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Greetings From Politics and Prose!
E-mail for the Week of October 21

Author Events with V.S. Naipaul, Edwidge Daniticat,
Dinaw Mengestu, and Joseph Ellis

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UPCOMING EVENTS IN BRIEF

Thursday October 21
10:30 a.m. Leslie Margolis - Girl's Best Friend
7 p.m. Edwidge Danticat - Create Dangerously
7 p.m. V.S. Naipaul - The Masque Of Africa @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
7 p.m. Chris Kimball - Fannie's Last Supper @ Friendship Heights Village Community Center

Friday October 22
7 p.m. Dinaw Mengestu - How to Read the Air

Saturday October 23
1 p.m. Robert Shogan - Prelude to Catastrophe
3:30 p.m. Matt Stewart - The French Revolution
6 p.m. Phil Trupp - Ruthless

Sunday October 24
5 p.m. Judy Pasternak - Yellow Dirt

Monday October 25
10:30 a.m.Jacqueline Woodson - Locomotion
7 p.m. Myla Goldberg - The False Friend

 

Tuesday October 26
7 p.m. Curtis Wilkie - The Fall of the House of Zeus

Wednesday October 27
7 p.m. Joseph Ellis - First Family

Thursday October 28
10:30 a.m. Brian Lies - Bats at the Ballpark
7 p.m. Alan Riding - And the Show Went On

Friday October 29
7 p.m. Lan Samantha Chang - All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost

Saturday October 30
10:30 a.m. The Good Fun! Book
1 p.m. Douglas R. Egerton - Year of Meteors
6 p.m. Allison Leotta - Law of Attraction

LETTER FROM BARBARA

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FROM THE CHILDREN AND TEENS' DEPARTMENT

MARKDOWN BOOKS


Remainders

In A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, James Shapiro looked at Shakespeare’s work, life, and times through the narrow window of one year. He told us what we could be sure of, what we couldn’t, and made it all a fascinating story. His recent CONTESTED WILL: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Is an equally fascinating look at Shakespeare and the history of reading. What do we look for in a literary text—clues to the author’s life? A mirror of his mind? Shapiro studies the recurrent question of the Bard’s authenticity, noting the social conditions that first gave rise to the odd notion that Shakespeare might only be “Shakespeare,” while an Earl or some other aristocrat in fact wriote the scenes and characters the humble boy from Stratford would never have been able to manage. Available in hardcover, $7.98.

Some books just seem charmed, and that would have to be the case with Alan Bennett’s little dynamo, THE UNCOMMON READER. A mere 120 pages, who would have thought it would prove as popular as it has? It’s been a steady seller here for some three years now, and shows no signs of losing favor. The plot? It has to do with the Queen stumbling into a mobile library when her corgis run off. She borrows a book. Then another. Her outlook on life and the kingdom change dramatically and entertainingly. Bennet’s wit and good humor shine throughout this little treasure, which shows that true power lies in reading. Available in paperback, $4.98.

Readers have been eagerly awaiting Dinaw Mengestu’s second novel, How to Read the Air, because his first was so evocative and moving. THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS THAT HEAVEN BEARS is set in 1970s D.C. Sepha left his native Addis Ababa 17years ago, after his father was killed in revolutionary violence. He makes a poor living running a grocery store, but he has good friends in fellow African immigrants and, now, in a new white neighbor and her biracial daughter. While Sepha’s sharp observations of the American social scene and its racial tensions, along with his memories of Ethiopia, paint a difficult reality, he manages to hang on to some of his dreams. Available in paperback, $4.98.

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Laurie Greer

Music News


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