Archive for September 2009
September 2009
9/1/09
Local author William Lasher reads from his latest novel, Blood and Bone.
9/3/09
Former Pennsylvania governor and first Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge talks about and signs his prescriptive book and memoir, The Test of Our Times: America under Siege…and How We Can Be Safe Again? (also see September 14 & 24).
University of Pennsylvania alum and Young Adult-novelist Julie Kraut gives a preview reading of her novel, Slept Away.
Poet Linh Dinh.
9/8/09
9/10/09
Nicholson Baker, author of the bestselling novels Vox and Mezzanine and the award-winning non fiction title Doublefold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, talks about and signs The Anthologist, his new novel which is said to reveal “the importance of poetry in everyday life.”
Lisa Tucker, author of Shout Down the Moon and The Song Reader, talks about and signs her newest novel, The Promised World.
Solomon Jones at Borders Express, Liberty Place, 1625 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Non to 2 PM. More info: 215.557.8443. See also October 17.
9/12/09
David Allen Sibley in Doylestown. Also see 9/13.
Michael Davis signs Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street.
9/13/09
David Allen Sibley at the Free Library of Philadelphia. See also 9/12.
Local author Sara Shephard introduces Killer, her latest title in her popular teen series, “Pretty Little Liars.”
Liz Rosenberg reads from her novel, Home Repair.
9/14/09
Former Pennsylvania governor and first Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge speaks at the National Constitution Center. Free. See also 9/24.
9/15/09
Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review, will be interviewed by Philadelphia Inquirer book critic Carlin Romano.
9/16/09
Author Evan Schwartz recounts the background of the Wizard of Oz and signs Finding Oz.
9/17/09
A Total Eclipse reading with Aletta Henry at Big Blue Marble Bookstore.
9/18/09
World War II Radio Heroes:Letters of Compassion reading with Lisa Spahr at Big Blue Marble Bookstore.
9/22/09
Think Globally, Read Locally Event featuring six Philadelphia-area authors:
• Jim Zervanos reads from his set-in-Philadelphia novel, Love Park.
• Lise Funderburg reads from her memoir Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home.
• Rachel Pastan reads from her novel, Lady of the Snakes
• Ru Freeman reads from her set-in-Sri Lanka novel A Disobedient Girl.
• Cynthia Reeves reads from Badlands.
• Elizabeth Mosier reads from My Life as a Girl.
Ralph Nader /PHOTO of Ralph Nader from Ragesoss
Lorrie Moore (see also 9/23)
Sarah Stolfa discusses and signs The Regulars, a book of photographic portraits of patrons of the downtown Philadelphia bar, McGlinchey’s.
Photo © by Fred Viebahn. Copied, with permission, from Rita Dove’s homepage www.people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b
Pulitzer-prize winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove.
9/23/09
Lorrie Moore (see also 9/22)
9/24/09
Tom Ridge, former Pennsylvania governor and first Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, talks about and signs his memoir, The Test of Our Times (also see September 6).
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove.
Photo © by Fred Viebahn. Copied, with permission,
from Rita Dove’s homepage www.people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b
9/25/09
E. Lynn Harris Tribute Tour, hosted by Philadelphia novelist Brenda L. Thomas and featuring readings from the late E. Lynn Harris’ new novel,Mama Dearest.
9/29/09
9/30/09
A LUNCH DISCUSSION WITH PETE DEXTER
Poetry reading by award-winning former U.S. poet laureate Daniel Hoffman.
Free launch party for Best of Philadelphia Stories Anthology: Volume 2.
Pulitzer-prize winning historian James McPherson delivers the inaugural lecture in The Lore Kephart ‘86 Distinguished Historians Lecture Series at Villanova University. READ STORY