Reader, Meet Author
MONDAY:
Elizabeth Crane will appear at the Dupont Circle Olsson's to read from her new book of stories You Must Be This Happy To Enter. Paul Fattaruso will also be there to read from his new book, Bicycle. According to Olsson's, Fattaruso "does for bicycles what Richard Brautigan did for trout." We'll take their word on that one. 7 p.m.
Annie Griffiths Belt, one of the first women hired as a staff photographer at National Geographic, will speak at National Geographic's Grosvenor Auditorium about her new book, A Camera, Two Kids and a Camel. 7:30 p.m.
With Heroes, Hacks and Fools, Ted Van Dyk, a veteran of countless platform fights and straw polls, examines many of the leading personalities and watershed events of American politics since JFK. He'll be at Politics and Prose to discuss the book and most likely the current state of American politics. 7 p.m.
TUESDAY:
David Rothkopf will be at Politics and Prose to discuss Superclass, his expose on the secret class of people living among us who — through genetic mutations — can manipulate objects with their mind. April fools! The book is actually about rich people. Rothkopf will be at Politics and Prose to not talk about superheroes. 7 p.m.
Michael Meyerson will be at the Penn Quarter Olsson's to discuss Liberty’s Blueprint: How Madison and Jefferson Wrote the Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World. 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY:
Del Walters will be at the Shirlington Library, across from Busboys and Poets in Virginia, to discuss and sign copies of his new book, The Race, which is being described as DaVinci Code meets Tom Clancy. 7 p.m.
Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel will appear at Politics and Prose to talk about his book America: Our Next Chapter. We're hoping America's book is like a Jane Austen novel, where in the next chapter a rich suitor whisks us away from our depressing life in the country. Not sure what the metaphor is there, but use your imagination. 7 p.m.
THURSDAY:
NPR correspondent Doug Fine will speak at National Geographic's Grosvenor Auditorium on Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living, in which Fine writes about how he moved to New Mexico and lived “off the grid” for 12 months. 7:30 p.m.
Daoud Hari, who worked in Darfur as an interpreter and translator for Western news organizations, will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his memoir The Translator. The event is co-sponsored by the Save Darfur Coalition. 7 p.m.
FRIDAY:
Populist, humorist and popular humorist Jim Hightower will appear at Politics and Prose to talk about his newest book, Swim Against the Current, which introduces readers to people from across the country who are taking charge, living their values, doing good and doing well. 7 p.m.
Helen Thayer, the first woman to walk and ski solo to the north magnetic pole, will be at National Geographic's Grosvenor Auditorium to talk about her 81-day, 1,600-mile walk across the Gobi desert — the subject of her book Walking the Gobi: 16,000 Mile-Trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair. 7:30 p.m.