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Mt. Airy’s Abigail Perkiss has written extensively over many years about the carefully planned racial integration of Mt. Airy after World War II, which has been labeled “a national model.”

Nuanced view of Mt. Airy's racial history

Mt. Airy's much-praised racial diversity skipped over the issue of class, says author Abby Perkiss. more

by Len Lear | 9/14/22

Lynn Gregory’s second novel, “So Much for Walls,” was inspired by her real-life experience as a traumatized carjacking victim.

Mt. Airy carjacking victim turns trauma into new novel

There is an old saying in publishing that you should “write what you know,” and Mt. Airy author and social science researcher Lynn Gregory is an exemplar of that maxim. more

by Len Lear | 9/8/22

Flourtown native Tyler Kepner is seen giving a talk to the Norristown Rotary Club about his dream job covering Major League baseball for the New York Times.

Dream comes true for New York Times baseball writer

Millions of boys in this country undoubtedly dream of one day being a Major League baseball player. more

by Len Lear | 9/1/22

Harry Groome had a successful 30-year career in the pharmaceutical industry, rising to chairman of SmithKline Beecham Consumer Healthcare, but after a forced retirement he has authored five novels, and two powerful new novellas that were just published in June.

Local author proves there are 'second acts,' after all

The legendary American “Jazz Age” author F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, “There are no second acts in American lives.” Fitzgerald did not know Harry Groome. more

by Len Lear | 8/25/22

The Rev. Scott Robinson, a long-time Chestnut Hill resident, will have a book reading and signing for “The Way In” on Sunday, Aug. 7, 3 p.m., at Booked, 8511 Germantown Ave.

Hill minister's new book about living with Parkinson's

“The Way In; What a Hospice Chaplain Learned Living with Parkinson's, in Poetry and Prose” is a courageous, brutally candid revelation of Robinson’s own periodic rages. more

by Len Lear | 8/3/22

John Kromer of Mt. Airy, one of three Northwest Philadelphia authors featured during an event at Hilltop Books in Chestnut Hill, will talk about his book “Philadelphia Battlefields.”

Three local authors bring their politics to Hill bookstore

Three local authors, one from Chestnut Hill and two from Mt. Airy, will discuss their books at a signing event on Thursday, July 28, 6 p.m., at Hilltop Books, 84 Bethlehem Pike. more

by Len Lear | 7/28/22

'DIVERSITY' AUTHOR AT HILL LIBRARY: The public is invited to a talk by Mt. Airy author P. W. Hand about “Diversity in Modern Literature from Mid-20th Century to Present” at the Chestnut Hill Library, 8711 Germantown Ave., on Wednesday, July 20, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. To attend in person, email handc@freelibrary.org or stop by the library. To attend on Zoom, register in advance at freelibrary-org.zoom.us/meeting/register.

7/14/22

Author Bernard S. Brown, co-host of the Urban Wildlife Podcast and co-founder of PhillyNature.org, has many suggestions for where to experience the natural world in Philadelphia.

Think the city is a concrete jungle? Look a little closer…

Now that the warmer weather is here to stay for a few months, it is a perfect time to go outside with the whole family. more

by Len Lear | 7/14/22

Dr. Nerenbergh with her good buddy, Rosie, a Schnauzer/Bichon mix.

Hill psychologist authors acclaimed 'No Perfect Love'

According to clinical psychologist Alyson Nerenberg, an addictions and relationship expert who has long had an office in Chestnut Hill, many of us enter into relationships with unrealistic expectations - which can lead to crushing disappointment. more

by Len Lear | 6/30/22

Majlinda Kapllanaj, a CPA and Lafayette Hill resident, has just written and published “Crypto Curious; the Basics for Beginners” to help readers navigate this very difficult subject.

New book by local CPA helps explain cryptocurrency

Are you like me and almost everyone else on earth, and completely befuddled by this thing called cryptocurrency? more

by Len Lear | 6/23/22

Richard Lyntton and one of his novels, which are based in part on his own experience as a British Army tank commander.

Actor, author, and war zone tank commander

Lafayette Hill resident Richard Lyntton's life would make a pretty good movie. He’s been a captain and a tank commander in the British military, observed and documented war crimes in Bosnia, been abducted by Serbs in Sarajevo and written several books. more

by Len Lear | 6/23/22

Chestnut Hill’s beloved historian pens a personal memoir

David Contosta, professor of history at Chestnut Hill College and prolific interpreter of modern America, has turned his pen to memoir and subtly bridged the genres. more

by John O’Donnell | 5/4/22

Local author/journalist Dan Rottenberg, collaborator on the memoir of Chestnut Hill’s W. Thacher Longstreth, and writer of numerous magazine articles about Chestnut Hill, has a compelling new memoir, “The Education of a Journalist: My 70 Years on the Frontiers of Free Speech.”

New journalism memoir: an epiphany for any writer

Every single one of the 360 pages was a treasure and epiphany for me. more

by Len Lear | 5/4/22

Chestnut Hill resident Maureen O'Connell, who teaches courses in Christian ethics at La Salle University, is the author of three books. The latest, just released, is “Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness.”

Hill author on church history of “Anti-Blackness'

“Our Catholic identity was part of our family life,” she said during a recent Zoom interview. “My faith was always part of my identity.” more

by Len Lear | 4/29/22

Bettina Hoerlin looks through some of the 500 letters she discovered in an old suitcase. Hoerlin’s parents wrote the letters to each in the 1930s when they lived in Nazi Germany before escaping to the U.S.

A cache of love letters uncovers an amazing family story

Hoerlin, who served as Health Commissioner of Philadelphia and now lives in Center City, taught public health at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting lecturer at Haverford College and Oxford University. more

by Len Lear | 4/28/22

Chestnut Hill resident Peter Murphy is a retired English professor who has just published his most recent book, a poetry anthology titled "Underwater and Other Poems."

Hill poet goes deep 'Underwater' in latest collection

Peter Murphy has written numerous books and articles, often about masculinity and femininity, as well as poetry books. more

by Len Lear | 3/11/22

David Jackson Ambrose's years of experience as a social worker are vividly revealed in the very troubled characters in his novels, such as the just-published “Unlawful DISorder.”

New novel a compelling dissection of mental illness

“Are on this earth to help others; don’t you think? I’ve learned a lot from these people with so-called disabilities because they are some of the most honest, loving, nonjudgmental people you will ever know.” more

by Len Lear | 3/1/22

Telling us horrible news to sell hemorrhoid cream

One day last August, I read a cluster of news headlines on Phillynewsfeeds.com. They dismayed me, so I copied and pasted them to a file while I thought about their weird, peculiarly American horror. more

by High Gilmore | 2/17/22

Chestnut Hill scholar Edward J.M. Rhoads proudly holds his just-published memoir, 10 years in the making, “War and Revolution in South China: The Story of a Transnational Biracial Family, 1936-1951” (Hong Kong University Press). Photo by Patricia Stranahan

Hill scholar's memoir: forced to flee wars four times

Retired history professor Edward J.M. Rhoads just finished his memoir, “War and Revolution in South China: The Story of a Transnational Biracial Family, 1936-1951” more

by Len Lear | 2/10/22

Four recent books about the strange bond between animals and humans

I recently read four books you might enjoy. All of them concern the mystifying intersections where humans and animals all too often collide. more

by Hugh Gilmore | 2/3/22

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