Author events this week and weekend at Politics and Prose
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Free
Tuesday, November 1st7:00pm
Peter Sís, The Conference of the Birds
Wednesday, November 2nd
Montefiore, biographer of the mature and the young Stalin, tells the life story of the city of Jerusalem through its myriad faiths and wars, its conquerors and leaders, and through the experiences of ordinary people who have ma
The award-winning NBC journalist and spokesman for The Greatest Generation profiles some of the country’s most innovative community leaders to assess how the nation has changed in recent decades and where we may be headed now.
Friday, November 4th
From The Intuitionist to Apex Hides the Hurt to Sag Harbor, Whitehead’s fiction has been fresh, smart, and funny. In his new novel, this dexterous writer paints a picture of post-apocalyptic America. Still reeling from plague, with a provisional government set up in Buffalo, survivors work to clear out the last of the catatonic “stragglers” who stand in the way of a new civilization.
Saturday, November 5th
Grant’s Memoirs were an instant bestseller in 1885, and are still valued for their literary and historic merit. Gravely ill when he wrote, Grant died just four days after completing the manuscript. Flood’s moving account of Grant’s last years is as illuminating about the man and his era as were his previous studies of Lee and Grant and Sherman.
Sunday, November 6th
Peter Sís, The Conference of the Birds
A 12th-century Sufi epic by renowned and award-winning illustrator, author and filmmaker.
Wednesday, November 2nd
7:00pm
Montefiore, biographer of the mature and the young Stalin, tells the life story of the city of Jerusalem through its myriad faiths and wars, its conquerors and leaders, and through the experiences of ordinary people who have ma
de it home.
Thursday, November 3rd
Thursday, November 3rd
The award-winning NBC journalist and spokesman for The Greatest Generation profiles some of the country’s most innovative community leaders to assess how the nation has changed in recent decades and where we may be headed now.
Friday, November 4th
7:00pm
The authors of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Jackson Pollock: An American Saga are the first in some 70 years to write a full biography of the Dutch modernist master. With the support of the Van Gogh Museum, Naifeh and Smith draw on van Gogh’s letters as well as on unpublished correspondence from his family and associates.
Saturday, November 5th
From The Intuitionist to Apex Hides the Hurt to Sag Harbor, Whitehead’s fiction has been fresh, smart, and funny. In his new novel, this dexterous writer paints a picture of post-apocalyptic America. Still reeling from plague, with a provisional government set up in Buffalo, survivors work to clear out the last of the catatonic “stragglers” who stand in the way of a new civilization.
Saturday, November 5th
Grant’s Memoirs were an instant bestseller in 1885, and are still valued for their literary and historic merit. Gravely ill when he wrote, Grant died just four days after completing the manuscript. Flood’s moving account of Grant’s last years is as illuminating about the man and his era as were his previous studies of Lee and Grant and Sherman.
Sunday, November 6th
1:00pm
Fiction and Poetry reading with Washington Writers' Publishing House Prize Winners
Melanie S. Hatter, The Color of My Soul & Dan Gutstein, Bloodcoal & Honey
"Washington Writers’ Publishing House is a non-profit organization that sponsors an annual competition for writers living in the Washington-Baltimore area. A journalist and graduate of the Johns Hopkins MFA program, Melanie Hatter explores the elusiveness of the past in a novel that juxtaposes an Indian tribe’s efforts to reclaim ancestral lands with a young woman’s startling discovery about her own family history. Poet Dan Gutstein, who teaches at GWU, focuses on themes of murder, love, and illness; his poems have a noirish aura and often employ startling language."
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