Eight pounds with philly connections to read this spring
This is an exciting period to be a Philly writer.
Peacock has launched its limited edition thriller Long brilliant river Based on the novel of the same name of South Philadelphia’s writer, Liz Moore, Thursday. Joseph Earl Thomas de Frankford May God bless you, Otis Spunkmeyer won the prestigious first prize of the Center for Fiction last December. And our own Marie-Helene Bertino Beauty was named one of the New York Times’ 100 notable pounds from 2024.
“We see a very beautiful variety of books taking place in Philly by authors of Philly,” said Emma Copley Eisenberg, author of Roommate,, One novel on two Queer Rotes friends who go through the Pennsylvania. Eisenberg is the co -founder of CrashA local non -profit organization defending the Philly scribes. “The past five years have been an exceptional harvest of excellent work,” said Eisenberg. “I’m really proud of us.”
Whether you listen to books on long walks by car or you are a late evening reader, here are some books with deep connections for you.
‘Harlem Rhapsody’
Victoria Christopher Murray, Penguin Random House, $ 29
The graduate, publisher and poet of Girls High, Jessie Redmon Fauset, discovered that the writers of the Renaissance of Harlem, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Nella Larsen, when she was literary editor of the Magazine Naacp the Crisis. In Harlem RhapsodyThe author Victoria Christopher Murray weaves the history of Fauset’s literary success – and some visits to the Big Apple by the own black elite of Philly as the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta, Sadie Tanner Mossell – in a soapy novel in the Save of the Twenty years. At the heart of the 400 -page pages turner is an alleged scorching affair of Fauset with the famous civil and historian militant of Philadelphia web of wood.
“ The Griffin sisters “the greatest successes”
Jennifer Weiner, HarperCollins, $ 30
Whether Rose and Maggie Feller in the Best Seller 2001 In its place or Diana Starling in the 2021 novel This summerThe former journalist who has become the novelist of blockbuster Jennifer Weiner is skilful to bring down readers in love with his emotional characters. In his last time, The greatest successes of the Griffin SistersThe Philly novelist returned in the early 2000s fed in the early 2000s with brothers and sisters Cathy and Zoe Grossberg, a pop-dowo of the card. Today, the sisters are middle -aged suburban women hanging on the old secrets of decades. Watch them take place.
‘Song so Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell’
Paul Lisicky, HarperCollins, $ 28
Joni Mitchell’s moving folk songs helped the Memoirs and Professor Camden of Rutgers University, Paul Lisicky, to find his creativity. Song so wild and blue: a life with the music of Joni Mitchell is the ode of the native of Cherry Hill at the work of Mitchell. Lisicky takes readers in his artistic journey to self -discovery, starting in the fourth year when he fell in love with Mitchell’s song “The two sides now”. We sit with him as he writes his first song and looks at this leads to a significant prose. Song so wild and blue Talk to Mitchell fans and budding artists.
“ You must eat: real strategies to feed yourself when the kitchen is impossible ”
Margaret Eby, Quirk Books, $ 19.99
Hungry? Fatigue? Hungry and tired? Well, West Philadelphian – By Birmingham, al. You have to eat is filled with hacks, recipes and advice for busy hungry people. It includes a breakfast, snacks and easy dinners, including my favorite, the One Sheet Pan meal. The best advice in the book is the most obvious: use the remaining roasted vegetables to make sandwiches on the bread which, well, you do not have to cook. Such good advice in the world focused on today’s aesthetics.
‘Zoe Brennan, First Crush’
Laura Piper Lee, Union Square & Co., $ 17.99
The message is simple. If you like a romance, buy this Mount Airy Writer novel: Zoe Brennan, First Crush. In Laura Piper Lee’s book, Zoe Brennan heads her family’s vineyard to Blue Ridge. After a hot night with a mysterious woman – whom she learns later is the daughter of a rival winemaker – La Dames joins forces to organize a wine festival. Will they discover true love in planning? It looks like a characteristic film for me.
“A hole in history”
Ken Kalfus, access, $ 26. Released April 1.
The novelist based in Philly Ken Kalfus’ A hole in history gives bingable standard energy. The 208-page novel is a dark story of how the political commentator Adam Zweig becomes the third wheel of a scandal of sexual harassment titillating between a colleague and an ex-factor. This makes him face his prejudices and how they shape his coverage and that of his network.
“ Fight to win: American work heroes’ ”
Kim Kelly, Simon & Schuster, $ 20. Release on May 6.
Regardless of the award -winning job journalist Kim Kelly Fight Like Hell: The unprecedented history of the American workers’ movement Illuminated the stories of liberated black women who have organized themselves for protection in workers in southern immigrant clothing and Jewish immigrants in the early 1900s, among others. In Fight to win: Heroes of American LaborThe writer based in Philly reiterates these stories for an audience of young adults, at a time when such history lessons are becoming more and more difficult to find.
‘Red clay’
Charles B. Fancher, Blackstone Publishing, $ 28.99
The former journalist of Philadelphia Inquirer Charles Fancher tells the fictitious story of a Servi family and his slavers at the dawn of reconstruction. Fancher, who lives in the Poconos, weaves an epic saga of friendship, betrayal, violence and redemption that takes the readers of Alabama and Paris to New Orleans. Released in February, Red clay is among the most anticipated historical works of 2025.
