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philadelphia
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12.03.09Bookshelf PornNSFISWWRTITGNSAST (Not safe for Ikea Shoppers who would run to Ikea to get new shelves after seeing this.)
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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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12.01.09Interview: George Anastasia, author of The Last GangsterGeorge Anastasia has been writing about organized and disorganized crime for thirty-five years, covering casino gambling in Atlantic City, mob hits in Philadelphia and criminal prosecutions throughout the country. The Philadelphia Inquirer reporter is the author of five books, including The Last Gangster a New York Times bestseller that chronicles the demise of the Philadelphia mob. His other books are Blood and Honor which Jimmy Breslin called it "the best gangster book ever written," the New York Times bestseller The Summer Wind about the Thomas Capano-Anne Marie Fahey murder case; The Goodfella Tapes, and Mobfiles: Mobsters, Molls, and Murder. His work ...
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12.01.09Interview: Kelly Simmons, author of Standing StillKelly Simmons is a former journalist and advertising creative director who specializes in marketing to women. She started writing fiction a decade ago, after studying at Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. Although she was born in Chicago and has lived everywhere from California to Washington, D.C., she makes her home outside of Philadelphia with her husband and three daughters. Her first novel, Standing Still, was published by Simon & Schuster in February 2008, and was hailed by Publishers Weekly as “an exhilarating debut.” in their starred review. Her next novel, The ...
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11.30.09Literary Link Round UpIf you have a library story, share it with the Lower Merion Library. The Philadelphia Center for the Book held their first literary salon. Save the date for Read and Romp 2010 (January 31, 2010) Waldo Hunt, 88, the king of the pop-up novel is dead