Notable Philadelphia: 9/12–9/18
Literary events and readings in and around Philadelphia this week!
Posts by year
2017
1853 posts
This Week in Indie Bookstores
A weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
Naming Our Phantoms: Tim Taranto’s Ars Botanica
There is no way to classify a response to pregnancy. It is what it is, which is why people find consolation in naming their phantoms. In this case, the phantom is named Catalpa.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What is life but a mysterious Cold War number station? Guess what? Banning Alt-Right trolls on Reddit worked! Here’s your beautiful metro station photography for the day. Someone solved the…
Run for Her Life
Maybe you didn’t remember to get out of his way while pretending to be brave. It’s hard to be brave when you think a man is about to kill you.
Working through Trauma
Danilova says the act of making the album helped her to work through this shared existential trauma.
TORCH: Goga
She was brave, coming to the station that day. It was still a time when people seen associating with the “traitors” could have had trouble from the KGB.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
As storms rage, take a moment too appreciate Florida: the paradise that never should have been. Here comes a little bit of mars up in Tibetan Plateau. Let’s all take…
The Inner and Outer Self: A Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg
Sylvia Brownrigg discusses Pages For Her and returning to its world of characters, the inner voices she heeds and those she silences, and who she imagines her readers to be.
Notable Twin Cities: 9/10–9/16
Literary events and readings in and around the Twin Cities this week!