Joy-Ann Reid
– Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide
Friday, September 11th at
7 pm
Politics & Prose
Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Come and hear MSNBC’s Joy
Reid read from and discuss her new book, in which she examines the current
state of the Democratic Party. Free admission.
11th Hour Poetry Slam
hosted by 2Deep the Poetess
Friday, September 11th
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 high intensity poetry, with
the audience choosing a winner. Actress and poet 2Deep the Poetess will host
the evening. $5 cover charge.
Amy Stewart - Girl Waits With Gun
Saturday, September 12th at
3:30 pm
Politics & Prose
Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
In her first novel, the
author of Flower Confidential, The
Drunken Botanist, and other books on plants and insects turns from nature
to human nature. Stewart looks back to 1914 and the life of Constance Kopp, one
of the first women to serve as a deputy sheriff. Free admission.
Amitav Ghosh - Flood Of Fire
Saturday, September 12th at
6 pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore
and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
As Gosh’s trilogy’s
concluding volume begins, it’s 1839 and the British foreign secretary is
mobilizing troops to force China to rescind its embargo on opium. Thus Ghosh
dramatizes the Opium Wars, bringing colonial history to vivid literary life.
Free admission.
Sonja D.
Williams - Word Warrior: Richard Durham,
Radio, and Freedom
Saturday, September
12th at 1 pm
Politics & Prose
Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Sonja D. Williams discusses
Word Warrior, in which she draws an
extensive portrait of Richard Durham, known for his pioneering in radio and
journalism. Free admission.
Damon Tweedy,
M.D. - Black Man in a White Coat: a
Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Sunday, September 13th at
2 pm
Politics & Prose
Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
In his first book, Tweedy,
a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke and a practitioner at
the Durham VA Medical Center, explores the significance of race in the medical
world. Tracing his own experience as a medical student on a full
scholarship—who at one point is mistaken for a maintenance worker—Dr. Tweedy
exposes some of his profession’s outdated assumptions, while also showing the
very real impact of socioeconomic factors on the health of black Americans.
Free admission.
Michelle Brafman – Washing the
Dead and Dylan Landis – Rainey Royal
Sunday, September 13th
from 2 pm to 4 pm
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815
Novelist
Michelle Brafman reads from Washing the Dead. She is
joined by novelist Dylan Landis, author of Rainey Royal. The reading will be followed by a
reception and book signing. Free admission.
Abdul
Hamidullah & Lawrence Nicol - Sincerely
Me
Sunday,
September 13th from 6:30 pm to 8 pm
Busboys
and Poets (5th and K location)
1025 5th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Join authors Abdul
Hamidullah & Lawrence Nicol as they discuss and sign their book, Sincerely Me, a collection of poetry by
two authors. Free admission.
T. Geronimo
Johnson - Welcome to Braggsville
Monday, September 14th at
6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Takoma
location)
235 Carroll St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20012
Politics & Prose at
Busboys and Poets Takoma presents a discussion with author T Geronimo Johnson
about his latest novel, Welcome to Braggsville, a dark comedy about a group of students
who stage a protest during a Civil War re-enactment. Free
admission.
Monday Night
Open Mic hosted by 13 of Nazareth
Monday, September 14th from
8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Busboys and Poets
(Shirlington location)
4251 South Campbell Avenue
Arlington, VA 22206
Performance poet 13 of
Nazareth hosts the Monday Night Open Mic at the Busboys and Poets Shirlington
location. $5 cover charge.
Monday Night
Open Mic hosted by Joseph LMS Green
Monday, September 14th from
9:00 pm-11:00 pm
Busboys and Poets
(Brookland location)
625 Monroe St. NE
Washington, D.C. 20017
Come to Busboys and Poets
Brookland for an evening of performance and entertainment at the Monday Night
Open Mic hosted by poet Joseph LMS Green. $5 cover charge.
History of the Public Library
Tuesday, September 15th,
2015, from 12 pm to 1 pm
Library of Congress
James Madison Building
(Montpelier Room – Sixth floor)
101 Independence Ave SE
Washington, DC 20540
Wayne Wiegand discusses and
signs his new book Part of Our Lives: A
People’s History of the American Public Library. Contact (202) 707-1519 for
more information.
Ellen Bravo - Again And Again
Tuesday, September 15th
at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th &
V location)
2021 14th St,
NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
A Politics & Prose
event at Busboys and Poets 14th & V, author Ellen Bravo
will discuss her book Again And Again. Free admission.
Eoin Colfer - Warp Book 3 The Forever Man &
Jonathan Stroud - Lockwood & Co. Book
Three: The Hollow Boy
Tuesday, September 15th
at 7 pm
Politics & Prose
Bookstore and Coffeehouse
(Children’s and Teens Dept)
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Two of the most successful
authors for younger readers discuss the latest installments in their respective
series. Ages 10 and up. Free admission.
Jill Bialosky -
The Prize
Tuesday, September 15th at 7 pm
Politics & Prose
Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Bialosky is well known in
the literary world as not only a poet, novelist, and author of the moving
memoir, History of a Suicide, but
also as an editor at Norton. Her third novel, following The Life Room and House
Under Snow, is artful in theme as well as in execution, taking readers into the
contemporary art world. The story follows a gallery owner who finds his
integrity tested by two very different painters, and Bialosky powerfully evokes
the passions involved in the creation and marketing of beautiful objects—passions
that veer from idealism into manipulation and betrayal. Free admission.
Tuesday Night Open Mic hosted by Patrick Washington
Tuesday, September 15th
from 9 pm to 11 pm
Busboys and Poets (Takoma
location)
235 Carroll St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20012
A variety of musicians,
poets, and other performers will entertain us for two hours. Anything could
happen. $5 cover charge.
Tuesday Night Open Mic hosted by Drew Anderson
Tuesday, September 15th
from 11 pm to 1 am
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 charge.
Dale Russakoff
- The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
Wednesday,
September 16th at 7:00 pm
Politics & Prose
Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
A long-time Washington Post reporter, Russakoff has
covered politics, economics, and education, all of which come into play in this
account of the alliance formed by Newark mayor Cory Booker with New Jersey
governor Chris Christie and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg—and a commitment of $100
million. But clashes among reformers, teachers, parents, and administrators
meant little help for students, and Russakoff’s profiles of individual schools
vividly show what was really at stake. Free admission.
Joe Meno - Marvel And A Wonder & Nina Revoyr - Lost Canyon
Wednesday, September 16th
at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th &
V location)
2021 14th St,
NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Meno and Revovr discuss
their new novels, which are based, respectively, on an Indiana farm in the
summer of 1995 and in the rugged landscape of the Sierra Nevada. Free
admission.
Ellen Urbani - Landfall
Wednesday, September 16th
at 6:30 pm
Kramerbooks
1517 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036
Two mothers and their teenage daughters, whose
lives collide in a fatal car crash, take turns narrating Ellen Urbani's
breathtaking novel, Landfall, set in
the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Rose's quest to atone for the accident that
kills Rosebud, a young woman so much like herself but for the color of her
skin, unfolds alongside Rosebud's battle to survive the devastating flooding in
the Lower Ninth Ward and to find help for her unstable mother. Free admission.
Susan Abulhawa - The Blue Between Sky And Water
Wednesday, September 16th
at 6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (14th &
V location)
2021 14th St,
NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
In her second novel,
Abulhawa, a human rights activist and the author of Mornings in Jenin, and
herself the child of displaced Palestinians, chronicles the ordeal of a Palestinian
family uprooted from their ancestral farm. Free admission.
Wednesday Night
Open Mic hosted by Jonathan Tucker
Wednesday, August 26th from
9 pm-11 pm
Busboys and Poets (5th &
K location)
1025 5th Street
NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
Performer and activist
Jonathan Tucker hosts the Wednesday Night Open Mic at Busboys and Poets 5th &
K. Come share your work or watch others perform. $5 cover charge.
Rederik Peeters
Aama: 4. You Will Be Glorious, My Daughter
Thursday, September 17th at
6:30 pm
Busboys and Poets (Takoma
location)
235 Carroll St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20012
Peeters, the Geneva-based
graphic novelist, has won world-wide acclaim for Blue Pills and Pachyderme, and
was awarded the Best Series Prize at Angoul’me for the first two volumes of his
four-book Aama. Set in the distant future,
the series began with Verloc, his brother Conrad, and a cigar-smoking robotic
monkey named Churchill. As the quest continues on the planet Ona(ji), the
expedition dwindles to a single man: can Verloc alone, himself radically
transformed, regain control of Aama? Peeters will be in conversation with Sam
Marx, Exhibitor Coordinator at the Small Press Expo. Free admission.
Bethany McLean
- Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants
Thursday, September 17th at
7 pm
Politics & Prose
Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Senior writer and editor at
large for Fortune, McLean made her name as a young investigative reporter in
2001 with her skeptical writing on Enron. In her third book, she looks at the
dangerous ramifications of the “conservatorship” system Freddie Mac and Fannie
Mae have been operating in since 2008. With their profits used to pay down the
federal deficit, the agencies are low on reserves, which could cause their
major investors, including China, Russia, and Japan, to lose confidence and
pull out—sparking a global crisis. Free admission.
Thursday Night
Open Mic Poetry hosted by Rebecca Dupas
Thursday, September 17th
from 9:00 pm-11:00 pm
Busboys and Poets
(Hyattsville location)
5331 Baltimore Avenue
Hyattsville, MD 20781
Busboys and Poets in
Hyattsville presents a Thursday Night Open Mic hosted by Rebecca Dupas. $5
suggested donation.
