Archive for February 2010
2/02/10
Sonia Sanchez reads from her new book of poems, Morning Haiku. The collection celebrates the lives and mourns the deaths of revered African-American leaders.
2/03/10
Lise Funderburg signs her memoir Pig Candy: Taking my Father South, Taking My Father Home.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and critic Gary Wills talks about and signs Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State.
2/09/10
AuthorFrancine Prose (above, right) talks about her new book, Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife. The book analyzes The Diary of Anne Frank as a work of both intended literature and art. PHOTO: Francine Prose at First Annual Free Library of Philadelphia Book Festival, 2006, by Kathye Fetsko Petrie.
2/10/10
Donald Welch discusses the Philly-based novel In My Sister’s House.
2/13/10
Michael Townsend signs his latest book in the the graphic novel series, KIT FEENY, and demonstrates how graphic novels and comic books are made.
2/15/10
Joyce Carol Oates (see also 2/16)
2/16/10
Joyce Carol Oates (see also 2/15)
2/17/10
Drexel University Professor Scott Knowles talks about and signs his book, Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City, in which Knowles looks back at Bacon’s ideas and outlines his own visions for our city.
2/18/10
Jazz master and Philadelphia native Jimmy Heath talks about The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath with co-author Joseph McLaren.
Fresh Air television critic David Bianculli talks about and signs Dangerously Funny, his book about the Smothers Brothers.
Eat, Pray, Write: An Evening with Sisters Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat Pray, Love and Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage) and Catherine Gilbert Murdock (Princess Ben, Front and Center and Dairy Queen), in a ticketed event at the Loews Hotel to benefit the Spells Writing Center.
2/19/10
Ghostbread Reading with Sonja Livingston. (WRITERS AND THE PROCESS SERIES atBig Blue Marble Bookstore).
2/21/10
Local author HOMA SABET TAVANGAR visits to discuss her book, Growing Up Global: Raising Children to be at Home in the World.
2/23/10
Model-turned-weightloss-writer Kim Barnouin, co-author of the bestselling vegan diet book, Skinny Bitch, talks about and signs the new Skinny Couple in a Box, a boxed set of the hardcover versions of Skinny Bitch and Skinny Bastard.
2/24/10
Activist and University of Pennsylvania alum Andrew Lewis discusses The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation.
2/25/10
Chris Cleave, author of the acclaimed Little Bee: A Novel; appearing with Susan Abulhawa, author of Mornings in Jenin: A Novel.
Literary historian and Rutger’s University English professor Jack Lynch discusses his book, The Lexicographer’s Dilemma:The Evolution of ‘Proper’ English, from Shakespeare to South Park, at 7: 30 PM at Head House Books, 619 S. 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA.
2/26/10
John Banville, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Sea, reads from and signs his newest novel, The Infinities.
2/27/10
Photo of Jennifer R. Hubbard © by Kathye Fetsko Petrie
Local writer Jennifer R. Hubbard signs her debut Young Adult novel, The Secret Year, at Borders Express in Exton, PA, 1 to 3 PM.
Alan Gordon signs The Parisian Prodigal.