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Mayor: The Best Job in Politics
Producer: Karen Smyles Friday Arts visits the campus of The University of Pennsylvania for an interview with Mich ...
7 years ago
How a black detective infiltrated the KKK
In his new memoir, Black Klansman, he tells the story of how he hoodwinked the Ku Klux Klan into thinking he was one of them.
7 years ago
Bill Clinton sticks to book and literacy in Philly appearance
Speaking at a book tour event in Philadelphia, former president Bill Clinton said that if it wasn’t for ...
7 years ago
Cookbooks, comics, and capitalism: Book clubs for every reader
Choose your own adventure with these book club offerings in Philadelphia and beyond.
7 years ago
A novelist and psychiatrist reflect on school shootings
Guests: Tom McAllister, Steven Berkowitz The aftermath of a school shooting is the subject of Philadelphia author ...
Air Date: June 4, 2018 10:00 am
Listen 49:14NewsWorks Tonight, May 30, 2018
The deadline approaches to clear the addicted from the encampments in Kensington. Local author Peter Moskowitz (How to Kill a City) ta ...
Air Date: May 30, 2018
Listen 21:05Philly children’s book author fills a need with ‘Mommy’s Khimar’
A new children’s book from a Philadelphia author focuses on a mother-daughter bond told by a young girl who delights in wearing an Islamic headscarf.
7 years ago
Listen 5:12Fake and faulty drugs: A problem no one wants to talk about
The World Health Organization also estimates that between 72,000 and 169,000 children may die each year because of substandard or fake antibiotics.
7 years ago
America’s first coffee-table book offers ‘Views of Philadelphia,’ on exhibition now
America's first coffee-table book, circa 1800, showed Philadelphia as the world's next great city.
7 years ago
Listen 2:06New Horizons: NASA’s mission to Pluto
Guests: Alan Stern, David Grinspoon NASA’s New Horizons spaceship launched in 2006 to visit tiny Pluto at edge ...
Air Date: May 2, 2018 10:00 am
Listen 49:47Filtering American history through a ‘Brown’ lens
Young's new book, Brown, is colored by memories from his family and childhood, United States history, and black culture.
7 years ago
Writers house in Camden honors ‘haiku king’ Nick Virgilio
Camden's king of haiku poetry - Nick Virgilio - now has a writers house named after him.
7 years ago
Listen 2:50Mummers off Broad: New book of photos documents a decade of wenches
Photographer and Drexel professor Andrea Modica photographed Mummer wenches, one day a year for 10 years.
7 years ago
Listen 5:40‘The Shale Dilemma’ goes global: Author discusses shale gas development across the world
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran a University of Pittsburgh professor and editor of The Shale Dilemma, sat down for an interview about the topic.
7 years ago
Turning kids into readers, one barbershop at a time
It's mid-afternoon when Irby walks in, a man on a mission. He needs a trim from his go-to barber, Kenny, but he also wants to check in on his 15 books.
7 years ago