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Joseph Fox Bookshop
1724 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215.563.4184
Store Hours:
9:30AM - 6:00PM Monday - Saturday
9:30AM - 7:00PM Wednesday
Closed Sunday
01 / 12
Start: 7:30 pm
Remarkable Creatures Tracy Chevalier Tracy Chevalier is the author of the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring. The book, based on the creation of the famous painting by Johannes Vermeer, was adapted into an award-winning film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson. Noted for her mesmerizing storytelling and the fluid use of period language, Chevalier pays exquisite attention to detail in both plot and setting in her historical novels. Her latest novel, Remarkable Creatures, is based on the life of the 19th-century English fossil collector Mary Anning, who discovered the first complete specimen of an ichthyosaur.
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01 / 13
Start: 6:30 pm
Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift Richard Reeves Acclaimed presidential biographer Richard Reeves discusses his new book, Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift. Reeves recounts the stories of the brave pilots who risked their lives to supply humanitarian aid to those who were considered enemies only a few short years earlier during World War II. Utilizing previously unpublished documents and numerous interviews, Reeves provides a voice for these pilots to tell their stories. Thomas Childers, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, moderates. The pilots who took part in the Berlin Airlift supplied vital goods to West Berlin, due to the land and water blockade instituted by the Soviets in 1948. Over the following year, some 227,000 flights were made with an average of 8,000 tons of goods delivered daily, mainly consisting of food and fuel. The success of the Berlin Airlift is viewed as the first Cold War victory for Britain and America against the Soviet Union. The Soviets were humiliated, as they never believed such a plan could work, and hoped to push the Allied powers out of the city. By May of 1949, the Soviets lifted the blockade, but goods continued to be delivered until September of that year, in order to provide a surplus for the people of West Berlin. A starred review in Publishers Weekly says “Reeves gives us a mesmerizing portrait of America at its best when challenged by Russia’s tyranny.”
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01 / 14
Start: 7:30 pm
All Things at Once Mika Brzezinski In conversation with Joe Scarborough One of television’s most outspoken and respected journalists, Mika Brzezinski is an MSNBC anchor and co-host of Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough—a program Time magazine calls “revolutionary” and the New York Times ranked as the top news show of 2008. She also appears on NBC Nightly News and Weekend Today. Prior to joining NBC, Brzezinski worked at CBS, where she anchored CBS Evening News Weekend Edition and later became the network’s principal “Ground Zero” reporter following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Her book, All Things at Once, is a motivational book geared toward helping women deal with the unique challenges they face in balancing personal life, family life, and career.
Joe Scarborough is the host of Morning Joe. He served as a member of the United States Congress for seven years and is the author of The Last Best Hope, which outlines a plan to guide conservatives back to a political majority after their defeats in the 2006 midterm and the 2008 Presidential elections. Along with Brzezinski, Joe can be heard daily on the Joe Scarborough Show, a syndicated talk-radio show on ABC Radio Networks.
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01 / 19
Start: 7:30 pm
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction Rebecca Goldstein Rebecca Goldstein’s fiction explores “the dichotomies between mind and body, intellect and passion, logos and eros,” according to one New York Times reviewer. A professor of philosophy, a MacArthur Fellow, and a 1995 winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Goldstein is the author of several novels, including The Mind-Body Problem, Properties of Light, and Mazel. She is also the author of the nonfiction biographies Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel and Betraying Spinoza. In 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, Goldstein combines fiction and philosophy to tell the story of Cass Seltzer, an atheist who must reexamine religion’s place in his life when his novel becomes a surprise bestseller.
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01 / 20
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01 / 21
Start: 7:30 pm
The Swan Thieves Elizabeth Kostova The fastest-selling debut novel in U.S. history, Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian was the first debut novel to enter the New York Times Best Sellers list at no. 1. The culmination of 10 years of research, the intricately plotted historical novel brought to life the story behind the legend of Vlad the Impaler who inspired the Dracula legend. In her eagerly awaited second novel, Kostova unspools a sweeping tale of historical intrigue spanning centuries and continents—with madness, obsession, and the power of art to preserve human hope taking center stage.
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01 / 22
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01 / 28
Start: 7:30 pm
The Unnamed Joshua Ferris Joshua Ferris’s debut novel, Then We Came to the End, was translated into 24 different languages, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won the 2008 PEN/Hemingway Award. Written in the stylistically challenging first-person plural, the novel—an account of a failing Chicago advertising agency—captured the desperation of office workers as they faced downturns and layoffs in their company. A critic for Kirkus Reviews called the book a “wickedly incisive satire of office groupthink.” In The Unnamed, Ferris follows a man who had the perfect job and the perfect family—until his undiagnosable disease, which forces him to drop what he is doing at any given moment and walk aimlessly for days on end, threatens to destroy them both.
The Privileges Jonathan Dee Jonathan Dee is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, a frequent contributor to Harper’s, and the former senior editor of The Paris Review. He is the author of four previous novels, including Palladio. From advertising’s corrosive impact on society to the frenzy caused by media and celebrity, Dee “is the kind of writer who thinks hard about contemporary realities and then builds sturdy, stately novels of ideas around them” (New York Times). Of The Privileges, Dee’s new novel, author Jonathan Franzen writes, “Mr. Dee has given us a cunning, seductive novel about the people we thought we’d all agreed to hate. His case study of American mega-wealth is delicious.”
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01 / 29
Start: 10:30 am
The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution Barry Friedman In conversation with Lee Epstein and Jeffrey Rosen The National Constitution Center and the University of Pennsylvania Law School welcome Lee Epstein, Barry Friedman and Jeffrey Rosen for a conversation about the Supreme Court’s relationship to American popular opinion. Guests will discuss Friedman’s thesis from his new book, The Will of the People, which states that the justices and the people are partners in a “marriage” that sidesteps the two elected branches. Friedman does not argue that the justices and the people are always in agreement, "but rather that they come into line with one another over time.” Veteran Supreme Court watcher and SCOTUSblog correspondent Lyle Denniston moderates.
Annenberg Center for Education and Outreach This is a FREE event; but reservations are required. Please call 215.409.6700, or click here | ||
01 / 30
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02 / 2
Start: 7:30 pm
Morning Haiku Sonia Sanchez An acclaimed poet, activist, and scholar, Sonia Sanchez is the former Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University. Called a “lion in literature’s forest” by Maya Angelou, Sanchez has written more than a dozen books of poetry, including the American Book Award-winner Homegirls and Handgrenades. Using black dialect as a poetic medium, Sanchez writes elegantly on topics like bigotry, poverty, and drug abuse. Her new book of poems is a collection of haiku that celebrates the lives and mourns the deaths of revered African-American leaders.
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02 / 3
Start: 6:30 pm
Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility David Walker Former Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office David M. Walker joins the Center to discuss his important new book, Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility. For years, Walker warned Congress–and the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations–that America faced a large and growing fiscal imbalance due largely to known demographic trends and rising health care costs. Unfortunately, the numbers have gotten worse and our fiscal gap has grown dramatically in recent years. Walker’s book includes a range of policy proposals to control spending, save Social Security, dramatically alter our health care system, reform our tax system, and re-engineer the base of the federal government —all taking into account the Obama Administration's efforts to-date. It lays out a comprehensive reform plan that Walker maintains is needed to ensure that America's future will be better than its past.
Annenberg Center for Education and Outreach This is a FREE event; but reservations are required. Please call 215.409.6700, or click here Start: 7:00 pm
Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street Jim Wallis When we start with the wrong question, no matter how good an answer we get, it won't give us the results we want. Rather than joining the throngs who are asking, When will this economic crisis be over? Jim Wallis says the right question to ask is How will this crisis change us? The worst thing we can do now, Wallis tells us, is to go back to normal. Normal is what got us into this situation. We need a new normal, and this economic crisis is an invitation to discover what that means. In the pages of this book, Wallis provides us with a moral compass for this new economy -- one that will guide us on Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street.
Friends Select School This is a FREE event; but reservations are required. Please RSVP with Jan Burns at janb@friends-select.org, or call 215.561.5900 ex. 129 if you plan to attend. Walk-ins will be admitted the night of the event if seating is available. For more information about the event and Friends Select School, please click here Start: 7:30 pm
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State Garry Wills A prolific historian and critic, Garry Wills won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award twice and was awarded the National Medal for the Humanities in 1998. His histories—which also include Nixon Agonistes and Inventing America—offer non-traditional, yet thoroughly researched and well-argued theories that one Chicago Tribune reviewer finds “boldly revisionist and intoxicatingly original.” Bomb Power reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation by dramatically increasing the power of the American president and redefining the government as a national security state.
Central Library This is a TICKETED event; $14 General Admission, $7 Students. Tickets on sale Friday, January 15 at 10:00 a.m. at freelibrary.org/authorevents or by phone at 1-800-595-4TIX (4849). For more information, call 215.567.4341, or click here | ||
02 / 4
Start: 7:30 pm
Racing While Black: How an African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on NASCAR Leonard T. Miller In the primarily white, Southern world of NASCAR, black drivers are extremely rare and black-owned teams nearly nonexistent. Yet Leonard T. Miller—son of the black motor racing pioneer Leonard W. Miller—has owned and run Miller Racing for more than 15 years. In 2005, Miller Racing became the first African-American team to win a track championship in NASCAR history, creating new opportunities for black drivers with their victory. In Racing While Black, Miller talks frankly about the realities of NASCAR culture and his dream of changing the way racing fans view skin color.
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02 / 5
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02 / 9
Start: 7:30 pm
Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife Francine Prose Francine Prose is former president of the PEN American Center and author of more than 20 books. Her fictional critique of academia, Blue Angels, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her nonfiction guide to writing, Reading Like a Writer, was a New York Times bestseller. In her new book, Prose considers Anne Frank’s diary as a work of art—revised many times by the author and meant for publication—and thoroughly investigates the book’s contentious afterlife. A review in the New York Times called it “an impressively far-reaching critical work, an elegant study both edifying and entertaining...full of keen observations and fascinating disputes.”
Central Library This is a TICKETED event; $14 General Admission, $7 Students. Tickets on sale Friday, January 15 at 10:00 a.m. at freelibrary.org/authorevents or by phone at 1-800-595-4TIX (4849). For more information, call 215.567.4341, or click here | ||
02 / 10
Start: 6:30 pm
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The Principles of Uncertainty Maira Kalman Hear the illustrator, author, and designer speak about how she sees the world, both inside and outside of the studio. This lecture, and the booksigning that will follow, celebrates the Institute's ongoing exhibit, Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) the first major museum survey of the work of Maira Kalman. An illustrator, author and designer, Kalman illuminates contemporary life with a profound sense of joy and unique sense of humor. Like a gift, her work appears to lift the spirits, no matter how ordinary or overwhelming circumstances may be. This exhibition features a selection spanning thirty years of original works on paper and design production, along with less widely seen aspects of Kalman's work in photography, embroidery, textiles, and performance. As a context for this survey, Kalman is creating a special installation. The space will be furnished with chairs, ladders, and "many tables of many things"—such as fezzes, bobby pins, balls of string, things that have fallen out of books, lists, moss. Expressive of Kalman's habits as a collector, traveler, reader, and avid walker, this installation offers a view of how she sees the world, both in and outside of the studio. Institute of Contemporary Art
University of Pennsylvania This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, please click here | ||
02 / 11
Start: 6:30 pm
Canceled due to severe weather
Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century Lee Bollinger Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University, is one of the nation’s foremost experts on the First Amendment. In his new book, Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century, Bollinger explores the troubled history of a free press in America and looks toward the challenges ahead. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press in seemingly clear terms. However, over the course of American history, Bollinger notes, the idea of freedom of the press has evolved, in response to social, political, technological, and legal changes. It was not until the twentieth century that freedom of the press came to be understood as guaranteeing an “uninhibited, robust, and wide-open” public discourse. But even during the twentieth century, the government has tried to erect barriers: the sedition laws of WWI, the use of libel law, the Pentagon Papers case, and efforts to limit press access to information. Bollinger sheds light on this history and explores the meaning of freedom of the press in our globalized, internet-dominated era. Bill Marimow, editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, moderates.
Grand Hall Overlook This is a TICKETED event; admission is $9 for members, $15 for non-members, $7 for students & teachers, FREE for 1787 Society members. Reservations are required. Please call 215.409.6700, or click here Start: 7:30 pm
Canceled due to severe weather
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity James Hansen The director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and a professor in Columbia University’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dr. James Hansen developed one of the world’s first climate models and was an advisor to Nobel Laureate Al Gore on An Inconvenient Truth. He frequently appears before Congress as an expert witness on environmental issues and was notoriously censured by the Bush administration for speaking out about the need to curtail carbon emissions. In Storms of My Grandchildren—his first book—Dr. Hansen clearly explains the science behind global warming and argues that politicians have failed to connect policy with the science. He calls for immediate grassroots action to save humanity from the dire and imminent fate presaged by the title of his book. “When the history of the climate crisis is written, Hansen will be seen as the scientist with the most powerful and consistent voice calling for intelligent action to preserve our planet's environment” (Al Gore, Time).
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02 / 12
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02 / 18
Start: 7:30 pm
Eat, Pray, Love and Committed Elizabeth Gilbert
Princess Ben, Front and Center, and Dairy Queen Catherine Gilbert Murdock Please join Spells Writing Center for a conversation with sisters Elizabeth Gilbert and Catherine Gilbert Murdock about writing, relationships, and other humble responsibilities, moderated by Larry Platt, editor-in-chief of Philadephia magazine. Book signing and dessert reception to follow. The Joseph Fox Bookshop will be donating a portion of the booksale proceeds to the Spells Writing Center.
Loews Hotel This is a TICKETED event, for registration and additional information, please click here Start: 7:30 pm
I Walked with Giants: The Autobigraphy of Jimmy Heath Jimmy Heath In conversation with co-author Joseph McLaren A National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and three-time Grammy Award nominee, Jimmy Heath has performed on more than 125 albums and written more than 100 compositions, including the jazz classics “Gemini,” “Gingerbread Boy,” and “CTA.” Raised in Philadelphia, he formed the legendary Heath Brothers Band with his older brother Percy and younger brother Tootie. During his now more than 60-year career, Heath has performed with many jazz giants, including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie, who said of Heath, “All I can say is, if you know Jimmy Heath, you know Bop.” By turns witty and touching, Heath's candid new autobiography reveals what it was like to spend a life in jazz.
Central Library This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, call 215.567.4341, or click here | ||
02 / 19
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02 / 22
Start: 6:30 pm
Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves Sana Butler In honor of Black History Month, the Center welcomes Newsweek’s Sana Butler for a conversation about her new book Sugar of the Crop, an account of her ten year odyssey to find and interview the last surviving children of American slaves. Butler will discuss how freed slaves raised their children in the years following the end of the Civil War. She details a race against time to crisscross the country to reveal the hopes and dreams of the first generation of free African Americans. She will discuss the immigrant mentality black parents carried after 1865 as they believed in the Constitution and the potential of a new America.
Annenberg Center for Education and Outreach This is a FREE event; but reservations are required. Please call 215.409.6700, or click here | ||
02 / 23
Start: 7:30 pm
Skinny Couple in a Box Kim Barnouin A former model with a master’s degree in holistic nutrition, Kim Barnouin is co-author, along with Rory Freedman, of the diet book for women Skinny Bitch. With more than two million copies in print, it was a no. 1 New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 20 languages. A frank guide to eating well and losing weight—Dwight Garner called it “a funny foul-mouthed ode to adopting a vegan diet” (The New York Times Book Review)—the book is collected in this new box set along with its male companion, Skinny Bastard.
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02 / 24
Start: 5:30 pm
The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers Thomas Fleming A compelling, intimate look at the founders—George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison—and the women who played essential roles in their lives. With his usual storytelling flair and unparalleled research, Fleming nimbly takes us through a great deal of early American history, as his founding fathers strove to reconcile the private and public, often beset by a media every bit as gossip seeking and inflammatory as ours today. He offers a powerful look at the challenges women faced in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While often brilliant and articulate, the wives of the founding fathers all struggled with the distractions and dangers of frequent childbearing and searing anxiety about infant mortality. All the more remarkable, then, that these women loomed so large in the lives of their husbands—and, in some cases, their country.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia This event is FREE for Athenaeum Members; $10 admission for non-members. Reservations are required; please contact Susan Gallo at 215-925-2688 or sgallo@philaathenaeum.org. For more information, please click here | ||
02 / 25
Start: 7:30 pm
Little Bee Chris Cleave Chris Cleave’s debut novel Incendiary—a fictional narrative of a terrorist bombing in London—appeared in bookstores the same day a series of bombings of London’s public transportation system claimed more than 50 lives. A review in The Washington Post called the book “A mesmerizing tour de force: ragged, breathless, full of raw emotion, the blackest of humor and relentless action.” In Little Bee, Cleave tells the story of a Nigerian orphan named Little Bee and an English couple whose lives become inescapably intertwined. Unflinching and brutal, the book examines the lack of compassion in the world of refugees.
Mornings in Jenin: A Novel Susan Abulhawa Born to Palestinian refugees of the Six-Day War of 1967, Susan Abulhawa faced the disintegration of her family, the loss of their property, and lived in countries all over the world before finally settling in America. An outspoken advocate for Palestinians, she is also the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a non-governmental organization that builds playgrounds for children living in occupied areas and refugee camps. Originally published as The Scar of David, Abulhawa’s debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, is a fictionalized account of a Palestinian family forced into the Jenin refugee camp after the formation of Israel in 1948. Profoundly moving, the novel highlights the universal desire of all people for a homeland and brings new light to the lasting conflict in the Middle East.
Central Library This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, call 215.567.4341, or click here | ||
02 / 26
Start: 7:30 pm
The Infinities John Banville The Infinities is John Banville’s first literary fiction since his 2005 Man Booker Prize winner The Sea. The Dublin-based writer is the author of 14 previous novels including Kepler and The Book of Evidence. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Award, and a Lannan Literary Award for fiction, Banville writes in a densely wrought, distinctive style that has drawn comparisons to the work of Joyce, Beckett, and Nabokov. In The Infinities, the Godley family gathers as their patriarch lies dying. Around them hovers another family, one of mischievous immortals—among them, Zeus, Pan, and Hermes, the genial and omniscient narrator of the story.
Central Library This is a TICKETED event; $14 General Admission, $7 Students. Tickets on sale Friday, January 15 at 10:00 a.m. at freelibrary.org/authorevents or by phone at 1-800-595-4TIX (4849). For more information, call 215.567.4341, or click here | ||
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03 / 2
Start: 7:00 pm
The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun Gretchen Rubin Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project. In this lively and compelling account of that year, Rubin carves out her place alongside the authors of bestselling memoirs such as Julie and Julia, The Year of Living Biblically, and Eat, Pray, Love. With humor and insight, she chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier.
Hyatt at the Bellevue This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, click here Start: 7:30 pm
The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi Elif Shafak With more than 150,000 copies sold, Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love is already a no. 1 bestseller in Turkey. One of the most well-known authors of Turkish descent writing today, Shafak was charged with the crime of “insulting Turkishness” by the Turkish government for her previous novel The Bastard of Istanbul; the critically acclaimed author was ultimately pardoned. In The Forty Rules of Love, Shafak tells the story of a romance between a modern Jewish-American housewife and a male Sufi living in Amsterdam interwoven with a parallel narrative about the intense spiritual bond between the historical figures of Rumi and the Shams of Tabris.
Central Library This is a TICKETED event; $14 General Admission, $7 Students. Tickets on sale Friday, January 15 at 10:00 a.m. at freelibrary.org/authorevents or by phone at 1-800-595-4TIX (4849). For more information, call 215.567.4341, or click here | ||
03 / 3
Start: 6:30 pm
An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar Taryn Simon Artist Taryn Simon assumes the dual role of shrewd informant and collector of curiousities, compiling an inventory of what lies hidden and out-of-view within the borders of the United States. She examines American culture through careful documentation of diverse subjects from the realms of science, government, medicine, entertainment, nature, security, and religion. Transforming the unknown into a seductive and intelligible form, Simon confronts the divide between those with and without the privilege of access. Her sometimes ethereal, sometimes foreboding compositions, shot with a large-format view camera over a four-year period, vary as much as her subject matter, which ranges from radioactive capsules at a nuclear waste storage facility to live HIV and medical waste to a black bear in hibernation. For more information on Taryn Simon, please click here
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia This is a FREE event, but reservations are requested. Please call 215.563.3737, or click here | ||
03 / 4
Start: 7:30 pm
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer Anousheh Ansari On September 18, 2006, Anousheh Ansari became the first astronaut of Iranian descent, the first female private space explorer, and the fourth person ever to purchase a ride into space. Fleeing the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ansari immigrated to the United States when she was 16 years old. Eventually, as co-founder of Telecom Technologies, she amassed a personal fortune that would fund her way to the International Space Station. The blog she maintained while in space attracted a record 25 million readers; My Dream of the Stars is her account of her groundbreaking journey. More than just an astronaut story, her memoir is a message of hope for people struggling to overcome economic and cultural barriers. Co-author of My Dream of Stars, Homer Hickam wrote the no. 1 New York Times bestseller Rocket Boys, which was adapted into the major theatrical release, October Sky. He is the author of eight other books, including the 1989 military nonfiction bestseller Torpedo Junction and the New York Times bestseller Back to the Moon. A One Book, One Philadelphia program. For more information call 215-567-7710.
Central Library This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, call 215.567.4341, or click here | ||
03 / 5
Start: 8:00 pm
My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World Jeff Garlin My Footprint documents Jeff Garlin's hysterical journey to lessen both his physical and carbon footprint. Comedian and actor Jeff Garlin is best known for his work on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Garlin also spent three seasons on NBC's Mad About You in the role of Marvin, and has a variety of television and film appearances to his credit including Dr. Katz, Arrested Development, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Late Show with David Letterman, Tom Goes to the Mayor, The Daily Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Daddy Day Care, and WALL-E. He has also had his own HBO half-hour comedy special.
Helium Comedy Club This is a TICKETED event; $25 General admission. For tickets and more information, please call 215.496.9001, or click here | ||
03 / 6
Start: 2:00 pm
The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return Zecharia Sitchin In The End of Days, the conclusion to the Earth Chronicles series, bestselling author Zecharia Sitchin treats ancient Sumerian writings and biblical tales not as mythology, but as records and recollections of mankind’s past.
Central Library This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, call 215.567.4341, or click here | ||
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03 / 9
Start: 7:30 am
ROAR! Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle Kevin Daum Please join the CEO Think Tank for their Fourth Annual Growth Strategies Breakfast. In today’s business world great is not good enough. If you want to attract and retain customers you have to stand out by "Creating the Awesome Experience". Come hear author, Smart Business Magazine columnist, and Inc. 500 entrepreneur Kevin Daum as he shares with you how to separate your business from the crowd by creating the convergence of need, entertainment and the unexpected. Kevin will show you the three components you must master in your business including compelling messaging, intentional marketing and memorable delivery. His marketing methods have resulted in over a billion dollars in sales and numerous book deals. He’ll reveal the 3500-year-old-secret of success from his forthcoming book ROAR! Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle, and share adventures from his quest for the Jewish Super Bowl Ring. Please note, ROAR! Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle, will NOT be available for sale at this event. Pre-order a copy through this website or by calling the bookshop at 215.563.4184. All advance orders will recieve a 20% discount; orders will be filled upon the official book publication in April. Union League of Philadelphia 140 South Broad Street Philadelphia, PA, 19102 This is a TICKETED event, for more information, including pricing and registration, please click here For more info on Kevin Daum, his book and quest, check out his blog and video at www.AwesomeRoar.com Start: 6:00 pm
The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation Steven W. Semes A comprehensive and eloquent argument for "new traditional" architecture that preserves the style and character of historic buildings. With contemporary design being redefined by architects and urbanists who are recovering the historic language associated with traditional architecture and the city, how might preservation change its focus or update its mission? Steven W. Semes makes a persuasive case that context matters and that new buildings and additions to old buildings should be harmonious with their neighbors.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia This event is FREE for Athenaeum Members, Classical America, Preservation Alliance and AIA Members; $10 admission for non-members. Reservations are required; please contact Susan Gallo at 215-925-2688 or sgallo@philaathenaeum.org. For more information, please click here Start: 7:30 pm
The Ask Sam Lipsyte A master of dark satire and a purveyor of quick, witty language, Sam Lipsyte “shows off the prose equivalent of three chords on a one-string guitar” (Kirkus Reviews). His short story collection Venus Drive was named one of the top 25 books of the year by the Voice Literary Supplement, and his latest novel, Home Land, was awarded the first annual Believer Book Award and was a 2005 New York Times Notable Book. In The Ask, development officer Milo Burke struggles to keep his job by courting a former classmate for a donation.
Union Atlantic Adam Haslett Adam Haslett’s first collection of short stories, You Are Not a Stranger Here, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize and won the 2003 L.L. Winship PEN New England Award. A reviewer in the New York Times Book Review called the collection the “herald of a phenomenal career.” Union Atlantic, Haslett’s debut novel, tells of the legal struggle between a banker and a retired schoolteacher over rights to build on land that the schoolteacher’s grandfather donated to her town. Characterizing Haslett’s stories in a Salon.com review, Laura Miller wrote, “The twist in an Adam Haslett story is often a revelation about who is actually the stronger in a pair of characters.”
Central Library This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, call 215.567.4341, or click here | ||
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03 / 11
Start: 7:30 pm
Encyclopedia of Africa Kwame Anthony Appiah Philosopher and scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah is president of the PEN American Center and a professor at Princeton University. He is the author of a collection of essays on African-American identity called In My Father’s House and co-author of the nonfiction book Color Consciousness: The Political Morality of Race. He collaborated with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., to complete Africana, which became the basis for the revised and expanded Encyclopedia of Africa. Providing the most current and extensive coverage of the region, the Encyclopedia of Africa profiles prominent individuals and outlines significant events, places, political movements, art forms, religions, and ethnic groups throughout Africa.
Central Library This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, call 215.567.4341, or click here | ||
03 / 12
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
The Color of Style David Zyla Please join Boyds Philadelphia for a fashionable book signing event with David Zyla, stylist to the stars and head costume designer for All My Children. David will be highlighting essential fashion tips from his new book and sharing his expertise. He'll help you select your own color palette for the new fashion season while you shop for the new spring collections! Women's Store 3rd Floor
Boyds Philadelphia This is a FREE event, but reservations are required. Please email rsvp@boydsphila.com | ||
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