Channel Title: Author Events Channel Description: Philadelphia’s premier speaker series presenting talks with today’s most celebrated authors and thinkers in person at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep this series available to everyone: https://tinyurl.com/jr2zkhar <video> The Intertextual Self: New Approaches to the Memoir Description: Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep this series available to everyone: https://support.freelibrary.org/site/... Memoirists most often focus on the authenticity of their own voice and experience, and how best to render on the page the intersection of memory and current insight. This traditional approach creates engaging and compelling personal narratives – singular texts of the self. But a new approach seems to be emerging, one in which writers grapple with other texts that have informed their experiences, shaped their thinking, and served as lenses through which to interpret their own lives. This event features three highly accomplished and daring authors who have taken this approach to their memoirs, highlighting how they absorbed other texts and made them integral to telling their own stories. Authors Chris Campanioni (A and B and Also Nothing, 2nd Ed.), Tyler Mills (The Bomb Cloud), and Leah Souffrant (Entanglements) represent a new generation of writers who have turned to an even wider range of texts to help them identify, craft, and share their own stories. Each of their strikingly original memoirs also include visual art created by the authors. Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan in 1985 and grew up in a very nineties New Jersey. His research connecting media studies with studies of migration has been awarded a Mellon Foundation fellowship and the Calder Prize and his writing has received the International Latino Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Academy of American Poets College Prize. He lives in Brooklyn. Leah Souffrant is a writer and artist committed to interdisciplinary practice. She is the author of Entanglements: Threads woven from history, memory, and the body (Unbound Edition Press 2023) and Plain Burned Things: A Poetics of the Unsayable (Collection Clinamen, PULG Liège 2017). The range of Souffrant’s work involves poetics, visual studies and art, translation, and critical work in literature, feminist theory, and performance. With Abby Paige, she is a founding member of the LeAB Iteration Lab for theater art and performance. Her awards include the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and her scholarship was recognized by the Center for the Study of Women & Society. Souffrant's poetry has been a finalist for the National Poetry Award. She keeps an art studio in Brooklyn and teaches writing at New York University. Born in Chicago, Tyler Mills (she/her) is the author of City Scattered (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo Press 2022), Hawk Parable (Akron Poetry Prize, University of Akron Press 2019), Tongue Lyre (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Southern Illinois University Press 2013), and co-author with Kendra DeColo of Low Budget Movie (Diode Editions Chapbook Prize, Diode Editions 2021). Her memoir, The Bomb Cloud, received a Literature Grant from the Café Royal Foundation NYC. A poet and essayist, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Believer, and Poetry, and her essays in AGNI, Brevity, Copper Nickel, River Teeth, and The Rumpus. She lived and taught in New Mexico four years, most recently serving as the Burke Scholar for the Doel Reed Center for the Arts in Taos, NM, and now teaches for Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. Recorded December 5, 2024 Facebook: / authorevents Instagram: / flpauthorevents Twitter/X: https://x.com/authorevents </video> <video> Andre Robert Lee | Filmmaker Description: Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep this series available to everyone:https://support.freelibrary.org/site/... In Conversation with Cherri Gregg André Robert Lee most recently served as the Executive Producer of Notes From America With Kai Wright. The show is broadcast from WNYC, the largest public radio station in America. André was the driving force behind the show’s expansion from 80 NPR stations to over 120 stations. André was tasked with reshaping and redesigning the live radio show. He is also a Film Maker, Keynote Speaker, Consultant, Writer, and Educator. André has committed his entire career to building an army of change agents. His process includes Many Things; New York City Public Schools, The Ford Foundation, Miramax Films, Urbanworld, Film Movement, Diana Ross, BET, Universal, PBS, HBO, Sundance, Picturehouse, and Dreamworks. André directed and produced The Prep School Negro and served as producer on the documentary I’m Not Racist…Am I? André created The Election Effects Project for Paramount TV. André told the story of incarcerated youth in Richmond with the award-winning film Virtually Free. Recorded November 6, 2024 Facebook: / authorevents Instagram: / flpauthorevents Twitter/X: https://x.com/authorevents </video> <video> Emma Copley Eisenberg | Housemates: A Novel Description: Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep this series available to everyone: https://support.freelibrary.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1860&mfc_pref=T&1860.donation=form1 In conversation with Jennifer Wilson Emma Copley Eisenberg is the author of The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, the chronicle of a long-reverberating 1980 double murder in a remote area of West Virginia. A New York Times Notable Book, it was nominated for an Edgar Award, a Lambda Literary Award, and an Anthony Award, among other honors. Her short fiction has appeared in such periodicals as Granta, McSweeney’s, Slate, and Tin House, and she is the cofounder of the Philadelphia-based Blue Stoop, a community hub for the literary arts. A celebration of queer life, art, and chosen family amidst the turmoil of contemporary America, Eisenberg’s debut novel follows two housemates on a road trip through rural Pennsylvania. Jennifer Wilson is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. Previously, she was a contributing essayist at the New York Times Book Review covering trends in contemporary fiction. In 2022, she received the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. In 2024, she was awarded the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism. She has a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures and frequently writes about books by writers from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, as well as the relationship between culture and political economy. She regularly teaches cultural reporting and criticism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Recorded May 28, 2024 Facebook: https://facebook.com/authorevents Instagram: https://instagram.com/flpauthorevents Twitter: https://twitter.com/authorevents Podcast Archive: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/authorevents/podcast The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. </video> <video> Paola Mendoza | Solis Description: Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep this series available to everyone:https://support.freelibrary.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1860&mfc_pref=T&1860.donation=form1 In conversation with AJ Hikes From the authors of Sanctuary comes a haunting near-future companion tale about undocumented immigrants subjected to deadly experiments in a government labor camp and the four courageous rebels who set into place a daring plan to liberate them. Paola Mendoza is a proud immigrant from Colombia. She is an award-winning filmmaker, best-selling author and has organized some of the largest and most impactful cultural and political movements in the past decade, including the Women's March, Families Belong Together & Trans Prom. She uses art to disrupt and disarm, to change our thinking, and to advance movements for immigrants, reproductive justice and the LGBTQ community. Her work has been supported by The Ford Foundation, Just Films, Pop Culture Collaborative, Opportunity Agenda, and Race Forward, among many others. She co-authored the New York Times bestseller Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World. Her YA novel, Sanctuary, was a critical darling and is currently being adapted into a motion picture. Her most recent YA title, SOLIS (the sequel to Sanctuary), will be released in the Fall. Paola's work has been published in The New York Times, USA Today, Huffington Post, Glamour, InStyle, Elle and Teen Vogue. Her films Igualada, Entre Nos, On the Outs & Free Like the Birds have garnered international and critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival just to name a few. Paola is a founder of The Resistance Revival Chorus, The Meteor and The Soze Agency. Recorded October 10, 2024 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorevents Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flpauthorevents/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/authorevents </video> <video> Malcolm Gladwell at Rodeph Shalom Description: </video> <video> Ala Stanford | Take Care of Them Like My Own Description: Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep this series available to everyone:https://support.freelibrary.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1860&mfc_pref=T&1860.donation=form1 In conversation with Cherri Gregg The founder of the Black Doctors Consortium highlights the devastating racial injustices in our health care system in this inspirational memoir and empowering call to action. Dr. Ala Stanford knew she wanted to be a doctor by the time she was eight years old. But role models were few and far between in her working-class North Philly neighborhood. Her teachers were dismissive, and the realities of racism, sexism, and poverty threatened to derail her at every turn. Nevertheless, thanks to her faith, family, and the sheer strength of her will, today she is one of the vanishingly small number of Black women surgeons in America--and an unrelenting force in the fight for health justice. In Take Care of Them Like My Own, Dr. Stanford shares an unflinching account of her story, explaining how her experiences on both sides of the scalpel have informed her understanding of America's racial health gap, an insidious and lethal form of inequality that exacts a devastating toll on Black communities across the country, affluent and underserved alike. When Covid-19 arrived in her hometown of Philadelphia, she knew it would disproportionately affect the Black population. As the city stood idly by, unwilling or unable to protect its most vulnerable citizens, Dr. Stanford took matters into her own hands. She rented a van, made some calls, and began administering tests in church parking lots. Soon, she found herself at the helm of a powerful grassroots campaign that successfully vaccinated tens of thousands of Philadelphians. She and her movement are living proof that by drawing on faith, community, and inner strength, everyday people can affect tremendous change. Part memoir, part manifesto for health equality and justice, Take Care of Them Like My Own offers urgent lessons about the power of communities working together to take care of one another and the importance of fighting for a healthcare system that truly fulfills its promise to all Americans. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorevents Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flpauthorevents/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/authorevents The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. </video> <video> President Bill Clinton | Citizen Description: In Conversation with Jonathan Capehart A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all. On January 20, 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics--eight of them as president of the United States--Bill Clinton was suddenly a private citizen. Only fifty-four years old, full of energy and ideas, he wanted to make meaningful use of his skills, his relationships with world leaders, and all he'd learned in a lifetime of politics, but how? Just days after leaving the White House, the call came to aid victims of a devastating earthquake in India, and Clinton hit the ground running. Over the next two decades, he would create an enduring legacy of public service and advocacy work, from Indonesia to Louisiana, Northern Ireland to South Africa, and in the process reimagine philanthropy and redefine the impact a former president could have on the world. Citizen is Clinton's front-row, first-person chronicle of his postpresidential years and the most significant events of the twenty-first century, including 9/11 and the runup to the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake, the Great Recession, the January 6 insurrection, and the enduring culture wars of our times. With clarity and compassion, he also weighs in on the unprecedented challenges brought on by a global pandemic, ongoing income inequality, a steadily warming planet, and authoritarian forces dedicated to weakening democracy. Yet Citizen is more than a political memoir. These pages capture Clinton in a rare and unforgettable light: not only as a celebrated former president and a foundation leader, but as a father, grandfather, and husband. He recounts his support for Hillary Clinton during her time as senator, secretary of state, and presidential candidate, and shares the frustration and pain of the 2016 election. In this landmark publication, the highly anticipated follow-up to the best-selling My Life, Clinton pens an illuminating account of American democracy on a global stage, offering a frank reflection on the past and, with it, a fearless embrace of our future. Citizen is a self-portrait of equal parts eloquence, insight, and candor, a testament to one man's unwavering commitment to family and nation. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart is host of “The Saturday Show with Jonathan Capehart” and “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart” which air Saturday’s and Sunday’s, respectively, at 6pm ET on MSNBC. Capehart was deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News (2002 to 2004) and served on its editorial board from 1993 to 2000. In 1999, his editorial campaign to save the Apollo Theater earned him and the board the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. Capehart left the Daily News in July 2000 to become the national affairs columnist at Bloomberg News, and took leave from this position in February 2001 to serve as a policy adviser to Michael Bloomberg in his first successful campaign for New York City Mayor. His memoir will be published by Twelve Books in January 2025. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation when you register for this event to ensure that this series continues to inspire Philadelphians. Recorded November 20, 2024 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorevents Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flpauthorevents/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/authorevents </video> <video> Lori Ginzberg | Tangled Journeys Description: In conversation with Tamala Edwards In 1830 Richard Walpole Cogdell, a husband, father, and bank clerk in Charleston, South Carolina, purchased a fifteen-year-old enslaved girl, Sarah Martha Sanders. Before her death in 1850, she bore nine of his children, five of whom reached adulthood. In 1857, Cogdell and his enslaved children moved to Philadelphia, where he bought them a house and where they became, virtually overnight, part of the African American middle class. An ambitious historical narrative about the Sanders family, Tangled Journeys tells a multigenerational, multiracial story that is both traumatic and prosaic while forcing us to confront what was unseen, unheard, and undocumented in the archives, and thereby inviting us into the process of American history making itself. Lori D. Ginzberg is Professor Emeritus of History and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University, as well as the author of several books, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life and Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation when you register for this event to ensure that this series continues to inspire Philadelphians. Facebook: / authorevents Instagram: / flpauthorevents Twitter/X: https://x.com/authorevents The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. </video> <video> Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld | The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of... Description: Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep this series available to everyone: https://support.freelibrary.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1860&mfc_pref=T&1860.donation=form1 In conversation with author and Pennsylvania State Senator, Nikil Saval In The Hollow Parties, Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld present a comprehensive history of the rise of American mass party politics through the Jacksonian era up through the years of Barack Obama to the presidency of Donald Trump. They posit that today’s Democrat and Republican parties, at once overbearing and ineffectual, have emerged from the interplay of multiple party traditions that reach back to the founding, and they offer a vision for how these groups might fulfill their promise. An associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, Daniel Schlozman studies political parties, American political development, social movements, and political history. He is the author of When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History, a member of the Scholars Strategy Network, and a trustee of the Maryland Center for Economic Policy. Sam Rosenfeld is an associate professor of political science at Colgate University, where he researches party politics and American political development. He is the author of The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era, and his writing has also appeared in The American Prospect, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Vox, among many other places. Recorded May 21, 2024 Facebook: https://facebook.com/authorevents Instagram: https://instagram.com/flpauthorevents Twitter: https://twitter.com/authorevents Podcast Archive: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/authorevents/podcast The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. </video> <video> Francis Collins | The Road to Wisdom Description: Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep this series available to everyone:https://support.freelibrary.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1860&mfc_pref=T&1860.donation=form1 In conversation with Kathleen Hall Jamieson In The Road to Wisdom, Francis Collins reminds us of the four core sources of judgement and clear thinking: truth, science, faith, and trust. Drawing on his work from the Human Genome Project and heading the National Institutes of Health, as well as on ethics, philosophy, and Christian theology, Collins makes a robust, thoughtful case for each of these sources--their reliability, and their limits. Ultimately, he shows how they work together, not separately--and certainly not in conflict. It is only when we relink these four foundations of wisdom that we can begin to discern the best path forward in life. ​Thoughtful, accessible, winsome, and deeply wise, The Road to Wisdom leads us beyond current animosities to surer footing. Here is the moral, philosophical, and scientific framework with which to address the problems of our time--including distrust of public health, partisanship, racism, response to climate change, and threats to our democracy--but also to guide us in our daily lives. This is a book that will repay many readings, and resolve dilemmas that we all face every day. Francis S. Collins is a physician and geneticist. His groundbreaking work has led to the discovery of the cause of cystic fibrosis, among other diseases. In 1993 he was appointed director of the international Human Genome Project, which successfully sequenced all 3 billion letters of our DNA. He went on to serve three Presidents as the Director of the National Institutes of Health. Recorded September 26, 2024 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorevents Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flpauthorevents/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/authorevents The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. </video> <video> MK Asante | Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony Description: Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep this series available to everyone: https://support.freelibrary.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1860&mfc_pref=T&1860.donation=form1 In conversation with Molefi Kete Asante MK Asante is a writer, filmmaker, and hip-hop artist, and recipient of the Langston Hughes Award. His books include It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop, the poetry collection Like Water Running Off My Back, and the bestselling memoir Buck, the “brilliant and always engaging” (Los Angeles Times) story of his harsh but transcendent path from the streets of North Philadelphia to artistic liberation. His documentary film The Black Candle, co-written with Maya Angelou, illuminates the relevance of the principles of Kwanzaa. Asante is the host and co-executive producer of While Black, a Snap Original docuseries co-produced by NBCUniversal. His essays on art, technology, and culture have appeared in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and USA Today. His latest book began as a series of raw and inspirational letters written in a Temple University Hospital emergency room as his nephew Nasir fought for life after being shot nine times. In those moments, Asante realized he had to tell his brother’s son the truth about his father, Uzi, who Nasir had never met. Molefi Kete Asante is a professor in the department of Africology at Temple University, where he created the first PhD Program in African American Studies in 1988. Also the president of the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies, he is Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa, was the first director of UCLA’s Center for Afro-American Studies, and is the founder of The Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies, a thinktank in Philadelphia. With more than 100 books and 500 articles published, Asante has been recognized as one of the 10 most widely cited African scholars, and he was the founding editor of the Journal of Black Studies, where he served for 53 years. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors for his scholarship and activism, has appeared on television programs across five continents, and has consulted for several heads of state in Africa. Recorded May 23, 2024 Facebook: https://facebook.com/authorevents Instagram: https://instagram.com/flpauthorevents Twitter: https://twitter.com/authorevents Podcast Archive: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/authorevents/podcast The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. </video> <video> George Stephanopoulos | The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis Description: Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep this series available to everyone: https://support.freelibrary.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1860&mfc_pref=T&1860.donation=form1 Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning edition. ABC News’ Chief Anchor, the host of This Week with George Stephanopoulos, and co-anchor of Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos joined the network in 1997 as an analyst for This Week. He previously served in the Clinton administration as the senior advisor to the president for policy and strategy. His book All Too Human, a political memoir about his time on the campaign trail and in the White House, was a no. 1 New York Times bestseller. A member of the board of directors at the Michael J. Fox Foundation and former Rhodes Scholar, Stephanopoulos’ many honors include three Emmy Awards, a DuPont Award, three Murrow Awards, and two Cronkite Awards. In The Situation Room, he offers an insider’s perspective on the highly restricted space in which 12 presidents have made their most critical, history-changing decisions. Recorded May 17, 2024 Facebook: https://facebook.com/authorevents Instagram: https://instagram.com/flpauthorevents Twitter: https://twitter.com/authorevents Podcast Archive: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/authorevents/podcast The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. </video> <video> Melissa Fitzgerald & Mary McCormack | WHAT’S NEXT Description: Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep this series available to everyone:https://support.freelibrary.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1860&mfc_pref=T&1860.donation=form1 WHAT’S NEXT: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service (Dutton; on sale August 13, 2024), by cast members Melissa Fitzgerald (aka Assistant to the Press Secretary Carol Fitzpatrick) and Mary McCormack (aka Deputy National Security Advisor Kate Harper), features a foreword by creator Aaron Sorkin and an introduction by Allison Janney (aka White House press secretary and later WH chief of staff C.J. Cregg). The book offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into The West Wing’s creation and legacy, with a particular emphasis on the show’s commitment to service that was embodied not only in the cast members’ devotion to different causes, which is still ongoing, but also with the strong bonds of friendship and feeling of family that made being part of the show so special and that still endure to this day Melissa Fitzgerald is an actor, producer, and social justice advocate. As an actor, Melissa is best known for her seven-year role as Carol on the award-winning television series The West Wing. While in Hollywood, Melissa cofounded Voices in Harmony, a mentoring program that uses theater to work with historically underserved teens. In 2013, Melissa left Hollywood to champion justice system reform at All Rise, where she is at the forefront of engaging the public in the expansion of treatment courts and advancing justice system responses for individuals impacted by substance use and mental health disorders. Mary McCormack is an actor, producer, and activist. A Tony-nominated Broadway actress, she is known for a diversity of roles across film, television, and theater. Mary is an outspoken advocate for a whole host of causes, from social justice and women’s rights to veterans’ issues and criminal justice reform. She lives in Los Angeles. Recorded September 11, 2024 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorevents Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flpauthorevents/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/authorevents The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. </video> <video> Carrie Rickey | A Complicated Passion Description: Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep this series available to everyone:https://support.freelibrary.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1860&mfc_pref=T&1860.donation=form1 In conversation with Gary Kramer Born in Los Angeles, Carrie Rickey is an award-winning film critic, art critic, and film historian. She was the film critic at the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty-five years and has also written for Artforum, Art in America, Film Comment, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and Politico. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia. A Complicated Passion, The Life and Work of Agnès Varda is the first major biography of the storied French filmmaker, who was hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema.” Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928 – 2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), a classic of modernist cinema, to the beloved documentary The Gleaners and I (2000) four decades later. She helped to define the French New Wave, inspired an entire generation of filmmakers, and was recognized with major awards at the Cannes, Berlin, and Venice Film Festivals, as well as an honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards. In this lively biography, former Philadelphia Inquirer film critic Carrie Rickey explores the “complicated passions” that informed Varda’s charmed life and indelible work. Rickey traces Varda’s three remarkable careers — as still photographer, as filmmaker, and as installation artist. She explains how Varda was a pioneer in blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, using the latest digital technology and carving a path for women in the movie industry. She demonstrates how Varda was years ahead of her time in addressing sexism, abortion, labor exploitation, immigrant rights, and race relations with candor and incisiveness. She makes clear Varda’s impact on contemporary figures like Ava DuVernay, Greta Gerwig, Barry Jenkins, the Safdie brothers, and Martin Scorsese, who called her one of the Gods of cinema. And she delves into Varda’s incredibly rich social life with figures such as Harrison Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Jim Morrison, Susan Sontag, and Andy Warhol, and her nearly forty-year marriage to the celebrated director Jacques Demy. Recorded September 16, 2024 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorevents Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flpauthorevents/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/authorevents The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. </video> <video> Maira Kalman | Still Life with Remorse Description: Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep this series available to everyone:https://support.freelibrary.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1860&mfc_pref=T&1860.donation=form1 In conversation with Alex Conner Maira Kalman's most autobiographical and intimate work to date, Still Life with Remorse is a beautiful, four-color collection combining deeply personal stories and 50 striking full-color paintings in the vein of her and Alex Kalman's acclaimed Women Holding Things. Tracing her family's story from her grandfather's birth in Belarus and emigration to Tel Aviv--where she was born--Maira considers her unique family history, illuminating the complex relationship between recollection, regret, happiness, and heritage. The vibrant original art accompanying these autobiographical pieces are mostly still lifes and interiors which serve as counterpoints to her powerful words. In addition to vignettes exploring her Israeli and Jewish roots, Kalman includes short stories about other great artists, writers, and composers, including Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Gustav Mahler, and Robert Schumann. Through these narratives, Kalman uses her signature wit and tenderness to reveal how family history plays an influential role in all of our work, lives, and perspectives. A feat of visual storytelling and vulnerability, Still Life with Remorse explores the profound hidden in the quotidian, and illuminates the powerful universal truths in our most personal family stories. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorevents Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flpauthorevents/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/authorevents The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. </video>

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