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March 2011 5 Saturday, March 5, 6 P.M March 2011 5 Saturday, March 5, 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 15, 7 p.m. 15 Saturday, March 26, 6 p.m. Mar 11 Charles King Michael Farquhar Mar 11 26Mar 11 Sarah Vowell Odessa Behind The Palace Doors Unfamiliar Fishes (W.W. Norton, $27.95) (Random House, $15) (Riverhead, $25.95) The great port city on the Black Sea was founded From the author of The Treasury of Royal Vowell’s latest tour of American social history in 1794 and by 1940 had survived plagues and Scandals and The Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten takes her to Hawaii. With her trademark dry wars to become a thriving cosmopolitan metropo- Americans, this profile of British royalty from the wit Vowell, author of The Wordy Shipmates and lis with a large Jewish population. But by 1944 Tudors to the Windsors presents the follies, pas- a contributing editor for public radio’s This only a few dozen Jews remained there. In charting sions, and ambitions of a long line of monarchs American Life, retraces the steps of the 19th-cen- Odessa’s dramatic rise and fall, King focuses on the brilliant figures, and consorts. tury missionaries who tried to turn the islands such as Isaac Babel and Sergei Eisenstein, who made it what it was. into another New England. 16 Wednesday, March 16, 7 p.m. Sunday, March 6, 5 p.m. Mar 11 David Brooks Sunday, March 27, 1 p.m. Tom Shroder The Social Animal Mark Richard 27Mar 11 Oct6 10 Fire On The Horizon (Random House, $27) House Of Prayer No. 2 (HarperCollins, $27.99) Harold and Erica are a paradigm of success: (Nan A. Talese, $23.95) The oil rig that exploded on April 20, happily married, materially well off, careers on The author of Fishboy grew up as a special needs 2010, had been constructed in South Korea in track. In Brooks’s inventive narrative, the story child; his congenital problems were compounded by 2000 and cost half a billion dollars. Shroder, a of his protagonists is also the story of current clumsy medical treatment. Leaving his native South longtime Washington Post journalist, and John advances in cognitive science, psychology, and for New York City, Richard initially led a rough life, Konrad, an experienced oil rig captain, give a sociology, all of which suggest that people are less involved with crime, drugs, and sketchy compan- detailed account of the Deepwater Horizon from its start to its disas- self-determined than they think. ions. But he kept writing. His memoir is a powerful and unconventional trous finish, including a look at its engineering, crew, and owners. bildungsroman. 7 Monday, March 7, 7 p.m. Sunday, March 27, 5 p.m. Mar 11 Spring Member Sale Steven Goldman and Contributors 27Mar 11 Greg Myre And Jennifer Griffin Baseball Prospectus March 18-20 The Burning Land (John Wiley, $24.95) During the Politics & Prose Spring Member Sale, (John Wiley, $25.95) Plaaay ball!! Well—almost. 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Walter Mosley Mar8 11 Friday, March 18, 7 p.m. When The Thrill Is Gone 18Mar 11 Julie Orringer Monday, March 28, 7 p.m. (Riverhead, $26.95) The Invisible Bridge Téa Obreht 28Mar 11 The third Leonid McGill mystery opens in clas- (Vintage, $15.95) The Tiger’s Wife sic fashion: the beguiling Chrystal Tyler walks In her second book and first novel, this P&P (Random House, $25) into the private-eye’s office. She suspects her bil- favorite charted the lives and loves of Hungarians Obreht was chosen by The New Yorker as one of its lionaire husband is plotting to kill her, and she’ll in Paris in the 1930s in such a fresh and compel- 20 young writers to watch, and her first novel is a pay very well if McGill can help her. He takes the ling way that it made the certainties of World haunting and powerful narrative, rich in myth and case. War II surprise readers almost as much as they folklore. Set in a Balkan village, it follows a young did the characters. Join us for the paperback doctor struggling to help orphans and to heal her 9 Wednesday, March 9, 7 p.m. release of this vivid and accomplished book. own grief at the death of her grandfather. Unexplained occurrences Mar 11 Jonathan Evison around her lead her back to memories, and to stories both told and West Of Here Saturday, March 19, 6 p.m. untold. (Algonquin, $24.95) Alan Paul This second novel by the author of All about Big In China 19Mar 11 Tuesday, March 29, 7 p.m. Lulu tells the epic story of the Olympic (HarperCollins, $25.99) 29Mar 11 Tina Rosenberg Peninsula. A century after its landscape was Combining the American dreams Join The Club defaced by a dam, people want to restore the of rock stardom and life in an exotic country, (W.W. Norton, $25.95) original grandeur, and the story interweaves Paul, an erstwhile music and baseball journalist, The idea of going along to get along may be a key 21st-century thinking about nature and econom- moved to China when his wife took an assign- to positive social change. Rosenberg, a Pulitzer ics with the gung-ho attitudes of the first European settlers. ment there; he teamed up with Woodie Wu to Prize-winning journalist, has drawn examples form the band Woodie Alan. How this came from around the world of how groups have Thursday, March 10, 7 p.m. 10 about is part of his entertaining memoir, which exerted pressure to improve education, promote Sara Wheeler Mar 11 also includes a tour of today’s booming China. more healthful behavior, and even overthrow dictators. The Magnetic North (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26) Sunday, March 20, 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, 7 p.m. 30 Ten years ago Wheeler’s Terra Incognita recounted 20Mar 11 Jaimy Gordon John Darnton Mar 11 her trip to the Antarctic. Her new book charts a Lord Of Misrule Almost A Family visit to the opposite Pole. During her circuit of (McPherson, $25) (Knopf, $27.95) the Arctic, Wheeler joins the crew of a Russian Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Darnton was eleven months old when his father icebreaker and teams up with Lapps herding rein- fiction, Gordon’s sixth book is set at Indian died; he grew up knowing him only from stories deer. The lands she visits are not pristine wild country but are haunted Mound Downs, a small West Virginia racetrack, about his life and his career as a reporter during by the terrors of the Gulag and rife with the effects of pollution and in the 1970s. With a flair for language that’s World War II. Decades later, a journalist himself, climate change. as lyrical as it is colloquial, and a cast of vivid Darnton wanted a fuller understanding of the man characters who harbor pasts as turbulent as their who so deeply influenced his life, and this memoir 11 Friday, March 11, 7 p.m. futures are bleak, Gordon tells a tough and moving story. of his search takes him around the world, ending on a beach in Papua Mar 11 Jeff Greenfield New Guinea. Then Everything Changed Monday, March 21, 7 p.m. (Putnam, $26.95) Andre Dubus III 21 Thursday, March 31, 7 p.m. Mar 11 31 After his account of The Real Campaign Townie Mar 11 Joseph Lelyveld Greenfield, CBS News reporter and commenta- (W.W. Norton, $25.95) Great Soul tor, turns to the fantasy of “what if ” for this Unsparing and frank, Dubus tells the (Knopf, $28.95) alternative take on recent American history. riveting story of how he went from a youth of Lelyveld’s biography looks at Mahatma Gandhi What if JFK had been assassinated before taking drugs, street fighting, and bitterness to writing the from the unusual perspective of its subject’s short- office? What if Robert Kennedy had lived and bestselling House of Sand and Fog. Abandoned falls rather than his achievements. The author of been elected president? As in the best fiction, these imagined scenari- by his father, the writer Andre Dubus, when he Move Your Shadow notes that during Gandhi’s os shed new light on the actual events. was twelve, Dubus fils grew up angry and impov- two decades in South Africa, he failed to work erished. But he was also strong and determined, and turned his life for the rights of its black population. Back in India, Gandhi sought Saturday, March 12, 6 p.m. around. to end the caste system and reconcile Hindus and Muslims but wasn’t Meryle Secrest 12Mar 11 able to do so. Despite these disappointments, Lelyved confirms Modigliani Tuesday, March 22, 7 p.m. Gandhi as a powerful, admirable man.
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