Tag: fiction

  • The Beast in the Pines: A Horror Novel Launch Party

    The Beast in the Pines: A Horror Novel Launch Party

    The Beast in the Pines: A Horror Novel – Launch Party Wednesday June 11, 2025 – 7pm Live at Ferge’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street In October of 2003, a 19 year old named Cody considers joining the Army to fight in the Iraq War so that he can escape the boredom of small town Woodville,…

  • On Toni: She Was A Friend of My Mind

    On Toni: She Was A Friend of My Mind

    Tickets to this event are SOLD OUT. Event Overview The African American Museum in Philadelphia, alongside the Moonstone Arts Center and the Scribe Video Center, is hosting a three-part event in tribute to the award-winning novelist and poet who brought forth the prominent issues on race and identity into the american literary mainstream. The event…

  • Thom Nickels, Simone Zelitch & Jon McGoran

    Thursday July 16, 2015 – 7pm  Moonstone @ Brandywine Workshop – 728 S. Broad Street New Fiction from Philadelphia  Thom Nickels is an author/poet/journalistwith eleven books, In his story Corydon 13, (Best Gay Romance 2015), we see what happens when a 19 year old Pennsylvania boy travels to the Boston-Cambridge area in 1969 during the Vietnam War to begin alternative…

  • Water Cures, Drugs Kill: A Study Group

    MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 6:30pm – Study Group Water Cures, Drugs Kill: A Study Group “Water Cures, Drugs Kill” A Study Group Jan. 18th, 2010 (Please; Repeat every Monday!) The aim of this group is to study, apply and spread the good news about the biggest medical breakthrough you never heard of! Dr. F. Batmanghelidj, an…

  • Wed., Sept. 23, 7pm – Philly Fiction 2

    WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 7pm – FICTIONPHILLY FICTION 2Believing that there is no better backdrop for fiction than Philadelphia, Don Ron Books recently released Philly Fiction 2 (Don Ron Books, July 2009, $12), a follow-up to its highly successful Philly Fiction (Don Ron Books, 2006). The new book is a new collection of short stories all…

  • Thursday – 8/27 – H.M. Naqvi Author of Home Boy

    THURSDAY AUGUST 27, 7pm – FICTIONH.M. NAQVIAuthor of HOME BOY ($23.00 Crown) Naqvi’s debut novel introduces Chuck, a 20-something Pakistani living in New York and one of the most engaging protagonists to come along in a while. After moving from Karachi to attend NYU, Chuck readily adapts to the customs of his new home-especially those…