Tribute to Richard Ford
Friday, October 9th from 7 pm to 9:30
pm
The Writer's Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815
The Writer's Center hosts a tribute to Richard
Ford as part of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival. Four distinguished
contemporary fiction writers will read selections from their work as their
tribute to Fitzgerald Award honoree Richard Ford. This program is the first in
several special events organized as part of the Center’s 40th Anniversary celebrations.
The program will be followed by a reception and book signing. Featured authors:
Robert Olen Butler, Jeffrey Eugenides, Howard Norman, Susan Shreve. $15 ($10 for
Writer's Center members)
Sandra Cisneros - A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
Friday, October 9th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Readers of Cisneros’s many volumes of fiction and
poetry may think of the site of her beloved The House on Mango
Street as
this writer’s true home. As her new book reveals, however, “home” has meant
many things to Cisneros. Written over the course of several decades and at
widely dispersed addresses ranging from Chicago to
Mexico, the short fiction and essays gathered here include family memoirs,
tributes to literary mentors, political statements, and more, charting the
author’s long progress toward not just finding her place in the world, but
making it. Free admission.
Patti Smith - M Train
Friday, October 9th at 7 pm
GW Lisner Auditorium
730 21st St NW
Washington, DC 20052
Musician, writer, poet—the
artist known as Patti Smith is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and
has a record on the list of top 100 albums of all time. The French Ministry of
Culture has declared her a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, and she was
awarded the National Book Award for Just
Kids, a memoir that has moved and enchanted thousands of readers. Now Smith
continues the story with M Train,
visiting eighteen places that have special meaning for her: from the Greenwich
Village café where she begins her days to the Michigan home she shared with her
late husband and on to the memorials and grave sites of artists who have
empowered and inspired her, including Kahlo, Plath, and Rimbaud. Smith
complements her journeys with her signature wry musings and her own black-and-white
photos. Patti Smith will be in conversation with Maureen Corrigan, book critic
for NPR's Fresh Air and most recently author of So We Read On. 1 Book and 1 Ticket: $35;
$33 for P & P members
Individual World Poetry Slams
Friday, October 9th at 7 pm and 9 pm
Busboys and Poets (5th
and K location)
1025 5th St NW
Washington, DC 20001
AND
Busboys and Poets (Brookland location)
625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20017
AND
Busboys and Poets (Takoma location)
235 Carroll St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20012
Join us for the Individual World Poetry Slam Competitions. All ages welcome. See some of the world's
best poets compete for the championship. Enjoy the festival and attend
workshops, late night events, and more! Purchase on the #iwpsdc website http://iwps.poetryslam.com/ Two bouts: at 7
pm and 9 pm. $5 per bout. $60 for a festival pass, which includes access to all
events, workshops, and more.
Nine on the Night
hosted by Derrick Weston Brown
Friday, October 9th from 9 pm to 11 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
At this now legendary poetry night, the feature opens the show and the
open mic follows. Immediately following the feature we hold a 10 to 15-minute,
9-question interview and audience Q&A with the artist before we finally
slip into the limited open mic to close out the event. $5 tickets available
ONLINE beginning at midnight on the day of the Open Mic. If available, door
sales will begin 30 minutes prior to the event. Cash only.
11th Hour
Poetry Slam Hosted by 2Deep the Poetess
Friday, October 9th from 11 pm to 1 am
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Busboys and Poetry Event. The 11th Hour Poetry Slam offers an
opportunity for poetry lovers to enjoy the competitive art of late-night performance
poetry. Enjoy two rounds of high intensity poetry, with the audience choosing a
winner. Join us for an alternative way to spend your Friday night at Poetry
Slam, Inc's (PSI) DC Slam Venue. $5 cover.
Kate Clifford Larson
- Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Saturday, October 10th at 1 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
In her third biography, Kate Clifford Larson, who
has written about Harriet Tubman and Mary Surratt, continues her focus on the
often overlooked role women have played in shaping American identity. Rosemary
Kennedy (1918-2005), disabled and unable to compete with her ambitious siblings,
spent most of her years institutionalized in Wisconsin. Larson draws on
diaries, correspondence, and interviews with her relatives to show that she had
a profound impact on her family. Her family, in turn, by virtue of its
political prominence, was able to improve the perception and treatment of
disabilities in the larger American society. Free admission.
Mark Riebling - Church of Spies:
The Pope's Secret War against Hitler
Saturday, October 10th at 3:30 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Pope Pius XII has been denounced for his failure
to take action against Nazi atrocities—and has even been accused of complicity
with the Germans. In fact, the truth was far more complicated. Mark Riebling uses
newly unsealed documents to show that Pius was involved in a number of actions
to undermine Hitler, but tried to keep a low public profile in order not to
jeopardize the Vatican’s resistance. Riebling is author of Wedge and a specialist on
national security issues who has written for publications including The
New York Times and The
Wall Street Journal, Free admission.
#BlackPoetsSpeakOut
Saturday, October 10th from 4 pm to 6 pm
Busboys and Poets (5th
and K location)
1025 5th St NW
Washington, DC 20001
In a continuing celebration
of the Justice or Else March marking the 20th Anniversary of the Million Man
March, join us for Black Poets Speak Out! This literary movement started as a
poetic protest by Cave Canem fellows Jericho Brown, Jonterri Gadson, Amanda
Johnston, Sherina Rodriguez-Sharpe, and Mahogany Browne. This activated a
vibration of mourning and healing through literacy, which has now evolved into
community readings around the world, a national letter campaign, as well as
lesson plans utilizing Black Poets Speak Out videos for the classroom all
encouraging the community to speak out. This reading will showcase the work and
voices of black identifying poets speaking out for All Black Lives. Free and open
to the public.
Morton Kondracke - Jack Kemp: The
Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America
Saturday, October 10th at 6 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
In collaboration with Fred Barnes, Weekly
Standard executive
editor and Fox News Special Report with Bret Baier correspondent,
Morton Kondracke has produced a comprehensive biography of Jack Kemp
(1935-2009) who continues to influence the Republican Party. Drawing on
unpublished documents and an ongoing oral history project, Kondracke details
Kemp’s formative experiences from childhood and professional football through
his nine terms in congress and an appointment as housing secretary. Kemp was
prominent among the Reagan-era supply-siders while also speaking on behalf of
the working class. And he was never afraid to compromise to achieve goals. Kondracke
is former executive editor of The New Republic and Roll Call and is currently
a Fox News commentator and The McLaughlin Group panelist. Free admission.
Alice Waters - My Pantry: Homemade Ingredients That Make
Simple Meals Your Own
Sunday, October 11th at 10 am
Dupont Circle Freshfarm Market
1500 20th St NW
Washington, DC 20036
Simple, basic, and flavorful are the watchwords Waters follows when she
prepares meals at home. In this warm and practical collection of essays and
recipes, the proprietor of the legendary Chez Panisse invites readers into her
own kitchen. With the same élan and that has earned her three James Beard
Awards, Waters shows how to shop for, store, and prepare essentials like tomato
sauce, red wine vinegar, fresh cheeses, and more. Waters will be joined by her
collaborator, illustrator and daughter, Fanny Singer, whose pen-and-ink
drawings enliven this personal new cookbook.
Waters is the author of a dozen cookbooks including The Art of Simple Food. Free admission.
Sasha Abramsky - The House of Twenty Thousand Books
Sunday, October 11th at 12 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
A senior fellow at Demos and writing teacher at UC Davis, Abramsky is
the author of Conned and The American Way of Poverty. His
journalism has focused on many progressive and social justice issues, notably
work on U.S. prisons for Human Rights Watch. In this memoir of his
grandparents, Miriam and Chimen (1916-2010), which doubles as an intellectual
history of the 20th century Jewish diaspora, Abramsky chronicles a
thriving left-wing London salon that hosted intellectuals including Isaiah
Berlin and Eric Hobsbawm, and a steadily growing collection of “useful” books,
which for Chimen embraced thinkers from Maimonides to Marx to Darwin. Free
admission.
Alice Waters - My Pantry: Homemade Ingredients That Make
Simple Meals Your Own
Sunday, October 11th at 2 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Simple, basic, and flavorful are the watchwords Waters follows when she
prepares meals at home. In this warm and practical collection of essays and
recipes, the proprietor of the legendary Chez Panisse invites readers into her
own kitchen. With the same élan and that has earned her three James Beard
Awards, Waters shows how to shop for, store, and prepare essentials like tomato
sauce, red wine vinegar, fresh cheeses, and more. Waters will be joined by her
collaborator, illustrator and daughter, Fanny Singer, whose pen-and-ink
drawings enliven this personal new cookbook.
Waters is the author of a dozen cookbooks including The Art of Simple Food. Free admission.
Karina Borowicz and
Ann McLaughlin
Sunday, October 11th from 2 pm to 4 pm
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815
Reading by poet Karina Borowicz, who is recipient
of an Emerging Writer Fellowship, and novelist Ann McLaughlin, who reads from Sunset
at Rosalie. The reading will be followed by a reception and book
signing. Free admission.
Daniel J. Levitin - The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the
Age of Information Overload
Sunday, October 11th at 5 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Daniel J. Levitin gave us the fascinating inside story of what happens
when we listen with This is Your Brain on
Music and traced music’s specific emotional effects in The World in Six Songs. In his third book, Levitin draws on his
many areas of expertise, as well as on the challenges of such multitasking
itself, to show how the brain has evolved to pay attention, how it handles
distractions, and how we can use the latest lessons of neuroscience and
information theory to stay organized and think creatively. Levitin, a professor
of psychology and music at McGill, has also held appointments in the
departments of behavioral neuroscience, computer science, and education. Free
admission.
John DeFerrari - Capital Streetcars
Sun, October 11th
at 6 pm
Upshur Street Books
827 Upshur St NW
Washington, DC 20011
Washington's
first streetcars trundled down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Civil War. By the
end of the century, streetcar lines crisscrossed the city, expanding into the
suburbs and defining where Washingtonians lived, worked, and played. From the
quaint early days of small horse-drawn cars to the modern streamliners of the
twentieth century, the stories are all here. John DeFerrari will take us
through the storied history of D.C. streetcars in this presentation about his
new book, Capital Streetcars. There
will be refreshments! Free admission.
Tom Foreman - My Year of Running Dangerously: A Dad, a
Daughter, and a Ridiculous Plan
Monday, October 12th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Until his daughter asked him to join her in training for a marathon, Tom
Foreman, then fifty-one with his last foot race decades behind him, had no idea
he wanted to hit the trails again. But one race led to another, as he reports
in this account of three marathons and five half-marathons, Foreman, an Emmy
Award-winning CNN correspondent who has covered events including Hurricane
Katrina, 9/11, and the Gulf BP oil spill, offers an inspiring story of
father-daughter bonding, unexpected adventures, and facing the challenges of
both distance and age. Free admission.
Jenny Lawson - Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible
Things
Monday, October 12th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Lawson’s popular, irreverent web presence has earned her a Nielson rating
as one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Mom Bloggers, and her Bloggess is one of the
Forbes Top 100 Websites for Women. Lawson is very funny in any format, as she
proved in her first memoir, Let’s Pretend
This Never Happened, which recounted her childhood as the daughter of a
taxidermist. Her follow-up puts a similar lighthearted spin on more challenging
material: her struggles with anxiety and depression. Free admission.
Monday Night Open Mic
Poetry hosted by 13 of Nazareth
Monday, October 12th 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.
Expect to be moved, expect a packed house, expect the unexpected, but above all
come with an open mind and ear. $5 cover.
Monday Night Open Mic hosted by Joseph LMS Green
Monday, October 12th
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.
Elizabeth Benedict,
Deborah Tannen, and Marita Golden - Me,
My Hair, And I: Twenty-Seven Women Untangle An Obsession
Tuesday, October 13th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Brookland location)
625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20017
Elizabeth Benedict, a novelist who was
a National Book Award finalist with Slow
Dancing, has in recent years become a skilled editor of thematic anthologies,
drawing out writers on their relationships with their mothers in What My Mother Gave Me and on
influential people in their lives for Mentors,
Muses & Monsters. Now she asks some two dozen women writers for their
thoughts on hair. The result is a wide-ranging, surprising collection of
reflections, regrets, and sundry other sentiments. Join Elizabeth Benedict and
contributors Deborah Tannen, Georgetown linguistics professor and author of
books including You Just Don’t Understand,
and Marita Golden, a long-time teacher and author of fourteen books of fiction and
nonfiction, for a discussion of cuts, salons, dyes, and much more. Free
admission.
Ed Rall – Snowden
Tuesday, October 13th
at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Two-time winner of
the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Ed
Rall got his start as a political cartoonist by posting his work on the New
York City streets. His venues have become more sophisticated, but in works such
as the Attitude anthologies of
subversive comics, The Anti-American
Manifesto, and others, he shows he’s as edgy and outspoken as ever. His
latest book profiles Edward Snowden, celebrating his courage in revealing the
government’s vast surveillance network, and drawing on Orwell’s 1984 to show how much is at stake in the
new era of digital technology. Free admission.
Arissa MacFarquhar - Strangers Drowning: Grappling With
Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge To Help
Tuesday, October 13th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
The words “extreme” and “selflessness” seldom arise together, but when
they do, they provide a powerful example of what human life can mean. In her
inspirational and thought-provoking first book, Arissa MacFarquhar, a long time
New Yorker staff writer and former Lingua Franca senior editor, profiles
people who consistently seek ways to practice virtuous acts regardless of
personal cost. Yet even as these self-sacrificing individuals donate organs to
strangers or give up their homes for a cause, the good deeds may or may not
actually help their intended beneficiaries, nor is highly ethical behavior a
guarantee of the moral high ground. Free admission.
John Flanagan - The Ranger’s Apprentice: The Tournament at
Gorlan
Tuesday, October 13th at 7 pm
Takoma Park Library
101 Philadelphia Ave
Takoma Park, MD 20912
In John Flanagan’s new prequel series to The Ranger’s Apprentice, Halt takes center stage as he and sidekick
Crowley undertake a long journey north to warn Prince Duncan that Morgarath has
infiltrated the Rangers as part of his plot to stage a coup. When they discover
that Morgarath’s plan has progressed even further than they realized, the young
Rangers must race against the clock to foil the coup before it begins. Ages 10
and up. Free admission.
Barbara Klein Moss – The Language of Paradise
Tuesday, October 13th at 7:30 pm
Colony Club
3118 Georgia AVE NW
Washington, DC 20010
The Inner Loop: Literary Haunts presents Barbara Klein Moss, author of
the novel The Language of Paradise.
She will be followed by readers in fiction (Jennifer Clements, Judith Podell,
Leeya Mehta), non-fiction (Ellen McBarnette, Rachel Coonce), and poetry (Nick
Seifo, Don Illitch, Eric Lotke). If the weather is good, the event will be held
outside; otherwise, we will make use of the Colony Club’s great upstairs space.
Free admission.
Tuesday Night Open
Mic hosted by Pages
Tuesday, October 13th 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. Expect to be moved, expect a packed house,
expect the unexpected, but above all come with an open mind and ear. $5 cover.
Tuesday Night Open
Mic hosted by Orville Wecker
Tuesday, October 13th 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.
Erica S. Perl - Totally Tardy Marty
Wednesday, October 14th at 10:30 am
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
(Children’s and Teens’ Dept)
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Marty’s imagination knows no bounds, including those of time. He is
always late for school due to dreaming up inventions like Toast-on-a-Rope. When
he finally arrives, Never-Late Kate is there
to hand him a tardy slip. It seems as if the two will never find common
ground—or will they? Ages 5 – 8. Free admission.
Joshua Stephens - The Dog Walker: An Anarchist's Encounters
with the Good, the Bad, and the Canine
Wednesday, October 14th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Brookland location)
625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20017
In 2006 Joshua Stephens founded a worker-cooperative dog-walking agency
in Washington. This might seem an unlikely day job for an anarchist whose usual
concerns include activism and publishing in AlterNet, Truthout, and
Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, but Stephens calls it “probably the greatest
job in the world,” and this series of “field notes” recounts the unexpected
lessons he learned on the street, from issues of gentrification to harassment
to empathy in all its many guises. Free admission.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
City on Fire
Wednesday, October 14th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Garth Risk Hallberg’s nonfiction has appeared in publications including Slate and The New York Times Magazine;
his fiction has been widely published in literary magazines and was selected
for Best New American Voices 2008. His debut novel, set in 1970s New York and culminating
in the infamous July 1977 blackout, is an expansive look at the era. Spanning
the nascent punk scene, a shooting in Central Park, the fiscal crisis, and
more, Hallberg’s powerful narrative depicts a city and a country struggling to
move on after the upheavals of the Vietnam War. Free admission.
Wednesday Open Mic Poetry hosted by Elizabeth Acevedo
Wednesday, October 14th 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. Tonight's host is Elizabeth Acevedo. $5 cover.
Dave Goulson - A Buzz in the
Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm
Thursday, October 15th
at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Takoma location)
235 Carroll St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20012
While many of us dream of starting a new life in the French countryside,
not everyone buys a fixer-upper and turns it into a wildlife sanctuary. Dave Goulson,
a British biologist, author of A Sting in
the Tale, and award-winning founder of The Bumblebee Conservation Trust,
chronicles his transformation of Chez Nauche from a “derelict farm” in a
beautiful landscape to a complex and thriving ecosystem of birds and insects.
Free admission.
Ever
Lee Hairston – Blind Ambition
Thursday, October 15th from
6:30 pm to 8 pm
Busboys and Poets (5th
and K location)
1025 5th St NW
Washington, DC 20001
As a child, Ever Lee Hairston faced one disappointment after the other.
A product of share-cropping parents and raised on one of the biggest
plantations in the South, Hairston allowed disappointments to diminish her
self-confidence and sully her self-esteem. Not to mention, that for years, she
hid a terrible secret, which she hadn’t told anyone (not her family, friends, teachers,
and as she got older, even her employers): Ever didn’t want to accept that she
was slowly losing her eyesight. As darkness began to envelop her, and inspired
by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ever eventually decided to stop
feeling sorry for herself and face her fears. Through two turbulent marriages,
a host of setbacks, and a life that was getting harder and harder to manage,
Ever encountered defeats, but was determined not to be defeated. Now, decades
after she lost her eyesight, her powerful story is one of inspiration and
ambition….and helping others realize their lives have purpose as they reach
their full potential in spite of any obstacles in their paths. Free admission.
Humanities
DC presents: Current Literary Voices of the District
Thursday, October 15th from
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Brookland location)
625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20017
Join HumanitiesDC
for an evening of conversation and literary city-making with some of the most
important and vibrant poets, fiction writers, and editorial figures in
Washington today. Free admission.
Poetry Reading with
Sarah Blake
Thursday,
October 15th at 7:30 pm
Upshur
Street Books
827
Upshur St NW
Washington,
DC 20011
Mr. West
covers the main events in superstar Kanye West’s life while also following the
poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores
how we are drawn to celebrities—to their portrayal in the media—and how we
sometimes find great private meaning in another person’s public story, even
across lines of gender and race. Blake’s aesthetics take her work from prose
poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to improbably successful
sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence
that is revealing of America itself. This is a daring debut collection and a
groundbreaking work. Free admission.
Geraldine Brooks - The Secret
Chord
Thursday, October 15th
at 7 pm
Sidwell Friends
3825 Wisconsin Ave NW
Washington, DC 20016
From the boy with the
slingshot to the legendary king and the man willing to do anything to have
Bathsheba—ultimately, what kind of person was David? In her fifth novel, The Secret Chord, Geraldine Brooks tells
a story of one of history’s truly towering figures. To capture the many facets
of this complex individual, Brooks reimagines his life from the perspectives of
those who knew him, making rich characters of David’s wives, youngest son, and
Natan, shepherd boy and prophet. Brooks is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for
March, the New England Book Award for
Fiction and the Christianity Today Book Award for Caleb’s Crossing. 1 Ticket: $10; 1
Book and 1 Ticket: $30; $28 for P & P members; 1 Book and 2 Tickets: $35; $33 for P & P members
David Talbot - The Devil's Chessboard:
Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
Thursday, October 15th
at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Talbot’s portrait of Allen Dulles, the CIA’s fifth and longest serving
director, examines recently discovered documents—ranging from the
correspondence and journals of Dulles’s wife and mistress to U.S. government
documents and European intelligence sources—to show that Dulles used his
position to further his own public and private agendas. Presenting evidence
that Dulles put in place many of the hallmarks of a national security state,
Talbot, founder and former editor in chief of Salon, former editor of Mother
Jones, and author of the The Brothers,
raises new questions about many events of the time, including the assassination
of President Kennedy. Free admission.
Coming of Age - A Book Event Featuring Authors Audrey Taylor Gonzalez and Marilyn
Oser
Thursday,
October 15th from 7 pm to 9 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Join Audrey Taylor
Gonzalez and Marilyn Oser for a discussion and signing of their novels South of Everything and Even You. Filled with love found and
lost, wisdom, rebellion, death, and triumph, these coming-of-age stories offer
powerful lessons about our passage to adulthood. Free admission.
Thursday
Night Open Mic hosted by Rebecca Dupas
Thursday, October 15th from
9 pm to 11 pm
Busboys and Poets (Hyattsville
location)
5331 Baltimore Ave
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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