Jim Dutcher and Jamie
Dutcher - A Friend for Lakota: The
Incredible True Story of a Wolf Who Braved Bullying
Friday, October 2nd at 10:30 am
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
(Children’s and Teens’ Dept)
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
The Dutchers lived in a tent near a wolf pack to observe their behavior
and watched the story of Lakota unfold. The lowest-ranking member of his pack,
this pup endured repeated bullying until he discovered a friend who provided
the support he needed. Ages 5 – 8. Free admission.
Robert B. Reich - Saving
Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Friday, October 2nd at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Reich’s distinguished career spans three administrations, including tenure
as Clinton’s secretary of labor. He has been awarded the Vaclav Havel
Foundation Prize for work in economic and social thought, and is the author of
a dozen books, most recently Beyond
Outrage. He is also the co-founding editor of American Prospect, co-creator of the film Inequality for All, commentator on NPR’s Marketplace, and professor
of public policy at UC Berkeley. In his thirteenth book, Reich tackles the
growing problem of economic disparity by focusing on the relationship between
politics and corporate finance. Closely examining the revolving door between
the two, Reich compares myths about both the minimum wage and top corporate
compensation, and issues a call for civic action to change the status quo. Free
admission.
Fall
for the Book - Jacob Appel and T. Dasu
Friday, October 2nd at
7 pm
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815
The Writer’s Center
hosts a Fall for the Book Festival reading by Jacob Appel and T. Dasu.
The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing. Free admission.
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Joby Warrick - Black Flags: The Rise of Isis
Saturday, October 3rd at 1 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
In his second book, Warrick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post
journalist and author of The Triple Agent, follows up his suspenseful story of
Jordanian al-Qaeda agent Humam Khalil al-Balawi with this equally dramatic
chronicle of the rise of ISIS. Examining events and beliefs but most of all the
actions of one man, Warrick tracks the rise of the extremist group by following
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi beginning with his release in 1999 from a Jordanian prison
through his consolidation of power when the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, on to
his leadership of al-Qaeda in Iraq, now known as ISIS. Free admission.
The
Cities We Live In: New Writing from South Asia
A
program in two parts
Saturday, October 3 at 2 pm
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815
Part 1: Experiencing the City:
public space and gender (2:00 to 3:30 p.m.)
Readers:
Kavita Daiya is Associate Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty in the
Women’s Studies Program and Global Women’s Institute at George Washington
University, Washington DC. Tula Goenka is an author, filmmaker, educator and
human rights activist. Rashmi Sadana is the author of English Heart, Hindi Heartland: The
Political Life of Literature in India (University of California
Press, 2012), which is an ethnography of Delhi's literary field and the
politics of language that undergird it. Leeya Mehta has worked in international
development for two decades, most recently with the World Bank's gender group.
Part II: Fiction from South Asia: A Conversation with A.X. Ahmad and Sujata Massey (3:45 – 5:15 P.M.)
Amin Ahmad, as ‘A.X. Ahmad’, is the author
of two books—The Caretaker
(2013) and The Last Taxi
Ride (2014), both suspense novels from St. Martin’s Press. Sujata
Massey was born in England to parents from India and Germany. She grew up
mostly in the United States, graduated from the Johns Hopkins University, and
worked as a newspaper journalist in Baltimore before turning to fiction. Free
admission.
Yeonmi Park - In Order To Live: A
North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Saturday, October 3rd at 3:30 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Park grew up in North Korea, but didn’t realize the extent of the
nation’s privation and repression until her father, a civil servant, was
arrested for smuggling. The family soon lost its relatively privileged status
and, facing starvation, Park and her mother escaped to the South. Her memoir is
a harrowing account of the long journey through China and Mongolia at the mercy
of human traffickers. Today, Park is a human rights advocate and a leader of
young Korean dissidents. Free admission.
Youth Open Mic
Saturday, October 3rd from 4 pm to 6 pm
Busboys and Poets (Shirlington location)
4251 South Campbell Avenue
Arlington, VA 22206
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 our
supportive, progressive, artistic atmosphere. $5 cover.
David O. Stewart - The Wilson
Deception
Saturday, October 3rd at 6 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Stewart, an award-winning historian who has
written studies of James Madison, Aaron Burr, and the seminal political events
of The Summer of 1787, made his
fiction debut with The Lincoln Deception,
a novel offering a new and plausible theory of the 16th president’s
assassination. In his second novel he revisits the Paris Peace Conference in
December 1918, where spies, heroes, diplomats, and others maneuver for position
amid at least one assassination attempt and a raging flu epidemic. Free admission.
Stuart Stevens - The Last Season: A Father, a Son, and a
Lifetime of College Football
Sunday, October 4th at 1 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
A founder of the Stevens & Schriefer Group, Stevens is a seasoned
political consultant as well as a widely published journalist and a writer for
TV shows such as “K Street” and “Northern Exposure.” In his fifth book, Stevens
looks back to 2012, a year when professional disappointment caused him to
reflect on the bedrocks of his life: his father and college football.
Chronicling the season he and his ninety-five-year-old father spent attending
Ole Miss games together, Stevens’s book offers readers vivid sports writing
along with a moving testimonial to family and to the renewal of bonds between
an aging father and a middle-aged son. Free admission.
Nancy Naomi Carlson
and Tanya Olson
Sunday, October 4th from 2 pm to 4 pm
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815
Emerging Writer Fellowship recipient Tanya Olson
reads from Boyishly, her
collection of poems. She is joined by Nancy Carlson, who reads from recently
published translations, Abdourahman Waberi’s The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out
to Drink from the Big Dipper, and Calazaza's Delicious Dereliction by Suzanne Dracius. The reading will
be followed by a reception and book signing. Free admission.
Sparkle Open Mic
Poetry hosted by Regie Cabico and Danielle Evennou
Sunday, October 4th from 8 pm to 10 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
*SPARKLE* Open Mic Poetry is a queer-friendly and focused reading series
that has featured an array of LGBT-dedicated poets. $5 cover.
Ben Hatke - Little Robot
Monday, October 5th at 10:30 am
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
In this graphic novel for early readers, a young
girl exploring the junkyard near her trailer happens upon a robot as diminutive
as she is. After using her mechanical skills to bring it to life, she and her
new friend experience a series of small adventures—until an enormous factory
robot comes to take Little Robot away. Ages 6 – 9. Free admission.
Jason Reynolds and
Brendan Kiely - All American Boys
Monday, October 5th at 6 pm
Bethesda Public Library
7400 Arlington Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
Rashad and Quinn are high school classmates whose lives are changed when
Brendan’s white police-officer guardian suspects Rashad, who is black, of
shoplifting from the neighborhood bodega and beats him to a pulp. Quinn cannot
reconcile the man he knows with the violence he witnesses firsthand—but after
Rashad begins missing school, both teens are forced to confront realities they
never wanted to face. Ages 15 and up. Free admission.
Elisabeth Egan - A Window Opens and
Laura Dave – Eight Hundred Grapes
Monday, October 5th at 6:30 pm
Kramerbooks
1517 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036
In A Window
Opens, beloved books editor at Glamour
magazine Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all,
sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out)
age. When her husband makes a radical career change, Alice is ready to lean
in—and she knows exactly how lucky she is to land a job at Scroll, a hip young
start-up which promises to be the future of reading. The Holy Grail of working
mothers—an intellectually satisfying job and a happy personal life—seems
suddenly within reach.
In Eight Hundred Grapes, this breakout novel from an author who "positively shines with wisdom and intelligence" (Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I leave You), Laura Dave "writes with humor and insight about relationships in all their complexity, whether she's describing siblings or fiancés or a couple long-married. Eight Hundred Grapes is a captivating story about the power of family, the limitations of love, and what becomes of a life's work." (J. Courtney Sullivan, Maine) Free admission.
In Eight Hundred Grapes, this breakout novel from an author who "positively shines with wisdom and intelligence" (Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I leave You), Laura Dave "writes with humor and insight about relationships in all their complexity, whether she's describing siblings or fiancés or a couple long-married. Eight Hundred Grapes is a captivating story about the power of family, the limitations of love, and what becomes of a life's work." (J. Courtney Sullivan, Maine) Free admission.
Stephanie Steinberg,
Sara Fitzgerald, Andy Kroll, and Leslie Wayne - In The Name Of Editorial Freedom
Monday, October 5th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Brookland location)
625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20017
An editor at U.S. News and World Report, Stephanie Steinberg,
like many other award-winning journalists at premier news outlets across the
world, got her start on The Michigan Daily.
Founded in 1890 and still thriving, with a print circulation of some 18,000, The
Michigan Daily is
much more than a student newspaper, as this collection (titled after the
paper’s longstanding masthead) demonstrates. Joining Steinberg to discuss the Daily’s
important work are three of her fellow alums, including Sara
Fitzgerald, who went
on to write for major news organizations including The
Washington Post; Andy Kroll, who is currently a political
correspondent for National Journal; and Leslie Wayne, professor at Columbia University's
School of Journalism and former reporter for The New York Times.
Sarah Weinman - Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels
of the 1940s & 50s
Monday, October 5th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Takoma location)
235 Carroll St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20012
If you were a mystery fan
in the 1940s and ‘50s, you’d likely have been reading books by Vera Caspary,
Helen Eustis, and Dorothy B. Hughes, among others. They were great then;
they’re classic now, and, along with works by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Charlotte
Armstrong, Patricia Highsmith, Margaret Millar, and Dolores Hitchens, are newly
available in this two-volume box set. Weinman, editor of these volumes, is also
the author of the online newsletter, The
Crime Lady, as well as articles for publications including The New York Times Magazine and The Guardian. Weinman will be in
conversation with Allison Leotta, a former federal prosecutor and author of
four mysteries, most recently A Good
Killing. Free admission.
Niall Ferguson - Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
Monday, October 5th at 7 pm
GW Lisner Auditorium
730 21st St NW
Washington, DC 20052
In Kissinger: 1923-1968: The
Idealist, the first of his projected two-volumes on Henry Kissinger,
Ferguson delves into the statesman’s early life and thinking, providing the
little-known background that formed this influential figure’s world view.
Fleeing Hitler, Kissinger spent his first years in New York doing factory work
before the draft sent him into action at the Battle of the Bulge. Post-war
studies at Harvard immersed him in the ideas of Kant and Metternich, setting
him on course to becoming the strategist we know. Ferguson traces his subject’s
intellectual coming-of-age with a depth and scope that recalls his magisterial
work on Siegmund Warburg, The High
Financier, and his comprehensive investigation of The House of Rothschild. This event is part of The Newsmakers
Series, a partnership of Politics & Prose and George Washington University
that moves beyond the headlines to spark in-depth conversations about contemporary
issues. 1 Ticket: $15; 1 Book and 1 Ticket: $40; $38 for
P & P members; 1 Book and 2
Tickets: $45; $43 for P & P members.
Wendell Pierce - The Wind in the
Reeds: A Storm, a Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken
Monday, October 5th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Pierce, star of The
Wire and an Emmy-award-winning producer, was born in New Orleans, where his
family still lives in the Pontchartrain Park area. His book, co-written with
Rod Dreher, a columnist, critic, and author of Crunchy Cons, is a heartfelt memoir that both mourns the losses of
Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent civil chaos and celebrates the spirit that
has sustained his family and many others as they’ve worked steadily over the
last ten years to rebuild their devastated neighborhoods. Free admission.
Ben Hatke - Little Robot
Monday, October 5th at 7:30 pm
Takoma Park Library
101 Philadelphia Ave
Takoma Park, MD 20912
In this graphic novel for early readers, a young
girl exploring the junkyard near her trailer happens upon a robot as diminutive
as she is. After using her mechanical skills to bring it to life, she and her
new friend experience a series of small adventures—until an enormous factory
robot comes to take Little Robot away. Ages 6 – 9. Free admission.
Monday Night Open Mic
Poetry hosted by KaNikki J
Monday, October 5th 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.
Monday Night Open Mic
hosted by E-Baby
Monday, October 5th from 9 pm to 11 pm
Busboys and Poets (Brookland location)
625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20017
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.
Race in America
Today: a Panel Discussion with April Ryan, Paul Butler, Michael Eric Dyson, and
Joy-Ann Reid
Tuesday, October 6th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Join April Ryan
for a discussion of race in relation to politics, the news, and American
culture, past and present—with special focus on the recent rise in racial
incidents, their origins, and possible solutions. Ryan will moderate a panel of
distinguished writers including: Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor, and
currently a law professor at George Washington University; Michael Eric Dyson,
Georgetown professor of sociology, and author of sixteen books; and Joy-Ann
Reid, MSNBC correspondent, managing editor of TheGrio.com, and author of Fracture. Free admission.
John Deferrari - Capital Streetcars: Early Mass Transit in
Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, October 6th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Brookland location)
625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20017
In his third book-length foray into local history,
DeFerrari, “Secrets of Washington” blogger and author of Lost Washington D.C. and Historic
Restaurants of Washington D.C., looks back to the golden age of the area’s
streetcars. First up and running during the Civil War, the city’s original
streetcars were horse-drawn. As the vehicles grew more powerful, the network
expanded, giving urbanites easy access to suburban sites like Glen Echo. Free
admission.
Marlon James - A Brief History of Seven Killings
Tuesday, October 6th at 6:30 pm
Kramerbooks
1517 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036
In A Brief
History of Seven Killings, Marlon James combines brilliant storytelling
with his unrivaled skills of characterization and meticulous eye for detail to
forge an enthralling novel of dazzling ambition and scope. James will be in
conversation with Tayla Burney, producer at WAMU’s The Kojo Nnamdi Show. Free admission.
Steven Lee Myers - The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir
Putin
Tuesday, October 6th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Currently covering national security issues for The New York Times, Steven Lee Myers has
been with the paper for more than twenty-five years. Prior to serving as
Baghdad bureau chief, he was based in Russia for seven years and witnessed
first-hand Putin’s consolidation of power. Buttressing this experience with
extensive research, Myers charts Putin’s transition from KGB agent to, first, a
reformist intent on establishing order and prosperity, then to an increasingly
ruthless authoritarian at home and aggressive imperialist abroad.
Matt Davies - Nerdy Birdy
Tuesday, October 6th at 7 pm
Takoma Park Library
101 Philadelphia Ave
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Nerdy Birdy is a small-winged, glasses-wearing,
allergic-to-birdseed guy who just wants to be like the cool birds. When he
discovers a whole group of avian companions just like him, however, he thinks
he’s found the true meaning of friendship— until a new girl arrives and calls
everything into question. Ages 4 – 8. Free admission.
Tuesday Night Open
Mic hosted by Twain Dooley
Tuesdays, October 6th from 9 pm to 11 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
A Busboys and Poetry event!
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 Rebecca Dupas
Tuesday, October 6th 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.
Tam O'Shaughnessy - Sally Ride: a Photobiography of America's
Pioneering Woman in Space
Wednesday, October 7th at 10:30 am
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Although it may seem incredible now, Sally Ride was once known to her
high school classmates as an underachiever. Little did they know that she would
go on to play competitive tennis, obtain a doctorate in physics, and become the
first American woman to travel to outer space. Tam O’Shaughnessy uses ample
photographs and documents from family archives to tell her partner’s
story. Ages 10 – 14. Free admission.
Carol McCabe – The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan
Wednesday, October 7th form 12 pm to 1 pm
Library of Congress
James Madison Building (Pickford Theater – Third floor)
101 Independence Ave SE
Washington, DC 20540
Author and Editor Carol
McCabe Booker will discuss and sign the new edition of Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of
the National Black Press. Free admission.
Marion Nestle - Soda Politics: Taking On Big Soda (And
Winning)
Wednesday, October 7th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
One of the country’s leading experts on health and food policy, Dr.
Nestle, currently NYU’s Paulette Goddard professor, has been instrumental in
establishing nutrition guidelines with the American Cancer Society, the DHS,
and the FDA Food Advisory Committee and Science Board. In her ninth book,
Nestle confronts the soda industry. With
products that cost nearly nothing to make and companies investing huge amounts
on marketing, Nestle helps consumers fight back by publicizing soda’s
contribution to obesity, diabetes, dental problems, and more. Free admission.
Howard Axelrod - The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two
Years in Solitude
Wednesday, October 7th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Takoma location)
235 Carroll St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20012
Axelrod, who currently teaches at Grub Street in Boston, has contributed
to publications including The New York
Times Magazine and the Shambhala Sun.
But his first book is an account of his retreat from all that; charting a
process of physical and spiritual healing, this memoir begins with an injury
that left him blind in one eye and ends with the insight Axelrod gained from
living alone for two years in the Vermont woods where he focused on
strengthening his remaining vision and considering questions of perception and
meaning. Free admission.
Rachel B. Glaser - Paulina and Fran and Amber Sparks - May We Shed These Human Bodies
Wednesday, October 7th at 6:30 pm
Kramerbooks
1517 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036
Paulina and Fran is a
story of friendship, art, sex, and curly hair: an audaciously witty debut
tracing the pas de deux of lust and love between two young, uncertain,
conflicted art students. May We Shed These
Human Bodies peers through vast spaces and
skies with the world's most powerful telescope to find humanity: wild and
bright and hard as diamonds. Here is humanity building: families reconstruct
themselves, mothers fashion babies from two-by-fours and nails, boys make a
mother out of leaves and twigs and wishes. Here is humanity tearing down: a
wife sets her house on fire in revenge, a young girl plots to kill the ghosts
that stalk her, a dying man takes the whole human race with him. Here is
humanity transforming: feral children, cannibalistic seniors, animal wives—a
whole sideshow's worth of oddballs and freaks. Free admission.
Jason Reynolds and
Brendan Kiely - All American Boys
Wednesday, October 7th at 6:30 pm
Shaw Public Library
1630 7th St NW
Washington, DC 20001
Rashad and Quinn are high school classmates whose
lives are changed when Brendan’s white police-officer guardian suspects Rashad,
who is black, of shoplifting from the neighborhood bodega and beats him to a
pulp. Quinn cannot reconcile the man he knows with the violence he witnesses
firsthand—but after Rashad begins missing school, both teens are forced to
confront realities they never wanted to face. Ages 15 and up. Free admission.
Lindsay Smith - Dreamstrider
Wednesday, October 7th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
(Children’s and Teens’ Dept)
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Livia belongs to the underclass of the Barstadt
Empire, doomed to spend her life doing menial labor that benefits the well-born
citizens who live above ground. A chance meeting with a kind professor,
however, changes everything. He befriends Livia and teaches her to become a
Dreamstrider, someone who inhabits and controls the bodies of sleeping people.
With her newfound gift, Livia becomes a spy for the Empire. When the
once-defeated Nightmare begins to threaten Barstadt yet again, Livia’s talents
become more important—and more dangerous—than ever. Ages 13 and up. Free
admission.
Roberta Kaplan - Then Comes Marriage: United States v.
Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA
Wednesday, October 7th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Together for more than four
decades, Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer were married in Canada in 2007, a union
not recognized by the U.S. when Spyer died in 2009. Kaplan, a partner at Paul,
Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, saw Windsor’s case as the perfect vehicle
for defeating the Defense of Marriage Act. Her book, written with Lisa Dickey,
a Washington journalist who also collaborated with Susan McDougal and Pat
Harris on The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk,
recreates Kaplan’s preparation for bringing the case before the Supreme Court,
relives the oral arguments, and also fleshes out the lives of those intimately
involved in the issues. Kaplan will be in conversation with Indira Lakshmanan,
a senior correspondent for Bloomberg News.
Free admission.
Tam O'Shaughnessy - Sally Ride: a Photobiography of America's
Pioneering Woman in Space
Wednesday, October 7th at 7:30 pm
Takoma Park Library
101 Philadelphia Ave
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Although it may seem incredible now, Sally Ride was once known to her
high school classmates as an underachiever. Little did they know that she would
go on to play competitive tennis, obtain a doctorate in physics, and become the
first American woman to travel to outer space. O’Shaughnessy uses ample
photographs and documents from family archives to tell her partner’s
story. Ages 10 – 14. Free admission.
Wednesday Open Mic Poetry hosted by Holly Bass
Wednesday, October 7th
from 9 pm to 11 pm
Busboys and Poets (5th
and K location)
1025 5th St 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.
Soman Chainani - The School for Good and Evil #3: The Last
Ever After
Thursday, October 8th at 10:30 am
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
The final installment of Chainani’s trilogy opens
with former friends Agatha and Sophie on opposite sides of an epic battle. While
Agatha returns to their hometown of Gavaldron, Sophie remains with the
beautiful but nefarious School Master Rafal. Under Rafal’s command, leagues of
fairy-tale villains are fighting to change the endings of their stories so that
they become the victors. It’s up to Sophie, Tedros, and the League of
Thirteen—a group of aged classic protagonists from Cinderella to Merlin—to make
sure they don’t succeed. Ages 9 – 12. Free admission.
Brian Turner in conversation with Ron Charles
Thursday, October 8th from 7 pm to 9 pm
Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital
921 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E.
Washington, DC 20003
Poet and essayist Brian Turner discusses his work with Ron Charles,
editor of The Washington Post’s Book
World. Free admission.
Melanne Verveer - Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power
and Purpose
Thursday, October 8th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Verveer and co-author Kim K. Azzarelli, established Seneca Point Global,
an organization built on the recognition “that women are fast emerging as one
of the most powerful and influential demographics” in the world. Verveer,
appointed in 2009 as the State Department’s first Ambassador-at-Large for
Global Women’s Issues, is herself an example of what well-connected
professional women can achieve, and she has interviewed some fifty dynamic and
innovative women for this empowering look at how women are building on their
economic might in order to change the world. Free admission.
Jason Reynolds and
Brendan Kiely - All American Boys
Thursday, October 8th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
(Children’s and Teens’ Dept)
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Rashad and Quinn are high school classmates whose
lives are changed when Brendan’s white police-officer guardian suspects Rashad,
who is black, of shoplifting from the neighborhood bodega and beats him to a
pulp. Quinn cannot reconcile the man he knows with the violence he witnesses
firsthand—but after Rashad begins missing school, both teens are forced to
confront realities they never wanted to face. Ages 15 and up. Free admission.
Ben S. Bernanke - The
Courage to Act: a Memoir of a Crisis and its Aftermath
Thursday, October 8th at 7 pm
Sixth and I Historic Synagogue
600 I St NW
Washington, DC 20001
A Princeton economics professor before joining Washington policy makers
in 2002, Ben Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve in 2006, a
position he held until 2014. Coinciding with the Great Recession, Bernanke’s
tenure put him at the heart of the crisis. His memoir, The Courage to Act, recreates these urgent years as Bernanke
recounts working with two presidents and two treasury secretaries as well as
drawing on all the resources of the Federal Reserve to contain the financial
crisis. A testament to leadership, this book offers a unique look at the
complex American economy. 1 Ticket: $20; 1 Book and 1 Ticket: $35; $33 for P
& P members; 1 Book and 2 Tickets: $45; $42 for P & P members
Thursday Night Open
Mic hosted by Two Deep
Thursday, October 8th 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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