The Bricks is a reading series dedicated to building transcultural conversations on literature & aesthetics. This event is sponsored by Blue Stoop! Light refreshments will be provided.

The Bricks is a reading series dedicated to building transcultural conversations on literature & aesthetics. This event is sponsored by Blue Stoop! Light refreshments will be provided.

H&H is thrilled to welcome Jacob Budenz, a Baltimore-based queer author, multi-disciplinary performer, witch, and author of the debut collection of short stories, Tea Leaves, published through Amble, an imprint of the small legacy queer-owned press Bywater Books. Jacob will be joined in conversation for a reading and signing of the book by Philly’s own Camellia-Berry Grass, author of Hall of Waters. 

Join us for a launch event for Temim Fruchter’s debut novel, CITY OF LAUGHTER.  Temim will read from the book and be joined in conversation with friend and local author Emma Copley Eisenberg. H&H is always thrilled to welcome creative comrades, in art and IRL! 

The Bricks is a reading series dedicated to building transcultural conversations on literature & aesthetics. This event is sponsored by Blue Stoop! Light refreshments will be provided.

"Personal Velocity" organized by Katie Bennett. The series will feature personal stories (creative nonfiction/ memoir) by Philadelphia-based writers who identify as women, nonbinary, and trans.

H&H Books is flinging wide its doors to host Salons on September 8, November 17, and January 26, 2024. Each Salon will feature writers and visual artists that have a connection to the Riverwards. These events will be free to the public. Come one and all to witness the visual-verbal alchemy! 

Join us for the first Bricks Reading event of 2024 at H&H Books. The readers for this event are Maggie Millner, Nuha Fariha, and Denise Laidler.

The Bricks is a reading series dedicated to building transcultural conversations on literature & aesthetics. This event is sponsored by Blue Stoop! Light refreshments will be provided.

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Join us for a group reading of The House of the Star by Clarice Lispector in the lower level of the bookstore from 12-4 PM. We’ll be reading from this version of Benjamin Moser's translation. All are welcome to attend and listen!

Double the Story Time fun on Saturday, December 2, H&H Books’ last of the year! Local author Alyssa Reynoso-Morris will be joined by her friend and fellow children’s book author, Pat Tanumihardja, to read from their picture books celebrating the gathering power of the family meal.  Click on listing to RSVP.

Join us for the seventh Bricks Reading event of 2023! This event is sponsored by Blue Stoop! Light refreshments will be provided.

"Personal Velocity" organized by Katie Bennett. The series will feature personal stories (creative nonfiction/ memoir) by Philadelphia-based writers who identify as women, nonbinary, and trans.

H&H Books is flinging wide its doors to host Salons on September 8, November 17, and January 26, 2024. Each Salon will feature writers and visual artists that have a connection to the Riverwards. These events will be free to the public. Come one and all to witness the visual-verbal alchemy! 

Join us for the sixth Bricks Reading event of 2023! This event is sponsored by Blue Stoop! Light refreshments will be provided.

Join author/musicians Melissa Lozada-Oliva and Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz for a discussion in celebration of Melissa's debut novel Candelaria. These extremely talented friends have collaborated on multi-medium events in the past, so don’t miss their latest pairing at H&H! 

"Personal Velocity" organized by Katie Bennett. The series will feature personal stories (creative nonfiction/ memoir) by Philadelphia-based writers who identify as women, nonbinary, and trans.

Press Press is excited to launch their forthcoming anthology Commune Diverge Shift Connect: Press Press’s Organizational Handbook co-published by Institute for Expanded Research in Fall 2023. As part of this release, they will be in conversation for Vox Populi’s Teaching at the End of Times. Collective members will reflect on their collaborative relationship, methodologies and practices and ask the audience to sit with the following: What are the conditions necessary for cultivating and sustaining ethical and compassionate frameworks for being with and cooperating with others in the world?

Join us for the fifth Bricks Reading event of 2023! This event is sponsored by Blue Stoop! Light refreshments will be provided.

Come on down to our first September Story Time in the Mural City Cellars Garden and welcome our neighborhood’s own children’s book writer/illustrator extraordinaire, Sarah Jacoby! Sarah will be reading from Doris, a book about a horse who dances her way into new possibilities.

H&H has received a grant from the Penn Treaty Special Services District (PTSSD) to produce a unique exhibition and publishing pilot we have dubbed The Riverwards Arts & Letters (RA&L) Salon Series. The goal: a neighborhood hub where writers read and artists exhibit with an aim towards sparking collaborations and ultimately creating a published works together. In essence, the RA&L Series is a creative cross-pollination experiment.

H&H Books is flinging wide its doors to host Salons on September 8, November 17, and January 26, 2024. Each Salon will be free to the public and will feature the work of three artists and three writers on display. Come one and all to witness the visual-verbal alchemy! 

Come join us at the bookshop for a reading and conversation between debut authors Jiordan Castle, author of Disappearing Act, and Kate Doyle, author of I Meant It Once! 

Castle's memoir-in-verse has been lauded as "searingly honest," "heartbreaking," and "a heart-wrenching look at the cognitive dissonance that occurs when trying to reconcile who someone is with who you want them to be," while Doyle's short stories have been called, "by turns funny, melancholy, wry, and piercing in their insight" and "something to be savored." Both authors explore the tension of growing up and forming identities in an often unforgiving culture, and a powerful navigation of family bonds and friendship breaks.

Stop by the shop during the Philly Bookstore Crawl between 2-4 PM to shop and get your YA books signed by Brittney Morris, Farah Naz Rishi , Eric Smith, and Deeba Zargarpur with special giveaway items courtesy of Candlewick Press!