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    Author Event: A Conversation with Novella Carpenter

    Author Event: A Conversation with Novella Carpenter

    Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library

    June 8, 2010


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    Novella Carpenter studied under writer and food guru Michael Pollan for two years at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. In Farm City—a book that one New York Times reviewer compared to both Julie Powell’s Julie & Julia and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love and Pollan found “by turns edgy, moving, and hilarious”—she chronicles the creation and maintenance of her urban farm in Oakland, California, where she raises vegetables, chickens, rabbits, ducks, goats, turkeys, pigs, and bees. “The fast-paced account of the day-to-day drama unfolding in one backyard in Oakland… transforms Carpenter's personal experience into a broader, more engaging inquiry into our culture's complex relationship with food.” (San Francisco Chronicle)


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        Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library

        1901 Vine Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19103

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        Tickets: FREE

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        June 8, 2010

        Times:
        7:30 pm

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