MONDAY: Nizam Ali — whose parents, Ben and Virginia Ali, opened Ben’s Chili Bowl 50 years ago — and Tracey Gold Bennett will be at the Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of their new book, Ben’s Chili Bowl: 50 Years of a Washington DC Landmark. 6:30 p.m. TUESDAY: Dexter Filkins, an award-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times, will be at Politics and Prose to talk about his latest…
MONDAY: CBS News’ Bob Schieffer talks about Bob Schieffer’s America at Politics and Prose. Sounds like an episode of Sliders where Jerry O’Connell jumps into a dimension in which Schieffer has become president and he commands an army of cybernetic men in order to suppress all original thought. Or was that Dr. Who? 7 p.m. Linn Ullmann — author of Stella Descending and the daughter of legendary director, screenwriter, and author Ingmar Bergman — will…
MONDAY: Steve Gillon will be at the New America Foundation to discuss The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation. 12:15 p.m. Washington, D.C.-based author and journalist Ron Suskind will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest book, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism. 7 p.m. TUESDAY: George Pelecanos and contributors Rhozier “Roach” Brown and James Grady will…
TUESDAY: Bobby Austin will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to sign and discuss Circus Clowns & Carnival Animals: Growing Up in the Ebb and Flow of Rural Black Life. 6 p.m. Daniel Mendelsohn, the best-selling author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, will make an appearance at Politics and Prose to talk about his latest collection of essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken….
TUESDAY: Breena Clarke, a Washington D.C. native and alumna of Howard University, will be at Politics and Prose to discuss her novel, Stand the Storm, which is set in Georgetown but takes place before and during the Civil War. 7 p.m. Arjun Makhijani discusses and signs his book, Carbon-Free And Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, at Busboys and Poets in D.C. 6 p.m. WEDNESDAY: Daniel Levitin and songwriter and record producer Parthenon Huxley…
MONDAY: Award-winning author and columnist Maggie Jackson will be at the Busboys and Poets in D.C. to talk about Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. If a dark age is characterized by a decline in civilization, and Jackson believes it’s only just now “coming,” she hasn’t been watching enough reality TV. 6:30 p.m. Dick Meyer, a long-time CBS journalist who now spends his time with NPR, will be making an appearance…
MONDAY: Prize-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau talks about Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea at the Barnes and Noble in Georgetown. 7:30 p.m. Sheryll Cashin will be at Politics and Prose to talk about The Agitator’s Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family. 7 p.m. TUESDAY: Steven Shafarman will be at the Busboys and Poets in D.C. to sign and discuss Peaceful, Positive Revolution: Economic Security for Every…
MONDAY: Michaele Weissman will be at Politics and Prose to talk about God in a Cup, Weissman’s investigation of coffee at every stage of its production, marketing and consumption. 7 p.m. Leora Kahn will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan. 6:30 p.m. Martin Clark will be at the Olsson’s in Dupont Circle to read from The Legal Limit, the…
MONDAY: Karen Dawn will be Thanking the Monkey at the Olsson’s in Dupont Circle. No, that doesn’t mean what you think. Dawn, who founded the animal advocacy media group DawnWatch.com, merely wants us to rethink the way we treat animals. For starters, chimpanzees want all you horrible sitcom and commercial writers out there to stop calling them monkeys. They’re apes, dorks. 7 p.m. Law professor Cass Sunstein will make an appearance at Politics and Prose…
MONDAY: Ethan Canin, bestselling author of the The Palace Thief, will make an appearance at Politics and Prose to discuss America, America, a novel about America as it was and is. Or as Sam the Eagle would say, “It’s a tribute to all nations, but mostly America.” 7 p.m. Rebecca Harrison Reed, a local artist, will be at the Olsson’s in Old Town Alexandria to read from and discuss her work illustrating The Train to…
