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Sunday January 18, 2015 – 2pm Moonstone @ Brandywine Workshop 728 South Broad Street M. Nzadi Keita – Brief Evidence of Heaven: poems from the life of Anna Murray Douglass – Reading and Book Launch Event “These sophisticated poems… “give voice to the voiceless” Anna Murray Douglass, whose famous husband, Frederick Douglass, barely gave …
Wednesday January 21, 2015 – 7pm – Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street Ernest Hilbert is author of Sixty Sonnets was described by X.J. Kennedy as “maybe the most arresting sequence we have had since John Berryman checked out of America,” and All of You on the Good Earth. …
Friday, October 5, 6:30pm – Non-Fiction Joyce Bacon author of I Survived: From Pain To Perseverance Everyone in this world believe it or not has encountered trials and tribulations of some degree. Some of us through faith, determination and perseverance have overcome them, not allowing our circumstances to consume us. But there are many who …
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Thursday, October 11, 6pm – Theater Quiara Alegría Hudes author of Water by the Spoonful, ($14.95 TCG) Quiara Alegría Hudes is the author of Water by the Spoonful, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Water by the Spoonful is the second in a trilogy of plays. The first, Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, was …
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Monday, October 15, 7pm – Fiction Tom Fitzgerald author of Poor Richard’s Lament: A Most Timely Tale ($30.00 Hobblebush Books) “I wish it were possible…to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for, having a very ardent desire to see …
Saturday, September 1, 6:30pm – Memoir Monique Lynelle author of My Journey at 30 ($14.99) My Journey at 30 is a year in the life of a survivor and is filled with real life experiences. This book takes people on a ride through the highs and lows of a grown woman. The situations and dilemma’s …
Monday, September 24, 8pm – Non-Fiction Jeb Sprague author of Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti (23.95 Monthly Review Pr) In this path-breaking book, Jeb Sprague investigates the dangerous world of right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti and its role in undermining the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people. Sprague focuses on the period beginning …
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Thursday, August 9, 7pm – Non-Fiction Sander Hicks author of Slingshot to the Juggernaut: Total Resistance to the Death Machine Means Complete Love of the Truth ($15.95 Soft Skull Press) “Hick’s Slingshot to the Juggernaut provides detailed ‘filling in the blanks’ in the 9/11 saga. This book serves as a wake-up call for an independent …
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Tuesday, August 14, 7pm – Memoir Benjamin Busch author of Dust to Dust: A Memoir ($26.99 Ecco Press) Dust to Dust is an extraordinary memoir about ordinary things: life and death, peace and war, the adventures of childhood and the revelations of adulthood. Benjamin Busch – a decorated U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer, who served …
Wednesday, July 25, 7pm – Poetry Greg Muttitt author of Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq ($28.95 New Press) In a gripping account of the war that dominated U.S. foreign policy over the last decade, investigative journalist Greg Muttitt takes us behind the scenes and reveals the heretofore-untold story of the …
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