December 2nd, 2009
The Archives
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12.02.09Anne Carson: Tonight at Penn Humanities ForumAnne Carson is reading tonight at the Penn Humanities Forum. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur "Genius" Award. Carson has published over 15 volumes of essays and poems. A poem from the New Yorker; an interview with KCRW; a recording of Carson reading her own work. 2 December 2009 | 7:00–8:00pm Auditorium, 2nd floor, ARCH Building, 3601 Locust Walk
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12.02.09Unusual Reading Habits of Philadelphia Sports StarsAllan Iverson is coming back to the Sixers, so now's probably a good time to mention that his favorite book is Green Eggs and Ham. The Phanatic, meanwhile, muses "I love to check books out from the library that detail the history of baseball. It's fun to read about how the game has changed since its inception. Players dressed in funny looking uniforms, shared baseball gloves and teams didn't even have mascots!" I think it's worth noting that I have never seen the Philadelphia Phanatic in a library, though he does appear to be the published author of five books, including The ...
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12.02.091.5 Million to One: Zack NoyceA new feature continues today at Philly Dame. Based on the series One in Eight Million by the New York Times, 1.5 Million to One will profile a Philadelphian each Wednesday to ask some questions about our city's past and future. Zack Noyce is a library student at Drexel University, a part-time employee at the University of Pennsylvania Library, a proud resident of West Philadelphia, a Utah native, an avid Twitterer, and a former columnist for the Daily Pennsylvanian. Zack was kind enough to sit down and answer a few questions about his adopted city. Thanks Zack! Who is your favorite Declaration ...