Our team has been hard at work on our third annual Book Week since the beginning of the year, and we're so excited to finally share it with you. This package of reviews is tailored to readers who love Philadelphia and are curious about our history and our artistic legacy, and our influence on America, with additional picks highlighting Philly authors' recent bestsellers like You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip and Jennifer Weiner's The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits.
Neil Bardhan bites into Philadelphia Sandwiches and An Nichols is cooking with Chef Nok's Kalaya's Southern Thai Kitchen. We're exploring trans history (happy Pride!), we're going back in time to South Philly during the pandemic of 1918, we're discovering a real-life Black teenager who was kidnapped at sea by a Confederate captain during the Civil War. We have a critique of the wildly popular romantasy genre.
And lots more. Scroll through below and see what you find. We would love to know what YOU want to read.
Today is your LAST CHANCE to register for our Book Week author panel, featuring a conversation with our own Kyle V. Hiller, five top Philly writers, and you. It's happening TONIGHT (Wed June 4) at 6:30pm ET on Zoom, and there are pay-what-you-can tickets available. Get all the details and register here. We'd love to see you!
Book Week continues with our staff recommendations (it's a GREAT list), coming right to your inbox on Thursday.
Thanks for celebrating Book Week with us. As some people try to use their power and influence to ban books, threaten writers, and dismantle education itself, we are speaking up loudly. We won't have it. We will read. If you like the sound of that, consider supporting us!
Alaina Johns
BSR editor-in-chief
A charged history through the lens of dance
Kimberly Haas
In Theatres of the Body, professor, editor, author, and dance scholar Lynn Matluck Brooks dives into a history of Philadelphia, and the America it influenced, through the lens of dance in the 19th century. Kimberly Haas reviews.
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