Story Search From Special Collections

Hosted by Joe Shemtov and Andrea Lemoins

Our first season will be dedicated to artifacts kept at the Free Library of Philadelphia.

"In Praise of Forgeries"

Forgeries are designed to fool us. But do they also expose us to truths about the things we value, and why?  In this podcast, we interviewed author Bradford Morrow. Mr. Morrow is the author of his newly released book, "The Forger's Daughter," which follows a reformed literary forger, whose entire family becomes involved in a plot to counterfeit one of the rarest books in America: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane, which he wrote and paid to have printed as a teenager. The Rare Book Department owns a rare, first edition copy printed in 1847 in its collection, and the author mentions it in his book.

This podcast was edited by Hannah Cho.