and travel.

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