Reader, Meet Author
MONDAY:
As part of a national book tour sponsored by Amnesty International, award-winning journalist and filmmaker Michael Otterman will be at the Penn Quarter Olsson's to discuss his latest book, American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond. 7 p.m.
Local author Edward P. Jones (All Aunt Hagar's Children and Lost in the City) will be at Politics and Prose to introduce the latest stories in the popular annual collection, New Stories from the South. 7 p.m.
TUESDAY:
Jay Winik makes the argument in his latest book, The Great Upheaval, that the period encompassing the American Revolution, the French Revolution and part of Catherine the Great's rule over Russia (1788-1800) greatly influenced the development of the modern world. We'd like to ask him when he appears at Politics and Prose how the "modern world" is defined and how that can be summed up by examples from purely a Euro-centric view of history, but we guess we could just read the book. 7 p.m.
Wendell Jamieson will be at Olsson's in Dupont Circle to answer the age-old question, "What would hurt more — getting run over by a car or getting stung by a jellyfish?" It's all part of his latest book, Father Knows Less Or: "Can I Cook My Sister?": One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions. 7 p.m.
THURSDAY:
Anita Thompson, wife of the late Hunter S. Thompson, will be at the Penn Quarter Olsson's to talk about her new book, The Gonzo Way: A Celebration of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, a collection of memoirs and interviews with those who knew him best, including Johnny Depp, Ed Bradley, Doug Brinkley, Jack Nicholson, Bill Murray and former Sen. George McGovern. 7 p.m.
Former Secretary of Labor and Berkeley professor Robert Reich will be at Politics and Prose to talk about Supercapitalism, the name of his newest book about what happens when normal capitalism gets doused by gamma rays or bitten by a radioactive spider. 7 p.m.
FRIDAY:
President Nixon’s White House counsel John Dean will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his book Broken Government, which examines "the institutional damage he believes the Republican Party has inflicted on the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government during the Bush administration." 7 p.m. He'll also be at Olsson's Arlington/Courthouse on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
SATURDAY:
New York Times Magazine contributor Matt Bai will be at Politics and Prose to talk about The Argument, his book on the current clash in the Democratic Party between party leaders and frustrated activists. 6 p.m.