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Local artist, author and tattooist Kate Glasheen, who grew up in Troy, N.Y., will discuss their new novel, “Constellations,” about a transgender teenager living on the margins, Saturday, …
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by Len Lear
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6/1/23
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Chestnut Hill resident Stan Cutler will appear at Hilltop Books, the community bookstore at 84 Bethlehem Pike, on Saturday, May 27.
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by Len Lear
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5/25/23
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Germantown resident Sherrie Elle, an author and founder of a book publishing company, is a woman who comes with an unusual story of her own.
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by Len Lear
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5/18/23
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Michelle Lofton, of Mt. Airy, grew up with so little that her home sometimes had no electricity, food or hot water. That background infuses her new book on budgeting for seniors.
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by Len Lear
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5/11/23
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Howard Myrick knows what it is like to overcome odds and to battle racist attitudes and practices.
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by Len Lear
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5/4/23
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“Going to Africa is a spiritual journey for me. It's as close as I get to God,” insists Judith Hain, Wyndmoor professional photographer.
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by Len Lear
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4/21/23
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There’s an old Middle Eastern saying: Once the camel’s nose is in the tent, you cannot get it out. And once Jeffrey Stern gets on a case, you cannot get him off it.
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by Len Lear
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4/20/23
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“I never reconciled with my parents. I did go to see my mom, and I was allowed to go into the house, but my husband never could."
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by Len Lear
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4/13/23
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Local author Josh Hitchens will lead an in-person discussion of Charles Dickens’ “Hard Times,” at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, April 2, at the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion.
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3/30/23
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What are the lives of Amish women really like? Over the course of a decade, author Judy Stavisky spent hundreds of hours getting to know the women of Lancaster County's reclusive Amish community to elicit an answer to this question.
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by Len Lear
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2/24/23
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After a lifetime of working in technology, with travel that took him all over Asia, James Whipple Miller started an improbable new career after settling in Chestnut Hill eight years ago. He founded a publishing company.
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by Len Lear
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2/9/23
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At a time when neighborhood bookstores are sprouting again in the Northwest, Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Mt. Airy is sailing confidently into its 18th year with a new look.
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by Stacia Friedman
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2/3/23
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Jim Zervanos was clearly living a charmed life a decade ago. But cancer is a devilish intruder and doesn't care how perfect your life is.
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by Len Lear
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2/3/23
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At 94 years old, the Rev. Robert L. Polk – who recently published his third book – has always been a pioneer.
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by Len Lear
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2/2/23
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Chestnut Hill’s John K. Krieger will be signing copies of his newly published short stories this weekend at Booked.
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by Len Lear
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1/26/23
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Eli Goldblatt, a professor of English at Villanova University from 1990 to 1996 and at Temple University from 1996 to 2019, has some very strong opinions about higher education in the U.S.
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by Len Lear
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1/12/23
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Chestnut Hill author Alfred O'Neill Jr.'s second novel in a trilogy, “Even Climate Change Can’t Stop Love and Murder,” is based on a true story.
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by Len Lear
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12/23/22
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“Boundaries,” a short story by Chestnut Hill writer Ilene Raymond Rush published in “Frankly Feminist,” takes place in Chestnut Hill.
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by Len Lear
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12/23/22
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There aren’t many stories as beloved as Charles Dickens’ seasonal classic, “A Christmas Carol.” Countless versions and adaptations have emerged.
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by Frank D. Quattrone
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12/15/22
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Fink's newest effort is “Descent into Darkness, A Fight Against Terror,” in which an angry father sets out to get revenge against the person responsible for duping his daughter into making a pornographic film.
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by Len Lear
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12/8/22
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