Isabelle
Allende – The Japanese Lover
Friday, November 13th at 7
pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and
Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
In her 17th work of fiction, Isabelle
Allende tells a compelling story of love and betrayal set in both present-day
San Francisco and Poland in the chaotic days just after World War II. Awarded
the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014 and Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen
Literature Award in 2012, she has dazzled readers worldwide with her powerful
storytelling and distinctive hybrid of magical realism and historical fiction. Allende
will be in conversation with Marie Arana, former Washington Post Book
World editor-in-chief, author of the novel Cellophane
and an acclaimed biography of Bolívar. Arana is currently Distinguished Chair
of the Cultures of the Countries of the South at the John W. Kluge Center of
the Library of Congress. There is no
public signing at this event. All books will be pre-signed by the author.
Free
admission.
Becky Albertalli
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
& I.W. Gregorio - None of the Above
Friday, November 13th at 7
pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and
Coffeehouse
(Children and Teens Dept)
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Psychologist Becky Albertalli
tells the story of Simon, who is having a very bad day. After leaving his
e-mail up on a school computer, he finds himself blackmailed by a classmate who
discovered his messages to Blue, an anonymous boy at school who just might be
Simon’s first real romantic relationship—if only life, not to mention
extortion, doesn’t get in the way. Surgeon Gregorio, meanwhile, details the
odyssey of Kristin, who apparently has it all—a handsome boyfriend, a track
scholarship to State, and even the Homecoming Queen tiara—until she is
diagnosed as intersex. Processing this news on her own is difficult enough, but
when the whole school finds out, Kristin is forced to question everything and
everyone she thought she knew. Ages 15 and up. Free admission.
11th Hour Poetry Slam Hosted by 2Deep the Poetess
Friday, November 13th
from 11 pm to 1 am
Busboys and Poets (14th & V
location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
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 hig- intensity poetry, with the
audience choosing a winner. Come out for an alternative way to spend your Friday
night at Poetry Slam, Inc's (PSI) DC Slam Venue. $5 cover.
Winston
Groom - The Generals: Patton, Macarthur,
Marshall, and the Winning of World War II
Saturday, November 14th at
1 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and
Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Winston Groom, author
of the classic novel Forrest Gump, is
well known for his military histories such as Shiloh, 1862, Vicksburg, 1863,
and A Storm in Flanders.
His new book complements his authoritative group portrait of Lindbergh, Rickenbacker,
and Doolittle in The Aviators, as
Groom presents the lives and achievements of Patton, Marshall, and MacArthur,
three icons of twentieth-century military leadership who came of age in World
War I and proved essential to the Allies’ victory in World War II. Free
admission.
Karen Olsoon – All the
Houses
Saturday, November 14th
at 3:30 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and
Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
A former editor of The
Texas Observer and
author of the novel Waterloo, Olsson was
raised in Washington, and she returns to D.C. in her second work of fiction. As
much about the long shadows of politics as it is about family, the narrative
follows Helen as she puts her failed Hollywood dreams on hold to care for her
ailing and aging father, a man whose all-but-forgotten involvement in the
Iran-Contra scandal has colored Helen’s abiding and ambiguous view of the
political scene she can neither abandon nor find a place in. Free admission.
Avia Mebane – Amorette
Saturday, November 14th
at 5 pm
Upshur Street Books
827 Upshur St NW
Washington, DC 20011
Bring the kids to meet Avia
Mebane and to hear the story of Amorette. Journey with Amorette, a heart-shaped
ladybug who discovers that her originality is a good thing and that years of
teasing actually contributed to her learning. She decides to view her
abnormalities as gifts and change a whole community's way of thinking. Mebane
is a fourth grade teacher at CentroNia School in Washington, D.C. Free
admission.
Saturday, November 14th
at 6 pm
Politics & Prose
Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW
Washington, D.C.
20008
Cheever’s
literary output My Name is Bill,
the life story of Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Continuing
her examination of America’s long and close relationship with distilled
spirits, Cheever presents the history and culture of drinking in the U.S., from
George Washington’s intoxicated moments to binges among later politicians and
on to the toll drinking takes on Americans’ health and productivity today. Free
admission.
Forrest Pritchard – Growing
Tomorrow
Sunday, November 15th
at 11 am
Kramerbooks
1517
Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington,
DC 20036
Interest in local, sustainable food is at an all-time high. Farmers’
market and CSA devotees, backyard homesteaders and community gardeners all want
to know more—much more—about how our food is raised. Seventh-generation farmer
and author Forrest Pritchard introduces us to 18 heroes of the sustainable food
movement. With more than 100 engaging photos and 50 mouthwatering
recipes, Growing Tomorrow is both a farm-inspired cookbook and
an enlightening homage to the people who provide us with delicious, fresh
food—and ensure that it will be there tomorrow, too. Free admission.
Sheila
Hamilton - All the Things We Never Knew:
Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness
Sunday, November 15th at 1
pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and
Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
An Emmy Award-winning TV journalist and currently
Portland KINK-FM news director and morning co-host, Sheila Hamilton is also on
the boards of Girls Inc., an organization empowering girls, and The Flawless
Foundation, a mental health advocacy group. Her first book supports this work
by reporting her own experience of the devastating costs of mental illness.
Looking back ten years, Hamilton recounts her late husband’s bipolar disorder
and considers what she could have done to identify the signs of his illness
sooner. Hamilton will be in conversation with former Senator Gordon Smith, head
of the trade commission governing radio and active in mental health issues.
Free admission.
Jehanne
Debrow – The Arranged Marriage and
Leslie Pietrzyk – This Angel on My Chest
Sunday, November 15th from
2 pm to 4 pm
The Writer's Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815
Leslie
Pietrzyk reads her collection of short stories, This Angel on My Chest. She
is joined by Jehanne Dubrow, author of The Arranged Marriage, a
collection of prose poems. The reading will be followed by a reception and book
signing. Free admission.
Margo Jefferson – Negroland: A Memoir
Sunday, November 15th at 3:30 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Now a professor of writing at Columbia University
School of the Arts, Margo Jefferson won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism during
her years as a book and theater critic at The New York Times and associate editor at Newsweek.
The author of On Michael
Jackson, Jefferson, in her second book turns her sharp eye on
her own upbringing. Raised in upper-class Chicago in the 1960s, the daughter of
the head of pediatrics at Provident hospital, Jefferson feels her true home was
an uncharted region she calls Negroland. There, she wasn’t quite part of either
the black or white communities; if she experienced the freedom of class, she
always felt the limitations imposed by race. Her passionate memoir complicates
the already fraught picture of the civil rights era, describing the painful and
frustrating circumstances of an overlooked sector of American society. Jefferson
will be joined in conversation by Lisa Page. Page directs the creative writing
program at the George Washington University. Free admission.
Sunday Kind of Love Open Mic
Sunday, November 15th from 5 pm to 7 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V
location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
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.
Sunday, November 15th
at 6 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and
Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/richard-cohen-james-barnes-michael-barone-and-charlie-cook-almanac-of-american-politics
Familiar and essential to many in
Washington, the bi-annual Almanac includes profiles of every
governor, senator, and house member, detailed state and congressional district
maps, the latest Census Bureau data, analyses of the 2014 midterm elections,
and much more. The authors will present an inside look at this indispensable
resource and talk about today’s political landscape. Free admission.
Lori Carlson-Hijuelos and Ray
Suarez - Oscar Hijuelos's Twain &
Stanley Enter Paradise
Sunday, November 15th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Takoma location)
235 Carroll St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20012
Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013) became the first Hispanic
to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with The Mambo
Kings Play Songs of Love in 1990. Several
books later, he was honored with the Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature.
While publishing fiction, including A Simple
Habana Melody and the memoir, Thoughts
Without Cigarettes, Hijuelos also
worked on a novel about Mark Twain and British explorer Sir Henry Morton
Stanley. Based on fact, but brought to life by imagination, the narrative uses
storytelling and invented correspondence to chart the men’s friendship, their
adventures in Cuba, and their mutual interest in spirits and the afterlife. Lori
Carlson-Hijuelos will be in conversation with Ray Suarez, host of Al-Jazeer’s Inside
Story America and the
author of Latino Americans, and Marie
Arana, former Washington Post Book World editor-in-chief, author of Cellophane and a biography of Bolívar.
Free admission.
Irin Carmon – Notorious RBG
Sunday, November 15th at 6:30 pm
Kramerbooks
1517
Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington,
DC 20036
Join co-author Irin Carmon as she discusses her new
book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Nearly a half-century into being a feminist and
legal pioneer, something funny happened to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
the octogenarian won the internet. Across America, people who weren’t even born
when Ginsburg made her name are tattooing themselves with her face, setting her
famously searing dissents to music, and making viral videos in tribute. Irin
Carmon will be in conversation with Fatima Goss Graves, Senior Vice President
for Program, where she leads the Center's broad program agenda to eliminate
barriers in employment, education, health and reproductive rights and lift
women and families out of poverty. Free admission.
Lauret Savoy - Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the
American Landscape
Monday, November 16th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V
location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/lauret-savoy-trace-memory-history-race-and-american-landscape
A professor of environmental studies and geology at
Mount Holyoke, Savoy is the author of books including The Colors of
Nature and Bedrock. In her newest study of the intersection of natural and cultural
histories, Savoy combines her professional interests with her personal background
as someone of Native American, slave, and free-black heritage to look at
landscapes ranging from the San Andreas Fault to the Carolinas to burial
grounds, demonstrating how ideas of race mark both geographies and peoples.
Free admission.
James Kilgore - Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's
Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
Monday, November 16th at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Brookland location)
625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20017
Once the “land of the
free,” today the U.S. is the world’s largest jailer. Over the last 40 years, as
Kilgore, author of
We, documents in this well-illustrated People’s
Guide, the country has witnessed an explosive growth in prison populations,
especially of minorities and the poor. Seeking explanations for these
demographics, Kilgore, a student activist and former SLA member who lived in
South Africa for 27 years until his extradition and imprisonment in the U.S.,
combines history, economics, statistics, and prisoners’ own stories to show how
the criminal justice system has been used to try to resolve issues of racial
conflict, inequality, citizenship, gender and sexuality. Free admission.
Stephen Hess – American’s Political Dynasties
Monday, November 16th at
6:30 pm
Kramerbooks
1517
Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington,
DC 20036
The Constitution states that "no title of
nobility shall be granted by the United States," yet it seems political
nobility is as American as apple pie. America was founded in rebellion against
nobility and inherited status. Yet from the start, dynastic families have been
conspicuous in national politics. The Adamses. The Lodges. The Tafts. The
Roosevelts. The Kennedys. And today the Bushes and the Clintons. Longtime presidential historian Stephen Hess offers an
encyclopedic tour of the families that have loomed large over America's
political history. Free admission.
Toni Tipton Martin – The Jemima Code
Monday, November 16th from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (5th and K location)
1025 5th St NW
Washington, DC 20001
Join us at Busboys and Poets
culinary journalist and community activist Toni Tipton-Martin as she discusses
and signs her book The Jemima Code. The
Jemima Code presents more than 150 black cookbooks that range from a rare 1827
house servant’s manual, the first book published by an African American in the
trade, to modern classics by authors such as Edna Lewis and Vertamae Grosvenor.
The books are arranged chronologically and illustrated with photos of their
covers; many also display selected interior pages, including recipes. Free
admission.
Leigh Bargudo – Six of Crows
Monday, November 16th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
(Children and Teens Dept)
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Returning to the universe she created in
her Grisha trilogy, Bardugo introduces the reader to Kaz Brekker, a teenage
criminal genius who is already making a name for himself in Ketterdam’s teeming
underworld. A member of the city’s ruling council offers Kaz what seems to be
the opportunity of a lifetime: break a scientist out of prison and be rewarded
with unimaginable wealth. To help him accomplish his mission, Kaz gathers a
crew of outcasts together. With talents as varied as their pasts are dark, the
unruly group may just pull off the operation—unless they fail to overcome the
enmity between them. Ages 13 and up. Free admission.
Jon Meacham - Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of
George Herbert Walker Bush
Monday, November 16th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Meacham’s sure grasp of history and the
leaders who have contributed to it earned him a Pulitzer for American Lion,
his life of Andrew Jackson; he has also written American Gospel, a
portrait of the Founders, and has told the story of one of the last century’s
decisive relationships in Franklin and Winston.
Now Meacham chronicles the career of George H.W. Bush, drawing on official
archives and on the former president’s personal diaries to follow him from his
Connecticut upbringing and service in World War II to his successful Texas oil
enterprises, and through his long and diverse public career as a congressman,
U.S. ambassador, CIA director, and chief executive. Free admission.
Monday
Night Open Mic hosted by Mary Bowman
Monday, November 16th 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 Ayanna Gallant
Monday, November 16th 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. Expect to be moved, expect a packed house,
expect the unexpected, but above all come with an open mind and ear. $5 cover.
Tuesday, November 17th from 5:30 pm to
8:30 Pm
National Press Club
529 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20045
Politics & Prose is proud to
partner with the National Press Club Journalism Institute for a night of pols,
pundits, and prose. Come meet fantastic novelists, historians, and
cultural critics. Proceeds from this non-profit fundraiser will benefit the
SEED foundation, which helps under-served students prepare for college.
Tickets: $10 for the public; $5
for P&P members; $5 for NPC members. Books to be signed by the authors must
be purchased at the fair.
Johanna Fernandez - Writing on the
Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Tuesday, November 17th at
6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Brookland location)
625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20017
Edited by Johanna
Fernández, a Fulbright Scholar and Baruch College history professor, this
collection of work by Mumia Abu-Jamal features more than a hundred previously
unpublished essays by the activist and author of Live from Death Row and Death Blossoms—many
written while Abu-Jamal was in solitary confinement. These pieces crackle with
Abu-Jamal’s revolutionary perspective on community, power, politics, and social
change. Fernández will be in conversation with Netfa Freeman, events
coordinator for the Institute for Policy Studies’ Social Action &
Leadership School for Activists. Free admission.
John Sorensen - A
Sister's Memories: The Life and Work of Grace Abbott from the Writings of Her
Sister, Edith Abbott
Tuesday, November 17th
at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th & V
location)
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
The Abbott sisters,
Edith and Grace, may be less well known than their fellow activist Jane Addams,
but the Abbotts were tireless advocates for the poor, women, and children.
Edith had a doctorate in economics, spent time with the Webbs in Britain and
Addams at Hull House, taught at Wellesley and served as dean of the School of
Social Service Administration. She also wrote a memoir of Grace, who focused on
immigrant rights and especially on children’s welfare; Grace was drafting
language against child labor into the Social Security Act at the time of her
death. Sorensen, founder of the Abbott Sisters Project and editor of The Grace Abbott
Reader, has seamlessly put together Edith’s notes and drafts for
this portrait of Grace and the sisters’ pioneering social justice work. Free
admission.
Tanya Golash-Boza – Deported
Tuesday, November 17th
at 6:30 pm
Kramerbooks
1517
Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington,
DC 20036
The United States currently is deporting more people
than ever before: 4 million people have been deported since 1997 –twice as many
as all people deported prior to 1996.Tanya Golash-Boza uses the stories of 147
of these deportees to explore the racialized and gendered dimensions of mass
deportation in the United States, showing how this crisis is embedded in
economic restructuring, neoliberal reforms, and the disproportionate
criminalization of black and Latino men. Ultimately, Golash-Boza argues that deportation
has become a state strategy of social control, both in the United States and in
the many countries that receive deportees. Free admission.
Sue Grafton – X
Tuesday, November 17th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
The twenty-fourth letter of the alphabet can stand for
almost anything, from treasure to a kiss to an unknown. Reaching X in her
abecedarium of crime fiction, Grafton sends Kinsey Millhone on a race against
time as she works to put a sociopath behind bars before he can take her off the
case—permanently. The
line for will form at 6 p.m. and order will be first come, first served. Customers
will need a copy of X to enter the signing line. Sue Grafton will sign copies
of X as well as up to three backlist titles.
Free admission.
Tuesday Night Open Mic hosted by
Drew Anderson
Tuesday, November 17th
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
Tuesday, November 17th 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. This week's theme is Domestic Violence. $5
cover.
Bruce
Barcott - Weed the People: The Future of
Legal Marijuana in America
Wednesday, November 18th at
6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Takoma location)
235 Carroll St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20012
http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/bruce-barcott-weed-people-future-of-legal-marijuana-america
Today’s groundswell
in favor of legal marijuana heralds many socio-economic changes. In his third
book, Barcott reports from states on the front line of pot
legalization—Washington and Colorado—to show us what to expect. His findings
confirm that relaxing pot laws does not increase crime, for instance, even as
it raises questions of zoning and etiquette: when is it appropriate to share?
To bring your own? Barcott will be in conversation with Alison Holcomb, the
architect of Washington State’s successful legalization campaign; Holcomb was
recently named national director of the ACLU’s Campaign for Smart Justice, an
effort to end America’s mass incarceration crisis. Free admission.
Dave Tevlin – The Siege
of the Capital
Wednesday, November
18th from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Shirlington location)
4251 South Campbell Avenue
Arlington, VA 22206
http://www.busboysandpoets.com/events/event/book-reading-of-the-siege-of-the-capital-by-dave-tevelin
Siege of
the Capital,
the second Jake Katz novel, tracks Hamaas Abdul Khaalis’ takeover of the
District Building, the Islamic Center, and the B’nai B’rith in Washington in
March 1977, during which one person was killed, several others (including
Marion Barry) were wounded, and more than 100 people were held hostage for 39
hours. Four years earlier, Black Muslims had slain seven members of Mr.
Khaalis’ family, including three small children, at his home in Washington,
D.C. The novel is true to the facts of both cases. The fiction weaves Katz’
personal story through the real 39 hours and their aftermath. Dave Tevelin was
an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice and the first Executive Director
of the State Justice Institute. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife,
Sandy. Free admission.
Elaine
Sciolino - The Only Street in Paris: Life
on the Rue Des Martyrs
Wednesday, November 18th at
7 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore and
Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
The former New
York Times Paris
bureau chief and author of La Seduction,
Sciolino has been a confirmed Parisienne since 2002, a status solidified when
she was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor for her “special contribution”
to the friendship between France and the United States. Her new book is a
spirited tour of the rue des Martyrs, which features a transvestite cabaret, a
centenarian bookshop, and purveyors of cheese and other delicacies—altogether a
thoroughfare that clings to its idiosyncrasies. Free admission.
Wednesday Night Open Mic Poetry hosted by Jonathan Tucker
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.
Expect to be moved, expect a packed house, expect the unexpected, but above all
come with an open mind and ear. $5 cover.
Walter
Isaacson - The Innovators: How a Group of
Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Thursday, November 19th at
5:30 pm
Buck's Fishing & Camping
5031 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20008
http://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/walter-isaacson-innovators-how-group-of-hackers-geniuses-and-geeks-created-digital
Join bestselling author Walter Isaacson for cocktail
hour at Buck's Fishing & Camping restaurant, where the renowned biographer
will discuss some of the world’s most visionary and fascinating innovators:
from Steve Jobs (whose life now on the big screen is based on Isaacson’s
excellent book of the same name), to Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing and Steve
Wozniak, all profiled in his recent book, The
Innovators, just out in
paperback. Guests will enjoy a selection of hors d'oeuvres and raise a
glass with the author this evening. A cash bar will be open and there will be a
book signing at the end of the event. 1
copy of The
Innovators,
1 drink ticket & hors d'oeuvres for 1: $55; $50 for P & P members; 1
copy of The
Innovators,
2 drink tickets & hors d'oeuvres for 2: $75; $70 for P & P members.
Gregg Riley – Steps to the
Promised Land
Thursday, November 19th from 6:30 pm to 8
pm
Busboys and Poets (Hyattsville location)
5331 Baltimore Ave
Hyattsville, MD 20781
Gregg Riley (Col., U.S. Army Retired), Inspirational
Speaker and Author from the Washington, DC area will discuss and sign his first
book entitled Steps to the Promised Land.
The book focuses on solutions to the serious racial issues we face today and
the plight of individuals and the communities being affected across the
country. Gregg shares his leadership wisdom to help readers to develop
strategies and the will to overcome life’s challenges. Gregg is one of the most
sought after motivational speakers around. His passion for helping people and
organizations maximize their potential creates a one-of-a-kind unique
experience for any audience. He has a strong message for the youth of America
geared toward helping them understand the continued need for non-violence,
peaceful resolution, and education. Free admission.
Mark Ozer-Washington Metroland
Thursday, November 19th from 7 to 9 pm
Thursday, November 19th from 7 to 9 pm
The
Writer’s Center
4508
Walsh Street
Bethesda,
MD 20815
Mark
Ozer reads from and discusses his book Washington
Metroland, a book that tells the story of the Metro system as part of the
story of the Washington region. The lives of significant personages provide a
focus for the history of each station as we also explore its recent development
as an urban node. Free admission.
Thursday Night Open Mic hosted by Rebecca Dupas
Thursday, November 19th 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. Expect
to be moved, expect a packed house, expect the unexpected, but above all come
with an open mind and ear.
$5 suggested donation.
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