PhilaCulturati - Dec 2 & 3, FREE Author Events!

Dec 2 & 3, FREE Author Events!

Published on November 22nd, 2009 by PhilaCulturati in Free!, Literature

Leslie Caron | Thank Heaven: A Memoir
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM, FREE
A beloved film star of MGM’s Golden Era,Leslie Caron has appeared in such classic movies as An American in Paris, Gigi, Daddy Long Legs, and Lili. More recently she acted in the film Chocolat and won an Emmy Award for her performance in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Offering an intimate view of the characters and settings of old Hollywood,Thank Heaven is a candid account of Caron’s life from her discovery in Paris by Gene Kelly to her successes in Hollywood and her personal struggles with alcoholism and depression.

Sue Grafton | U is for Undertow
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 7:30 PM, FREE
Published in 26 languages, Sue Grafton’sbestselling Kinsey Millhone mysteries feature “a heroine with foibles you can laugh at and faults you can forgive,” according to the New York Times Book Review. “As this master of suspense continues to demonstrate… there are more ugly twists in the human heart than there are letters in the alphabet,” praisesEntertainment Weekly. Grafton has received the Ross Macdonald Literary Award and was named a co-Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. U is for Undertow is the latest Millhone mystery.

Sue Grafton Supports Feeding Body & Mind
While food can keep one alive, it cannot, by itself, lift one from poverty; however, increased literacy skills can. Through the Feeding Body & Mindprogram, new and gently used books are collected and distributed to food banks across the country.

Please bring a new or or gently used book to Sue’s event and drop it in the box with the Feeding Body & Mind logo. To learn more about the program visit: www.feedingbodyandmind.com

Mary Karr | Lit
Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture
Cost: $14 General Admission, $7 Students Buy tickets online>>

Poet and memoirist Mary Karr is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry in 2005 and has won Pushcart Prizes for both her poetry and essays. Her bestselling memoir, The Liars’ Club, won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award and was named best book of the year by many publications. Her follow-up memoir, Cherry, was also a bestseller. Filled with the dark humor that suffuses much of her work, Karr’s new memoir Lit chronicles her descent into alcoholism and her conversion to Catholicism with an unlikely tribe of gurus and saviors.