Episode 28: PBQ Celebrates with One Book, One Philadelphia
b'This is a special podcast episode with some help from the folks over at One Book, a signature program of the Free Library of Philadelphia that promotes literacy, library usage, and citywide conversation by encouraging the Philadelphia area to come together through reading and discussing\\u2026\\nThis is a special podcast episode with some help from the folks over at One Book, a signature program of the Free Library of Philadelphia that promotes literacy, library usage, and citywide conversation by encouraging the Philadelphia area to come together through reading and discussing a single book. This year\\u2019s book is\\xa0The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time\\xa0by Mark Haddon.\\nWe started the evening with a round of Slam, Bam, Thank you, Mam, or improv reading game. Listen in and see what we created in 5 minutes!\\nThe writers came at the themes of the book from so many angles, but the one they each had in common was they blew us away.If you\\u2019re old enough, imagine the dude (and his martini glass) getting blown away by the sound from his Maxell tape (if you\\u2019re too young to remember that iconic image, Goolge it)\\u2014it was like that. Or, just look at this:\\n\\nvia Flickr\\n\\nAnd then listen to the podcast and feel the same way!\\nLet us know what you think on our Facebook event page or on Twitter with #OneBook\\nRead on!\\n\\xa0\\nKalela Williams\\xa0is a fiction writer whose most recent work appears in Calyx: A Journal of Art & Literature by Women, and Drunken Boat. She also directs One Book, One Philadelphia, a Free Library of Philadelphia program with the goal of promoting citywide conversation around the themes in a single book. She is currently working on a novel.\\n\\xa0\\nCindy Arrieu-King\\xa0is an associate professor of creative writing at Stockton University and a former Kundiman fellow. Her books include People are Tiny in Paintings of China (Octopus 2010), Manifest (Switchback 2013) and a collaboration with the late Hillary Gravendyk (1913 Press 2016). Find her at\\xa0cynthiaarrieuking.blogspot.com.\\n\\xa0\\nThomas Devaney\\xa0is a poet and lives in Philadelphia. His books include Runaway Goat Cart (Hanging Loose, 2015), Calamity Jane (Furniture Press, 2014), and The Picture that Remains (The Print Center, 2014). His nonfiction book Letters to Ernesto Neto (2005) was published by Germ Folios. He is the 2104 recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. His collaborations with the Institute of Contemporary Art include \\u201cThe Empty House,\\u201d for The Big Nothing, and \\u201cTales from the 215\\u201d for Zoe Strauss\\u2019s \\u201cPhiladelphia Freedom.\\u201d\\n\\xa0\\nPatrick Rosal\\xa0is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, including his latest, Brooklyn Antediluvian. A former Senior Fulbright Research Fellow, his work has appeared in The New York Times, Grantland, Harvard Review, Tin House, The Best American Poetry and dozens of other magazines and anthologies. He has been a featured performer in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and hundreds of venues throughout the United States, including the Whitney Museum and Lincoln Center. He is currently an Associate Professor at the MFA Program of Rutgers University-Camden.\\n\\xa0\\nJulia Bloch\\xa0grew up in Northern California and Sydney, Australia. She is the author of two books of poetry\\u2014Letters to Kelly Clarkson, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and Valley Fever, both from Sidebrow Books, and of the recent chapbook Like Fur, from Essay Press. She lives in Philadelphia, coedits Jacket2, and directs the creative writing program at the University of Pennsylvania.\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nM.C. Extraordinaire:\\nPaul Siegell\\n\\xa0\\nThe Lineup:\\nKalela Williams\\nCindy Arrieu-King\\nThomas Devaney\\nPatrick Rosal\\nJulia Bloch\\n\\xa0\\nEngineering Producer:\\nJoe Zang'