The newly-forming Guerilla Photography Club is looking for fun and creative adults who are interested in photography and developing their skills (no pun intended). The objectives are to discuss work, critique and inspire each other, and also to show and display work. So come out and join us – bring your camera and your enthusiasm!
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Join us this Friday, Oct 23rd, at 7:30pm, for our annual Dead Poets Reading! Come dressed as your favorite posthumous penman, read their and/or your work, and be automatically entered to win prizes! Come on, throw on a beard and invoke Whitman. Wear white and whisper some Dicksinson. Stand up and shout some Silverstein – [...]
author: Diane Setterfield
name: Andrea
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 2006/10/01
date added: 2009/10/10
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review:
This is a book that I end up re-reading in October, because it sets the stage for autumn. It’s dark, gloomy, foggy, British. It’s also a literary mystery in the truest sense: the protagonist, Margaret Lea, is a shy biographer who lives the in the apartment above her father’s antiquarian bookshop.
She receives a request from a popular author, Vida Winter (heavy-handed name, I know, but it’s the fictional author’s nom de plume, and it suits her type of work)to write her biography. Margaret doesn’t have much interest in the writer’s work until she picks up a copy of Winter’s Thirteen Tales of Change and Desperation, and realizes there are only twelve stories. What is the thirteen tale?
Just the character of Vida Winter, some kind of cross-pollination of Miss Havisham, Mommie Dearest, and Anne Rice, makes the book worth every minute.
This story is one of my favorites, but I will warn that it’s not perfect. Some of the more intimate storylines, particularly with Margaret, fail to really touch me, but the action, mystery, and setting bring me back to this book every time.
Join us this Friday night at 6pm to see “Around the World is 21 Visual Poets,” our newest First Friday exhibit, brought to you from Paper Kite Press. Featuring art from Belgium, Finland, Turkey, Germany, and more! Then, at 8pm, authors Barbara J. Taylor and Kaylie Jones will be here to read and sign books. Kaylie’s [...]
Tonight is the last Friday of the month, and that means that we turn the stage over to our local poets! 7:30pm open mic poetry – it’s open to everyone, but please note that we don’t censor our poets!
Join us tomorrow at 2pm when Bill Black from Pages & Places Book Festival comes in to [...]
Anthology’s busy this week, bringing you programming fun in all sorts of forms. This Thursday at 7pm, author Eileen Flanagan will be here to read from her newest book, The Wisdom to Know the Difference, reviewed favorably by The Dalai Lama himself! Also, join us on Tuesday at 6:30pm OR on Saturday at 2pm to [...]
September is upon us, ladies and gents! The calendar of events is up and ready (click on the events tab), and our extended fall hours will be starting on Sunday, Sept 20th. That’s right – Anthology and Outrageous will now be here for you later each day, and 7 days a week. Check back for [...]
Join us at Anthology this Thursday, Aug 27th, at 7pm, to meet Jay Luke who just authored “When Coal Was Queen: The History of the Queen City – Olyphant,” published by Tribute Books. Mr. Luke will be on hand to sign copies of his book, and light refreshments will be provided. FREE and all are [...]
Join us on Saturday, Aug 22, at 7pm, for an Anthology of Improv, featuring Steamtown Improv and Here We Are in Spain, as well as musical guest Dylan Loughney. A major portion of the proceeds goes to benefit the re-opening of the Vintage Theater in their new location on Penn Ave. $5
Philadelphia’s Barrelhouse magazine, a nationally distributed arts and literature journal, will be here at Anthology this Saturday to celebrate its newest issue, with a DJ set by Conor McGuigan, dramatic readings from actors Sarah Stachura, Sam Falbo, and Conor McGuigan, and even a POP CULTURE QUIZ, with PRIZES! Sat, Aug 15, 6:30pm, $3.
