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Michael Swanwick's 'In the Drift' released as an ebook
These mummers are drunk...On power
There's a post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel from 1985 about Three Mile Island and the Mummers. It's now available as an ebook. Yes, you should give it to everyone you know in Philly as a holiday gift.
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Amy Schumer's 'The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo'
Inside Amy Schumer's memoir
Comedian Amy Schumer visited the Free Library of Philadelphia to discuss her new book. Stephen Silver discusses that and the contradictions of her persona.
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Ode on the Bala Cynwyd Library's Summer Reading Club
Reading for prizes
Every summer, libraries host reading clubs for kids and adults. Humorist Roz Warren is taking one for the team and becoming summer reading's very own hype woman.
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Readercon 27's panelists ask "Which book would you save?"
What would you save from the flames?
At Boston's Readercon sci-fi convention, Tom Purdom picked one book to save from 'Fahrenheit 451's' bonfire. Now he wants to know your pick.
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Marla R. Miller's biography 'Betsy Ross and the Making of America'
Betsy Ross, defense contractor
Betsy Ross may not have made the first American flag, but Marla R. Miller's 'Betsy Ross and the Making of America' illuminates the history of the artisans and shopkeepers who built the United States.
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'Wicked Philadelphia: Sin in the City of Brotherly Love,' by Thomas H. Keels
William Penn and prostitutes: All the news that's unfit to print
Rick Soisson reviews 'Wicked Philadelphia: Sin in the City of Brotherly Love,' Thomas Keels's 2010 catalog of our city's historic scandals and scoundrels.
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Bob Levin's 'Cheesesteak, the West Philadelphia Years, a Rememboir'
A 'Cheesesteak' with everything
Bob Levin's Rememboir recalls his childhood in West Philly and is stuffed full of tales from his literary life.
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Brian Shapiro's 'Exceptionally Human, Successful Communication in a Distracted World'
Less talk, more communication
We're talking less, but Brian Shapiro's 'Exceptionally Human, Successful Communication in a Distracted World' helps us make those words matter more.
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'Philadelphia Noir,' edited by Carlin Romano
Real and imagined crimes
This overlooked 2010 collection of Philadelphia neighborhood-based noir fiction contains plenty of surprises, literary flourishes, and a crazy Biddle.
Rick Soissonand Illustration by Mike Jackson
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Peter Kurt Woerner's 'Odyssey,' a visual diary
The road goes on
American Institute of Architects fellow Peter Kurt Woerner uses memories and line drawings to chronicle his Odyssey. Bob Levin remembers him from Friends Central's class of 1960.
