Friends Select School/Joseph Fox Bookshop
Author Series

Friends Select and Joseph Fox Bookshop book events are free and open to the public. Programs typically begin at 7 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) in the Blauvelt Theatre at FSS and include a reading or talk by the author. Copies of books are available for purchase and signing.

Monday, Sept. 10 * Nathan J. Winograd Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in America Animal Welfare
Tuesday, Sept. 11** Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wilde Fiction
Monday, Oct. 15 Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Fiction/
Translation

 

 

Wednesday, April 30 Jonathan Rieder The Word of the Lord is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Biography/
Rheotric

 

*    Not a Joseph Fox Book Event. This event was sponsored by the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society, a donor-funded division of Philadelphia Animal Care and Control Association.

**  This event was co-sponsored with the Free Library of Philadelphia


Parking garages near Friends Select School:
On Wednesdays after 5 p.m., Center City offers free on-street parking and $1 parking at all city-owned lots. Parking lots close to the school are listed below:

Philadelphia, Gateway Parking
1540 Vine Street
215-246-0300

Central Parking System
1717 Cherry Street
215-567-0971

Central Parking System
17th Street at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
215-569-0899

Inter Parking
18th and Cherry Streets
215-496-1070

Philadelphia Parking Authority
1501 Arch Street
215-683-9812

Network Parking
18th and Callowhill Streets
215-751-0485

 

 

 

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