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PENN IN PRINT
Kelly Writers House Book Groups
All you need is an email account, and a willingness to engage in free and perhaps free-wheeling discussion of an interesting book with a member of Penn's faculty or a member of the Kelly Writers House community. To participate, visit writing.upenn.edu/wh/involved/groups/bookgroups/participate.html.
- September 30-October 9, 2009: J.M. Coetzee's "The Lives of Animals" led by
Joshua Schuster
- October 12- November 12, 2009: Tears of a Clown: Charles Chaplin, Frederico
Fellini, and Woody Allen led by Val Ross
- November 14-23, 2009: Poets and Paintings led by Michelle Taransky
- December 12-18, 2009: Poems by John Donne and Ben Jonson led by Rebecca Bushnell
- January 4-14, 2010: Hill Street Blues, Season 3 led by Al Filreis
- January 15-25, 2010: Two Stories by Amy Bloom: "Love is Not a Pie" and "A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You" led by Erin Gautsche
- February 1-March 1, 2010: Lawrence Lessig's Remix:
Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy led by Peter Decherney
- May 18-28, 2010: Vladamir Nabokov's "Spring in Fialta" & "Signs and Symbols" led by Al Filreis and David Roberts
Featured Events at the Penn Bookstore
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October 3
1:00 p.m.
Bookstore
Discussion and Signing - Alumna Julie Kraut - “Slept Away” - For LaneyParker, summertime means stepping out of her itchy school uniform and into a season of tanning, rooftop swimming pools and apartment parties. But this summer Laney’s mother has enrolled her at Camp Timber Trails; a rustic, un-air conditioned nightmare. Summer camp might just turn this girl’s world upside down!
October 5
6:00 p.m.
Bookstore
Discussion and Signing - Alumnus Vishaal Bhuyan - “Life Markets: Trading Mortality and Longevity Risk with Life Settlements and Linked Securities” - A complete guide to longevity finance that offers an extensive look at how to trade life settlements.
October 6
6:00 p.m.
Bookstore
Discussion and Signing - Penn Professors Ira Harkavy and Francis Johnston
- “The Obesity Culture: Strategies for Change, Public Health and University-community Partnerships” - Drs. Harkavy and Johnston outline how what they term “a culture of obesity” can be changed through community-based cooperation.
October 13
6:00 p.m.
Bookstore
Discussion and Signing - Penn Professor John Kromer - “Fixing Broken Cities: The Implementation of Urban Development Strategies” - The origin, execution, and impact of urban repopulation strategies - initiatives designed to attract residences, businesses and jobs to places that have undergone decline and abandonment.
October 14
6:30 p.m.
Bookstore
Discussion and Signing - Alumnus David Hall - “Allies at Work: Creating a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Inclusive Work Environment” - A guide to create cultural change in the workplace, developing work environments that fully include everyone.
October 20
6:00 p.m.
Bookstore
Wharton Panel Discussion - Wharton Professors Keith Niedermeier, Eric Bradlow and Patti Williams; moderated by Dr. Christopher Geczy - “Marketing for Financial Advisors” - Tips, advice and the marketing skills necessary to build a successful financial advising practice.
October 21
6:00 p.m.
Bookstore
Discussion and Signing - Penn Professor Emeritus Nicholas Kefalides - “Echoes from the Cobblestones” - A memoir of Kefalides’ life, beginning in the 1930’s when he joined the resistance fight against the German’s in Greece.
October 24
2:00 p.m.
Bookstore
Family Weekend Discussion and Signing - Penn Professor Vivian Seltzer - “Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy: A Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents” - A practical, professional guide for how to approach and aid troubled teens on their road to adulthood.
November 3
12pm
Bookstore
"The Longest Trip Home," by John Grogan . *Special Feature: John Grogan will be at the Bookstore for a discussion/signing of this book
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