MONDAY:
As part of a national book tour sponsored by Amnesty International, award-winning journalist and filmmaker Michael Otterman will be at the Penn Quarter Olsson’s to discuss his latest book, American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond. 7 p.m.
Local author Edward P. Jones (All Aunt Hagar’s Children and Lost in the City) will be at Politics and Prose to introduce the latest stories in the popular annual collection, New Stories from the South. 7 p.m.
TUESDAY:
Jay Winik makes the argument in his latest book, The Great Upheaval, that the period encompassing the American Revolution, the French Revolution and part of Catherine the Great’s rule over Russia (1788-1800) greatly influenced the development of the modern world. We’d like to ask him when he appears at Politics and Prose how the “modern world” is defined and how that can be summed up by examples from purely a Euro-centric view of history, but we guess we could just read the book. 7 p.m.
