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MONDAY:
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the wife of Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, Connie Schultz will be at Politics and Prose to discuss her book ... And His Lovely Wife, which is her behind-the-scenes look at Brown's campaign and their marriage. 7 p.m.
In Last One In, Nicholas Kulish, who was embedded with a Marine attack-helicopter squadron for the Wall Street Journal, spins a slightly unbelievable tale of a gossip columnist who ends up covering the front lines of the Iraq War. Kulish of all people should know they don't hand out that assignment to just anyone, but we're willing to suspend disbelief for an entertaining story. Maybe Kulish will share some of his own war stories when he appears at Olsson's Arlington/Courthouse. 7 p.m.
TUESDAY:
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs author Chuck Klosterman will be at Wonderland Ballroom (yes, you read that correctly) to talk about his new collection of essays A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas. Free tickets are available only with a purchase of the new book from Olsson’s. 7 p.m. (Also Monday at Olsson's Penn Quarter branch).
WEDNESDAY:
Joseph Cirincione will be at Busboys and Poets to discuss and sign his new book Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons. Here's a quick overview: Nuclear weapons are scary. 5:30 p.m.
Author Alan Weisman will be at Olsson's Penn Quarter to discuss his book The World Without Us, which examines what planet Earth would be like without human beings. We're thinking a world without a McDonald's on every continent would be a wonderful place. Too bad we wouldn't be around to bask in its glory. 7 p.m.
THURSDAY
Joseph Califano, who worked under presidents Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter, will be at Politics and Prose to discuss the personal and public costs of addiction, the topic of his new book High Society. 7 p.m.
Do you love acts of defiance and "the art of the well-placed expletive"? Olsson's Penn Quarter has Ellen Sussman discussing Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave. 7 p.m.
SATURDAY:
Busboys and Poets is holding a release party/reading for Sarah Browning's new book of poems Whiskey in the Garden of Eden. 6 p.m.
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Another option for Saturday (perhaps before heading to Merriweather for the Decemberists?) is Fools & Horses. They're playing a matinee at Ram's Head in Annapolis- great local band with pop rock flavor. If you ever wanted to hear great original Beatles-inspired music from a guy who can also sing the Darkness and Guster with aplomb... well, they're your band!
Or I could comment to the right post... ::cry:: This new posting mechanism isn't working so well for me...
Mike Carey, who comics fans may know as the writer on Lucifer and X-Men, will be at the Courthouse Olssons Thursday evening. His novel, The Devil You Know, was just released in the US.