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Click here for our online events calendar and to preview events through February.
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Thursday, February 2
7 p.m. Naomi Benaron - Running the Rift (Algonquin, $24.95)
Friday, February 3
7 p.m. David Scheffer - All the Missing Souls (Princeton Univ., $35)
Saturday, February 4
1 p.m. Marsha Lucas - Rewire Your Brain For Love (Hay House, $19.95)
Saturday, February 4
6 p.m. Paul Barrett - Glock (Crown, $26)
Monday, February 6
7 p.m. Paula Broadwell with Vernon Loeb - All In (Penguin Press, $29.95)
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Tuesday, February 7
10:30 a.m. Andrea Warren - Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $18.99)
Tuesday, February 7
7 p.m. Theda Skocpol - The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (Oxford Univ., $24.95)
Wednesday, February 8
7 p.m. Ellis Avery - The Last Nude (Riverhead, $29.95)
Thursday, February 9
10:30 a.m. Emily Jenkins - Toys Come Home (Schwartz & Wade, $16.99)
Thursday, February 9
5 p.m., Bethesda Library, E. Lockhart - Real Live Boyfriends (Ember, $8.99)
Thursday, February 9
7 p.m. Arthur Goldwag - The New Hate (Pantheon, $27.95)
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The Scoop from Brad and Lissa
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Igniting Truth Through Fiction
February 2, 2012
Fiction is often the most effective vehicle for telling the stories of ordinary people living in extraordinary and dehumanizing circumstances, whether war and conflict, political repression, poverty, or any other form of social, economic, or cultural dislocation. Novels that instantly come to mind, in which authors have used their literary talents to shed light on the most chilling human experiences and tell stories of collective trauma, include Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park, Dave Eggers’ What Is the What, Tea Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife¸ and Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones, which won last year’s National Book Award..
For Adam Johnson, author of the The Orphan Master’s Son, a spectacular new novel set in North Korea, the task of depicting a people about whom so little is known presented unique literary challenges. Appearing at Politics & Prose on January 30, Johnson spoke eloquently and movingly about his quest to build a literary portrait of a place that, in his words, represents “the darkest human experiment on the face of the earth right now.”
“When I first started working on this material,” he said, “one of things I tried to do was find a novel by a North Korean…Every novel there is state-approved if not actually delegated by the state to be written. What I discovered is that there is not a literary novel out of the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] in 60 years.
“Even in the gulags, Soviet writers got their books out, first-hand accounts of what they lived through. It was weird to find a nation with no voice…and in which people don’t read literary books….
“One of things I tried to do through a creative imagination…through what I think literature can do best…is to illuminate the dark places. Try to build a portrait. I don’t know that I got it right in any way. I can’t verify it. The only way we’ll really know is when freedom comes to North Korea and they start telling their own stories. “
Johnson, who teaches creative writing at Stanford, including a course on trauma narrative, found material in translations of the North Korean workers’ party newspaper, which is pure propaganda, and in testimonials of people who have made it out. Asked about the unusual structure of his novel and the challenge of writing about a place that produces no stories of its own, he said: “In America, each person is an individual and they’re the central characters in their own lives…But in North Korea there is one story. And it’s state-sanctioned. And the central character is Kim Jong-il and now Kim Jong-un….It’s a nation of 23 million secondary characters.”
The novel also reflects what Johnson has learned from studying trauma narrative. “When you have a story that’s painful…to tell your story is to get outside of you, which is less hurtful,” he said. “Often people who have painful stories to tell will take them out of chronology. They will change the order of events…I saw these story-telling methods in the narratives of defectors all the time…and I tried to echo some of that. North Korea is a national trauma narrative.”
A full recording of Johnson’s event will be available for download on the P&P website (www.politics-prose.com).
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Politics & Prose Classes
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Politics & Prose is excited to offer a unique locally themed literature class, Literary Washington, taught by popular instructor Christopher Griffin. "Literary Washington" will be based on Literary Capital: A Washington Reader, edited by Christopher Sten of George Washington University. The class begins on Friday, February 17, from 6-8 p.m. and runs for six weeks. More information is available at http://www.politics-prose.com/literary-washington.
Other classes currently open include a survey of America’s cultural revolution in poetry, How Poets of Color Shaped Contemporary Poetry, taught by poet and P&P bookseller Angela Williams: http://www.politics-prose.com/classes/welcome-cultural-revolution, and Close Reads, a two-part survey of Harriet Doerr’s Stones for Ibarra, taught by acclaimed short story writer Dylan Landis: http://www.politics-prose.com/close-reading-craft-reading-fiction-writer. Spaces are still available in Dashiell Hammett’s Noir Trilogy, taught by novelist James Grady: http://www.politics-prose.com/dashiell-hammetts-great-political-noir-trio; in a study of three plays by Eugene O’Neill: http://www.politics-prose.com/eugene-oneill; in Reading South Asia: http://www.politics-prose.com/classes/reading-south-asia; and in Coming of Age in the Columbine Era: http://www.politics-prose.com/hazards-suburban-living-ii.
We have just added a new session of Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History, taught by Elisabeth Griffith. The class will begin on Wednesday, May 16, and will run for four weeks, from 1-3 p.m.: http://www.politics-prose.com/well-behaved-women-rarely-make-history.
For more information about these, and other classes, please visit: http://www.politics-prose.com/classes/2012-classes. And keep an eye out—information about new 2012 Spring classes will be available soon!
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Book Notes
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World Book Night
The deadline to sign up for World Book Night is Monday, February 6! World Book Night 2012 is looking for 50,000 volunteer book givers to hand out 20 copies each—for a total of 1 million free special World Book Night paperbacks April 23. Join Politics & Prose in helping share your passion for reading with your community!
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Signed Book of the Week
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Adam Johnson - The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel of North Korea (Random House, $26)
Johnson’s powerful debut novel is a thriller and a love story set in North Korea. Pak Jun Do grows up as the relatively privileged son of a man who runs a work camp for orphans. A survivor with a canny instinct for power and manipulation, Jun Do becomes a professional kidnapper. Yet despite the suffering he witnesses and inflicts, he retains a sense of compassion and sets out to unseat Kim Jong Il.
The Orphan Master’s Son is also our E-Book of the Week. Please click here for the e-book version.
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Sideline of the Week
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Distance may make the heart grow fonder, but your far-away loved one will still need some extra reassurance on Valentine’s Day. Cavallini Valentine’s Mailing Set (Cavallini, $22) is a great way to sign, seal, and deliver your love this V-Day, no matter the distance between you and that special someone. This charming Valentine’s mailing set has everything you need to woo the guy or girl in your life: cards, envelopes, decorative labels, and rubber stamps. Warning: this Valentine’s set may set off butterflies in your stomach with nostalgic imaginary that brings back the days of secret admirers and schoolyard crushes. Cavallini has managed to evoke an innocent romance that is delightfully mushy (you’re allowed to be mushy on Valentine’s Day).
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Coming Soon to Your Favorite Bookstore
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Click here for our online events calendar and to preview events through February.
Members always save 20% on our author event books. Click here to register!
Thursday, February 2, 7 p.m.
Naomi Benaron - Running the Rift (Algonquin Books, $24.95)
Winner of the Bellwether Prize, Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a 10-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions.
Friday, February 3, 7 p.m.
David Scheffer - All The Missing Souls (Princeton Univ., $35)
As senior adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and then as President Clinton’s ambassador-at-large for war crimes, Scheffer was instrumental in organizing the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and was involved with similar tribunals for Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and Cambodia. His inside account illuminates the politics, shortcomings, and challenges behind these efforts.
Saturday, February 4, 1 p.m.
Marsha Lucas - Rewire Your Brain For Love (Hay House, $19.95)
If you’re still looking for love in all the wrong places, this time try mindfulness meditation. Lucas, a neuropsychologist and psychotherapist, combines the latest scientific discoveries with down-to-earth advice, coming up with a warm-hearted and witty approach to relationships.
Saturday, February 4, 6 p.m.
Paul Barrett - Glock (Crown, $26)
With its lightweight plastic frame and large-capacity spring-action magazine, the advantages of the Glock pistol were recognized immediately. Created in 1982 by an Austrian curtain-rod manufacturer, the handgun is now used by two-thirds of American police departments. Barrett’s history of the Glock’s technology and marketing covers corporate and political battles as well as this country’s pervasive gun culture.
Monday, February 6, 7 p.m.
Paula Broadwell with Vernon Loeb - All In: The Education of General David Petraeus (Penguin Press, $29.95)
More than just an insightful biography of one of the most prominent American generals since World War II, this account of Petraeus’s career also illuminates the nature of leadership and warfare today. Broadwell, a soldier-scholar with ten-plus years of military service, and Loeb, Washington Post Metro editor, who was embedded with the 101st Airborne Division under Petraeus’s command, each brings a unique insider’s perspective to the subject.
Tuesday, February 7, 10:30 a.m.
Andrea Warren - Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $18.99)
Warren’s well-researched and accessible biography recounts the history of child labor in England and the experience of one twelve-year-old shoe polish laborer—Charles Dickens—in particular. Dickens was forced into factory work for a year when his father was in debtors’ prison; the experience had a profound and lasting impact on him, as is evident throughout his writing. Ages 10-12.
Tuesday, February 7, 7 p.m.
Theda Skocpol - The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (Oxford Univ., $24.95)
In their profile of the Tea Party, Skocpol, professor of government and sociology at Harvard, and co-author Vanessa Williamson, a former policy director for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, draw on interviews with Tea Party leaders as well as grassroots workers, finding a greater diversity of opinion among members than media reports suggest.
Wednesday, February 8, 7 p.m.
Ellis Avery - The Last Nude (Riverhead, $29.95)
The second novel by the author of The Teahouse Fire evokes the heady atmosphere of Paris in 1927. Rafaela Fano is a young American woman struggling to get by when she’s picked up by a glamorous dispossessed Russian aristocrat, the painter Tamara de Lempicka. Fano becomes de Lempicka’s model and lover, and the two embark on a partnership as tumultuous as the times.
Thursday, February 9, 10:30 a.m.
Emily Jenkins - Toys Come Home: Being the Early Experiences of an Intelligent Stingray, a Brave Buffalo, and a Brand-New Someone Called Plastic (Schwartz & Wade, $16.99)
The third installment in Jenkins’s Toy Trilogy explains in six vignettes how the now-familiar StingRay, Lumphy the buffalo, and Plastic the ball came to live with their owner, referred to simply as the Girl. With black-and-white illustrations by Caldecott-Award winner Paul Zelinsky, this tale of toy adventure and misadventure charms. Ages 6-8
Thursday, February 9, 5 p.m.
Bethesda Library
7400 Arlington Road
E. Lockhart- Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren't complicated, I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver (Ember, $8.99)
In the fourth volume of the Ruby Oliver Quartet, the high-school senior is without a boyfriend. But not only has she lost Noel, her reputation is ruined, her home life is a mess, and she can’t concentrate on her college applications. To try to understand what’s going on, Ruby makes a documentary about love and popularity. Ages 14 and up
Thursday, February 9, 7 p.m.
Arthur Goldwag - The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right (Pantheon, $27.95)
The author of Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies here examines the latest strain of extremist thought. Typified by “Birthers” and “Truthers” (i.e., the government allowed the 9/11 attacks to happen), current right-wing theories are both more prevalent and more vehement than were similar notions of the past. Nonetheless, Goldwag shows that these tendencies have deep roots in American history.
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P&P Customers Are Also Invited To . . .
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Politics & Prose sells books at many book signing parties and events. The events below are 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.
January 13-February 11
 The American Century Theater
Gunston Theatre II
3700 South Four Mile Run Drive
Arlington, VA
Little Murders (Samuel French, $8.95) by Jules Feiffer
The American Century Theater presents Jules Feiffer’s scathing comedy. Little Murders focuses on the violence that encircles and engulfs a New York City family. The action centers on daughter Patsy and Alfred, the new man she brings home to introduce to her parents and brother. It’s a world where the sound of gunshots is de rigueur, heavy breathers regularly call, unseen visitors knock at the door….. and the Newquists are just trying to have a nice day. Meanwhile, Alfred has chosen not to fight back --something that Patsy is desperate to change. The epidemic of violence in 1960s New York and a citizen’s choice to sink or swim form the basis for the dark comedy at the heart of Little Murders.
Also available Backing Into Forward: A Memoir by Jules Feiffer (Nan A. Talese, $30)
Tickets and Info: americancentury.org or call the Box Office at 703-998-4555
Tuesday, February 7, at 7 p.m.
Arts Club of Washington
2017 I Street NW
Michael Dirda, On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling (Princeton Univ., $19.95)
Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer-Prize winning book critic for the Washington Post, will discuss and sign copies of his book, On Conan Doyle. Dirda’s study is an elucidating primer on Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the world’s most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. It is also a revealing memoir of Dirda’s own lifelong fascination with Holmes, a passion shared with legions of devoted “Baker Street Irregulars.” The lecture will be followed by a reception. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. Reservations are not required. This event is free and open to the public. Please call 202.331.7282, ext. 16, for more information.
Tuesday, February 7, 7:30 p.m.
National Geographic Live!
1600 M Street NW
Jodi Cobb - Geisha: The Life, the Voices, the Art (Random House, $35)
As a photographer with National Geographic, Jodi Cobb has worked in more than 60 countries-celebrating the best of the human spirit and spotlighting some of its worst abuses. She is best known for lifting the curtain on worlds closed to outsiders, such as Japan's geisha, Saudi Arabian women, the grim underworld of human trafficking. Experience a retrospective of her most important work as she also shares images and stories from her most recent assignment, a story on twins for the January 2012 issue of National Geographic. View a photo gallery of Jodi Cobb's Twins photos, and watch a video of Jodi telling the story of her famous photo of a geisha's lips.
Friday, February 10, 7:30 p.m.
National Geographic Live!
1600 M Street NW
Pico Iyer - The Man Within My Head (Random House, $25.95)
Travel writer Pico Iyer brings a unique perspective to the issues of cultural globalization. His essays appear in National Geographic Traveler, Time, and Harper's, and he has written a dozen books, including The Open Road: The Global Journey of the 14th Dalai Lama. Join Iyer and Traveler magazine's Don George, former global travel editor of Lonely Planet Publications, for a conversation about the challenges and rewards of letting yourself be vulnerable in foreign places.
Read notes from an earlier Nat Geo Live event with Pico Iyer and Don George and read an article by Pico Iyer from the New York Times.
Sunday, February 12, 11 a.m.
Water Street Gym
3255 K St. NW
Jeff Horowitz – Smart Marathon Training: Run Your Best Without Running Yourself Ragged (Velopress, $18.95)
Water Street Gym invites you to kick off your spring training with Jeff Horowitz and Velopress. Horowitz is a certified running and triathlon coach, a personal trainer, and has run more than 150 marathons across 6 continents.
Refreshments will be provided. For more information, call 202.812.505 or e-mail trish@waterstreetgym.com.
Monday, February 13, at 7 p.m.
Sixth & I Synagogue
600 I Street NW
Metro: Gallery Place/Chinatown
Nathan Englander - What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Knopf, $29.95)
The eight stories that comprise What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life. The title story is a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the Holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game. “Everything I Know About My Family on My Mother’s Side” is suffused with an intimacy and tenderness that break new ground for a writer who continually expands the parameters of what he can achieve in the short form.
Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 the day of the event, or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book through Sixth & I ($25). Purchase here. If you have questions, please call 202.408.3100.
Thursday, February 16, at 6 p.m.
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street SE
Gigi Bradford, Louisa Newlin - Shakespeare’s Sisters (Folger Library, $19.99)
Dr. Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, cordially invites you to an evening with Rita Dove, Linda Gregerson, Elizabeth Nuñez, Linda Pastan, Jacqueline Osherow, and Jane Smiley. Contributors to the chapbook published in conjunction with the Folger exhibition Shakespeare’s Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500-1700
At 6 p.m., there will be an exhibition viewing and at 7 p.m., there will be readings from Shakespeare’s Sisters in the Gail Kern Paster Reading Room. The conversation will be moderated by Gigi Bradford and Louisa Newlin, editors of the Shakespeare's Sisters chapbook
Chapbooks will be available for purchase and a signing will follow the reading. Tickets are available for purchase online or call the box office at 202.544.7077.
For additional information about the Celebration of 1,000 Years of Women Writers,
visit www.folger.edu/womenwriters
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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 February 9)
If You Lived Here, by Giles Laroche (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99)
Imagine a log cabin in the woods of New England, or a house on stilts off the Pacific coast of Chile. Imagine a pueblo built of adobe clay, or a whitewashed village on a Greek island. Imagine If You Lived Here. Giles Laroche explores the lives of people all around the world through the houses they live in. Each dwelling is depicted in a cut-paper collage and accompanied by basic facts: where is this house located, what is it made of, and who lives there. Ages 7-11
Children’s Blast from the Past
(20% off for Members through February 9)
After Tupac & D Foster, by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam, $15.99)
There is something about listening to Tupac’s music. On the surface the lyrics are violent and ugly, but the more closely you listen, the more you notice the music’s deeply introspective beauty. It is this Tupac, the Tupac who wrote songs about poverty, social injustice, and inner-city crime, that Jacqueline Woodson uses for the backdrop of her novel After Tupac & D Foster. At its heart, this is a story of friendship among three young girls – two best friends and a foster child who joins their lives for awhile – but it is also a look at the social conditions that draw them together and eventually push them apart. Ages 10-14
Join us for our teen author panel at the Bethesda Library on February, 16, at 6 p.m. Four writers will discussion about the challenges and rewards of writing for young adults. Participants include Marie Lu, whose new novel is Legend; Beth Revis, author of A Million Suns, the second volume in her Across The Universe Trilogy; Andrea Cremer, who completes her Nightshade Trilogy with Blood Rose; and Jessica Spotswood, whose Born Wicked inaugurates her Cahill Witch Chronicles.
Congratulations to the 2012 American Library Association award winners! Remember to try us first when you're shopping for all of these award-winning books. We are especially pleased that two of last year’s signed first editions and many of our events are among those listed as winners of this year’s ALA awards:
Our July Signed First Editions selection, A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka, is the winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal for best picture book. Our November selection, Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet, is the winner of the Sibert Award for nonfiction. Please click here to preview our upcoming selections and to sign up for the 2012 season.
 Additionally, Politics & Prose hosted these award-winning authors in 2011: Jack Gantos (Dead End in Norvelt, Newbery Medal), Maggie Stiefvater (Scorpio Races, Printz honor), Allen Say (Drawing from Memory, Sibert honor), Roz Schanzer (Witches, Sibert honor), and Sue Macy (Wheels of Change, YALSA nonfiction award finalist). Please click here to find our events calendar for upcoming 2012 Children and Teens’ events.
We have signed first editions, first printings of Heart and Soul, for which author/illustrator Kadir Nelson won both a Coretta Scott King illustrator honor and the Coretta Scott King author award.
Did you miss getting a signed copy of Diary of a Wimpy Kid 6: Cabin Fever when Jeff Kinney visited us in November? We have signed copies available now, so come pick yours up today!
Read about - and buy - more of our favorite books for children and teens by clicking here.
Click here to see the Children and Teens' Department 2011 Favorites.
Story Hour
Each Monday at 10:30 a.m., BearSong offers storytelling and guitar music for children from birth to 5 years old. Click here to sign up to receive email updates. We will inform you of special story hours, changes or cancellations.
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Markdown Books
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Hillary Jordan’s Mudbound has been a favorite of many readers and book groups. Her second novel, When She Woke, shows that Jordan is a writer with remarkable range and imagination. Set in a future that harks back to Hawthorne’s fictionalized Puritan era, the story begins with Hannah Payne being punished for the crime of murdering her unborn child. While millions watch, her skin is turned red, the color that, by law, reflects her crime. How Hannah lives with her stigma, and what she discovers about herself and this radical fundamentalist society, make for powerful psychological drama. Available in hardcover, $5.98.
A crime of passion, a tragedy, a case of art imitating life—or is it life imitating art? Wesley Stace’s mesmerizing novel, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer, is all of the above. Narrated by a respected music critic, the novel recounts the dramatic end of Charles Jessold, a composer who kills his wife, her lover, and himself on the eve of the premiere of his new opera—which features a plot remarkably similar to the events that have just unfolded in real life. Stace is himself a musician and he has constructed his fiction so that each new testimony about the central characters offers fresh variations on the themes. Available in paperback, $5.98.
The Third Policeman, by the brilliant Flann O’Brien, is one of the craziest, funniest, most haunting pieces of fiction around. This is a tale told by a murderer. It’s not exactly a confession, though it does involve soul-searching (the soul, Joe, participates in the narrative). It also involves an unusual police station, one that seems to defy laws of both physics and metaphysics—that is, if you follow the theories of the “savant,” de Selby. To tell much more about the plot would spoil it; this book defies paraphrase. Reading it is an amazing experience. Available in paperback, $5.98.
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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Lila Downs, Pecados y Milagros (Sony Latin/RED, $14.98) –Lila Downs has often brought modern touches to traditional Mexican forms in her original songs, and Pecados y Milagros (Sins and Miracles) is one of her most ambitious projects. Her tunes now have a visual component—Ms Downs commissioned contemporary artists to paint retablos (narrative votive paintings) for her songs, which are reproduced in the beautiful booklet packaged with the CD. Listen and enjoy.
Gregory Porter, Be Good (Motema, $15.98) – New and up-and-coming male jazz singers are quite rare on the scene, and singers who also write are even rarer. Gregory Porter’s voice is deep and versatile, in the Joe Williams range, and his songs are full of soul. Mr. Porter’s follow-up to his 2010 CD, Water, includes mostly originals, and three covers: Nat Adderley’s “Work Song,” “Imitations of Life” from the 1959 film, and, closing the CD, an acapella version of “God Bless the Child.”
Note: Gregory Porter will sing at the Kennedy Center this Saturday, February 4.
Richard Galliano, Nino Rota (Deutsche Grammophon, $18.98) – French accordion master Richard Galliano brought together jazz greats Dave Douglas on trumpet, John Surman on reeds, Boris Kozlov on bass and Clarence Penn on drums to play Nino Rota’s evocative tunes that he wrote for the movies. The tunes include themes from The Godfather, as well as from the Fellini favorites Nights of Cabiria, La Strada, Amarcord and Juliet of the Spirits.
The Descendants: Original Soundtrack (Sony, $11.98) – Alexander Payne’s movie starring George Clooney has garnered many accolades—for its screenplay, its acting ensemble, and also for its fine use of Hawaiian music on the soundtrack. There are wonderful examples of slack-key guitar masters and singers such as Gabby Pahinui, Ray Kane, Keola Beamer, and Sonny Chillingworth on the CD. This soundtrack is a great introduction to Hawaiian music.
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.
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The Most Thoughtful Gift
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 The best Valentine’s Day gift is thoughtful, literary and utterly unique: When you give the gift of Book-a-Month, the special reader in your life will receive a handpicked book all year round. Long after February’s roses have wilted and the chocolate turned to cavities, your valentine will receive monthly books chosen by expert booksellers!
Our Book-a-Month Program is tailored specifically to your taste, each book handpicked by booksellers based on the information you provide: your reader’s interests and hobbies, and their favorite books and writers. Is your sweetheart an art historian with a yen for mysteries set in Southeast Asia? Or a lawyer addicted to presidential biographies? Or simply someone in search of the elusive, entirely transporting good read? Our reading-addicted, review-devouring staff of bookworms has you covered. Click here to see what people are saying about Book-a-Month!
Does your valentine refer to “built-in bookshelves” in a respectful hush or disappear from dinner parties to peruse the host’s library? Help your sweetheart build an impressive, irreplaceable library through the P&P Signed First Editions Club and we’ll send an autographed first printing every month. We’ll bring you the best, most exciting new titles from writers who inspire us with contagious enthusiasm. Sign up now and start with two of 2012’s most buzzed-about books: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson (January) and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander (February). Both programs are also available for children.
Call us at 202.364.1919 or e-mail at Bookamonth@politics-prose.com and SignedFirstEditions@politics-prose.com for more information.
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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, February 2, 7:30 p.m.
Capital James Joyce Club
The beginning of Ulysses, by James Joyce, and the last five cantos of Dante’s Divine Comedy
Monday, February 6, 7:30 p.m.
Classics
The Ramayana, told by William Buck
March 5 selection: Prometheus Bound and the Suppliants, by Aeschylus
Tuesday, February 7, 7 p.m.
Travel
Monsoon, by Robert Kaplan
March 6 selection: Masque of Africa, by V.S. Naipaul
Wednesday, February 8, 7 p.m.
Lez Read
The Last Nude, by Ellis Avery
March 14 selection: Wingshooters, by Nina Revoyr
Thursday, February 9
Fantasy, 6:30 p.m.
Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart
March 8 selection: Mythago Wood, by Robert Holdstock
Science Fiction, 7:30 p.m.
Old Man's War, by John Scalzi
March 8 selection: Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
Click here to learn more about what our in-store book groups are reading.
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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