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2024 Best Literary Events

The Rosenbach Museum & Library

Once you’ve watched the entirety of Game of Thrones and Succession for the 23rd time, proceed directly to this thoroughly unplugged Rittenhouse wonderland. Here, you can attend Great Gatsby-themed parties, calligraphy workshops, lofty discussions, and an annual festival in June celebrating Ulysses wherein all sorts of local VIPs, scholars and dignitaries read passages from the novel. Come Halloween season, a variety of events will be centered on Dracula — the Rosenbach has Bram Stoker’s original notes in its vast collection. Read More »

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2024 Best Quiet Fun

Silent Book Club Philly

Once a month, you show up at a predetermined location — it might be a cafe, it might be a public library, it might be a local park — with whatever book you want, and you just sit and read together-ish. Socialize or don’t. It’s your call. They aptly call it “the introvert happy hour.” Read More »

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2023 Best Literary Event

You Can’t Kill a Poet

These semi-regular readings upstairs at South Street dive Tattooed Mom (and occasionally elsewhere) are now in their ninth year, which may be a new record for a local poetry-reading series. The success stems from host and curator Boston Gordon’s mission to bring together the best queer and trans writers from the Philadelphia area — and from the fact that these readings are often visceral, incisive and funny, all meant to bring you a little closer to the city’s literary community. The next reading is set for September 24th. Read More »

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