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UPCOMING EVENTS IN BRIEF |
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Thursday June 3 Friday - Sunday, June 4 - 6 Friday, June 4 Tuesday June 8 Wednesday June 9 |
Thursday June 10 Friday June 11 Saturday June 12 Sunday June 13
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LETTER FROM BARBARA & CARLA | |||||||
We also invite you to pick up a copy of our 2010 Summer Favorites, in which our booksellers tell you about many of their recommendations for summer reading. All of these titles will be discounted to members all summer long. In addition, audiobooks will be discounted throughout the month of June to give you the opportunity to listen to books on CD during family car trips or leisurely days while on vacation. This week our booksellers are especially excited about hosting Karl Marlantes, a Vietnam vet, for his newly released novel MATTERHORN. By writing this novel, he spent an additional 30 years with the war, composing a story about 2nd Lt. Waino Mellas and Bravo Company. The soldiers struggle to secure a hilltop fortress, only to retreat, and then later attack and destroy what they’d built. This is a gritty, powerful evocation of war’s grinding effects on both body and soul; and it has had the effect of making the war utterly present and compellingly real for its readers. Sebastian Junger, who recently visited P&P to present his book WAR, contributed a review for the New York Times in which he called it "a raw, brilliant account". We hope you will join us next week for this debut novel from a talented author. Finally, for a bit of whimsy, one of our booksellers found this on the internet. www.bookshelfporn.com This is what really turns a bookseller on! |
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BOOKNOTES | |||||||
The Library of Congress is preparing to host C.G. Jung's Red Book this month. And the Member Sale is the perfect time to take $39 off the cover price and acquire one of your own! THE RED BOOK: LIBER NOVUS (W.W. Norton, $195) is an astounding and beautiful full-color reproduction of psychologist Carl Jung's fascinating and personal exploration into the subconscious; and it comes with explanatory essays and a full translation by Jungian scholar Sonu Shamdasani. See a video of how the book was reproduced here. You may also be interested to listen to this 45 minute On Point NPR documentary with Tom Ashbrook, or read Sara Corbett's article "The Holy Grail of the Unconscious" from last fall's New York Times Magazine. Come in the store and take a look at The Red Book before visiting the original downtown, we have just a few left!
Humorists, nerds, and public radio superstars David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell are speaking at GW Lisner Auditorium this fall (October 7 and November 13, respectively.) Right now, tickets are on sale as a package to both shows, and Politics & Prose has a pair of these ticket packages to give away - that is, two tickets to David Sedaris and two tickets to Sarah Vowell for one very lucky reader. To enter send a message to BOOKS@politics-prose.com with SEDARIS/VOWELL in the subject field.
The winner will be chosen on Tuesday, June 15. For more information on these events, visit www.lisner.org. |
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BESTSELLERS | |||||||
P&P Members always save 20% on our top twelve FICTION and NON-FICTION hardcover bestsellers. To purchase these books, click the titles.
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NEW IN PAPERBACK | |||||||
These two titles were both store favorites when they were in hardcover. Click FICTION or NON-FICTION to browse a more complete selection of recent paperback releases. As in the Frank Sinatra torch song, "That Old Black Magic," the protagonist of Richard Russo’s THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC (Vintage, $15) spirals down and down under the pressure of love. Unable to let his past go, he drives around New England with his parents’ urns in the trunk of his convertible. Searching for a suitable burial place, he also tries to reconcile his crumbling life with the fact that he has attained every goal he set himself when he married: he has a beautiful house on the Cape, a successful career at a posh college, happy children--yet he's in the throes of a divorce and endures a miserable professorship while pining to return to life on the West Coast. Russo recounts the tale with humor, pathos, and hilarity. - Anne Armstrong
It isn't often that you find literature offering an extended treatment of work. Which is odd, because work is where most of us spend the (at times disheartening) preponderance of our energy and time each day, each year. Perhaps books neglect labor because we turn to literature for the very purpose of “’forgetting” our daily toil? Be alienated no longer! With THE PLEASURES AND SORROWS OF WORK (Vintage, $15.95), Alain de Botton (The Architecture of Happiness, How Proust Can Change Your Life) reports on ten distinct occupations and industries. It is a "hymn to the modern workplace," evoked in rich, wry detail with anthropological care, all the while seeking to answer the question, "when does a job feel meaningful?" - Lila Stiff |
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COMING NOW TO YOUR FAVORITE BOOKSTORE |
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If you can't attend a talk, but would like to reserve a signed copy or a recorded author talk,
Thursday June 3 Matt Gallagher - Kaboom Friday, June 4 Sasha Polakow-Suransky - The Unspoken Alliance Friday - Sunday, June 4-6 P&P SUMMER STOREWIDE MEMBER SALE The same discounts available in-store will be applied to members' purchases, which are completed online between Friday, June, 4 12:01 a.m. and Sunday, March 6, 11:59 p.m.! Discounts can not be applied to specially ordered items, or items which are not currently in stock in the store. Also, please note: Online orders using the "Pay in Store" option will obtain the member discount only if payment is completed by close of business on Sunday, June 6. Monday June 7 Wilbert Rideau - In the Place of Justice Tuesday June 8 Karl Marlantes - Matterhorn
Wednesday June 9 Robert McCrum - Globish Thursday June 10 Christopher Hitchens - Hitch 22 Friday June 11 Dave Jamieson - Mint Condition Saturday June 12 Adele Logan Alexander - Parallel Worlds 1 p.m. Alexander’s history of blacks in the Foreign Service focuses on William Hunt and Ida Gibbs-Hunt. Members of the Talented Tenth, the couple married in 1904 and Hunt served as a U.S. representative in France, Madagascar, Guadalupe, and Liberia through the 1930s, while his wife became a writer and activist.
TRIO OF YOUNG ADULT AUTHORS - Jenny Han, Kieran Scott, and Elizabeth Scott @ Bethesda Library Jenny Han - It’s Not Summer Without You @ Bethesda Library Elizabeth Scott - The Unwritten Rule @ Bethesda Library Kieran Scott - She’s So Dead To Us @ Bethesda Library Dan Ariely - The Upside Of Irrationality Stephen J. Rose - Rebound Sunday June 13
Prof. Will Gardner - From Mountain Witches to Virtual Unicorns: The Fantastic Mode in Modern Japanese Literature |
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P&P CUSTOMERS ARE ALSO INVITED TO... | |||||||
Wednesday, June 16, 7 p.m.
SPENCER WELLS Click here to purchase $10 tickets ($8 for NG Members) and for more information. For a chance to win two free tickets to this presentation, please send an e-mail to PGibson@politics-prose.com no later than noon on Thursday, June 10, 2010. Put PANDORA in the subject line, and be sure to include a phone number so that we can reach you. Winners will be notified by the close-of-business Friday, June 11th.
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FROM THE CHILDREN AND TEENS' DEPARTMENT | |||||||
(20% off through 06/09/2010)
Read about - and buy - more of our favorite books for children by clicking here. For upcoming events and more from the Children and Teens' Department, click here.
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MARKDOWN BOOKS | |||||||
It’s always a pleasure to read The New Yorker’s Alex Ross on music -- not only is he a fine critic with an experienced ear, but he’s a skilled writer with a knack for conveying the experience of one of the most abstract and elusive of the arts. He does even more than this in his splendid first book, THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century. A history of what Europe and America sounded like from before World War I to the year 2000, Ross’s study foregrounds classical music, moving chronologically from Vienna to 1920s Paris, from Germany under the Nazis to the Soviet Union under Stalin and on to New York in the 1960s. He is always insightful about composers and audiences, individual works and the mutual influence of different genres. He also recommends what to listen to while you’re reading. Available in paperback, $7.98. As if Roald Dahl weren’t an intriguing enough figure simply for the novels and stories he has written, he had another life as a spy. Thus Jennet Conant reveals in THE IRREGULARS: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington. While not exactly an Operation Mincemeat, Dahl’s mission included charming the powerful and influential figures of Washington and swaying the U.S. to enter World War II as Britain’s ally. Whom Dahl talked to and how he worked his magic make for a fascinating true-life thriller. Available in hardcover, $6.98. Click here to browse more remainders that have recently become available. • Laurie Greer
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MUSIC NEWS |
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Reuben Jackson worked for 21 years as an archivist with the Smithsonian Institution's Duke Ellington Collection, and has taught a poetry workshop at The Writer’s Center for 10 years. His commentaries are frequently heard on WAMU’s Metro Connection. Click here for more reviews and news. Please call us at 202-364-1919 to order these CDs. • András Goldinger
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BOOK GROUPS |
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Politics & Prose currently hosts sixteen different book groups in the store each month.
Monday, June 7, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 8, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 10, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 13, 5 p.m.
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NEWS FROM THE COFFEEHOUSE |
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For news from the coffeehouse, visit the Modern Times blog. |
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