Reader, Meet Author
MONDAY:
Oliver August will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest book Inside the Red Mansion, which chronicles the hunt for China's most-wanted fugitive, Lai Changxing. For more information, check out this short film on the making of the book. 7 p.m.
TUESDAY:
Writer Dominic Cicere will be holding a book release party at Galaxy Hut for Near Wild Heaven, which contains a collection of poems, a short story and a screenplay on life and love in Washington D.C., among other things. D.J. Will Eastman will be on hand to provide some tunes. Keep an eye on DCist because we'll be posting a review on the book this week. 9 p.m.
WEDNESDAY:
Some of us belong to the generation of comic books that was defined by the likes of Sin City creator Frank Miller or X-Men writer Chris Claremont, but the generation before us had people like Fletcher Hanks. Wait ... Who? Hanks apparently was a cartoonist during the Golden Age of comics (1930s to mid-1950s) who created weird stories about superheroes such as the Super Wizard Stardust. Author Paul Karasik will be at Politics and Prose to talk about his book, I Shall Destroy All Civilized Planets, which chronicles the life of Hanks and why he disappeared from comics. 7 p.m.
THURSDAY:
Emily Mitchell will be at Olsson's in Dupont Circle to read from her debut novel The Last Summer of the World, the story of photographer Edward Steichen's time in France during World War I. 7 p.m.
Like Nicholas Cage in Lord of War, Viktor Bout is out there making a profit off of other people's misery. Stephen Braun and Douglas Farah will be at Politics and Prose to discuss their book Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible, which profiles Bout and the people who are trying to bring him down. 7 p.m.
SATURDAY:
Charles H. Karelis will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his book The Persistence of Poverty, which discusses why poor people stay poor. One of the causes stated in his book: not working. How about spending all your hard-earned money on books that state the obvious? 6 p.m.