He’s not often thought of as a Philadelphia writer, but Isaac Asimov, one of the towering figures of science fiction spent three years during World War II working at the Navy Yard and living in West Philly. Bart Everts has the story

After four years of grown and learning, the nonprofit aimed at making Mighty Writers out of local school students will next month open a West Philadelphia outpost in Hawthorne Hall’s twin on Lancaster Avenue

With a reading tonight, Philebrity and the 215 Festival celebrate Walt Whitman’s 194th birthday, and initiate the Philadelphia incarnation of Portland’s popular Literary Mixtape series

Memories of the Mercantile Library from an obscure insurance company executive who doubled as first rate essayist