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Literary Long Island Iced Tea: Perch Pub Recap

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Perch Pub on Tuesday, December 11 was like some kind of awesome literary buffet! Or like a ridiculous literary Long Island iced tea! Or like, maybe it was like, an anthology that doesn’t exist! Tamara Oakman, Debra Leigh Scott, and Warren Longmire brought their best to the table (well, ok, there wasn’t a table there was just a mic—that didn’t work, but it was ok…

Perch Pub brings out AWP’s Best

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Our Perch Pub reading on Tuesday, November 13, made us feel a bit like we had fallen down the Pub’s spiral staircase rather than walked up it—so many people we normally only see at AWP were there!!! Thank God Perch Pub has windows on the Avenue of the Arts, or we would’ve thought we weren’t in Philadelphia anymore!

Andrew Keller rocks October Slam, Bam

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With all the paper skeleton decorations on the walls contorted into different sex positions it was already set that the Slam on October 25th was going to have some of the subtle oddities that the season brings. Senior Editor of PBQ and guitarist in the band Hermit Thrushes, Andrew Keller…

Literary Death Match: Laughter and Literary Hilarity

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On October 17, the comedic, competitive reading series that is Literary Death Match came to Philadelphia for the fourth time. As always, the night was full of laughter and literary hilarity. Judges were comedian Carolyn Busa (co-host of Laughs on Fairmount, voted Philly’s Best Open Mic), Philadelphia Tribune’s lifestyle reporter Bobbi Booker, and one of Philly’s finest storytellers (and playwrights and teaching artists) R. Eric Thomas.