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Tuesday
Apr132010

Philly Book Festival

The Free Library of Philadelphia is having their annual Book Festival on April 17-18 at their Central Library right on the beautiful Benjamin Franklin Parkway (just down the road from the Art Museum). Lots of authors will be giving talks and signing their books (lots of kid events, too). 

And who is closing out the festival? What major league group has been booked to take the stage for one last no-holds-barred bookish extravaganza? The Philly Liars Club. We’re like the Led Zeppelin of the Philadelphia Book Festival. All the other authors this year– Harlan Coben, Sonia Sanchez, Kitty Kelley, Helen Vendler, Yann Martel, Sapphire, and many many more– they’re just our opening act. 

So come on out and see me and three ubercool authors: LA Banks, Jonathan Maberry and Dennis Tafoya on the Bank of America Main Stage: Auditorium at 5PM on Sunday April 18. 

Book Festival Program

The Philly Liars Club

Saturday
Apr102010

Swierczymania! April 11 and April 14

If you're not yet a reader of Duane Swierczynski's genre-busting novels, now is a good to time to get started.  His latest, Expiration Date is maybe his best yet (Macmillan is serializing the first 50 pages of the novel here). And you have two chances to meet Swierczy this week.  On Sunday, April 11, he'll be at Port Richmond Books signing and talking about Expiration and on Wednesday, April 14, you can catch him at the Hiway Movie Theatre in Jenkintown with me.

Port Richmond Books is a great used bookstore, owned and operated by Greg Gillespie.  A former movie theatre, the store is a real gem in the heart of Fishtown.  Well . . . a gem if you like old books.  Be sure to check out one of the backrooms, full of old pulp paperbacks. The festivities begin at 2PM.  Hopefully Swierczy will bring beer. More info here

But you should also come out to Jenkintown on Wed night at 8PM.  Swierczynski will sign copies of his book, then he's the guest programmer for the evening and he's chosen the Walter Hill scripted 1972 crime flick Hickey & Boggs, starring Bill Cosby and Robert Culp.  I haven't seen this one yet and I'm very excited to catch it for the first time on a big screen.  After the movie, I'll do a Q&A with the author (a good question to ask him is, "Which of us is the best BBQ griller?").  Then we'll all probably get drunk at the VFW post.  You can't beat this for a Wed night at the movies.  More info at the Hiway site.  And there's lots of parking in Jenkintown!

Here's Swierczy on the event and here he is on Hickey & Boggs.  

 (cross posted in My Events)

Friday
Apr092010

April 2010 Events

A very busy month for me.  A complete schedule of my April appearances:

Sat April 10, 2PM: Doppelganger Poes at the German Society (right across the street from the Philly Poe House)

Wed Apr 14, 8PM: Noir Night at the Hiway Theatre in Jenkintown.  I'm bringing author Duane Swierczynski to the Hiway where he'll sign copies of his new novel, Expiration Date, then we'll all watch Hickey and Boggs, one of Duane's favorite movies, followed by a Q&A.  Don't miss this one of a kind event.

Sun Apr 18, 5PM: Philly Liars Club panel at the Free Library of Philadelphia's Book Festival.  I'll be moderating a panel featuring fellow Liars Club members, LA Banks, Jonathan Maberry and Dennis Tafoya.  We're the closing act for this year's festival.  Should be a great time. 

Wed Apr 28, 7PM: Ruth Abel Memorial Book Seminar at the Abington Free Library.  For poetry month, I've chosen a wonderful book of poetry by Elizabeth McFarland, Over the Summer Water

Friday
Apr092010

Doppelganger Poes 

Doppelganger Poes

Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 2:00p.m. See what happens when a group of scholars accidentally summon two conflicting versions of Poe. Doppelganger Poes visits one of Poe’s most frequent devices-doubling, this time of his own soul. Poe feels compelled to perform his best works while vying with himself for literary honors. Performance will begin at 2:00pm, doors open at 1:30pm. The German Society of Philadelphia is located at 611 Spring Garden Street, across the street from the Edgar Allan Poe NHS. FREE

We performed this at the Philly Poe Bicentennial celebration and it went very well.  The piece has now been expanded to feature more works of Poe, including a recital of "The Raven" in full.

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