Thank you Free Library of Philadelphia for hosting so many amazing authors and for sharing the events on this podcast for those of us who can't be there in person. This is a wonderful series. The authors you feature are diverse as are their writings - politics, biography, novels, poetry... It's a great way to discover new authors and a wonderful way to hear again from those who are more well known.

Great segment: Dan & Alyssa are a great team. I look forward to reading his book.

When you hear the word “library,” you may think of freedom of thought, freedom of ideals, a far ranging resource for a plethora of views. Not so with this author event/interview series. The writers are mostly from the Far Left of the spectrum, and if there were a hint of allowing the opposite side to be heard, this would be a podcast worth subscribing to. Now it simply remains an echo chamber.

Free Library of Philadelphia author events began in the early 1990s. A few years ago, the older talks were added to the list of podcasts. All the talks are listed under the author/speaker in the library’s online catalog. These include talks by Susan Sontag, Chinua Achebe and Tony Morrison to name a few. This library is a major educational and cultural resource. Materials and on-line content are available free to anyone living, working or attending school in Pennsylvania and, for a small fee, people living outside the state as well.

I love this podcast so much but sometimes it’s unlistenable because they don’t mix the live audio for the podcast. Donate to the library so they can hire an AV person!

Discover/Rediscover/Savor authors & their processes/ideas/stories. These are nice long pieces with highly engaging people.

Thx, it's free

I commend the library on the service they’re providing and think the source of and spread of knowledge is one of the most valuable services provided in the podcast market. Unfortunately, the source of most of the information (lecturers) is heavily biased in the liberal-left (borderline socialist) political view that it loses credibility. I’ve tried to put my differing political views aside and glean out the honest un-biased information, but it is a struggle. I look forward to when we can shed our social dichotomies and class warfare to work together as a nation.

I just listened to your Aug 3rd podcast. What a wonderful service you are doing! Thank you so much!!

Stumbled on this by accident and am surprised it doesn't get more review traffic! Some great authors. Check it out if you're a bibliophile!