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“Bastille Day, Philadelphia” published in Painted Bride Quarterly

“Lips and your beard and dark doorways and the sense that I didn’t quite understand how the stars hung that … More

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“Old Story” poem published in Eunoia Review

“…Just the feeling, in the suburbs, over coffee, over pavement, that I didn’t know him at all, and that I … More

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Philly’s Literary Vending Machines

Maybe you thought the only thing you could get out of a vending machine was stale prewrapped cake, a bag … More

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Be Well Philly: This Is City Hall’s Best Kept Secret

Short piece on Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown’s Noonwalk exercise initiative at City Hall for Be Well Philly on Philadelphia magazine.

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Get Inspired: Kinzey Lynch Is Blind — But That Doesn’t Keep Him From Running Marathons

This Drexel student, who has been blind since birth, runs on Kelly Drive every weekend. This is Kinzey’s story in … More

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Group fitness movement November Project adds togetherness

There’s a bitter wind whipping through the streets, and the sun is just starting to creep up behind the mounted … More

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Girders, abstract sculpture and Philly Jesus in LOVE Park: A run through the ‘Museum Without Walls’ (part two)

You’ve brought tourist friends to PAFA’s giant paintbrush, giggled when Kid Hazo decorated it as a poop emoji, and dodged tourists taking … More

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Philly’s murals, on foot: What it’s like to run through public art (part one)

You’ve seen them through the windows of the car, or maybe the El. But Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program — began … More

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Coming back from foreclosure as ‘boomerang buyers’

A foreclosure, or a short sale to dig out from under a mortgage whose payments have become overwhelming, might seem … More

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2022

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
By The Book by Jasmine Guillory
Year Of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Pocket Universe by Nancy Reddy
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino
Anatomy by Dana Schwartz
Thoughts To Inspire by Swami Vivekananda
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake

2021
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Path
Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore
You’ll Be The Death Of Me by Karen M. McManus
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima
Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Attached by Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
How to Make a Slave by Jerald Walker
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Keep Moving by Maggie Smith
¡Hola Papi! by John Paul Brammer
Adult Children by Lindsay C. Gibson
Things That Grow by Meredith Goldstein
The Nurses by Alexandra Robbins
You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson
Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

2020 (24 books)

The Pisces by Melissa Broder
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Costalegre by Courtney Maum
Big Friendship by by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristen Newman
Don’t Read The Comments by Eric Smith
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott
You Were Born For This by Chani Nicholas
Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Madame Clairevoyant’s Guide to the Stars by Claire Comstock-Gay
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

2019 (16 books)

Trick Mirror – Jia Tolentino
Women Who Run With The Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The Source of Self-Regard – Toni Morrison
In The Dream House – Carmen Maria Machado
Normal People – Sally Rooney
More Than Enough – Elaine Welteroth
The Story of A New Name – Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
The Wise and The Wicked – Rebecca Podos
Luckiest Girl Alive – Jessica Knoll
Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
Becoming – Michelle Obama
Where The Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
Essentialism – Greg McKeown
Eros the Bittersweet – Anne Carson
Educated – Tara Westover

2018 (18 books)

The Yamas and Niyamas – Deborah Adele
Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward
The Gifts of Imperfection – Brene Brown
The Mars Room – Rachel Kushner
Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan
Take Out Delivery – Paul Siegell
The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
I Am Having So Much Fun Without You – Courtney Maum
Am I There Yet? – Mari Andrews
Touch – Courtney Maum
Feel Free – Zadie Smith
The Jesuit Guide To (Almost) Everything – James Martin, SJ
Turtles All The Way Down – John Green
Braving The Wilderness – Brene Brown
The Vanity Fair Diaries – Tina Brown
Chasing Phil – David Howard
Ornament And Silence – Kennedy Fraser

2017 (32 books)

Four Reincarnations – Max Ritvo
The Rules Do Not Apply – Ariel Levy
When Breath Becomes Air -Paul Kalanithi
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Milk And Honey – Rupi Kaur
Like Water – Rebecca Podos
The Lost World – Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
Her Body And Other Parties – Carmen Maria Machado
Selected Poems – Adonis
What Happened – Hillary Clinton
Hapax – A.E. Stallings
And The Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
The View From The Cheap Seats – Neil Gaiman
The Young Widower’s Handbook – Tom McAllister
Hunger – Roxane Gay
Devil In The White City – Erik Larson
Daring Greatly – Brené Brown
Midnight Salvage – Adrienne Rich
Crush – Richard Siken
Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far – Adrienne Rich
So Sad Today – Melissa Broder
Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
Love Warrior – Glennon Melton Doyle
The Mothers – Brit Bennett
Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi

2016 (26 books)
Modern Romance – Aziz Ansari
Born A Crime – Trevor Noah
Yes Please – Amy Poehler
Heartburn – Nora Ephron
Losing It – Emma Rathbone
Career of Evil – Robert Galbraith
Running: A Love Story – Jen A. Miller
Between The World And Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Monstress (Vol. 1) – Marjorie Liu
The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo- Amy Schumer
The Girls – Emma Cline
The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
You Look Like That Girl… – Lisa Jakub
The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – J.K. Rowling
Bloomabilities – Sharon Creech
Pilgrims – Elizabeth Gilbert
Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff
Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo
Brain on Fire – Susannah Cahalan
The Mystery of Hollow Places – Rebecca Podos
Tenth of December – George Saunders
Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert
Fragile Things – Neil Gaiman
The Woman Warrior – Maxine Hong Kingston

2015 (16 books)
Trigger Warning – Neil Gaiman
Writing Down The Bones – Natalie Goldberg
The Performing Word – Frederick W. Reid
Madame Deluxe – Tenaya Darlington
Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
salt – Nayyirah Waheed
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Saga: Book One – Brian K. Vaughn
My Age of Anxiety – Scott Stossel
The Pillowman – Martin McDonagh
The Pale King – David Foster Wallace
Looking for Alaska – John Green
The Art of Asking – Amanda Palmer
Laughing at My Nightmare – Shane Burcaw

2014 (18 books)
The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
Trespass – Thomas Dooley
Not That Kind of Girl – Lena Dunham
The Opposite of Loneliness – Marina Keegan
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
The Circle – Dave Eggers
The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith
Beautiful Ruins – Jess Walter
Super Sad True Love Story – Gary Shteyngart
The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
The Lost Years of Merlin – T.A. Barron
The End of the Suburbs – Leigh Gallagher
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
The Signature of All Things – Elizabeth Gilbert

2013
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Catherine – April Lindner
The Receptionist – Janet Groth
The Killing Joke – Alan Moore
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jeanette Rhys
Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson
Lit – Mary Karr
Ex Machina – Brian K. Vaughan
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Emma – Jane Austen

2013
The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
No Death No Fear – Thich Nhat Hanh
Thrall – Natasha Trethewey
Poetry in America – Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Freefall – Joseph Stiglitz
The Dark Tower I, II, III, IV – Stephen King
Song Without Words – Gerald Shea
Bossypants – Tina Fey
A Pennsylvania Deer Hunter – Edward Murphy
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The Passage – Justin Cronin
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
29 Gifts – Cami Walker
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
The Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling
On Writing Well – William Zinsser
The Diviners – Libba Bray
You Are Here – Thich Nhat Hanh
A Hologram for the King – Dave Eggers

2012
The Personal MBA – Josh Kaufman
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Superfreakonomics – Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
The Flight of Gemma Hardy – Margot Livesey
Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
The Singles – Meredith Goldstein
Cereus Blooms At Night – Shani Mootoo
Omeros – Derek Walcott
The Bone People – Keri Hulme
Season of Migration to the North – Tayeb Salih
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
Without a Net – Michelle Kennedy
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? – Mindy Kaling
Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer
The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
Tell Them I Didn’t Cry – Jackie Spinner/Jenny Spinner
The Hunger Games Trilogy – Suzanne Collins

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