Reader, Meet Author
MONDAY:
Kelly McMasters will be at Politics and Prose to talk about her memoir, Welcome to Shirley, which looks at the town of Shirley, New York — a wonderful place to grow up in the 1970s, but unfortunately not a great place to spend the rest of your life thanks to the close proximity of the leaky Brookhaven atomic research facility. 7 p.m.
Rick Perlstein will be at the Penn Quarter Olsson's to talk about Nixonland , which isn't some fantastical tale of a Nixon-themed amusement park but a look at Nixon's rise to power during the 1960s and early 1970s. 7 p.m. Perlstein also will be at the National Press Club on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.
TUESDAY:
Benjamin Wallace will make an appearance at Politics and Prose to tell the tale of the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold — a 1787 bottle of Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once owned by Thomas Jefferson. In The Billionaire's Vinegar, Wallace tracks the history of the $156,000 bottle of wine. 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY:
Mark Sarvas, founder of the popular literary blog The Elegant Variation, makes an appearance at Olsson's in Dupont Circle to discuss his book, Harry Revised, the story of Harry Rent, a widower who tries to reinvent himself after his wife’s death. 7 p.m.
Alexandra Fuller will be at Politics and Prose to discuss and sign copies of The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, Fuller’s biography of the Wyoming-born Bryant, a man of few words who made his living and met his early death on an oil rig. 7 p.m.
THURSDAY:
Authors Lee Glazer and Zein El-Amine will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign their recently released book, Keeping the Promise: The Debate over Charter Schools, which includes a chapter on D.C. 6:30 p.m.
Representative Carolyn B. Maloney of New York's 14th District will make an appearance at the Borders at 1801 K Street to talk about her book, Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Why Women's Lives Aren't Getting Any Easier--And How We Can Make Real Progress For Ourselves and Our Daughters. 6:30 p.m.
Philip Gourevitch will talk about Standard Operating Procedure, Gourevitch and Errol Morris's look at what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison, based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with the Americans involved. 7 p.m.
FRIDAY:
Fergus Bordewich, the son of a national civil rights leader for Native Americans, will make an appearance at Politics and Prose to discuss his book, Washington: The Making of the American Capital. 7 p.m.
SATURDAY:
Mike Farrell talks about his memoir, Just Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and Activist at Busboys and Poets in D.C. 4 p.m.