Reader, Meet Author
MONDAY:
NPR senior news analyst and ABC commentator Cokie Roberts will be at Politics and Prose to talk about the companion volume to her 2004 book Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, Ladies of Liberty. 7 p.m.
TUESDAY:
Busboys and Poets in D.C. will hold an event to discuss Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie, a collection of writings by the young American who was run over by a bulldozer in the Gaza Strip while trying to block the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home. Corrie's parent's, Cindy and Craig are expected to attend. 6 p.m.
Robert Schlesinger will be at Politics and Prose to talk about his book, White House Ghosts. If you're like us and you assumed it's about creepy happenings at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, you're going to be disappointed. It's about speeches. No, not the kind given by disembodied voices. 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY:
A former constitutional law attorney, legal blogger extraordinaire and now contributing writer at Salon, Glenn Greenwald will appear at the Olsson's in Dupont Circle to discuss his book Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics. 7 p.m.
Mark Engler will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to sign and discuss copies of his book, How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy. We're betting on the first country to build a massive space station with a planet-destroying laser. 6:30 p.m.
THURSDAY:
It's Alexander McCall Smith-fest over at Politics and Prose. He'll be at the store at 10:30 a.m. to talk about The Akimbo Books and then at 7 p.m. to talk about his latest entry in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, The Miracle at Speedy Motors.
Scott Simon, the host of NPR’s Weekend Edition, will make a Q&A Cafe appearance at Nathan’s in Georgetown to discuss his latest novel, Windy City. Noon.
The Library of Congress continues its Poetry at Noon series with Poem in Your Pocket Day, which will feature poetry readings by anyone who can show a published poem at the door to the theater. Sorry, it can't be a poem you wrote on the bus about how you hate things.
FRIDAY:
Min Jin Lee will be at the Olsson's in Dupont Circle to read from her debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires, the story of a first-generation immigrant trying to find balance between the ways of her parents and American culture. 7 p.m.
Kevin Phillips will be at Politics and Prose to talk about Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism. 7 p.m.
Remember that April is National Poetry Month, so go read some poems already. Here's a link to one of our personal favorites.