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Saturday, February 12, 5pm – Art & Politics It is a new world we want not an endowed chair in the concentration camp…Art must be our magic weapon to create and re-create the world and ourselves as part of it… Amiri Baraka Theodore Harris & Susan Noyes Platt Susan Noyes Platt author of Art and …
Friday, February 25, 7pm – Author Event Meet Punkin House Authors and Staff Punkin House is a green book publishing company out of Cincinnati Ohio. We are seeking non-fiction, and exception fiction novels this year. Please join us for drinks, readings, book signings and Q&A. Come and meet our authors and Staff. You can meet …
Saturday, February 26, 3pm – Fiction Bucks County Publishing Presents Bruce A. Sarte & Christopher Grosso Bruce A. Sarte has published the vampire thriller Sands of Time, the paranormal murder mystery Towing Pines Volume One: Room 509, and Best Friends Forever (a short story included in the anthology Bump in the Night) Christopher Grosso, author …
Sunday, January 30, 7pm – Poetry Sandro Chiri, compilador, presents Para Espanol, Marque 2: Escritores Hispanoparlantes en Filadelfia (Latino Press 2010) The Moonstone Arts Center presents Para Español, Marque 2: Escritores Hispanoparlantes en Filadelfia, edited by Sandro Chiri. The participating writers who will read from their work are Enrique Saceiro, Carlos Trujillo, Roger Santiváñez, José …
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Friday, January 21, 7pm – Non-Fiction Tad Daley author of Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World ($24.95 Rutgers University Press) Tad Daley, J.D., Ph.D., is a writing Fellow with the Nobel Laureate group, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and a former speech writer for US Senator Alan Cranston …
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Saturday, December 11, 5pm – Non-Fiction Thabiti Lewis author of Ballers of the New School: Racism and Sports in American Culture ($17.95 Third World Press) Thabiti Lewis teaches English and Black Studies at Washington State University Vancouver. The former editor, radio show host, columnist, and freelance writer for The Source. The St. Louis American and …
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Saturday, December 11, 7pm – Fiction Valya Dudycz Lupescu author of The Silence of Trees ($14.99 Wolfsword Press) “In The Silence of Trees, Nadya, the astonishing matriarch, war survivor, and narrator, weaves a remarkable life centered on fate, love, luck and choice while honoring the ghosts of her past. Her voice is an important and …
Wednesday, December 22, 7pm – Fiction Alexander Kundera author of Fight for Your Long Day ($12 special price for book today only) Fight for Your Long Day is a day-in-the-life satire that follows the eventful misadventures of Cyrus Duffleman, a portly, down-and-out educator who teaches at four urban universities and works the night shift. Alex …
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Friday November 19, 7pm – Poetry & Prose Linh Dinh & Ocean Vuong Linh Dinh author of Love Like Hate: A Novel ($16.95 Seven Stories Press) Protagonists Kim Lan and Hoang Long marry in Saigon during the Vietnam War, uniting in a setting that allows Linh Dinh’s dark, deadpan humor to flourish. Describing his mushrooming …
Sunday, November 14, 2pm – Poetry Major Jackson & Harriet Levin Millan Major Jackson author of Holding Company ($24.95 Norton) Major Jackson is the author of two collections of poetry: Hoops (Norton: 2006) and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia: 2002), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle …