Surviving an Apocalypse, New Philadelphia City Council, Books of Early 2024

Could you survive an apocalypse? Do you know how to build a bunker, fend off a hostile clan or survive a robot uprising? We hear from two Philadelphia authors.

Air Date: January 25, 2024 12:00 pm

A discussion with authors Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht.

A new four-year term begins Thursday for Philadelphia City Council. We hear from WHYY’s Tom MacDonald about what we can expect.

Philadelphia’s new city council is meeting today for the first time. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)

Are you prepared to survive an apocalypse? Do you know how to build a bunker, fend off a hostile clan or survive a robot uprising? If you’re not sure, join us for our conversation with Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht, the Philadelphia authors of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Apocalypse. We’ll get real survival advice to some tongue-in-cheek and – and some more likely – end-of-world situations.

Romance, horror, memoir, fiction, fantasy – we hear about freshly published books from local, new authors and renowned bestsellers. Dena Heilik from the Free Library of Philadelphia joins us to review some new printed works.

Dena’s booklist:

Come and Get It by Kiley Reid (publish date: Jan. 30)
Girls With Bad Reputations by Xio Axelrod (publish date: Feb. 6)
What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher (publish date: Feb. 13)
Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto (publish date: Jan. 9)
Women of Good Fortune by Sophie Wan (publish date: March 5)
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (publish date: Feb. 6)

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