February 2009
Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Blink, talks about his latest book, Outliers, the story of the combination of circumstances that have led to well-known successes.
Michael Carroll talks about meditation and his new book, The Mindful Leader – Ten Principles for Bringing Out the Best in Ourselves and Others.
02/04/09
Christopher Kennedy Lawford talks about and signs Moments of Clarity: Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery.
Food writer Mark Bittman discusses Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating.
Poet, New Yorker contributor and translator Alistair Reid delivers a talk on the “Mysteries of Translation,”as part of The Penn Humanities Forum, Spring 2009.
02/05/09
Christine Weiser
Kelly Simmons
Elizabeth Mosier
Three local women writers, CHRISTINE WEISER (Broad Street), KELLY SIMMONS (Standing Still) and ELIZABETH MOSIER (My Life as a Girl), read from and sign their books at the Doylestown Bookshop.
02/06/09
Acclaimed fiction writer ETHAN CANIN, whose works include the short story collections Emperor of the Air and The Palace Thief, and the novels Blue River, Carry Me Across the Water and America , America (his most recent), talks and signs books as part of the 11th Annual Villanova Literary Festival.
02/08/09
The Art of Illustration: Children’s Book Fair
Children’s Book World and the Main Line Art Center team up to present an afternoon with our area’s major local children’s book Illustrators, including Judy Schachner, David Wiesner, Gene Barretta, Brian Biggs, Nick Bruel, E. B. Lewis, Bob McLeod, Lisa and Robert Papp, Matt Phelan, Roger Roth and Kaethe Zemach. This event takes place 11AM to 3 PM at the Main Line Art Center.
02/10/09
Award-winning author T. C. Boyle.
Award-winning local, memoirist, essayist, poet and BETH KEPHART delivers a talk on the topic “Writing My World” at 7:30 PM at the Tredyffrin-Easton Library, 582 Upper Gulph Road, Strafford-Wayne, PA.
02/11/09
Amy Bloom, author of Love Invents Us and Away, delivers the University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities. Her topic is love, her talk title is “Tragedy is Easy, Comedy is Hard, and Love is Damn Near Impossible.” Part of the Penn Humanities Forum.
02/12/09
Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks about and signs In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African-Americans Reclaimed Their Past.
02/17/09
Poet Natasha Trethewey. Part of the 11th Annual Villanova Literary Festival.
02/20/09
Local author Nancy Viau signs her new middle-grade novel, Samantha Hansen Has Rocks in Her Head, at Barnes & Noble-Exton at 6 PM.
02/21/09
Local children’s book author JEN BRYANT talks about and signs two of her books, each of which celebrates two master linguists: William Carlos Williams and Abraham Lincoln.
02/23/09 & 02/24/09
