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MONDAY:
>> Drugs Are Nice, according to Lisa Crystal Carver, who pens the trials and travails of being a member of the band Suckdog and the attendant forays into 90's alt culture that she experienced and distilled into this "post-punk memoir." We're guessing that what's even nicer is the $8 cover for the discussion at the Warehouse Next Door tonight. 8:30 p.m.
>> Margaret Cho has vowed, I Have Chosen to Stay And Fight, but she'll be visiting the ideologically supportive territory of Arlington this evening as she reads from and signs copies of her book. Olsson's Books & Records, 2111 Wilson Blvd., at 7 p.m.
TUESDAY:
>> We missed mentioning Chris Mooney when he made his first rounds of the D.C. area promoting his new book, The Republican War on Science, but locals will have another chance to hear his take on the neo-Lysenkoist tendencies of the current administration. Barnes & Noble, 555 12th St. NW., at 6:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY:
>> Kalim Aftab's oral history of Spike Lee, titled Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It, has thus far been met with scant praise. Maybe that's why they're sending the title character on the book tour. He'll be arriving at Politics and Prose, perhaps even entering on a long tracking shot in which he appears to be floating. He loves that shot. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Wed., at 1 p.m.
>> "A Tribute to Langston Hughes" will feature local poets reading from the artist's works. It will not be a tribute to the Reston-based intermediate school of the same name, which, as most alumni suspect, was built on an ancient Native American burial ground, containing mainly tribesmen who, for reasons lost to history, despised 7th-graders. Dreams to be deferred at the recently-discovered-by-the-GogBlog Busboys and Poets, 6:30 p.m.
THURSDAY:
>> Today, local book lovers can choose between dueling CIA texts: David Barrett’s The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story From Truman to Kennedy, and Stansfield Turner’s Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors and Secret Intelligence. One book is an "untold story" being told, the other is a book that must be burnt in advance of its perusal. We guess if there's a common link between the authors, it's that they loves them some oxymorons. Barrett holds it down at Reiter's Scientific & Professional Books, 2021 K St. NW., at 6 p.m. Turner sets it off at Olsson's Books & Records, 2111 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. Thu., at 7 p.m.
FRIDAY:
>> But what he really wants to do is direct. We're hazarding a guess, anyway, that former counter-terror czar Richard Clarke might make filmmaking his next foray now that he's penned his debut novel, the LeCarre-liciously titled The Scorpion's Gate. Set five years in the future, Clarke sets his thriller against the backdrop of US-Middle East conflict. Will the conflagration go nuclear? Can special agent Tichard Tarke save the day? And is the book fiction or—DUN DUN DUN!—prophesy? Find out at Olsson’s Penn Quarter at 418 7th Street, NW, at 7 p.m.
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DCist comes late to the Chris Mooney party. Better than to have not come at all. Read the book. Seriously, read the book.
from the politics and prose website...
Tuesday, October 25 , 1 p.m. Note Date Change
Spike Lee
And Octavia Butler's in town on Thursday. Cool!