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		<title>Archive for January 2010</title>
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1/08/10

Michael Gates Gill talks about How to Save Your Own Life.

1/11/10

Sonia Sanchez reads haiku at Moonstone Arts Center.


THE BRANDYWINE VALLEY WRITERS GROUP with special guests Dena Blizzard, a former Miss New Jersey and a stand-up comedian, and Taylor Mason, a comic and the author of the forthcoming work, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Ventriloquism.

Richard D. Bank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archive for December 2009</title>
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 Acclaimed novelist and poet Julia Alvarez (Photo by Bill Eichner).
 Amy Goodman
Lidia Bastianich
Sports writer Robert Lyons discusses and signs his book, On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert Bell. The book is published by Temple University Press.
 Local favorite Lisa Scottoline discusses and signs her new non-fiction collection of her Philadelphia Inquirer columns, Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog. PHOTO: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://locallit.com/2009/12/27/archive-for-december-2009/</link>
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		<title>Editor&#8217;s Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New blog coming in 2010
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		<link>http://locallit.com/2009/11/24/kathyes-blog/</link>
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		<title>Archive for November 2009</title>
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11/3/09 to 11/8/09
8th Annual First Person Arts Festival Among the many events offered over five days is a discussion of narrative journalism with internationally best-selling Philadelphia author Mark Bowden; a discussion on writing memoir with acclaimed Philadelphia authors Ben Yagoda and Rachel Simon along with best-selling author A. J. Jacobs and graphic-memoir author Laurie Sandell; a memoir-writing workshop with Philadelphia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://locallit.com/2009/11/24/archive-for-november-2009/</link>
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		<title>Archive for October 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[October 2009
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10/1/09
Karen Armstrong

Glenn Beck 

Eileen Flanagan, The Wisdom to Know the Difference reading and book release party at Big Blue Marble Bookstore.  



10/2/09

Lou Manfredo signs Rizzo’s War. 

10/3/09

The 7h Annual Collingswood Book Festival


HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY TO CHILDRENS BOOK WORLD in Haverford.  Attend the celebration from 11 to 3 PM.
10/4/09


Book Signing &#38; Open House for the new book Swarthmore Borough, Swarthmore College, McCabe Library Exhibition Space, 2-4 PM

10/5/09

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		<title>Archive for September 2009</title>
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9/1/09 
Local author William Lasher reads from his latest novel, Blood and Bone.
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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&#8230;and How We Can Be Safe Again? (also see September 14 &#38; 24).
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University of Pennsylvania alum and Young Adult-novelist Julie Kraut gives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://locallit.com/2009/09/01/archive-for-september-2009/</link>
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		<title>Summer 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ June &#8211; August 2009
Happy summer reading season! — KFP


NOTE TO READERS: Local LIT is on summer hiatus
and will return in September with Fall 2009 events
To keep up with literary events during the summer please visit


Kathye Petrie&#8217;s Philadelphia Literary Scene column on Examiner.com
 Note that the resource section of Local LIT &#8211; i.e., the links on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://locallit.com/2009/06/01/june-august-2009/</link>
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		<title>MAY 2009</title>
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05/01/09 Local author  Jim Zervanos celebrates the official May 1 release of his new novel, Love Park, by signing the book from noon to 2 PM at the Summer in Love Concert series in Love Park in Philadelphia (16th and JFK Parkway) , and again at 3 PM at the Reading Terminal Market.  (also see May 21)   05/05/09Colson Whitehead    
University of Pennsylvania [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 2009</title>
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April 2009
 
If we are not supposed to dance . . . why all this music? – Gregory Orr
  
04/01/09    
Thomas Paine Part 4: The Forgotten Founding Father: A lecture on Paine in Europe and The Rights of Man, Age of Reason, and Agrarian Reform presented by Jack Fruchtman Jr., author of Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom.
 
04/02/09 
Poet and novelist (and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://locallit.com/2009/04/01/april-2009/</link>
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		<title>MARCH 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 03/04/09
Poet Mary Jo Salter 
 
3/18/09 
 
New Yorker writer and cultural critic Lawrence Weschler, author Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences, talks about “a world melting into thin air,” as we move more and more from “the substantive to the virtual.” Part of The Penn Humanities Forum, Spring 2009.
3/24/09
  
Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer-prize winning Irish poet, Rackett rock band guitarist, and current poetry editor of The [...]]]></description>
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