Politics and Prose, the much-loved D.C. bookstore which has continued to prosper while other area bookstores cleared out their shelves, will soon have new owners. According to the Washington Post, former Post reporters Bradley Graham and his wife Lissa Muscatine will purchase the store, which has been on sale since last June. more ›

Former President Jimmy Carter was scheduled to appear in Washington, D.C. today to discuss his new book White House Diary, which includes selections from over 5,000 pages of personal notes he took while in office on everything from the Iran hostage crisis to creating the Department of Energy. Carter fell ill on Tuesday in Cleveland and was rushed to the hospital with stomach issues. He appears to be back to "normal," in a statement issued by the Carter Center this morning, but has canceled his D.C. appearances today, including the 12:30 p.m. book signing at Politics and Prose and the 7 p.m. discussion at the Lisner Auditorium. Neither have been rescheduled. more ›

After almost four years, New York Times online columnist Judith Warner retired Domestic Disturbances, a blog inviting readers to weigh in on, among other things, the complexities and challenges of motherhood. Whereas her last book, 2005's hotly debated Perfect Madness: A Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety, focused on the structural and societal barriers in achieving the maternal ideal, her new book, We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication, examines the numerous biological realities and pervasive myths surrounding childhood psychiatric disorders. more ›

Few writers have managed to pin the millennial male ego under glass the way Nick Hornby has. In his comic novels High Fidelity, About a Boy, and the new Juliet, Naked, among others, Hornby picks apart our vanity and insecurity in ways that are as scary as they are entertaining. He's also written loads of great nonfiction about his love of soccer, literature, and pop music. more ›

DCist's guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area more ›

DCist's guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area more ›

DCist's guide to lectures and discussions in the D.C. area more ›

William Christenberry, the noted sculptor, photographer and painter, and his wife, Sandy, have lived in Washington since 1968. Christenberry, who has taught art at the Corcoran, is originally from Hale County, Alabama, a place that figures prominently into his work and that is the subject of Working from Memory, a new book about the stories behind his images. Christenberry will be at Politics and Prose tonight at 7 p.m. to read from his stories. DCist got a chance to sit down with him this weekend and talk about his work. more ›

It started with the ping pong table outside Comet. Then it was the benches and patio table outside Marvelous Market. Now venerable local bookstore Politics and Prose has been dragged into the ongoing saga of ANC 3F04 Commissioner Frank Winstead's war against there being any reason for people to congregate on the sidewalk along a stretch of upper Connecticut Ave. NW. more ›