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Click here for our events calendar to preview upcoming events through December.
Members always save 20% on author event books and titles included in other special promotions. Click here to register!
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Thursday, November 17
7 p.m. Annie Leibovitz
Pilgrimage (Random House, $50) - BOOK SIGNING ONLY
Friday, November 18
4 p.m. Sue Macy
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) (National Geographic, $18.95)
7 p.m. Adam Gopnik
The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food (Knopf, $25.95)
Saturday, November 19
1 p.m. Gail D. Spilsbury
A Washington Sketchbook: Drawings by Robert L. Dickinson, 1917-1918 (Chesapeake, $30)
3:30 p.m. David Elfin & Art Monk
Washington Redskins: The Complete Illustrated History (MVP Books, $30) - BOOK SIGNING ONLY
6 p.m. Ann Blackman
Off to Save the World: How One Woman Made a Difference: Julia Taft (Maine Authors, $14.95)
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Sunday, November 20
5 p.m. Daniel R. Green
The Valley's Edge: A Year with the Pashtuns in the Heartland of the Taliban (Potomac Books, $29.95)
Monday, November 21
7:30 p.m.Eliot A. Cohen
Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War (Free Press, $30)
Tuesday, November 22, 7:30 p.m.
Charles J. Shields
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life (Henry Holt, $30)
Wednesday, November 23
Politics & Prose closes at 7 p.m. - No events
Thursday, November 24
Store Closed - Happy Thanksgiving!
Friday - Sunday, November 25 - 27
No events - Thanksgiving weekend
Politics & Prose will be open regular hours.
Mark your calendars:
Friday - Sunday, December 2-4
Politics & Prose Holiday Storewide Member Sale
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The Scoop from Brad and Lissa
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With so much recent news about global economic tumult—including a looming Thanksgiving deadline for a debt reduction plan by the congressional super committee—a number of timely books have appeared to provide some useful historical context. Here are a handful of newly-released titles on various economic matters that we think could enlighten not only the six Republicans and six Democrats on the super committee charged with finding $1.2 trillion in spending cuts by November 23, but everyone else:
A good primer for experts and non-experts alike is former President Bill Clinton’s Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy (Knopf, $23.95). Clinton was a master of economic issues during his two terms in the White House, and during his post-presidency he has earnestly devoted more than an hour each day to studying economic trends, policies, and forecasts. His book combines recent economic history, concrete analysis, and common-sense solutions in a slender volume that is vintage Clinton in its clarity, accessibility, and persuasiveness.
Those looking for deeper cultural explanations and a longer historical view of modern-day economic crises should dig into Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Melville House, $32) by David Graeber. An anthropologist at the University of London, Graeber challenges conventional thinking about debt and its effects on local economies and cultures, as well as on human morality. This is no dense academic tome, but a provocative exploration of an issue that has helped define the way humans have lived and interacted for five millennia. The book is definitely worth adding to congressional nightstands.
If today’s bleak economy and political gridlock are getting you down, you might consider stepping back and surveying the development of economic thought as recounted by Sylvia Nasar in Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius (Simon & Schuster, $35). The book recalls how, for many centuries, the common belief was that we’re all destined merely to subsisting and making ends meet. But over the last 150 years, the notion has taken hold that social and economic progress is possible if economies are organized right. It’s comforting to remind ourselves of this longer term trend in this era of nine percent unemployment, rising debt and financial defaults.
And America, of course, isn’t the only one with problems. In Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, Michael Lewis (Norton, $25.95) sets off on an entertaining and instructive tour of the economic disasters in Europe—most notably, Iceland, Ireland and Greece. Keenly observant and harshly judgmental, Lewis generalizes at times about perceived cultural flaws in other countries that contributed to their falling victim to financial folly and fiscal recklessness. But even if he exaggerates, Lewis’ vivid characters, amusing anecdotes and insightful commentaries provide a penetrating narrative about the dangers of excess and the risks of not doing enough now to forestall even more economic calamity.
None of these books offers a clear way forward for the super committee—or the rest of us. But they contain valuable lessons to keep in mind.
--Brad and Lissa
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eBooks of the Week
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Our friends at Vintage/Anchor are offering a dozen popular titles for only $5.99 apiece.
Famous authors such as Jane Smiley, Jennifer Egan, Nora Ephron, and Margaret Atwood. Favorite fiction from Haruki Murakami, Karen Russell, Jonathan Lethem, and Michael Ondaatje. The English Patient, The Blind Assassin, Motherless Brooklyn - books you have been meaning to read or love and want to have in your digital library
Try one, try them all. It's a great way to load up your eReader before you head off on your Thanksgiving travels. It's a great way to sample eBooks from Politics & Prose!
Click here to browse the complete selection. This offer is only good through Sunday, November 20.
Click here for more eBooks available from Politics & Prose.
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Book Notes
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 American Express is holding a Shop Small Promotion to support shopping at small local businesses. AmEx is offering a $25 statement credit if you use your AmEx card for purchases of $25 or more at small businesses, such as Politics & Prose, on November 26th. Note that you need to register your card before making the purchase to take advantage of this deal. Click here for more information.
P&P patrons receive 10% off tickets to Shakespeare Theatre Company's presentation of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
November 25, 2011-January 1, 2012
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Sidney Harman Hall
610 F St., NW
Much Ado About Nothing
Directed by Ethan McSweeny
'Tis the season for holiday cheer, a special date with a loved one, an outing with friends and great theatre at the Shakespeare Theatre Company! Much Ado About Nothing is the ultimate battle of the sexes, Shakespeare style, where young lovers woo and old enemies fight (before finding their true loves). Set against a back drop of hot and sultry 1930s Cuba, passions and temperatures will rise this winter at Sidney Harman Hall in this classic tale of love and wits.
Click here to purchase or call the Box Office at 202.547.1122, option 1 with promo code: POLITICSPROSE.
You can also enter to win a voucher for two tickets to the show and an autographed copy of the play, signed by director Ethan McSweeny! One runner up will also receive a voucher for two tickets. Enter the raffle by emailing soneill@politics-prose.com with the subject line "Shakespeare Raffle" and your full name and contact phone number in the body of the message by November 30 -or drop your business card/contact info at the box by the Much Ado display in the store.
Wednesday, November 30, 7:30 - 11:30 p.m.
The ReadysetDC Book Swap
The Dunes Gallery
1402 Meridian Place, N.W.
Politics & Prose is partnering with ReadysetDC, an online magazine highlighting arts and culture in Washington, D.C. and locally-owned Read's Clothing Project for The ReadysetDC Book Swap. Entry is free, with the donation of one book at the door. Please bring additional gently used books to either donate, or to participate in the swap. All books will be collected and donated to Books for Africa, a non-profit dedicated to ending the book famine in Africa. All categories are welcome; children's, non-fiction, fiction, poetry, you name it! The evening will also feature music and a cash and credit bar.
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Novelty of the Week
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It’s the perfect set up - the mysterious wooden box, the lovely volunteer from the audience, the glint of finely-honed carbon steel … and YOU! Sharp Act (Fred and Friends, $12) has elevated the boring old knife sharpener into death-defying magic, and you are the star. It’s a Sharp Act, so take a bow.
- Mark Moran
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Calendars of the Week
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Moments in Time (Pomegranate, $12.99) synthesizes Art Deco and traditional Japanese sensibility in a stunning mini-engagement calendar. The popularization of postcards during Japanese industrialization provided a new medium for Japanese artists to experiment with European styles - resulting in a fusion of modernism and eastern traditionalism. This delightful weekly planner contains 26 detachable postcards featuring Art Nouveau designs by prominent early 20th-century Japanese artists. Striking and serene, Moments in Time encapsulates Japan redefining itself in a modern world.
- Mark Moran
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Coming Soon to Your Favorite Bookstore
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Click www.politics-prose.com/event for our author events calendar through December.
Thursday, November 17, 7 p.m.
Annie Leibovitz
Pilgrimage (Random House, $50)
In her new collection, Leibovitz pays homage to the places that have nurtured some of the iconic figures in the arts. Off duty from magazine assignments, she lets her camera roam the New England landscapes of Dickinson, Emerson, and Thoreau; captures images of the studios of Matthew Brady and Julia Margaret Cameron; and follows in the footsteps of Ansel Adams in the Yosemite Valley and Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico.
There will be no presentation and no Q&A. Book signing only; no memorabilia.
Friday, November 18, 4 p.m.
Sue Macy
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) (National Geographic, $18.95)
Can you imagine riding a bike sidesaddle? With the rise of bicycles as a mode of transportation, women gained a measure of independence, but it took the creation of bloomers to change attitudes about appropriate attire and to start an empowering fashion revolution. Ages 9-11
Friday, November 18, 7 p.m.
Adam Gopnik
The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food (Knopf, $25.95)
Eat to live or live to eat? Or, as the eloquent New Yorker essayist shows in this consideration of current attitudes about food, notice how central the dinner table is to ethnic and religious traditions, family life, and romance. Gopnik approaches his subject by way of 18th-century France, when restaurants as we know them developed. He goes on to sample related topics, such as eating locally, wine, and dessert.
Saturday, November 19, 1 p.m.
Gail D. Spilsbury
A Washington Sketchbook: Drawings by Robert L. Dickinson, 1917-1918 (Chesapeake, $30)
The author of New York Walk Book, Dickinson planned a similar volume of landscape sketches for the Washington area. Working in D.C. for a year, he left the project unfinished; the artwork languished in the Library of Congress from his death in 1950 until his grandsons rediscovered it sixty years later. Spilsbury, author of Rock Creek Park and founder of Bergamot Books, specializing in works on D.C., will introduce Dickinson’s beautiful legacy.
Saturday, November 19, 3:30 p.m.
David Elfin & Art Monk
Washington Redskins: The Complete Illustrated History (MVP Books, $30)
Elfin’s fifth book on the Redskins looks back to 1932, when the then-Boston Braves entered the NFL. That team became the Redskins when they moved to Washington in 1937. They won the championship that year and then again in 1942. Covering nearly 80 seasons, this is the essential book for the Redskins fan. Hail!
This event will be a talk and Q&A with David Elfin, followed by a book signing with both Elfin and Art Monk. They will only sign copies of this book. Absolutely no memorabilia or other items.
Saturday, November 19, 6 p.m.
Ann Blackman
Off to Save the World: How One Woman Made a Difference: Julia Taft (Maine Authors, $14.95)
Blackman’s fourth biography focuses on Julia Taft, one of this country’s top humanitarian relief experts. From directing the task force that managed the resettlement of refugees from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to her humanitarian missions during the Ethiopian famine, Bangladesh flooding, and the Kosovo crisis, Taft steered U.S. responses to natural and man-made disasters around the world, becoming a legend in her field.
Sunday, November 20, 5 p.m.
Daniel R. Green
The Valley's Edge: A Year with the Pashtuns in the Heartland of the Taliban (Potomac Books, $29.95)
When Green spent 2005-06 in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan as a State Department political adviser, he found that U.S. strategy to oust the Taliban faced problems that ranged from unrealistic expectations and unfamiliarity with Afghan culture to lack of resources. Revisiting the area in 2009-10, he noted improvement, but his book shows that changes are needed if American policy is to succeed.
Monday, November 21, 7:30 p.m.
Eliot A. Cohen
Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War (Free Press, $30)
Native Americans knew the 200 miles running through the Champlain Valley between Albany and Montreal as the Great Warpath. This contested area is at the center of Cohen’s history, and he chronicles ten battles and nearly two centuries of strife among the British, French, Native Americans and, later, the Canadians and Americans. The author of Supreme Command, Eliot shows how combat against Canada shaped later U.S. military practice.
Tuesday, November 22, 7:30 p.m.
Charles J. Shields
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life (Henry Holt, $30)
As the first authorized biographer of the inimitable Kurt Vonnegut, Shields, author of Mockingbird - an acclaimed life of Harper Lee, had the full cooperation of his subject and spent many hours with him in the year before Vonnegut’s death. Drawing on these interviews as well as on conversations with Vonnegut’s family and friends, Shields has constructed both a vivid narrative of Vonnegut’s experiences and an illuminating analysis of his fiction.
Wednesday, November 23
Politics & Prose closes at 7 p.m. - No events
Thursday, November 24
Closed - Happy Thanksgiving!
Friday - Sunday, November 25 - 27
No events - Thanksgiving weekend
Politics & Prose will be open regular hours.
Mark your calendars:
Friday - Sunday, December 2-4
Politics & Prose Holiday Storewide Member Sale
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P&P Customers Are Also Invited To . . .
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Thursday, November 17 at 7:30 pm
Sixth & I
600 I Street, NW
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown
Diane Keaton
Then Again (Random House, $26)
In celebration of the release of Then Again, Diane Keaton’s unforgettable memoir about her mother and herself, the Academy Award-winning actress comes to DC as part of her 4-city book tour. Then Again is an unflinching portrait of her mother and family, recounting a story that spans four generations and nearly a hundred years.
Click here to purchase $35 tickets, each of which includes one (1) copy of the book. Questions? Please call 202-408-3100.
Thursday, November 17, 7:30 p.m.
 Friendship Heights Village Center
4433 S. Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD
John Bredar
The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office (National Geographic, $35)
Mr. Bredar’s book, a companion volume to last year's PBS special, offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the world of presidential photographers, who serve as both visual historians and key links between the American public and the chief executive. Mr. Bredar is a documentary filmmaker and senior executive producer of National Geographic Television; he has won the Peabody Award and three Emmys for his work.
Please sign up in advance for this free event by calling the Village Center at 301-656-2797. Copies of the book, provided by Politics & Prose, will be available for purchase.
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From the Children and Teens' Department
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Children's Book of the Week
(20% off for everyone through November 23)
When a moose and a bear unintentionally cause the collapse of two pigs’ little huts, problem-solving saves the day. The unlikely quartet of friends decides to build A House in the Woods (Candlewick, $16.99). Unable to complete the project on their own, the friends enlist the help of industrious beavers to build their home in exchange for peanut butter sandwiches. Inga Moore’s charming pencil and pastel illustrations bring this fanciful tale and its expressive animal characters to life. Ages 4-8 – Mary Alice Garber
 Blast from the Past!
This peek into the P&P archives features a book from years past that we still love today.
(20% for members through November 23)
Strega Nona's Harvest (Putnam, $16.99) is bountiful. The wise grandmother carefully planned her garden with the assistance of bossy Bambolona and blundering Big Anthony. Big Anthony, goaded by Bambolona’s chiding that he is incapable of creating a perfect garden, secretly plants his own. His harvest is also plentiful, but out of control, and Big Anthony’s solution is to secretly leave the produce at Strega Nona’s door. Strega Nona channels the abundance to those in need. Tomie dePaola’s art is a feast that will prompt conversation. Ages 4 - 8.
Visit the store to browse our selection of great books for Thanksgiving, including the signed children’s book of the week, Melissa Sweet’s Balloons Over Broadway.
 Children’s Signed Book of the Week
Have you ever seen the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, when the sky fills with breathtakingly enormous Balloons Over Broadway (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99)? Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet (A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams) tells the story of Tony Sarg, the creative genius behind the floating puppets. From the age of six, Tony was fascinated with discovering innovative ways to make things work. As he grew older, he began designing puppets and eventually constructed characters for the Macy’s parade. Sweet’s vibrant illustrations are a perfect homage to Sarg’s whimsy. Ages 7-10 – Amy Kane
Read about - and buy - more of our favorite books for children and teens by clicking here.
Story Hour
Story hour with BearSong and his guitar will be on hiatus during the holiday season.
The last story hour for the season will be held at 10:30 a.m. next Monday, November 21st with BearSong and his guitar. We look forward to seeing you there. In 2012, story hour will resume in the Children and Teens' Department each Monday at 10:30 a.m. Be sure to sign up below for our email updates for news of the next season’s opening day.
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Markdown Books
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If you’ve ever watched (or heard) crows gathering or bluejays issuing orders, or noticed pigeons chugging along a street, you’ve had a small, urban taste of the wide diversity of birds. But this is nothing compared to what’s out there. Take a look at Colin Tudge’s fascinating The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds are, Where they Came from, and How They Live. (You may recognize the author’s name from his equally compendious and wide-ranging The Tree.) Tudge, a writer with a wealth of knowledge about and enthusiasm for nature, travels the world looking at birds, not to check off the species on a life list, but to observe plumage and habits, listen to calls and/or songs, watch how different species interact, and speculate on their futures in places less and less bird-friendly. Available in hardcover, $6.98.
It’s National Novel Writing Month, and several inspiring books on the literary arts have come in. Known for his short as well as his longer fiction, John Cheever lived a life full of the stuff of stories. Cheever: A Life, by Blake Bailey (who also wrote A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates and edited the two-volume Library of America edition of Cheever’s works), is the portrait of a brilliant and torn individual, a man who disguised his contradictions under a veneer of suburban conformity. A successful writer and family man, Cheever was also bisexual and an alcoholic. Bailey had access to Cheever’s journals as well as the full cooperation of his family; from these sources, he has composed a rich, honest, and powerful book. Available in hardcover, $6.98.
Who decides which writers are “great,” and what are the criteria they use? That’s one question the literary scholar Elaine Showalter poses in her masterful study, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. This history presents some 250 writers in all genres; some are canonical, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Others, like Mary Rowlandson and Mary Austin, may sound vaguely familiar. Still others are probably all but unknown. Showalter places each writer in the literary and historical context of her time, describes and assesses her work, and makes a case for reconsidering forgotten books. Available in hardcover, $6.98.
Please call us at 202-364-1919 or stop by the store to shop for these and other discounted titles.
Laurie Greer
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Music News
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REISSUE OF THE YEAR
Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph Records, $19.98) – The late saxophonist and composer Julius Hemphill first released Dogon A.D. on his own label in 1972, and it had a short life on LP on the Arista label a few years later. Hemphill’s tunes (still played by followers like Vijay Iyer) are given a workout by a lineup of Hemphill on alto saxophone and flute, Baikida Carroll on trumpet, Abdul Wadud cello and Philip Wilson on drums. For those who were in D.C. during the era of D.C. Space at 7th and E Streets, this is an iconic album that epitomizes those times—yet is just as relevant in 2011.
There was a review with excerpts on Fresh Air (http://www.npr.org/2011/11/04/142017187/julius-hemphills-dogon-a-d-still-a-revelation-40-years-on ).
NEW JAZZ
Pablo Aslan Quintet, Piazzolla in Brooklyn (Soundbrush Records, $15.98) – Over the last few years, bassist Pablo Aslan has assembled superb small groups to explore the intersections of jazz and new tango on albums such as Tango Grill. This time, Aslan explores an album recorded by Astor Piazzolla in America in 1959 (Take Me Dancing, which Piazzolla saw as a failed experiment). Aslan makes new arrangements, and brings the songs to new life with his quintet (bandoneon, trumpet, piano, bass, drums).
This album was also reviewed on Fresh Air (http://www.npr.org/2011/11/14/142301102/two-south-american-jazz-fusions-no-not-that-kind ), along with the São Paulo Underground’s Três Cabeças Loucuras (Cunieform Records, $17.98)
3 Cohens, Family (Anzic Records, $15.98) – The jazz-playing Cohen siblings—Anat Cohen on tenor sax and clarinet, Avishai Cohen on trumpet, and Yuval Cohen on soprano sax—are back with a delightful album. Backed by a great rhythm section (Aaron Goldberg on piano, Matt Penman on bass, Gregory Hutchinson on drums), the Cohens front-line spins new arrangements on standards like “Tiger Rag” and Ellington’s “The Mooch” as well as originals (one is a tip of the hat to Charles Mingus). Vocalist Jon Hendricks guests on “The Sunny Side of the Street” and “Roll ‘Em Pete.”
THE SWELL SEASON MOVIE
Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová starred in and won songwriting Oscars for Once. They then went on tour as the Swell Season, and began and ended a romance. All of this is in the new documentary, The Swell Season, which opens at the West End Cinema next Wednesday, November 23. The theater is also having a one-off screening of Once on Monday, November 21.
Markéta Irglová also just released her first solo album, Anar (Anti-, $15.98), and she performed a wonderful Tiny Desk Concert that you can watch and listen to on NPR (http://www.npr.org/2011/11/10/142093707/marketa-irglova-tiny-desk-concert ).
GRAMOPHONE AWARDS 2011
Every fall, the critics of the British classical magazine, Gramophone, select their best recordings of the past year (extending back to late 2010). Here are some of the winners:
Record of the Year and Best Chamber:
Dvořák: String Quartets Nos 12 & 13 (Supraphon) – Pavel Haas Quartet
Editor’s Choice:
Rossini: Stabat Mater (EMI Classics) – with Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo; Santa Cecilia Orchestra and Chorus/Anthonio Pappano
Instrumental:
Brahms: Handel Variations (Sony Classical) – Murray Perahia, piano
Concerto:
Debussy, Fantaisie; Ravel, Piano Concertos; Massenet: Piano Works (Chandos) – Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano; BBC Symphony Orchestra/Yan Pascal Tortelier
Early Music:
Striggio: Mass in 40 Parts (Decca) – I Fagiolini/Robert Hollingworth
Solo Vocal:
Britten: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake (Hyperion) – Gerald Finley, bass-baritone; Julius Drake, piano
Recital:
Verismo Arias Jonas Kaufmann, tenor; Santa Cecilia/Antonio Pappano)
Baroque Vocal:
Handel: Apollo e Dafne (Glossa) – La Risonanza/Fabio Bonizzoni
Click here for more news and reviews. Please call us at 202-364-1919 or email me at agoldinger@politics-prose.com to order these CDs.
András Goldinger
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Book Groups
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P&P's book groups meet monthly and are free and open to the public.
Thursday, November 17, 7:30 p.m.
Fascinating History Book Group
The Perfect Spy, by Larry Berman
December 15 selection: The Island at the Center of the World, by Russell Shorto
Sunday, November 20, 6 p.m.
Spirituality Book Group
What is God?, by Jacob Needleman
December selection: TBA
Monday, November 21, 7:30 p.m.
Memoirs of Africa (Swarthmore Book Group)
A Primate's Memoir, by Robert Sapolsky
December 19 selection: The House at Sugar Beach, by Helene Cooper
Tuesday, November 22, 7:30 p.m.
Poetry Book Group
News of the World by Philip Levine
No Meeting in December
January 24 selection: Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010, by Maxine Kumin
Wednesday, November 23, 7:30 p.m.
Graphic Novel Book Group
The Filth, by Grant Morrison
December 28 selection: The Ice Wanderer by Jiro Taniguchi
Click here to learn more about participating in these or other Politics & Prose book groups.
To receive monthly updates about suggestions for private book groups as well as book groups at Politics & Prose, click here to add "Monthly Book Group Recommendations and News" to your mailing lists!
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News from the Coffeehouse
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Due to increasing global food, gas, and coffee prices, we have chosen to add a slight increase to some of our drinks and food selections. We held off as long as we could, but we can no longer continue to absorb the increased cost of our wholesale ingredients, especially dairy, bread, and coffee - which, when you think about it, comprise ninety percent of our menu. We will continue purchasing the best quality ingredients, sourcing from as many local vendors as possible, and preparing our food in-house.
We feel that our new price structure is comparable to similar businesses in the area. Plus, we have incorporated ways for you to save money (and produce less waste). If you purchase a Modern Times/Politics & Prose travel mug, you will receive a 50 cent discount every time you buy a drink at the shop. (That means you can get our featured large single origin coffee from Guatemala for $1.50, or a double latte using our house espresso for $2.75.) The mugs are on sale by the condiment stand, and they also make great gifts!
As always, we value your business and thank you for supporting your local independent coffeehouse.
- Javier Rivas
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