Dylan Horrocks - Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen
Friday, September 18th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Meet Sam, an artist selling his soul by churning out an action comic
when he wants to create graphic memoirs. Or just have adventures:
absorbed—perhaps literally—in a comic about Mars, Sam embarks on a far-flung
fantasy involving pulp plots and anime characters. Using Sam’s colorful
experiences to comment on graphic traditions, Horrocks, the New Zealand-born
comics artist best known for Hicksville and the scripts of the Batgirl series,
offers a vivid meditation on creativity and the moral responsibility of the
artist. Look for Horrocks’s Incomplete
Works, featuring a wondrous mix of daydreams, fantasies, and other
distractions from work, next month. Free admission.
LIVE! from Busboys
Talent Showcase Open Mic hosted by Angie Head
Friday, September 18th from 11 pm to 1 am
Busboys and Poets (Hyattsville location)
5331 Baltimore Avenue
Hyattsville, MD 20781
LIVE! from Busboys is an open mic talent showcase that offers a platform
for all performers, not just poets. Whether you are a musician, comedian,
dancer, actor, magician or any other type of performer, we want to see what you
got! Come out and showcase your talents! Tonight's LIVE! from Busboys is hosted
by Angie Head. Cover charge: $5.
Todd Moss – Minute Zero
Saturday, September 19th at 1 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
The Golden Hour, Moss’s first
international thriller, introduced you to Judd Ryker, a State Department crisis
manager with his hands full after a coup in Mali. In his follow-up, he sends
Ryker to Zimbabwe. There, amid a chaos of arms and money, military strongmen
and rumors of enriched uranium, Ryker struggles to find that brief,
sixty-second sweet spot that will allow him to take control of events. Moss is
former deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of African Affairs,
who is currently vice president and senior fellow at the Center for Global
Development. Free admission.
Martin Walker - The Patriarch: A
Bruno, Chief of Police Novel
Saturday, September 19th at 3:30 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
In his eighth mystery featuring Benoît “Bruno” Courrèges, Walker infuses
the sunny ambience of St. Denis with history and international intrigue. The
eponymous patriarch is Jean-Marc Desaix, a World War II hero honored by both de
Gaulle and Stalin; when Courrèges attends a party at his estate, the fun is cut
short with a tragic accident. But—was it an accident? Looking more closely at
his host’s family, Bruno finds rivalries, tensions, and evidence of possible
espionage—too much to chalk up to “accident.” Walker is senior fellow of the
Global Business Policy Council and former UPI foreign affairs columnist and
editor in chief, Free admission.
Gilbert Gaul - Billion-Dollar
Ball: A Journey through the Big-Money Culture of College Football
Saturday, September 19th at 6 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
With its outsize budgets, larger-than-life players,
and infamous coaches, college football often seems to overshadow all other
aspects of collegiate life. In this detailed investigation, Gaul, a two-time
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with extensive experience at The
Washington Post, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and other papers, looks
closely at the largest of the NCAA football teams, laying out not only the
statistics—profit margins of some college football programs have increased more
than 600% in recent years—but also showing how the sport’s disproportionate
share of resources harms academics and distorts a school’s overall meaning and
mission. Free admission.
Youth Open Mic presented by Busboys and Poets
Saturday, September 19th from 6:30
pm to 8 pm
Busboys and Poets (5th and K
location)
1025 5th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Youth-focused and youth-led, Youth Open Mic is
a monthly series that features student poets, singers, musicians, and actors
from the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Middle school and high school students are
encouraged to come share their art in a supportive, progressive, artistic
atmosphere. $5 cover.
Salman Rushdie - Two
Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Saturday, September 19th at 7 pm
Sixth and I Historic Synagogue
600 I St NW
Washington, DC 20001
Rushdie has published fiction long and short,
edited anthologies, and written four books of nonfiction. He caught readers’
attention with his 1981 novel, Midnight’s
Children, which won not only that year’s Booker Prize, but also the Best of
Bookers Prize in 2008. With Rushdie's signature blend of myth, history, wild
imagination, and exuberance, Two Years,
Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights depicts a world both fantastic yet
recognizably our own. After a storm, New Yorkers start to notice some strange
things; people develop unusual powers, both mental and physical. Investigations
point back many generations to a jinn who, once upon a time, fell in love with
a mortal.
1 Book and 1 Ticket: $35; $33 for members
1 Book and 2 Tickets: $45; $42 for members
Sandra Moore and
Kazumi Wilds - The Peace Tree from
Hiroshima: A Little Bonsai With A Big Story
Sunday, September 20th at 9:30 am
Busboys and Poets (Takoma location)
235 Carroll St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20012
For over 300 years, a certain Japanese white pine flourished in the care
of the Yamaki family, who passed down the art of bonsai from generation to
generation. Then, in 1945, war came to the doorstep of the Yamakis’ home with
the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States. Miraculously, both the
family and this special white pine survived. This is the little tree’s story of
its life, and how it found a new home in the very country that threatened its
survival. Ages 8 – 12. Free admission.
Alice Hoffman – The Marriage of Opposites
Sunday, September 20th at 1 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
In more than thirty works of fiction for both adults and young adults,
Hoffman has perfected a compelling blend of realism and magic. Her latest novel
is set on the lush island of St. Thomas. But for Rachel, who has grown up there
among a small community of Jews who fled from the Inquisition, the truly exotic
place is Paris, and she dreams of a life there—especially after she’s married
off to a widower and becomes stepmother to three sons. Fate has more surprises
in store, however. Free admission.
Grace Cavalieri and
Eric Lindner
Sunday, September 20th, 2015 from 2 pm to 4 pm
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815
Grace Cavalieri reads from her new memoir, Life Upon the Wicked Stage. She is joined by Eric Lindner, who
reads from Hospice Voices: Lessons for
Living at the End of Life. The reading will be followed by a reception and
book signing. Free admission.
Wil Haygood - Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
Sunday, September 20th at 5 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
A veteran journalist for The
Washington Post and The Boston Globe,
Haygood has become one of the premier biographers of African American leaders. After
covering important figures in politics, sports, and the arts, including Adam
Clayton Powell Jr., Sugar Ray Robinson, Sammy Davis Jr., and others, Haygood
now adds this groundbreaking study of Thurgood Marshall. Focusing on the
jurist’s extraordinary forty-year career, Haygood chronicles the legal issues
and major cases of the day, showing how the High Court Justice left his country
a more equitable and better place. Free admission.
Sunday Kind of Love
Open Mic Poetry
Sunday, September 20th from 5 pm to 7 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
A Busboys and Poetry event! Sunday Kind of Love Open Mic Poetry features
emerging and established poets from the Washington, D.C. area and around the
nation. Each program includes one to two featured poets and an open mic
segment. $5 cover.
Eleanor Davis and
Drew Weing - Flop to the Top! Toon Level
3
Monday, September 21st at 10:30 am
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
(Children’s and Teens Dept)
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Wanda knows she’s going to be a star someday, so why not start acting
like one right now? Her siblings and her dog, Wilbur, languish on the sidelines
as Wanda demands more than her fair share of attention. When the tables turn and another member of
the family experiences a taste of fame, Wanda must decide how to handle being
outside of the spotlight. Ages 5 – 8. Free admission.
International
Literature: Singaporean Literature
Monday, September 21st, 2015, at 4 pm
Library of Congress
James Madison Building (Mumford Room – Sixth floor)
101 Independence Ave SE
Washington, DC 20540
Poet/essayist Jee Leong Koh, playwright/translator Jeremy Tiang, and
writer/editor Frank Stewart, will read from Starry
Island: New Writing from Singapore as part of MANOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing’s series of
contemporary literature from Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas. Free
admission.
Lauren Groff - Fates and Furies
Monday, September 21st at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Author of the story collection Delicate
Edible Birds and two best-selling novels, Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia,
Groff explores a rich and multilayered look at marriage in his third novel. A
golden couple in every way, Lotto and Mathilde team up at age twenty-two;
twenty-four years later, their union is more solid than ever. But where friends
and colleagues see obvious affection and a mutually creative partnership, the
couple’s strongest foundation rests on secrets. Groff will be in conversation
with Lynn Neary, an NPR arts correspondent and a frequent guest host often
heard on Morning Edition and Weekend Edition. Free admission.
Lee Child - Make Me: A Jack
Reacher Novel
Monday, September 21st at 7
pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
On his twentieth case and still going strong, Jack Reacher, the former
U.S. Army Major with a penchant for roaming, arrives at a small town called
Mother’s Rest, where he finds a cryptic message about a series of deaths,
townsfolk acting oddly, and, most unnerving, a private investigator gone
missing. Child, who was awarded the Crime Writers Association Diamond Dagger in
2013, writes with such vivid energy that every book in the series has been
optioned for film adaptation. Child will be in conversation with Laura Lippman,
award-winning author of many mysteries, including the Tess Monaghan series.
Free admission.
Eleanor Davis and
Drew Weing - Flop to the Top! Toon Level
3
Monday, September 21st at
7:30 pm
Takoma Park Library
101 Philadelphia Ave
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Wanda knows she’s going to be a star someday, so why not start acting
like one right now? Her siblings and her dog, Wilbur, languish on the sidelines
as Wanda demands more than her fair share of attention. When the tables turn and another member of
the family experiences a taste of fame, Wanda must decide how to handle being
outside of the spotlight. Ages 5 – 8. Free admission.
Monday Night Open Mic
Hosted by Mary Bowman
Monday, September 21st, 2015 from 8 pm to 10 pm
Busboys and Poets (Shirlington location)
4251 South Campbell Avenue
Arlington, VA 22206
For two hours, audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices and a
vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians,
and a different host every week. $5 cover.
Tuesday Night Open
Mic hosted by Drew Anderson
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 from 9 pm to 11 pm
Busboys and Poets (Takoma location)
235 Carroll St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20012
For two hours, audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices, and a
vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians,
and a different host every week. $5 cover.
Tuesday Night Open
Mic hosted by Gowri K
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 from 9 pm to 11 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
For two hours, audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices, and a
vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians,
and a different host every week. $5 cover.
Marco Politi - Pope Francis among The Wolves: The Inside
Story Of A Revolution
Wednesday, September 23rd at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Brookland location)
625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20017
Now with il Fatto Quotidiano, Politi is the former Vatican
correspondent for La Repubblica and has gained international
recognition over the last four decades as an expert on the Papacy. The author
of articles and book-length studies of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, his
new book illuminates the complex power dynamics among the Roman Curia that led
to the surprise election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He surveys the scandals
rocking the church in recent years, and outlines the pressing issues facing
Pope Francis. Free admission.
David De Sola - Alice
in Chains: The Untold Story
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Four years after their first meeting at a warehouse under Seattle’s
Ballard Bridge, the members of Alice in Chains became the first of grunge’s big
four—ahead of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden—to earn a gold record and
achieve national recognition. De Sola, a Georgetown graduate and now a Los
Angeles-based journalist who has contributed to The Huffington Post, The
Atlantic, and other journals, has interviewed the musicians, their
colleagues, friends, family, and others in the music industry for this
comprehensive history that interweaves the art, business, and personal lives of
those involved in the 1990s grunge scene. Free admission.
Wednesday Night Open
Mic hosted by Dwayne B
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015
from 9 pm to 11 pm
Busboys and Poets (5th and K
location)
1025 5th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
For two hours, audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices, and a
vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians,
and a different host every week. $5 cover
Thursday Night Open
Mic Poetry hosted by E-baby
Thursday, September 24th, from 9 pm to 11 pm
Busboys and Poets (Hyattsville location)
5331 Baltimore Avenue
Hyattsville, MD 20781
For two hours, audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices and a
vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians,
and a different host every week. $5 cover.
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