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1. headed to California and other bookish events
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By: Beth Kephart , on 3/21/2013
Blog: Beth Kephart Books (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:  Books of Wonder, Drexel University, Free Library of Philadelphia, Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent, Handling the Truth, Harleysville Books, BookPassage, Corte Madera, Hooray for Books, Add a tag

Friends of this blog know how much I love California—the sun, the ocean cliffs, the people. I was so happy, therefore, to be invited to conduct a memoir workshop at the great BookPassage in Corte Madera. I'll be out there in early September, and I'd love to see you there. The details are here, below, along with a few other events that have cropped up in the meantime—events that will touch on everything from Small Damages, Dangerous Neighbors, and Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent to memoir writing, Philadelphia, and the boutique marketing communications firm I run.

Please join us if you can.

March 22, 2013, 5 - 7 PMPost-Penn Perspectives Panel
Sweeten Alumni House
University of Pennsylvania

March 24, 2013, 1 - 4
No-Foolin' Mega-Signing At Books of Wonder
New York, New York
For Details click here.

April 10, 2013, 7 PM
Feature Author Book Club Dinner
Harleysville Books
Harleysville, PA

May 22, 2013, 2 PM 
Strange and Familiar Places in YA Fiction (a panel)
Drexel University Week of Writing
Philadelphia, PA

July 27, 2013, 3:30 - 5:00 PM
 Launching Small Damages paperback/Memoir Workshop
with Debbie Levy
Hooray for Books
Old Town Alexandria, VA

August 6, 2013
Launching Handling the Truth
with a memoir workshop
Free Library of Philadelphia
(details to come)
Philadelphia, PA

September 7, 2013, 10 AM - noon
BookPassage Memoir Workshop
51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
Corte Madera, CA 94925

October 20, 2013
Talking Memoir with Linda Joy Myers @
Rosemont College
(details to come)

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2. Dr. Constantine Papadakis: A Tribute
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By: Beth Kephart , on 4/7/2009
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JacketFlap tags:  Brandywine Realty Trust, Cira Centre, Drexel University, Jerry Sweeney, Constantine Papdakis, West Philadelphia, Add a tag

I spoke in a recent post of my privileged life—living literature, living community and ideas at the same time. I spoke of how sometimes luck walked me straight through the door of extraordinary people and let me stay awhile.

Dr. Constantine Papadakis, who served for 13 years as the president of Drexel University until his passing yesterday, was one of those big-thinking, renaissance-quality people. He was just 63, and today my city mourns his loss.

I spent time in the company of Dr. Papadakis during my work on a book commemorating the rise of Cira Centre, an historic glass building in West Philadelphia. Not a lot of time—just enough to understand and appreciate how deep a thinker he was. Our conversation was to focus on the emergence of West Philadelphia, on the shifting center of this Quaker City. It quickly spilled over into talk about Anthony Drexel and George Childs, two of my favorite historic Philadelphians. It moved from there into broader philosophical terrain, and when my team arrived a few weeks later to photograph the great doctor in that grand hall of Drexel, he was charismatic and charming all over again—more artifactual stories to tell, that bright smile on his handsome Greek face.

Drexel University is a vastly different place than it once was—anchored in with new architecture (for architecture was a Dr. Papadakis passion) by Michael Graves, I.M. Pei, and others; set off in many new directions. West Philadelphia has changed enormously, too—thanks to him, thanks to my alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, and thanks to Dr. Papadakis's dear friend, Jerry Sweeney, the visionary CEO of Brandywine Realty Trust, who made certain that Cira rose above an old train yard and who set us free to write a book that led us through the door of souls like Dr. Papadakis.

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