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Classes, Retreats, and our annual trip to Fallingwater
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Politics & Prose is continuing to add to the eclectic mix of classes on offer this fall. With subjects ranging from poetry to Shakespeare to knitting to memoir, and with the launch of the Pen/Faulkner book club, we hope you will find something that inspires!
We are particularly excited to present the opportunity for readers and writers to spend a day working with acclaimed novelist Katharine Weber (Triangle (Picador, $15), True Confections (Broadway, $14)). The New York Times said of her recent memoir, The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities (Crown, $24), “Ms. Weber is able to arrange words musically, so that they capture the elusive, unvarnished melodies that haunt our memories of childhood.” She will lead a two-part workshop on Reading and Writing the Unreliable Narrator on December 6. More information appears below.
Please check back regularly, as there is still more to come this fall, including an afternoon workshop with novelist Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls (Simon & Schuster, $24)), a hands-on photography class, and an examination of Hemingway’s early years which will include a discussion of a forthcoming volume of his letters as well as the novel, The Paris Wife (Ballantine, $25).
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Class List in Brief
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Teen Poetry Workshop
Angela Maria Williams
Three Sundays, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
September 25: Discover the Story Within: Narrative Poetry
October 30: Speak Out!: The Art of Performance Poetry
November 20: Rhyme & Reason: Fun With Form Poetry
$75 ($70 for members)
The Graphic Memoir
Janice Shapiro
Monday, October 3, 7 - 9:30 p.m.
$40 ($35 for members)
Poetry with a Side of Fries - Poetry Workshop
Angela Maria Williams
Six Wednesdays, October 5 - November 9, 6 - 8:30 p.m.
$150 ($140 for members)
Pen/Faulkner Reading Series Book Club
Dr. Frazier L. O'Leary, Jr.
Thursday, October 6, 2 - 4 p.m.
$40 ($35 for P&P members and Pen/Faulkner Reading Series subscribers)
Fall Trip to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
Sunday, October 16, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
$125
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Hemingway: The Early Years
Jackson R. Bryer
Wednesday, October 26, 2-4 p.m.
$40 ($35 for members)
Othello: An Introduction and Analysis
Christopher Griffin
Two Fridays, October 28 and November 4, 6 - 8 p.m.
$45 ($40 for members)
Documenting Dupont Circle with a Camera
Nancy Libson
Two Tuesdays, November 1 & 15, 7 - 9 p.m.
and Sunday, November 6, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
$95 ($85 for members)
Beginning, Middle or End:
Memoir Writing This Holiday Season
Chloe Yelena Miller
Four Thursdays, November 3, 10, 17, December 1, 1-2:30 p.m.
(Note: There willl be no class on November 24)
$100 ($80 for members)
Reading and Writing the Unreliable Narrator
Katharine Weber
Tuesday, December 6, two sessions
Reading the Unreliable Narrator, 10 a.m. - noon
Writing the Unreliable Narrator, 2 - 4 p.m.
$40 per session ($35 for members)
$70 for both sessions ($65 for members)
Read on to learn more about these classes and see our other class offerings.
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Politics & Prose Teen Poetry Workshop
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Politics & Prose Teen Poetry Workshop
Angela Maria Williams
Three Sundays, September 25, October 30, November 20 - 5:30 -7:30 p.m.
Sept. 25: Discover the Story Within, Narrative Poetry
Oct. 30: Speak Out!, The Art of Performance Poetry
Nov. 20: Rhyme & Reason, Fun with Form Poetry
A fun introduction to writing poetry for ages 14-17, this three-session workshop is geared for both students with an interest in getting started with poetry, as well as those with work already in progress.
For the first hour of each session, students will learn about a particular school of poetry. We will read and discuss poems from the text or from handouts. We will learn what makes up a poem and how it works within the type discussed during that class. For the second hour, the students will engage in two writing (or performance!) exercises, one a group exercise and the other an individual exercise.
The instructor is available for individual evaluation sessions at the end of the course for any student who would like additional feedback.
Angela Maria Williams works at Politics & Prose and has been a professional bookseller for the past decade. She received her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico. She has performed her poetry all over the country and was a host at the 2004 National Poetry Slam. She has also conducted teen poetry seminars and workshops for New Mexico public schools, the El Morro Area Arts Council, and the New Mexico High School Poetry Jam. She founded the University of New Mexico's poetry slam and team.
Book:
Poetry Speaks Who I Am: Poems of Discovery, Inspiration, Independence, and Everything Else... [With CD (Audio)], by Elise Paschen (Sourcebooks, $19.99)
Available at P&P at a 20% discount to registrants.
Price: $75 ($70 members)
Click here to enroll.
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The Graphic Memoir
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The Graphic Memoir
Janice Shapiro
Monday, October 3, 7 - 9:30 p.m.
The graphic memoir is an exciting development in modern literature, filling the niche between prose and film. As exemplified by Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor, and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, the combination of images and words strengthens, magnifies, and illuminates in unique ways the large and small truths of life. In this class we will look at examples of graphic memoirs and analyze and discuss the visual and storytelling techniques. Then everyone will have the opportunity to draft a one-page graphic memoir about a significant moment in his or her life. The moment does not have to be momentous: It can be funny, tragic, embarrassing, heroic or just about a surprising, cool observation, as long as the moment has resonance. This class is open to everyone and I mean, everyone! No background (or particular talent!) in art or writing is required. Just come with a desire to express yourself in a fresh, fun and exciting way.
Please bring paper and pencils; the instructor will provide additional supplies.
Janice Shapiro is a writer, graphic memoirist and screenwriter. She is the author of Bummer and Other Stories (Soft Skull Press, $14.95). Her stories and comics have been published in The North American Review, The Santa Monica Review, Fifty-Two Stories, Storyville, Devil’s Lake, The Seattle Review, and Mixer Publications.
Suggested book: An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories, edited by Ivan Brunetti (Yale Univ., $28)
Other recommended books:
One! Hundred! Demons!, by Lynda Barry (Sasquatch, $17.95)
Paying for It, by Chester Brown (Drawn & Quarterly, $24.95)
Stitches, by David Small (W.W.Norton, $15.95)
These four books will be discounted 20% for class participants.
*This class will meet in a private room at Jake’s American Grille, 5018 Connecticut Avenue NW, across the street from Politics & Prose. Participants may gather in the fiction room at P&P at 6:45 and then walk to Jake’s with the instructor. Light appetizers will be provided, other food and beverages are available for purchase, including beer and wine.
Price: $40 ($35 members)
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Poetry with a Side of Fries*
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Poetry with a Side of Fries*
Angela Maria Williams
Six Wednesdays, October 5, 12, 19, 26, November 2, 9 - 6-8:30 p.m.
“That something really was/until it was gone/even the fact/that today you had a side of fries.” Wislawa Szymborska, Metaphysics
Many beginning poets intent on their craft will reach the limitation of their self-taught skills and ask: what next? This six-week workshop is an answer. To be a serious poet one must understand what makes up a successful poem, so we will spend the first class discussing various poems, breaking them into pieces, learning the tools and language the poet employs while writing, and attuning ourselves to the essence of poetry. By the second class we will also turn to your work, taking the raw clay of your words and shaping them into polished pieces through writing exercises, peer feedback, and the revision process. Each student will submit two poems to be workshopped by the class; the first a poem that you have struggled with by yourself and the second a poem born from an assigned exercise. The instructor will also give detailed feedback on each draft of the poem, as well as a written evaluation for each student at the end of the course.
Angela Maria Williams works at Politics & Prose and has been a professional bookseller for a decade. She received her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and her BA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico. She has been the managing editor of At-Large Magazine and the editor of Conceptions Southwest, UNM’s literary magazine. Her poems have appeared in Contemporary American Voices, Fickle Muses, Central Avenue, and Sage Trail.
Books:
The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux (W.W. Norton, $16.95)
The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992, by Jack Gilbert (Knopf, $16)
Also recommended:
In Search of Duende, by Federico Garcia Lorca (New Directions, $9.95)
These books are available at P&P at a 20% discount to registrants
*This class will be held in a private room at Jake’s American Grille, across the street from Politics & Prose (5018 Connecticut Ave. NW) so come with an appetite for poetry; food and beverage will be available for purchase.
Price: $150 ($140 members)
Click here to enroll.
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Pen/Faulkner Reading Series Book Club
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Pen/Faulkner Reading Series Book Club
Dr. Frazier L. O'Leary, Jr.
Thursday, October 6, 2 – 4 p.m.
Join award-winning scholar and educator Frazier O'Leary for a literary conversation on two memoirs: The Beautiful Struggle, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and A Question of Freedom, by R. Dwayne Betts. Coates, a senior editor at The Atlantic, and Betts, a current Radcliffe Fellow, will be the first guests in the this season’s PEN/Faulkner Reading Series, and Dr. O’Leary’s afternoon discussion of their writings will kick off the PEN/Faulkner Reading Series Book Club for 2011.
The PEN/Faulkner Reading Series consists of nine public readings held at the Folger Library and the National Cathedral. The Book Club is held in conjunction with the series, and will feature discussion of work by featured authors approximately one week before their public readings. These sessions will be led by members of the PEN/Faulkner Board of Directors and affiliated writers, and will cover work by a broad range of invited authors, including Gary Shteyngart, Ann Patchett, Emma Donoghue, and Allegra Goodman, among others. Book club members will receive access to exclusive PEN/Faulkner pre-reading receptions attended by the authors. Learn more about PEN/Faulkner's roster of authors here. http://www.penfaulkner.org/reading_series.
Dr. Frazier L. O'Leary, Jr. currently teaches English and coaches baseball at Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C. He has taught English in the DC public schools for 41 years and is also an assistant professor of English at the University of the District of Columbia. He is an AP Reader in English Literature and a consultant for the College Board in English Language and Literature. He is a Charter Member of The Toni Morrison Society and Vice President of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.
Books:
The Beautiful Struggle, by Ta-Nehisi Coate (Spiegel & Grau, $15)
A Question of Freedom, by R. Dwayne Betts (Avery, $16)
Also recommended: Shahid Reads His Own Palm, by R. Dwayne Betts (Alice James, $15.95)
These books are available at a 20% discount to registrants.
Price: $40 ($35 P&P members and Reading Series subscribers)
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Britain in Fact and Fiction: Our Mutual Friend
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Britain in Fact and Fiction: Our Mutual Friend
Virginia Newmyer and Susan Willens
Thursday, October 13, 1- 3 p.m.
Charles Dickens’s last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend, published in 20 monthly installments in 1864-5, bursts with quirky characters, action, and mystery. It is sometimes comic, often violent. The novel reveals class hierarchies, women’s roles, London life, and the obsession with money, along with profound psychological truths. It is masterful Dickens. In this one session, the class will examine Dickens’s take on British life in the mid-Victorian era. At the same time, it will follow the extraordinary storyteller to his happy ending.
Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens (Modern Library, $11.95)
Available at a 20% discount to participants.
Virginia Newmyer has lectured frequently for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and in Great Britain on a wide variety of topics in British history and literature. She also teaches at OLLI at American University, as well as Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and Jupiter. For five years she and Susan Willens have been holding classes at Politics and Prose that examine the threads that join British fiction and history. She has been crazy about English novels since she was twelve years old.
Dr. Susan Willens, emerita professor of English at George Washington University, has joined Virginia Newmyer in offering classes on British history and literature at Politics and Prose for many years. She also teaches at the Smithsonian Resident Associates Program, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and other book-discussion classes. She is an incurable teacher!
Price: $35 ($25 members)
Click here to enroll.
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Fall Trip to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
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Fall Trip to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
Sunday, October 16, 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece of domestic architecture, is one of our favorite fall destinations. Once again, we are conducting a community trip to this wooded area of western Pennsylvania, near the Maryland border, to enjoy the foliage during peak season. The tour will include ample time to explore the grounds, take photographs, enjoy lunch in the café, and visit the gift shop.
The trip costs $125, which includes a continental breakfast at Politics & Prose, bus transportation, entrance fee, guided tour, and a tip for the bus driver. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater: The House and Its History (Dover, $14.95), a fascinating and comprehensive guidebook with 118 illustrations, is available as part of the package for an additional $12. Click here to read more about the book and browse through it online.
Seating is limited. If you have any questions, please contact Susan Coll at the store or send an email to scoll@politics-prose.com. Register in the store before October 5 by calling 202-364-1919, or click here to sign up online.
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Hemingway: The Early Years
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Hemingway: The Early Years
Jackson R. Bryer
Wednesday, October 26, 2-4 p.m.
In late September, Cambridge University Press will publish The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922, the first of twelve volumes that will include all of Hemingway’s extant correspondence. This first volume contains letters that correspond to the same period fictionally depicted in Paula McLain’s recent best-selling novel about Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, The Paris Wife. The latter was described by Janet Maslin in the New York Times as “a work of literary tourism that expertly flatters its reader” and praised by the Seattle Times as an “absorbing, illuminating book [that] gives us an intimate view of a sympathetic and perceptive woman, the striving writer she married, the glittering and wounding Paris circle they were part of, and the challenges of trying to preserve love and domesticity in the face of rising celebrity and ruthless ambition.”
This two-hour discussion will focus on the early career of one of America’s leading literary figures as depicted in these two books.
Jackson R. Bryer is a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Cambridge Edition of Hemingway’s letters.
Recommended Books
The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain (Ballantine, $25)
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922 (Cambridge University Press, $40)
Available at P&P at a 20% discount to registrants
Price: $40 ($35 for members)
Click here to enroll.
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Othello: An Introduction and Analysis
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Othello: An Introduction and Analysis
Christopher Griffin
Two Fridays, October 28 and November 4, 2011, 6-8 p.m.
Othello: An Introduction and Analysis
This four-hour course, held on two consecutive Friday evenings, is scheduled to coincide with a production of Othello at the Folger Theatre.* The course will provide an introduction and analysis of Shakespeare's fascinating drama and text. We will read some scenes aloud for dramatic effect and will analyze the nuances of the poetic language. The drama is summed up in Othello's lines at this turning point: "Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, / But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, / Chaos is come again." Can we understand Iago's betrayal of Othello and Othello's betrayal of his wife? Why is Iago so evil? Was Coleridge correct to describe Iago as "motiveless malignancy?”
*Folger Theatre is offering a special discount for Politics & Prose customers:
Save $10 per ticket to any performance of Othello at the Folger Theatre, on stage Oct. 18 – Nov. 27, 2011. Purchase online at www.folger.edu/theatre and use coupon code TH0112PP to receive discount, or purchase by phone at 202-544-7077 and mention Politics & Prose. Offer valid through Sunday, Nov. 6. It is not necessary to take the class to benefit from the discount.
Christopher Griffin has taught dozens of courses at Politics & Prose, including classes in Irish literature, Shakespeare, and film. He also teaches Humanities at Strayer University in Washington, DC, and Irish literature at the George Washington University.
Book: Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library edition recommended) (Simon & Schuster, $5.99) Available at a 20% off for class participants.
Price: $45 ($40 members)
Click here to enroll.
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Documenting Dupont Circle with a Camera
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Documenting Dupont Circle with a Camera
Nancy Libson
Two Tuesdays, November 1 & 15, 7 - 9 p.m.
and Sunday, November 6, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
This three-session workshop for photo enthusiasts is timed to capture Dupont Circle in all its fall splendor. Two evening sessions plus a Sunday morning in the field will enable exploration both within and outside of the classroom. During our first evening session we’ll talk about traditional documentary photography during the time of Dorothea Lange and the FSA photographers and compare to contemporary photographers such as Jeff Wall, who doesn’t wait for the right moment but sets up many of his photographs. We’ll discuss relevant chapters from Robert Coles' book, Doing Documentary Work, and learn about ways to tell a “story” and create a photo essay about Dupont Circle.
The first session will involve a preliminary evening discussion. Session two will take place on a Sunday in Dupont Circle, where we will photograph the farmer’s market and other aspects of the surrounding neighborhood. Session three will be an evening critique of work.
Bring your creative outlook! This class is geared to photographers at all levels, but please bring a camera that you are already comfortable using.
Nancy Libson is a documentary photographer who has exhibited nationally and internationally. Collections inculde the Library of Congress. Exhibits include Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, MA, and Galerie St. Benezet in Avignon, France. Nancy has photographed for National Geographic Traveler and studied at the Maine Photographic Workshops.
Session one: Tuesday, Nov. 1, 7 – 9 p.m. This class will meet in a private room at Jake’s American Grille, which is located across the street from Politics & Prose at 5018 Connecticut Ave., NW. Participants may gather in the fiction room at 6:45 and walk to the restaurant with the instructor, or may go directly to Jake’s. Food and beverage is available for purchase.
Session two: Sunday, Nov. 6, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Participants will meet in Dupont Circle in front of Zorba’s Café, 1612 20th St., NW. (Details will be discussed at the first class meeting.)
Session three: Tuesday, Nov. 15, 7 – 9 p.m. This class will also meet at Jake’s American Grille, 5018 Connecticut Ave., NW.
Book:
Doing Documentary Work, by Robert Coles (Oxford Univ., $19.95)
Price: $95 ($85 members)
Click here to enroll.
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Beginning, Middle or End: Memoir Writing This Holiday Season
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Beginning, Middle or End: Memoir Writing This Holiday Season
Chloe Yelena Miller
Four Thursdays, November 3, 10, 17, December 1, 1-2:30 p.m.
(Note: There willl be no class on November 24)
As the holiday season approaches, start fashioning your memories into words. This is the perfect time to gather stories from family members.
This four-week workshop will focus on writing a memoir by breaking it down into pieces: linked personal essays. We will closely read selected essays from The Art of the Personal Essay, edited by Phillip Lopate. Participants will also respond to writing prompts, workshop revised drafts, and discuss on-going projects. Students will receive feedback from peers as well as from the instructor. In the final class, we will discuss weaving together the essays and working toward a complete memoir, as well as strategies for publication.
Chloe Yelena Miller received an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poetry has been published in such journals as Alimentum, The Cortland Review, and Narrative. Her poetry manuscript was a finalist for the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and in Narrative’s First Annual Poetry Contest. She is at work on a memoir that combines essay and verse.
Book: The Art of the Personal Essay, edited by Phillip Lopate (Anchor, $21)
This book only is available at a 20% discount to participants.
Also suggested:
The Fourth Genre by Robert L. Root, Jr. & Michael Steinberg (Longman, $76.67)
Books and audio from the This I Believe Series
Literary Journals: Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Gen
Price: $100 ($80 for members)
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Reading and Writing the Unreliable Narrator
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Reading and Writing the Unreliable Narrator
Katharine Weber
Tuesday, December 6
Morning session 10 a.m. - noon
Afternoon session 2 - 4 p.m.
Many readers have become intolerant of the unreliable narrator. Why? Is it because the less we trust politicians and the veracity of the news of the world around us, the more we demand reliability from the characters whose points of view inform our fiction?
Many writers have come to believe that writing the unreliable narrator is risky business. Book groups can prefer novels featuring main characters they would like to have as friends and members of the group, while turning away from stories told by characters they dislike because they "can't trust" them. Has unreliability become another word for unlikeable, and are we the poorer for it?
In this two-part, day-long workshop, novelist Katharine Weber (and creator of Alice Ziplinsky, unreliable narrator extraordinaire of True Confections) will lead a discussion in the morning on enhancing the reader's appreciation of the unreliable narrator, and teach a workshop in the afternoon session on strategies for writing the effective unreliable narrator.
Morning (10 a.m. - noon) Reading the Unreliable Narrator
The discussion will explore a variety of unreliable narrators, with consideration of the tellers of Zoe Heller's novel Notes on a Scandal, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. What makes a narrator unreliable, what are the varieties of unreliability, how do we recognize the "truth" of the story, and how does the authorial voice differ from the narrator's voice?
Afternoon (2 - 4 p.m.) Writing the Unreliable Narrator
The advantages and limits of telling the story through different sorts of unreliable narrators will be examined. What succeeds? What fails? Why? Participants will experiment with brief exercises in narrative voice while considering a range of narrative unreliabilities, from the deliberate liar to the misinformed or deluded narrator, both of whom mislead the reader (how far can the writer go without cheating the reader?), to the deluded or compromised narrator who believes his own version of reality while the reader has growing awareness of the actual truths of the story.
Katharine Weber is the author of five novels, most recently True Confections (Broadway, $14), which features the unreliable Alice Ziplinsky as narrator. Her newest book is a memoir, The Memory Of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities (Crown, $24.99). She has taught fiction writing at Connecticut College, Yale, the Paris Writers Workshop, and Goucher College, and is a thesis advisor in the MFA program at Columbia University.
Books:
Zoe Heller, Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking? (Picador, $14)
Ian McEwan, Atonement (Anchor, $15)
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (Vintage, $15)
Available at P&P at a 20% discount to registrants
Price: $40 per session ($35 for members); $70 for both sessions ($65 for members)
Click here to enroll.
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Special cooking event announcements
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Wednesday, September 21 at 7:30 pm
 Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street, NW
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown
Bobby Flay
Bobby Flay's Bar Americain Cookbook: Celebrate America's Great Flavors
(Clarkson Potter, $35)
When Bobby Flay looks at a map of the U.S., he doesn’t see states—he sees ingredients: wild Alaskan king salmon, tiny Maine blueberries, fiery southwestern chiles. The Food Network celebrity and renowned chef-restaurateur created his Bar Americain restaurants to celebrate America’s regional flavors and dishes, interpreted as only Flay can. Now you can rediscover American cuisine at home with the recipes in Bobby Flay’s Bar Americain Cookbook. With more than 110 recipes and full-color photographs, Flay shares his passion for American food and will change the way any cook looks at our country’s bounty.
Purchase $40 tickets (include one (1) copy of the book) from Sixth & I by clicking here. If you have questions, please call Sixth & I at 202.408.3100.
Thursday, September 29 at 7:30 p.m.
 GW’s Lisner Auditorium
730, 21st Street, NW
Metro: Foggy Bottom/ GWU
Ferran Adrià & José Andrés
The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adria (Phaidon, $29.95)
José Andrés, the James Beard award-winning and critically acclaimed chef, welcomes longtime friend and mentor and culinary legend Ferran Adrià to Washington with an exclusive and intimate discussion. Andrés and Adrià, whose friendship began more than twenty years ago in Spain, will share stories and insights on their storied careers, Adrià’s future as one of the most creative chefs in history and now as the head of the El Bulli Foundation, as well as his new cookbook. With introductions from the Washington Post’s Food and Travel editor, Joe Yonan, the event will include a Q & A session, followed by a book signing by Adrià.
For more information on $20 tickets ($40 includes the book; $10 culinary students), contact the Lisner Box Office at (202) 994-6800 or click here to purchase online.
A portion of the proceeds benefit World Central Kitchen, Andres’s international organization to combat food insecurity, and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a public-private initiative that saves lives and resources “by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions.”
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Retreats for Readers and Writers
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Click here to learn about these retreat opportunities offered by friends of the store.
Club Read Weekend Retreat
Saturday, October 15 – Sunday, October 16
Club Read Retreat for Booklovers
at Mariner's Landing Resort
1217 Graves Harbor Trail
Huddleston, Virginia
Politics & Prose is one of several independent bookstores throughout the Mid-Atlantic and the South sponsoring a weekend retreat in Huddleston, Virginia. A dozen authors and 200 readers will create a memorable experience for booklovers. If you love our author events, you’ll love this one-of-a-kind opportunity to spend quality time discussing books that have found enduring popularity and success with book groups across the country. Attend this non-stop feast of authors and for 24 hours, you'll dine, socialize, learn, chat, laugh, and make friends, as you share your enthusiasm as a reader and fan.
The cost: The entire weekend - all the activities with the authors, four meals, one night's lodging - is only $500 per person. Accommodations at the Mariners Landing are in multiple-bedroom condominiums. Attendees are responsible for the own travel and purchases of books, etc.
The authors: A dozen authors will participate; some you have met at Politics & Prose or have been local favorites, such as Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Amy Stolls, and Gretchen Rubin, as well as several debut authors. Click here to see the authors who have confirmed so far!
To keep Club Read a personal and intimate experience, registration is limited. Click here for more details and to register today. Registration code "POLITICN" will identify you as a Politics & Prose customer, and will help by informing the organizers where you learned about the retreat.
Sunday, October 30 – Friday, November 4
A Writer's Retreat in the California Wine Country
Led by author Phyllis Theroux
at The Bishop’s Ranch
5297 Westside Road
Healdsburg, California
Author Phyllis Theroux will conduct her annual Nightwriters residential seminar at the Bishop’s Ranch in the wine country of Healdsburg, California. Participants will meet in the main ranch house where Theroux (author of the memoir, The Journal Keeper (Grove, $14.95)) will show you how to use your own journal as a source of inspiration. She will take you through a series of exercises designed to crack open your imagination and to get your pen flowing across the page. Mornings are for seminar work; afternoons are free for individual writing. Open to professional and aspiring writers, enrollment is limited to 20 participants. For additional information visit www.nightwriters.com/nightwriters/retreats/california/index.shtml.
To register: click www.nightwriters.com/registration_form.html
(If you can't attend this seminar, Phyllis will also schedule private consultations and personal retreats at her writer's cottage in Ashland, Virginia. Visit her website www.nightwriters.com for more details.)
Contact Phyllis at: PTAshland@aol.com or call 804-798-3429
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