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Thursday, January 27
10:30 a.m. John Bemelmans Marciano - Madeline at the White House
7 p.m. Elaine Showalter - The Vintage Book of American Women Writers
Friday, January 28
7 p.m. Matteo Pistono - In the Shadow of the Buddha
Saturday, January 29
6 p.m. N. Jeremi Duru - Advancing the Ball
Sunday, January 30
Beth Kephart - Dangerous Neighbors - CANCELED
5 p.m. Anne Trubek - A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses
Monday, January 31
7 p.m. Book Group Night
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Tuesday, February 1
10:30 a.m. David Whitley - Children of the Lost
7 p.m. Michael Scheuer - Osama Bin Laden
Wednesday, February 2
7 p.m. Philip Fried - Early/Late: New and Selected Poetry
Thursday, February 3
10:30 a.m. Jenny Han - Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream
7 p.m. Edith Pearlman - Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories
Friday, February 4
7 p.m. Waywiser Press Poetry Reading
Saturday, February 5
12 p.m. M.L. Liebler and contributors - Working Words
3 p.m. Hannah Pittard - The Fates Will Find Their Way
5 p.m. George Mason University Alumni Fiction Writers
Sunday, February 6
1 p.m. Jasmin Darznik - The Good Daughter |
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 A week doesn't get much better for Politics & Prose than last week. Tuesday night some surprised customers arrived at the store to find a reception in full swing for some 300 booksellers from around the country who had come to Washington for the American Booksellers Association's Winter Institute. We tried to wow them with a bevy of local authors, and the booksellers loved seeing and talking to so many writers in the flesh. Among the literary scribes, we had Jim Lehrer, Kate Lehrer, Roger Rosenblatt, George Pelecanos, Rick Atkinson, David Maraniss, Howard Norman, Joan Nathan, Adam Cheuse, Jane Leavey, Louis Bayard, Wil Haygood, Susan Shreve, Mary Kay Zuravleff, Clarence Lusane, Judith Warner, and Aviva Kempner.
Thursday, we went to the White House!!! Oren Teicher, the CEO of the American Booksellers Association, nine of its board members, and I went for an ll a.m. appointment with President Obama to present book gifts to the White House Library. I was somewhat overwhelmed by the whole event, from the moment President Obama opened the Oval Office door and invited us in. The minute I introduced myself, he said,"POLITICS AND PROSE?, I know that store!!!" I brought Edmund Morris's new biography, Colonel Roosevelt, to the President who thanked me, remarking that he looked forward to reading it as he had already enjoyed the first two volumes. Others gave books that they hoped would appeal to Mrs. Obama, Malia, and Sasha.
The President described the great pleasure he had experienced in reading The Life of Pi aloud to Malia at an earlier age. Before we left the Oval Office, he handed each of us a signed copy of his The Audacity of Hope, and said, "Now I don't want to find you selling these on eBay."
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BOOK NOTES |
Google eBooks were an important topic of discussion at the ABA bookseller conference this past week. You'll be hearing much more from us about this in the coming weeks, including instructions on how to download eBooks from our site, how to choose an eReader, and suggested books to read. In the meantime, many of the books we mention this week are available as eBooks from politics-prose.com, such as Edmund Morris's Colonel Roosevelt, Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge, and Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope. Click here to browse the options.
Our annual Book Group Night will take place on Monday, January 31. Whether you participate in one of P&P's sixteen public book groups, have organized one with your friends and neighbors, or are looking to form or take part in a new group, please join us for this discussion. We'll talk about starting book groups and keeping them going, about how to stimulate conversation and how to stay on the subject. We'll also trade ideas about book group experiences, pool recommendations about books, and discuss how the store can help support your group. Please RSVP to BookGroups@politics-prose.com.
Finally, the 2010 National Book Circle Critics Awards will be announced on March 10th. The shortlist of finalists has been announced and you can browse their nominated books here.
Moreover, The Association of Writers and Writing Programs' Annual Conference will be in town next week February 2-5. Several of the NBCC finalists will be participating and reading there. 8,000 writers, publishers, teachers, and lovers of literature will gather in our nation's capital for three days of literary discussions and celebrations. As a service to the Washington, DC literary community, the AWP has made the following five events free and open to the public.
Friday, February 4, 8:30 p.m.
A Reading by Novelist Junot Díaz
Sponsored by Georgia College & State University / Arts & Letters
Marriott Ballroom, Lobby Level
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Friday, February 4, 8:30 p.m.
Readings by Poets Claudia Rankine and Charles Wright
Presented by the Academy of American Poets
Regency Ballroom, West Lobby Omni Shoreham Hotel
Saturday, February 5, 8:30 p.m.
A Reading by Poet Laureate Kay Ryan
Followed by a conversation with Dana Gioia
Sponsored by the Library of Congress
Regency Ballroom, West Lobby Omni Shoreham Hotel
Saturday, February 5, 8:30 p.m.
Readings by Fiction Writers Amy Hempel & Gary Shteyngart
Followed by a conversation with Thomas Mallon
Sponsored by the George Washington University
Marriott Ballroom, Lobby Level Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Saturday, February 5, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Bookfair
Exhibit Hall (Lower Level), Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
500 publishers will be exhibiting their new literary titles and magazines at the conference. An excellent place to see first-hand the vitality and diversity of contemporary literature and its small and university presses.
Click here for a list of other featured presenters and a complete schedule of events.
Politics & Prose will be hosting many poetry and fiction events throughout the next week and weekend in conjunction with the conference. Read more about our in-store literary events in our detailed schedule below.
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These were two of our favorites when they were in hardcover.
Click here to see more recently released paperbacks, both Fiction and Non-Fiction.
THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE by Julie Orringer (Vintage, $15) Also available as an eBook.
Do you want to experience student life in 1930s Paris and linger in the classrooms and cafés of a bustling, vibrant, youthfully impoverished Latin Quarter? Have you ever wondered about studying in an architectural atelier, designing sets for a Parisian theater, or teaching ballet in the wealthy Marais? (All this vivid living and striving a welcome counterpoint to the grim news emerging from Germany and Spain.) You might be more interested in the precise conditions of work camps on the Eastern Front, and the subversive diversions their inmates created to cope with backbreaking, dehumanizing labor. Or perhaps you'd prefer one of the most moving, honest and unconventional love stories in recent memory.
The Invisible Bridge absorbed me completely; I can't remember anything else I did the week I read it. Through the entwined fates of three Hungarian Jewish brothers, Julie Orringer creates a universe soaring in its scope and extraordinary in its intimacy. It will make you forget every other novel you've read about World War II. - Liz Sher
IMAGINATION IN PLACE by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint, $14.95)
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If you can't attend a talk, but would like to buy a signed copy or a recorded author presentation, click the title links to reserve your book online.
P&P members save 20% on all of these event titles.
Click www.politics-prose.com/event for our author events calendar through February.
Thursday, January 27
John Bemelmans Marciano - Madeline at the White House
Whatever the weather,/ we'll be together./ In snow or shine,/ In two straight lines/ We will welcome Madeline!
10:30 a.m. The grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans, who created Madeline in 1939, has completed the story his grandfather began in 1961 of Madeline’s visit to the White House. She and her eleven classmates come to town for the annual Easter Egg Roll as special guests of Candle, the President’s daughter, who takes them on a beautiful nighttime tour of the city. Ages 3-5
Elaine Showalter - The Vintage Book of American Women Writers
7 p.m. Showalter introduced readers to dozens of heretofore overlooked literary figures in A Jury of Her Peers, her comprehensive study of women writers. Now she has edited a rich selection of poetry and fiction by American women from Anne Bradstreet—the earliest English poet of the New World—to Annie Proulx, with selections from Mary Rowlandson, Margaret Fuller, and many others.
Friday, January 28
Matteo Pistono - In the Shadow of the Buddha
7 p.m. A practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism and founder of Nekorpa, an organization working to protect the world’s sacred sites, Pistono went to Tibet looking for a simpler life. He found instead a culture under siege and has spent nearly a decade writing about, photographing, and publicizing Chinese repression of Tibetan society.
Saturday, January 29
N. Jeremi Duru - Advancing the Ball
6 p.m. After years of working with the National Football League, Duru, a professor and civil rights litigator, recounts how a few men convinced the league to enact the “Rooney Rule,” which requires each team to interview a minority candidate when hiring a new coach. The book has an impressive forward by Tony Dungy.
Sunday, January 30
Beth Kephart - Dangerous Neighbors
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED
Anne Trubek - A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses
5 p.m. As a corollary to the question of why we read, Trubek considers why we make literary shrines out of the homes where great writers produced their work. Do we flock to authors’ houses simply to pay homage? To glimpse the ghost of a muse? Touring the haunts of Hemingway, Twain, Alcott, and others, Trubek reserves judgment as she observes guides, pilgrims, and décor.
Monday, January 31
Book Group Night
7 p.m. Whether you participate in one of P&P’s public book groups, are part of one with your friends and neighbors, or are looking to form or take part in a new group, join us for this discussion. We’ll talk about starting book groups and keeping them going, consider how to stimulate talk and how to stay on the subject. We’ll also trade ideas about book group experiences, pool recommendations about books, and discuss how the store can help support your group. Please RSVP to Book Groups@politics-prose.com.
Tuesday, February 1
David Whitley - Children of the Lost
10:30 a.m. According to The Midnight Charter, Lily and Mark will change Agora. To prevent this, they are banished, but the harmonious village where they take refuge is not fully sympathetic to them, forcing the pair to face the next phase of their destiny. Ages 11-14
Michael Scheuer - Osama Bin Laden
7 p.m. The first head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Scheuer has long been involved in the search for this elusive figure. Scheuer’s portrait of bin Laden illuminates his development from Saudi dissident to Al-Qaeda leader; in addition to closely analyzing bin Laden’s speeches, Scheuer has conducted extensive interviews with bin Laden’s associates.
Wednesday, February 2
Philip Fried - Early/Late: New and Selected Poetry
7 p.m. Fried is the founding editor of The Manhattan Review, a contributor to Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets, and the author of several collections of poetry. This new book gathers work from Fried’s last four volumes, poems that focus on myth and place. A section of new writing looks at today’s financial crises and proliferating technology.
Thursday, February 3
Jenny Han - Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream
10:30 a.m. Clara Lee, a Korean-American, dreams of being Little Miss Apple Pie in the town’s Apple Blossom Festival—though she’s afraid of giving a speech to win the title. Then her grandfather tells her that bad dreams are good luck, and Clara gains confidence after she has a nightmare. Ages 8-11
Edith Pearlman - Binocular Vision
7 p.m. The proverbial “writer’s writer,” Pearlman has published hundreds of short stories in literary journals and has written travel pieces for The New York Times. Her fourth collection of fiction is set in real and invented Massachusetts towns and ranges from an account of a soup kitchen, with its wary interactions between the staff and those they serve, to a coming-of-age story about an overconfident young woman.
Friday, February 4
Waywiser Press Poetry Reading
7 p.m. An independent press with a literary focus, Waywiser was founded in Britain in 2001. It also has an American subsidiary, which has published new work by writers including George Bradley, Morri Creech, Erica Dawson, Joseph Harrison, Carrie Jerrell, Matthew Ladd, Dora Malech, Eric McHenry, Cody Walker, and Greg Williamson. They will be reading from their poetry.
Saturday, February 5
M.L. Liebler and contributors - Working Words
12 p.m. Liebler, a Detroit poet and activist, has assembled a rousing anthology of songs, poetry, fiction, and memoirs about work. Celebrating the working class, unions, and labor itself, the book, with contributions from figures ranging from Dorothy Day to Philip Levine, Woody Guthrie to Eminem, is a heartfelt tribute to a disappearing way of life. Mark Nowak, Dorianne Laux, Richard Peabody, Bret Lott, Caroline Maun, Allison Hedge Coke, and Minnie Bruce Pratt will be appearing with Liebler.
Hannah Pittard - The Fates Will Find Their Way
3 p.m. Teenager Nora Lindell has gone missing. Told in the first-person plural, Pittard’s haunting debut novel chronicles the effect of Nora’s disappearance on her family, and the lasting impact her loss has on the lives of the neighborhood boys with whom she grew up.
George Mason University Alumni Fiction Writers
5 p.m. As part of this week's local Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference, alumni from the George Mason MFA program will be reading from their fiction. Participants include: Steve Amick, Liam Callanan, Ramola D, Dallas Hudgens, Nicole Louise Reid, and Andrew Wingfield. Alan Cheuse, George Mason professor, NPR book commentator, and author of poetry, fiction, and essays, will host.
Sunday, February 6
Jasmin Darznik - The Good Daughter
1 p.m. The chance find of an old photo of her mother’s wedding to a man she’d never seen before led Darznik, a professor of English at Washington and Lee University, to discover startling new facts about her family history. Her memoir chronicles three generations of Iranian women and their legacy of secrets, losses, and the search for freedom.
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Politics & Prose supplies books to book signing parties and events for other organizations. These are often open to the public; however, reservations and tickets should be acquired from the hosting organization. Please contact offsite@politics-prose.com if you are planning an event and would like us to supply the books.
Wednesday, February 2, 8 – 10 a.m.
Greater Washington Board of Trade Business Leadership Series
Capital Hilton
1001 16th St, NW
RUSSELL SIMMONS
SUPER RICH: A GUIDE TO HAVING IT ALL (Gotham, $22.50)
Dubbed the CEO of Hip-Hop by BusinessWeek, Russell Simmons is the mastermind behind many wildly successful ventures, including Def Jam Records, Phat Farm, Def Comedy Jam, and the Hip-Hop Summit Action network, which promotes empowerment in young people. Join the Board of Trade on February 2 as Russell Simmons, Chairman of Rush Communications, discusses his new book. For more information and to register, click here or visit www.hooksbookevents.com.
Monday, February 7, 7:30 p.m.
PEN/Faulkner Reading Series
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, S.E.
ELINOR LIPMAN, STEPHEN McCAULEY & CATHLEEN SCHINE
Moderated by Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World, Fiction Editor and weekly critic.
Elinor Lipman’s most recent novel is The Family Man. She has written eight other novels, including Then She Found Me, which was adapted into a 2008 feature film written by, directed, and starring Helen Hunt, and the story collection Into Love and Out Again. Her essays, book reviews, and op-ed columns have appeared in numerous national publications. In 2011/12 she will hold the Elizabeth Drew Chair in Creative Writing at Smith College. She divides her time between Northampton, Massachusetts, and New York City.
Stephen McCauley is the author of six novels, including The Object of My Affection and, most recently, Insignificant Others. His fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, and many other publications. Two of his novels have been made into feature films. He is currently the Fannie Hurst Writer in Residence at Brandeis University.
Cathleen Schine’s most recent novel is The Three Weissmanns of Westport. She has also published seven additional novels, including The Love Letter, which was made into a movie starring Kate Capshaw; and Rameau’s Niece, which was also made into a movie (The Misadventures of Margaret), starring Parker Posey. Her articles and essays appear widely. She grew up in Westport, Connecticut.
Click here for $15 tickets.
February 2 - February 10
Round House Theatre Bethesda
4545 East-West Highway
Bethesda, MD
CHARMING BILLY
Politics & Prose patrons can save on CHARMING BILLY. Author Alice McDermott’s novel Charming Billy, winner of 1998 National Book Award for Fiction, comes to the stage in a play adapted and directed by Blake Robison. In a Bronx bar, a funeral party has gathered to honor Billy Lynch. Through the night, his friends and family weave together the tale of a husband, lover, dreamer, and storyteller, but also that of a hopeless drunk whose immense charm was but a veil over a lifetime of secrets and all-consuming sorrow. Charming Billy looks at how good intentions can be as destructive as the truth they were meant to hide. Order tickets online for shows from Feb. 2 - 10 and you can save $10 per ticket.* Enter code BILLY when ordering full-priced center orchestra/center balcony tickets at www.roundhousetheatre.org.
(*Online orders only. Discount valid Feb. 2 – 10. Discounts cannot be combined. Not valid on previously purchased tickets. Online orders subject to $3.50 per ticket convenience charge.) For more info, click www.roundhousetheatre.org or call 240-644-1100.
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All Politics & Prose Weekly Hardcover Bestsellers are 20% off for Members.
Click the book titles for more information about these featured books.
Bookmark www.politics-prose.com/bestsellers/hardcover-fiction and
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Click here to receive the benefits of Politics & Prose membership.
FICTION
- A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (Knopf, $25.95)
- Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart (Random House, $26)
- The Empty Family: Stories, by Colm Toibin (Scribner, $24)
- Room, by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown, $24.99)
- To the End of the Land, by David Grossman (Knopf, $26.95)
- Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28)
- An Object of Beauty, by Steve Martin (Grand Central, $26.99)
- Caribou Island, by David Vann (HarperCollins, $25.99)
- Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, by David Sedaris, illus. by Ian Falconer (Little, Brown,$21.99)
- Luka and the Fire of Life, by Salman Rushdie (Random House, $25)
- Rescue, by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown, $26.99)
- Our Kind of Traitor, by John le Carre (Viking, $27.95)
Click here for our fiction paperback bestsellers.
NONFICTION
- The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960, by Douglas Brinkley (HarperCollins, $29.99 )
- My Father at 100, by Ron Reagan (Viking, $25.95
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- American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt, by Daniel Rasmussen (HarperCollins, $26.99)
- The Longest War: Inside the Enduring Conflict between America and al-Qaeda, by Peter Bergen (Free Press, $28)
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua (Penguin, $25.95)
- Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown, $29.99)
- Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, by Karen Armstrong (Knopf, $22.95)
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House, $27.00)
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House, $30.00)
- White House Diary, by Jimmy Carter ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30)
- Colonel Roosevelt, by Edmund Morris (Random House, $35)
- Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad, by Bruce O. Riedel (Brookings, $24.95)
Click here for our non-fiction paperback bestsellers.
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FROM THE CHILDREN AND TEENS' DEPARTMENT |
CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK
(20% off through February 3)
Darius Bell’s family lives on a sprawling estate that has been in his family for over a century. Once a generation, payment is due for the estate in the form of a magnificent Gift presented to the town in a grand ceremony. But the Bells’ money has run out and such a gift is well out of reach. When an earthquake breaks apart the ground in Darius’ beloved woods, Darius makes a shocking and beautiful discovery: the Glitter Pool. Will the underground treasure help the Bell family save its home? In DARIUS BELL AND THE GLITTER POOL (Kane/Miller, $15.99), Odo Hirsch has created a novel whose sense of wonder makes it a perfect read-aloud to share with the whole family. Ages 6-11. --Dana Chidiac
Monday mornings at 10:30 a.m.
BearSong, the Guitar Man, leads his weekly morning story time with stories, songs, finger plays, and more for children from birth to 4 years old and their caregivers.
Read about - and buy - more of our favorite books for children and teens by clicking here.
For upcoming events and more from the Children and Teens' Department, click here.
Click here to access the teen blog.
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MARKDOWN BOOKS
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One of the age-old questions concerns the human relationship to nature. What do we do with it—admire it? Tame it? Exploit it? Michael Hiltzik's COLOSSUS: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century explores these and many other social, political, and economic issues. The Hoover Dam was a tremendous feat of engineering and served as a symbol of the nation's strength when such inspiration was sorely needed during the Depression. Conceived under Teddy Roosevelt and completed while FDR was in office, the project offered jobs and spurred development—but it also abused its labor force and caused environmental damage. Available in hardcover, $9.98.
H.G. Adler's THE JOURNEY belongs as much to the modernist line of fiction by Woolf and Joyce as it does to the genre of autobiographical Holocaust novels. Adler was Czech, survived Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, and emigrated to London after the War. He wrote six novels and a monumental history of Theresienstadt (and is mentioned by W.G. Sebold in his Austerlitz). The Journey, his first novel, is a hypnotic narrative of a family caught in Kafkaesque circumstances—nearly everything is forbidden to them, yet somehow, surreal as it is, life goes on. Available in hardcover, $4.98.
The Peter Sís drawing on the cover of Charles Simic's THAT LITTLE SOMETHING is an apt introduction to the whimsy and charm of the poems within. Simic is a master at capturing the odd details of daily life; his poetry is full of colors and unlikely—but perfectly believable—juxtapositions. Yet for all his humor and wit, Simic doesn't lose sight of the serious side of life. The collection includes "Death's Book of Jokes," "Madmen Are Running the World," and ""The Ice Cubes are on Fire"; that life can be both amusing and grave is one of Simic's deepest themes. Available in hardcover, $5.98.
Click here to shop for more recently acquired remainders.
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MUSIC NEWS
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STAFF PICKS BY NICOLE MARTIN
Nicole Martin is leaving Politics & Prose’s receiving room. She interned at Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (see below), and will continue to work in sound design, and stage productions at festivals and shows around town. We wish her the best.
 Anaïs Mitchell, HADESTOWN (Righteous Babe Records, $16.99)
Hadestown is a song cycle by the Vermont-based folk singer Anaïs Mitchell which retells the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, in a post-apocalyptic America suffering through a ruinous depression. The album, which features guest vocalists in the lead roles, began as a staged folk-opera. Some of the highlights: “Wait For Me,” sung by Bon Iver (an Everyman’s Orpheus), and the seductive rumble of Greg Brown as Hades in “Why We Build the Wall.” Ani DiFranco puts in a saucy vamp as Persephone in “Our Lady of the Underground,” and there is a lyrical battle of wits between Anaïs Mitchell and Greg Brown on “Hey, Little Songbird.” The liner notes contain the full libretto, and the four-panel foldout displays a gorgeous array of character concept art. – NicoleMartin
(Anaïs Mitchell will sing Hadestown with local guest stars at Sixth & I Synagogue on February 20.)
 John Jackson, RAPPAHANNOCK BLUES (Smithsonian Folkways/National Museum of African American History and Culture, $16.98)
Guitarist and singer John Jackson was one of the preeminent players of Piedmont blues—a style wherein the thumb provides the bass pattern and maintains the rhythm, while the fingers carry the melody simultaneously. He was a virtuoso, and also incorporated many other styles of blues, country, and western into his playing. Classic Johnson tracks like “Diddy Wah Diddy” and “Step It Up and Go” are interspersed with finger-picking gems like “Railroad Bill,” and his trademark interpretation of Mississippi John Hurt’s “Candyman.” This album holds a special place in my heart as I did the initial analog-to-digital transfers while interning for Folkways. Archivist Jeff Place and engineer Pete Reiniger have preserved every ounce of warmth and joy in these live recordings while deftly enhancing the audio quality. They even kept telling samples of Jackson’s story-telling stage banter. As with all things Folkways, the liner notes are extensive—32 pages to be precise—and well worth the read. - Nicole Martin
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Simone Dinnerstein, BACH: A STRANGE BEAUTY (Sony Classical, $14.98) – Simone Dinnerstein recorded Bach’s Goldberg Variations to great acclaim a few years ago, and she continues her focus on Bach with three transcriptions of the Chrorale Preludes, one of his English Suites, and two Keyboard Concerti, with Kammerorchester Staatskapelle Berlin. CBS’s Sunday Morning had a piece this past weekend (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7274673n ).
Wanda Jackson, THE PARTY AIN’T OVER (Nonesuch, $15.98) – The Queen of Rockabilly returns with some rockin’ covers, produced by Jack White of the White Stripes (who also contributes some mean fuzz guitar). Recently featured on NPR.
GIYA KANCHELI: THEMES FROM THE SONGBOOK (ECM, $17.98) – Three musical masters—Gidon Kremer on violin, Dino Saluzzi on bandoneon, and Andrei Pushkarev on vibraphone—play songs written for films and theater by the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli.
Iron & Wine, KISS EACH OTHER CLEAN (Warner Brothers, $13.99) – Sam Beam’s Iron & Wine started as pretty much a one-man band, but has now expanded into a full-fledged ensemble.
Click here for news and reviews. Please call us at 202-364-1919 or email me at agoldinger@politics-prose.com to order these CDs.
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BOOK GROUPS |
Politics & Prose currently hosts sixteen different book groups in the store each month.
P&P's book groups meet monthly and are free and open to the public.
These are the selections for the next week. Click the titles to read more about these books.
Click here to learn more about participating in a Politics & Prose book group and to see the entire month of upcoming meetings.
Book-group titles are discounted 20% to participants. Please join us!
Monday, January 24, 7:30 p.m.
Public Affairs Book Group
When Everything Changed by Gail Collins
Tuesday, January 25, 7:30 p.m.
Poetry Book Group
Sestets: Poems, by Charles Wright
Wednesday, January 26, 7:30 p.m.
Graphic Novel Book Group
City of Glass, by Paul Auster; adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli
Thursday, January 27, 7:30 p.m.
Fascinating History Book Group
Massachussetts Avenue in the Gilded Age, by Mark Ozer
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