Getting to Happy

Terry McMillan

Terry McMillan has garnered much critical and popular acclaim for her character-driven novels. Her New York Times bestselling books Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back have been made into major motion pictures. With Getting to Happy, McMillan revisits the Waiting ladies 15 years later and reveals each of them at her own midlife crossroads.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam

Eliza Griswold

An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and the 10th parallel—the line of latitude 700 miles north of the equator—at the geographic and ideological front where Christianity and Islam collide. In The Tenth Parallel, Griswold illustrates how faith is shaped by geography and demographics and how one’s sense of God is shaped by one’s place on earth.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Ape House: A Novel

Sara Gruen

Sara Gruen is the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants, Flying Changes, and Riding Lessons. A devoted animal lover, she draws readers into the animal world through stories where fiction is closely aligned with facts drawn from her own meticulous research. Bonobo apes share 99.4% of the same DNA as humans and are renowned for their language-learning abilities. In Ape House, a family of language-competent Bonobos is stolen from a fictitious language laboratory and turn up in a reality television show.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America

Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin

Philadelphia orator and activist Octavius Catto electrified audiences in 1864, calling on free men and women to aid and educate the newly freed slaves. In Tasting Freedom, co-authors Biddle and Dubin profile this charismatic black leader who championed equal rights nearly a century prior to the modern Civil Rights movement. Daniel R. Biddle is the Philadelphia Inquirer's Pennsylvania editor; he won a Pulitzer Prize and other national awards for his investigative stories on the courts. Murray Dubin, the author of South Philadelphia: Mummers, Memories and the Melrose Diner, was a reporter and editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 34 years, until 2005.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Freedom: A Novel

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen’s third novel, was awarded both the National Book Award and the New York Times Editors’ Choice Award for 2001. He was named one of the Twenty Writers for the 21st Century by The New Yorker and has received both the Whiting Writer’s Award and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize. Freedom—an epic of contemporary love and marriage—is his first novel since The Corrections.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Zero History: A Novel

William Gibson

William Gibson’s debut novel, Neuromancer, famously swept the science fiction “Triple Crown,” claiming the Nebula, Philip K. Dick, and Hugo awards. The first work to win all three prizes, Neuromancer envisioned a high tech world hip with the cynicism of the underground music scene: the “cyberpunk” genre was born. His new novel, Zero History, is set in the same universe—featuring rocker turned journalist Hollis Henry and international finance genius Hubertus Bigend—as his recent near-future fantasies, the New York Times bestsellers Pattern Recognition and Spook Country.  

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Coming Home to Yourself: Eighteen Wise Women Reflect on Their Journeys

Patricia Gottlieb Shapiro

Coming Home to Yourself explores the many meanings of home to women as they age. Home can be a physical place, an emotional space, or an activity where you can be yourself without masks or airs and be known for who you are. It is a haven within where you feel comfortable, safe and content: your internal and external selves matching, your inner and outer voices becoming one. Drawing on her own experience and the stories of women she interviewed for her book Coming Home to Yourself: 18 Wise Women Reflect on Their Journeys, author Patricia Gottlieb Shapiro will discuss the many paths that women choose to come home to their true selves. Join her and her special guest for an evening of discussion and reflection.

Dorrance H. Hamilton Public Media Commons

WHYY Technology Center
150 N 6th Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106

This is a TICKETED event; $15 General Admission, FREE for WHYY, AARP, and The Transition Network members.

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A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

Thomas Buerganthal

In 1944, at the age of 10, Thomas Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated from his mother, then his father, he survived by his wits and some remarkable strokes of luck. Almost two years after his liberation, he was reunited with his mother, and in 1951, arrived in the U.S. to start a new life. A past president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, he is a co-recipient of the 2008 Gruber Foundation International Justice Prize, and currently serves as the American judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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The Hot Box: A Novel

Zane

The New York Times bestselling author of Afterburn, The Heat Seekers, the Flava series, and Dear G-Spot, among others, Zane is known for stories that fuse hot sex, snappy dialog, and social consciousness. She is also the publisher of Strebor Books, an imprint of Atria Books/Simon & Schuster. Her television series, Zane's Sex Chronicles, is featured on Cinemax, and her novel Addicted was adapted for a major motion picture. The New York Times comments, “Arguably not since the emergence of Nancy Friday has American letters produced a purveyor of erotica with such mass-market appeal.”

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama

Bill O'Reilly

Political pundit and conservative television host Bill O'Reilly engaged in a lively debate about the nation's future during the 2008 presidential elections with then-Senator Barack Obama. Since that time, and President Obama's resounding victory, the nation has had to confront a series of international and domestic crises. The response of Americans to the administration's and Congress' handling of these challenges points to a growing ideological gap, both between Republicans and Democrats and within each party's ranks, about the direction the country is headed.

Bill O'Reilly, whose newest book is Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama, joins us to discuss the recent shifts taking place in our nation and what he believes these changes mean for all of us.

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
1200 Market St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107

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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

Edmund de Waal

Renowned  British potter Edmund de Waal tells the story of his family, 264 Japanese netsuke, three Jewish owners, and the three rooms which housed the netsuke collection over a period of 140 years.  Mr. de Waal is the fifth generation to inherit the collection, and he describes the way in which the maintenance and care of the collection dominated his life for over 30 years.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia
219 S. 6th Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106

$10 General Admission; to order tickets, please click here. This event is FREE for Athenaeum members; please RSVP with Susan Gallo at 215-925-2688 or sgallo@philaathenaeum.org

What Becomes: Stories

A. L. Kennedy

Scottish writer A.L. Kennedy has twice been named to Granta’s list ofBest Young British Novelists, and her literary awards include the Somerset Maugham Award for Looking for the Possible Dance and the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize for Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains. Her work favors emotionally laden realism punctuated with dark humor and resonant descriptive passages. Of What Becomes, Kennedy’s new story collection, a New York Times reviewer writes, “Perception moves the story forward. Kennedy mines the present moment, watching it tangle with the past and the future. She’s less interested in traditional notions of plot than the dramatic flailing of a character’s interior world.”

Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel

Gary Shteyngart

Satirist Gary Shteyngart was named to The New Yorker’s most recent list of “20 Under 40” writers worth watching. Born in Leningrad, USSR, he immigrated to the United States at age seven. His first critically acclaimed novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, which contains autographical elements about the immigrant experience, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His second novel, Absurdistan, was a national bestseller and was named of the 10 Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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The Food Matters Cookbook: Lose Weight and Heal the Planet with More Than 500 Recipes

Mark Bittman

Mark Bittman is one of the country’s foremost food writers, author of “The Minimalist” food column for The New York Times and of multiple James Beard Award and IACP/Julia Child Award-winning cookbooks, including How to Cook Everything.  Selling more than a million copies, the book was described by a Washington Post reviewer as “the new, hip Joy of Cooking.” Bittman also appears regularly on NBC’s Today Show and NPR’s All Things Considered, and has hosted three public television series. His latest cookbook is a follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating, offering recipes that are both healthier for you and for the environment.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Gauntlgrym

R.A. Salvatore

R.A. Salvatore is the author of 22 New York Times bestselling fantasy and science fiction novels. His books have sold more than 15 million copies in the United States alone. Best known for his work in the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms series, beginning with the novel The Crystal Shard and continuing through The Ghost King, his other works include The Demon Wars series and two books in the Star Wars series: The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime and the novelization of Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Gauntlgrym marks Salvatore’s return to the Dungeons and Dragons universe and features his most popular character, the dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb

Allen Hornblum

The most successful Soviet spy of the modern era was no James Bond.  Harry Gold was a shy South Philly bachelor who delivered vital American atomic secrets to the Russians. Now, Temple University Instructor and author Allen Hornblum provides a fascinating look at a man no one understood---until it was too late!

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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By Nightfall: A Novel

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham is the author of The Hours, a novel—inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway—that won the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Julianne Moore. A House at the End of the World, an earlier novel, was also made into a film starring Colin Farrell and Sissy Spacek. His other novels include Golden Days, Flesh and Blood, and Specimen Days. In By Nightfall, the carefully constructed world of a successful Manhattan couple is threatened by the unexpected arrival of a beautiful, beguiling, and wayward family member.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Monumental: The Reimagined World of Kevin O'Callaghan

Kevin O'Callaghan

Find inspiration in a multi-media extravaganza from Kevin O’Callaghan, award-winning 3-D designer and educator. O’Callaghan has designed everything from the largest rococo frame in the world (which hangs in Times Square) to MTV’s prestigious Movie Award. Kevin will discuss and sign copies of his new book, Monumental: The Reimagined World of Kevin O’Callaghan

Books will be available at the Art Institute for purchase and signing courtesy of the Joseph Fox Bookshop

The Art Institute of Philadelphia
1622 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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To the End of the Land: A Novel

David Grossman

One of Israel’s best known writers, David Grossman is the author of the novels See Under: LOVE and Be My Knife, as well as two nonfiction books that put faces to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, The Yellow Wind and Sleeping On A Wire. Nicole Krauss praises his latest novel, “Very rarely, a few times in a lifetime, you open a book and when you close it again nothing can ever be the same…To the End of the Land is a book of this magnitude.”An exploration of both the bonds of family and the costs of war, the novel follows Ora, an Israeli woman, who journeys away from home in order to avoid notice of her son’s likely death while serving in a major military offensive.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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The Children's Book

A.S. Byatt

One of England’s foremost writers and a Dame of the British Empire, A. S. Byatt is the author of Possession, a novel that won both the Man Booker and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction prizes in 1990, a critically acclaimed fictional quartet comprised of The Virgin In the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman, the novel The Biographer’s Tale, and the short story collection Elementals. The Children’s Book—which was shortlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize—is a densely layered tale of a large and troubled family navigating an England on the verge of the First World War.

A. S. Byatt will be interviewed by Paula Marantz Cohen, Distinguished Professor of English, Drexel University.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases

Michael Capuzzo

Best selling author, Michael Capuzzo, here illuminates the story of the Vidocq Society of Philadelphia, which was the brainchild of three wildly different men brought together by their desire to speak for the dead: freewheeling ex-boxer turned forensic sculptor Frank Bender; FBI and U.S. Customs agent William Fleisher; and pre-eminent forensic psychologist and profiler Richard Walter.  What began as an informal meeting of colleagues in 1990 evolved into an expansive international think tank of sorts modeled and named after France's famed criminal-turned-sleuth Eugene Vidocq, a model for Sherlock Holmes.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia
219 S. 6th Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106

$10 General Admission; to order tickets, please click here. This event is FREE for Athenaeum members; please RSVP with Susan Gallo at 215-925-2688 or sgallo@philaathenaeum.org

What I Believe

Tariq Ramadan

A leading scholar of Islam in the Western world, Tariq Ramadan is one of the most important innovators of the 21st century, according to Time magazine. He is a professor of Islamic Studies at Oxford University and author of several books including Radical Reform and In the Footsteps of the Prophet. Deemed a “Muslim Martin Luther” by Paul Donnelly of the Washington Post, Ramadan was barred from entering the United States for several years by the Bush administration. “Deliberately brief, sensible, and accessible,” praises Publisher’s Weekly. “What I Believe is not just a summary of Ramadan's own views but a primer on modern Western Muslim life.”

Tariq Ramadan will be interviewed by Carlin Romano, Critic-at-large, Chronicle of Higher Education.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Thinking with Type, 2nd Revised and Expanded Edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors & Students

Ellen Lupton

Please join the Joseph Fox Bookshop and The Art Institute of Philadelphia for special event to celebrate Ellen Lupton--writer, curator, graphic designer, and Director of the Graphic Design Master of Fine Arts program at MICA--and her book Thinking with Type, 2nd Revised and Expanded Edition: A Critical Guide Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students. This best selling book is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication from the printed page to the computer screen. The revised edition includes 48 pages of all-new content, including the latest information on style sheets, ornaments and captions, font licensing, hand lettering, and more.

Books will be available at the Art Institute for purchase and signing courtesy of the Joseph Fox Bookshop

The Art Institute of Philadelphia
1622 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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The Grace of Silence: A Memoir

Michele Norris

Award-winning journalist Michele Norris is the host of NPR’s All Things Considered. She has served as a correspondent for ABC News, and has reported for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. Named Journalist of the Year in 2009 by the National Association of Black Journalists, Norris went on to earn Emmy and Peabody awards for her contribution to ABC News’ coverage of 9/11. In her memoir, The Grace of Silence, Norris turns her investigative powers on her own family’s complex racial legacy.

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Sleepwalk With Me: And Other Painfully True Stories

Mike Birbiglia

 Grown out of Mike Birbiglia's critically acclaimed one-man show, Sleepwak With Me is the hilarious story of the perils and pitfalls of being Mike. 

The Keswick Theatre
291 Keswick Avenue
Glenside, Pennsylvania 19038

This is a TICKETED event, to pre-order tickets, please click here. All tickets include a signed copy of Sleepwalk With Me: And Other Painfully True Stories. Books will be provided by the Joseph Fox Bookshop the night of the performance.

For more information about Mike Birbiglia and The Painfully True Stories Tour, please click here.

Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

The National Constitution Center presents award-winning historian Ron Chernow in a conversation about his new book, Washington: A Life. This painstakingly researched biography of our nation’s foremost founding father provides readers a greater understanding of Washington’s life and times. With access to previously unseen archival sources, Chernow has developed a richly nuanced account of Washington from his early years as a young firebrand to his later years as America’s first president.

Ron Chernow is the prize-winning biographer of political and financial luminaries such as Alexander Hamilton, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and now George Washington. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award in 1990. Since then, he has been lauded with the Eccles Prize for Economic Writing for The Warburgs, and the National Book Critics Award for Alexander Hamilton. His biography of John D. Rockefeller was nominated for the National Book Critics Award. Chernow has been a regular contributor for the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, and served as the President of the PEN Center from 2006-07.

Independence Mall
525 Arch Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106

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Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View

Stephen Breyer

The National Constitution Center presents Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer for a discussion about his new book, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View. Building on his previous book, Active Liberty, Justice Breyer considers questions that are fundamental to our constitutional system and the future of the Supreme Court. He argues that since the nine members of the Court are not elected, they need to reinforce their institutional legitimacy by pragmatically applying unchanging constitutional values to ever-changing circumstances.  Adam Liptak, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, moderates.  

Stephen Breyer is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Unites States. He previously served as Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Before joining the Supreme Court, Justice Breyer was a professor of law at the Harvard Law School and taught as a visiting professor at the College of Law, Sydney; University of Rome; and Tulane University Law School. Early in his career, he clerked for Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg, and served as an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force.

Adam Liptak is the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times. He writes the “Sidebar” column on legal affairs. In 2009, Liptak was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in explanatory reporting. He received his law degree from Yale Law School and practiced law prior to becoming a journalist. Liptak has taught media law at the Columbia University School of Journalism, U.C.L.A. Law School, and Yale Law School.

Independence Mall
525 Arch Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106

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X'ed Out

Charles Burns

Charles Burns is a prolific and highly sought after comic illustrator whose art has graced the covers of Time, The New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, and the McSweeney’s magazine The Believer. Black Hole, his magnum opus, won the Harvey, Eisner, and Ignatz awards and was named one of Comics Journal’s Top 100 English Language Comics of the Century. His other high profile projects have included the cover design for Iggy Pop’s Brick by Brick album and a major marketing campaign for Altoids. Never before serialized, X’ed Out is an entirely new graphic novel that one Publishers Weekly reviewer calls “erotic and horrifying.”

Shazam!: The Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal

Chip Kidd

An art director at Alfred A. Knopf and editor-at-large for Pantheon, Chip Kidd's work has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and is collected in the monograph Chip Kidd: Book One. He is the author of novels The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners, and the nonfiction books Batman Collected and Bat-Manga! Inspired by The Official Preppy Handbook—the satiric international bestseller originally published in 1980—Kidd recently joined forces with Lisa Birnbach, the editor and one of the writers of the original volume, on True Prep, an updated prep protocol for the modern age. Kidd will discuss his latest book, Shazam!: The Golden Age of the World's Mightiest Mortal. 

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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For over thirty years, ALTA members and literary translation aficionados from all regions of the United States and abroad have convened for a vibrant four days each October or November in continually changing venues across the country and, occasionally, in Canada and Mexico. This year, the ALTA conference comes to Philadelphia, bringing with it a wide range of activities for participants to engage in, including stimulating panel discussions, readings, workshops, networking opportunities, and, of course, the book exhibit, provided by Joseph Fox Bookshop.

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
1201 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

This is a TICKETED event; for more information and to pre-register , please click here.

For over thirty years, ALTA members and literary translation aficionados from all regions of the United States and abroad have convened for a vibrant four days each October or November in continually changing venues across the country and, occasionally, in Canada and Mexico. This year, the ALTA conference comes to Philadelphia, bringing with it a wide range of activities for participants to engage in, including stimulating panel discussions, readings, workshops, networking opportunities, and, of course, the book exhibit, provided by Joseph Fox Bookshop.

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
1201 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

This is a TICKETED event; for more information and to pre-register , please click here.

Great House

Nicole Krauss

Ranked by New Yorker editors as one of the 2010 “20 Under 40” writers worth watching, Nicole Krauss is the author of the international bestseller The History of Love, and an earlier novel, Man Walks Into a Room. A no. 1 Booksense pick for 2005, The History of Love was an NBC Today Show Book Club Selection and won the 2008 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. In her new novel Great House, a desk links the lives of those whose hands it passes through, coming to stand for all that they have lost to the world.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

This is a TICKETED event; $15 General Admission, $7 Students.

For more information, call 215.567.4341, or click here

For over thirty years, ALTA members and literary translation aficionados from all regions of the United States and abroad have convened for a vibrant four days each October or November in continually changing venues across the country and, occasionally, in Canada and Mexico. This year, the ALTA conference comes to Philadelphia, bringing with it a wide range of activities for participants to engage in, including stimulating panel discussions, readings, workshops, networking opportunities, and, of course, the book exhibit, provided by Joseph Fox Bookshop.

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
1201 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

This is a TICKETED event; for more information and to pre-register , please click here.

For over thirty years, ALTA members and literary translation aficionados from all regions of the United States and abroad have convened for a vibrant four days each October or November in continually changing venues across the country and, occasionally, in Canada and Mexico. This year, the ALTA conference comes to Philadelphia, bringing with it a wide range of activities for participants to engage in, including stimulating panel discussions, readings, workshops, networking opportunities, and, of course, the book exhibit, provided by Joseph Fox Bookshop.

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
1201 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

This is a TICKETED event; for more information and to pre-register , please click here.

Listen to This

Alex Ross

New Yorker music critic Alex Ross has received two American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism and a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center for his contributions to contemporary music. His internationally bestselling book, The Rest is Noise—a cultural history of music since 1900—earned the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award and a 2008 Pulitzer Prize nomination. His second book is an expansive survey of the musical scene, ranging from classical music artists to pop sensations such as Frank Sinatra, Led Zeppelin, and Björk.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

This is a TICKETED event; $15 General Admission, $7 Students.

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First Family: Abigail and John Adams

Joseph J. Ellis

Joseph J. Ellis is a bestselling author and distinguished chronicler of early American history. His book, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, won the 1997 National Book Award, and in 2001 Ellis earned the Pulitzer Prize for History for his illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American Republic, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. A depiction of the Adams marriage that is part biography, part love story, and part political history, Ellis’s new book, First Family, follows John and Abigail from before the Revolution through to John Adams’s election to the presidency.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

This is a TICKETED event; $15 General Admission, $7 Students.

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