Reader, Meet Author
MONDAY:
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Michael Eric Dyson will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to sign and discuss his new book, April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America. 6 p.m.
David Hajdu, music critic at the New Republic, will be at Politics and Prose to talk about The Ten-Cent Plague. No, he's not talking about a cheap knockoff of the Black Death. The book is about comic books, which were blamed in the 1950s for antisocial behavior in young readers. 7 p.m.
TUESDAY:
In Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, Gene Baur highlights the appalling conditions billions of animals are forced to endure in factory farms. Baur will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of the book, and attempt to turn you into a vegetarian with tons of horror stories. 6 p.m.
Richard Price, who wrote for a little-known show on HBO called The Wire, will appear at Politics and Prose to talk about Lush Life, his new crime novel set in Manhattan's Lower East Side. 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY:
Missy Chase Lapine, who is responsible for sneaking vegetables in children's diets with her book The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals, is back. This time, she's insinuating in Sneaky Chef: How to Cheat on Your Man (in the Kitchen!): Hiding Healthy Foods in Hearty Meals Any Guy Will Love that the man of the household isn't getting enough of greens. 7 p.m.
Madeleine Kunin will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of her new book, Pearls, Politics, and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead. 6:30 p.m. Kunin also will be at Politics and Prose on Friday. 4 p.m.
THURSDAY:
Financial analyst Michael K. Farr will be at the Borders at 18th and L to outline the steps necessary to save money for retirement, the subject of his book, A Million Is Not Enough: How to Retire with the Money You'll Need. 6:30 p.m.
Steve Coll will be at Politics and Prose to talk about his book The Bin Ladens. It's a biography of the bin Laden family, but in the hands of the writers over at Comedy Central, it could make for a wacky sitcom. No, they probably wouldn't do something that lame. 7 p.m.
FRIDAY:
Emily Joyner will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to sign and discuss copies of Murky Waters: How Bechtel Profits from Dirty Water in Ecuador. Cesar Cardenas Ramirez, president of Citizen's Observatory for Public Services, and legal counsel, Agosto Parada Campos, will also be at the event. Ramirez and Campos are challenging the World Bank's support for the privatization of water in Ecuador. 6 p.m.
SATURDAY
Howard Zinn and cartoonist Mike Konopacki will be at Politics and Prose to talk about the new graphical adaptation of Zinn's A People's History of American Empire. 1 p.m.