Reader, Meet Author
TUESDAY:
Carl Hiaasen will make an appearance at Politics and Prose to discuss and sign copies of his book, The Downhill Lie. A downhill lie must be like when you tell a friend that you love their favorite band, even though you don't, and then they say, "Well, I have an extra ticket to their show on Saturday," which you respond, "That's too bad. My sister's in town." Actually, the book is about golf. 7 p.m.
Robert Jensen will be at the Busboys and Poets in D.C. to hold a discussion on the themes of his last three books: Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity. 6 p.m.
James Rosen will be at the Borders at 600 14th St. NW to discuss and sign copies of The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate. 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY:
Kathleen Gilles Seidel will be at the Olsson's in Old Town Alexandria, to discuss her novel, Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige. 7 p.m.
Back in 2006, Kimberly Dozier was in Baghdad reporting for CBS News when her crew and their escort were killed during a car bombing. In Dozier's book, Breathing the Fire, she talks about how she survived critical injuries from the attack and how the event made her reassess her world. Politics and Prose. 7 p.m.
THURSDAY:
Daniel Mark Epstein, author of biographies on figures such as Nat King Cole and Walt Whitman, looks at the turbulent and often unhappy marriage of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, the subject of the book The Lincolns, Portrait of a Marriage. Olsson's Penn Quarter. 7 p.m.
Noah Feldman will be at Politics and Prose to talk about The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, in which Feldman explores the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the shari'a — the law of the traditional Islamic state — in the modern Muslim world. 7 p.m.
Ellen Cooney will make an appearance at the Olsson's in Dupont Circle to discuss and sign copies of her novel, Lambrusco. Come for the book reading, stay for the Lambrusco wine and pizza tasting. 7 p.m.
FRIDAY:
Leif Enger makes an appearance at Politics and Prose to talk about his second novel, So Brave, Young and Handsome, the story of a failed novelist’s quest for the vanishing American West. 7 p.m.
SATURDAY:
Richard A. Clarke will be at Politics and Prose to talk about national security, the topic of his new book, Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters. 6 p.m.