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Sunday, November 14, 1 p.m. Sunday, November 7, 1 p.m. Tuesday, November 23, 7 p.m. 7 14Nov 10 Timothy Snyder Nov 10 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Prize Winners Alan Khazei Bloodlands 23Nov 10 Washington Writers’ Publishing House is a non-profit organization Big Citizenship (Basic Books, $29.95) that has published over 50 volumes of poetry since 1973 and (PublicAffairs, $25.95) Its title pointing to the territory between Germany and nearly a dozen volumes of fiction. The press sponsors an annual & Russia, Snyder’s study investigates the dual slaughters competition for writers living in the Washington-Baltimore area. Bill Shore perpetrated from 1929 through the end of World War P&P is proud to host a reading by the 2010 winners in poetry and fiction. The Imaginations Of Unreasonable Men II by Hitler and Stalin. Focusing on victims—Ukrainian (PublicAffairs, $25.95) peasants, Jews, Poles, and Belarusians shot during the 2010 Poetry Prize Khazei is the co-founder of City Year, an international Great Terror—rather than on politics, Snyder, a professor of history at Holly Karapetkova non-profit organization through which young people Yale, shows how the combined brutality of these two dictators resulted in Words We Might One Day Say mentor, tutor, and lead children. In his inspiring new a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions. (WWPH, $15) book he outlines the ways and means of social entrepre- Widely published in literary journals, Karapetkova’s neurship. Shore, too, has an ambitious vision for social poetry concerns themes of motherhood and myth, Sunday, November 14, 5 p.m. Patricia Engel change. Founder and director of Share Our Strength, especially those of Greek and Bulgarian folklore. She 14Nov 10 Vida in his third book he recounts the work of a group of has written for children as well as adults and teaches at scientists determined to develop a vaccine for malaria. Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. (Black Cat, $14) & Danielle Evans Thursday, November 25 2010 Fiction Prize Thanksgiving Andrew Wingfield Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Riverhead, $25.95) Right Of Way Sunday, November 29, 7 p.m. These two debut collections of fiction feature striking (WWPH, $16.95) 29Nov 10 Set in the fictional Washington, D.C. neighborhood voices and fresh perspectives on the coming-of age of Cleave Springs, Wingfield’s linked stories present a narrative. Engel who, like her narrator Sabina, is the distinctive community by introducing a diverse cast of daughter of Colombian immigrants, recounts a young characters, from long-time residents to new arrivals. woman’s navigation through her parents’ expectations, college, and assorted relationships as she moves from Sunday, November 7, 5 p.m. childhood in New Jersey to her own life in Miami. In Joan Nathan Nov7 10 Evans’s stories, teenage girls and young women face Quiches, Kugels, And Couscous down a variety of troubles stemming from sexism, (Knopf, $39.95) racism, and their own misjudgments. Winner of the James Beard Award and the IACP Award for Jewish Cooking in America and The New Monday, November 15, 7 p.m. 15 Harold McGee American Cooking, Nathan, who has a master’s Nov 10 Keys To Good Cooking Tuesday, November 30, 7 p.m. degree in French literature, here explores Jewish Gay Talese 30 (Penguin Press, $35) Nov 10 cooking in France. A rich tradition reflecting the 2,000-year presence of The Silent Season Of A Hero In On Food and Cooking McGee showed his mastery Jews in France, this cuisine is flavored by history as much as by spices, and (Walker, $16) of the science of cooking; in his new book he turns his Nathan tells the stories behind the recipes. Talese, author of , extensive knowledge of ingredients, food safety, and even Honor Thy Father A Writer’s , and many other books, has been an intermittent appliances, into immediately useful information. From Life Monday, November 8, 7 p.m. sports reporter since high school. This collection of his selecting vegetables to the best methods for preparing and presenting Nov8 10 Kate Buford writing on boxing, baseball, soccer, and other athletic them, from navigating unfamiliar terms in a recipe to spotting flawed Native American Son competitions showcases his ability to zero in on the telling moment—as instructions, McGee’s book is an essential field guide to the kitchen. (Knopf, $35) often one of vulnerability as of strength—rather than reveling in the Jim Thorpe (1888-1953) won the decathlon spectacle. Tuesday, November 16, 7 p.m. and pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics, but was stripped 16Nov 10 of his medals for having violated the amateur athletic Chris Chivers The Gun Wednesday, December 1, 7 p.m. code. He went on to play and Dec1 10 Matt Taibbi (Simon & Schuster, $28) football, advocated on behalf of Native Americans, Griftopia Chivers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times lectured, joined the merchant marine, and acted in films. But he also (Spiegel & Grau, $26) journalist and former Marine. From this dual perspective abused alcohol and had three failed marriages. Buford’s biography rounds Taibbi, author of , investigated he tells the history of modern battlefield weaponry, The Great Derangement out the legend of this complex man. the economic crisis and found that it’s also a political focusing on the AK-47. Product of a Soviet arms-design one. In his exposé of the grifter class—the heavy hitters contest, it was scorned by the Pentagon but has become the most popular Tuesday, November 9, 7 p.m. of the financial industry and the politicians in their Nov9 10 firearm in the world. Carlos Eire pockets—he tracks the upward mobility of money Learning To Die In Miami through the complex machinations that caused a commodities bubble, Wednesday, November 17, 7 p.m. (Free Press, $26) doomed any meaningful health-care reform, and could have further 17Nov 10 Sixth & I Historic Synagogue Miami y Mis Mil Muertos profound consequences. (Free Press, $16) Salman Rushdie Luka And The Fire Of Life The sequel to his 2003 National Book Award-winning Thursday, December 2, 7 p.m. (Random House, $25) memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana finds the David Rohde & Kristen Mulvihill Dec2 10 A magical quest tale told as only the effervescent Rushdie eleven-year-old Eire and his brother landing in Miami. It’s 1962 and they A Rope And A Prayer could tell it, this novel interweaves dreams and storytell- have just left Cuba, their parents, and their old lives. Their new ones will (Viking, $26.95) ing, family devotion and otherworldly powers, as it follows Luka, the be shaped by a new language, a series of foster homes, and, along with any Rohde and Mulvihill have written a dual account of the younger brother of Haroun from Haroun and the Sea of Stories, on his immigrant’s initial confusion and uncertainty, the difficult transition from seven months in 2008 that Rohde, a perilous journey to steal the immortal Fire of Life, the only thing that will New York Times childhood to adult responsibilities. reporter, was held hostage by the Taliban in Pakistan. save his father, who has fallen into a deep sleep. While Mulvihill tried to free him using the appropriate Wednesday, November 10, 4 p.m. diplomatic channels, her husband witnessed the brutality 10 Thursday, November 18, 7 p.m. Nov 10 And 18 and irrationality of his fundamentalist Muslim captors. This juxtaposition Nov 10 Revival of Taliban and Western world views dramatizes the extreme difficulty of (Harper Perennial, $16.99) the two sides’ ever understanding each other. Join us for the release of the paperback edition of this (Crown, $26) In his bestselling Renegade, Wolffe, an MSNBC analyst bestselling account of the 2008 presidential campaign. Friday, December 3 - Sunday, December 5 and political journalist, chronicled Obama’s presidential Heilemann, national political correspondent for New Holiday Member Sale York magazine, and Halperin, senior political correspon- campaign. Here he continues his profile, taking a close dent for Time, report on the camps of Obama, Clinton, McCain, and look at the Chief Executive’s first years in office, a project Palin, offering rich repartee and a fast-paced narrative. for which he conducted extensive interviews with the President and his senior staff. Wednesday, November 10, 7 p.m. 10 Children and Teens’ Department Wendell Potter Nov 10 19 Friday, November 19, 7 p.m. Deadly Spin Nov 10 Siddhartha Mukherjee (Bloomsbury, $26) The Emperor Of All Maladies Wednesday, November 3, 10:30 a.m. Nov3 10 A former senior vice president of CIGNA, Potter made (Scribner, $30) Jonathan Stroud headlines when he testified before the Senate panel This comprehensive study of cancer offers a clinical profile The Ring of Solomon on health-care reform in 2009. Here he gives an inside of the disease as well as a cultural and historical overview A Bartimaeus Novel look at the health-insurance industry and shows how its of its role in human societies. An assistant professor of (Disney Hyperion, $17.99) aggressive public-relations campaigns amount to disinformation, while the medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at the CU/ We met Bartimaeus, the street-smart, funny, 5,000-year-old concern for corporate profits overrides the interests of consumers. Until NYU Presbyterian Hospital, Mukherjee presents his subject from all djinni, in The Amulet of Samarkand when eleven-year- this situation changes, the author argues, there can’t be any true reform of angles, attentive to science as well as to the individual lives swept up in this old Nathaniel conjured him in a magic spell. Stroud’s our national health care system. modern plague. latest installment in the saga gives Bartimaeus’s history in Babylon, Ancient Egypt, and the modern Middle East, and we find out how he made so Thursday, November 11, 7 p.m. Saturday, November 20, 1 p.m. many enemies. (Ages 10-14) Justin Spring 20Nov 10 11Nov 10 Reza Aslan Tablet & Pen Secret Historian Thursday, November 4, 10:30 a.m. Nov4 10 (W.W. Norton, $35) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32.50) Henry Cole Under the auspices of Words Without Borders, which Samuel Steward (1909-1983) was a professor, writer, and A Nest For Celeste “opens doors to international exchange through friend of Thornton Wilder, Gertrude Stein, and Alice (Katherine Tegen, $16.99) translation, publication, and promotion of the best Toklas. As Phil Sparrow he was a Chicago tattoo artist Celeste is a mouse who lives in a New Orleans manor international literature,” Aslan, author of No God But God, who worked with Alfred Kinsey. Later, as Phil Andros, he wrote gay porn house. It’s 1821, and when John James Audubon and his has assembled an anthology of short stories, memoirs, essays, and poems that was a cut above the usual. Spring, biographer of Fairfield Porter and assistant, Joseph Mason, move in, Celeste and Joseph by a wide selection of Middle Eastern writers, ranging from Khalil Gibran Paul Cadmus, draws on Steward’s extensive diaries and files for a colorful become fast friends, and she rides around in his pocket. to Orhan Pamuk. Much of this work appears in English for the first time. picture of pre-Stonewall gay life. Cole, a former science teacher, enhances this story of adventure, history, and science with beautiful pencil drawings. (Ages 9-12) Friday, November 12, 7 p.m. Saturday, November 20, 3:30 p.m. 20Nov 10 Dirk Hayhurst Tuesday, November 9, 10:30 a.m. 12Nov 10 Madhur Jaffrey The Bullpen Gospels Michelle Meadows At Home With Madhur Jaffrey Nov9 10 (Knopf, $35) (Citadel, $14.95) Hibernation Station In her latest collection of recipes from India and Now a for the , Hayhurst, also (Simon & Schuster, $16.99) southern Asia, the chef and prolific cookbook-writer the author of ’s “Non-Prospect Diary,” The woodland express is specially staffed by bears, simplifies the traditions for today’s time-pressed cooks. paid his dues as a long-time relief pitcher in the minor who look out for animals along the route and help Jaffrey focuses on streamlined processes and accessible ingredients, but leagues, a job he describes as “mopping up lost causes.” His frank and those that hibernate find warm, dry places to sleep also explains the roles of the different seasonings and sauces, chutneys and funny memoir of baseball without the distractions of glamour and wealth through the winter. The charming illustrations show the creatures all ready dals, making these exotic dishes as familiar as any comfort food you grew cuts to the heart of what the game means to those who love it for itself. for their long naps, the snakes in striped night shirts and the frog wearing up with. pajamas decorated with flies. (Ages 2-6) Saturday, November 20, 6 p.m. 20Nov 10 Saturday, November 13, 1 p.m. Barnet Schecter Friday, November 12, 10:30 a.m. George Washington’s America Matthew Locricchio 12Nov 10 Mary Ann Larkin 13Nov 10 That Deep And Steady Hum (Walker & Co., $67.50) Teen Cuisine (Broadkill River Press, $14.95) Schecter, a historian and author of the Battle for New (Marshall Cavendish, $22.95) Martin Galvin York, mined Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library collec- Locricchio is an award-winning cookbook author, Sounding The Atlantic tion of George Washington’s maps for this unique and and his new collection presents practical recipes (Broadkill River Press, $14.95) beautiful profile of the first president. Washington for such basics as pancakes and chicken broth, Join us for a reading by two local poets with wide-ranging drew, collected, and relied on maps throughout his life, and this book along with more exotic fare like Santa Fe Tofu themes. Larkin, author of five chapbooks and the reproduces scores of charts and other images for a graphic retelling of the Scrambler and Black Bean Soup. The appealing photos will inspire teens to co-founder of Pond Road Press, mines her own and Founder’s career. try their hands in the kitchen. (Ages 12 and up) America’s past for poems on family and immigration. Galvin, with four chapbooks to his credit, also looks back Sunday, November 21, 1 p.m. Tuesday, November 16, 10:30 a.m. 21 Carla Cohen Tribute Event David Wiesner to childhood, dramatizing the events, and especially the Nov 10 16Nov 10 Art & Max voices, from his upbringing in an Irish neighborhood of For 26 years, Carla Cohen, our Philadelphia. founder, and co-owner of Politics (Clarion, $17.99) and Prose, brought her energy and intellect to Art and Max are lizards with very different Saturday, November 13, 3 p.m. building and maintaining one of the nation’s approaches to painting. Art paints realistic great bookstores. Please join us as we pay portraits, while Max has a more abstract 13Nov 10 Dana Milbank Tears Of A Clown tribute to her incredible legacy in a memorial style—one he turns on Art, spray-painting him. Wiesner, winner of three (Doubleday, $24.95) reception to which customers, colleagues, fam- Caldecott Medals, takes readers on a vivid tour of the creative process, demonstrating oil painting, airbrushing, water colors, and pen-and-ink, all Milbank, prizewinning Washington Post ily and friends are invited. Check our website while trying to restore Art to his unpainted self. (Ages 7-10) reporter and author of Homo Politicus, here investigates for more details as the event approaches. how evolved from his apparently non- Tuesday, November 16, 7:00 p.m. ideological background into a man who rants, raves, and Monday, November 22, 7 p.m. weeps on demand. A self-described “rodeo clown,” is Beck in fact just an Eugene Robinson 22 Bethesda Library 17 Nov 10 and Nov 10 over-the-top showman, or does he really believe the conspiracy theories he Disintegration Wednesday, November 17, 10:30 a.m. touts and that millions idolize him for? (Doubleday, $24.95) The outcome of some 140 years of black John Feinstein The Rivalry: Mystery At The Saturday, November 13, 6 p.m. American history, from Reconstruction through Jim Army-Navy Game Mary Frances Berry and Josh Gottheimer Crow, the civil rights era, and affirmative action, has been 13 (Knopf, $16.99) Power In Words Nov 10 a splintering of black Americans into four distinct groups, Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson have press passes to the (Beacon Press, $24.95) Robinson argues. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist Army-Navy Football Game at FedEx Field. President Obama will be there President Obama is an undeniably gifted speaker, cites a small, influential elite; a large mainstream middle class; recent and the Secret Service is reviewing every detail. Security will be high, and and in this collection of some of his major addresses, the African and Caribbean immigrants; and an impoverished, often hopeless fans should be on their best behavior—but something unprecedented is authors provide historical context and political analysis, minority. about to happen…. ( ) illuminating the rhetoric and the occasions. Berry, a Ages 11-15 historian and activist, and Gottheimer, a speechwriter for Bill Clinton, have also included commentary from Obama’s own staffers, who tell the Gift Wrapping by the Washington Literacy Council stories behind the speeches. Our ongoing relationship with the Washington Literacy Council continues this holiday season. 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November December Wednesday, November 3, 7 p.m. Monday, November 1, 7 p.m. Friday, November 5, 7 p.m. Thursday, November 4, 7 p.m. Ian Frazier Alex Ross Oliver Sacks Simon Winchester 2010

Wednesday, November 17, 7 p.m. Sunday, November 7, 5 p.m. Friday, November 12, 7 p.m. Monday, November 22, 7 p.m. Salman Rushdie Joan Nathan Madhur Jaffrey Eugene Robinson Monday, November 1, 7 p.m. Friday, November 5, 7 p.m. Book Groups Alex Ross Nov1 10 Nov5 10 Oliver Sacks P & P book groups meet monthly, and are free and open to the public. Listen To This The Mind’s Eye Book group titles are 20% off for attendees. Read the book and join us! (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27) (Knopf, $26.95) Music critic at The New Yorker since 1996, Ross What would it be like suddenly to be unable to read? • Capital James Joyce Club (1st Thursday, 7:30 p.m.) translates abstract sounds into prose rich with histori- Or not to be able to recognize your children? Or, 11/4: Ulysses Chapter 18, by Joyce cal depth and artistic insight. His first book, The Rest like Dr. Sacks, to lose vision to one side? In his latest • Classics (1st Monday, 7:30 p.m.) is Noise, won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle collection of essays on the frighteningly fragile, amazingly resilient 11/1: Electra, by Sophocles Award; his new book gathers a selection of his wide-ranging essays on human brain, the neurologist and author most recently of Musicophilia • Daytime (3rd Wednesday, 12:30 p.m.) music from the Western classical tradition to contemporary pop, and offers case studies of people who have lost certain cognitive abilities 11/17: In Fond Remembrance of Me, by Norman includes concert reviews, interviews with musicians, profiles of perform- yet who nonetheless lead fairly normal lives as their brains find ways to - Mr. Norman will be our guest ers, and meditations on the meanings of music. compensate for the damage. • Evening Fiction (2nd Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.) 11/9: The Fountain Overflows, by West • Fascinating History Tuesday, November 2, 7 p.m. Saturday, November 6, 1 p.m. (4th Thursday, 7:30 p.m.) 6 Election Day Michael E. Parrish Nov 10 11/25: The Strange Death of Liberal England, by Dangerfield Citizen Rauh • Futurist (1st Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.) 11/3: The Eerie Silence, by Davies Wednesday, November 3, 7 p.m. (Univ. of Michigan, $45) • Graphic Novel (4th Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.) Nov3 10 Ian Frazier Parrish’s study of the life and work of Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., 11/24: Black Hole, by Burns Travels In Siberia demonstrates how one man can make a difference. Rauh, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30) a lawyer, championed New Deal liberalism, worked on • NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) Siberia occupies one-seventh of the land on Earth; behalf of labor unions, and was active in Civil Rights struggles. His 11/5 - Cleveland Park Library - 3:30-5:15 pm 11/10 - Politics & Prose Remainder Room - 7:30 p.m. what’s there? Frazier, intrepid traveler, many clients ranged from Arthur Miller to the Mississippi Freedom New Yorker 11/12 - Cleveland Park Library - 3:30-5:15 pm contributor, and author of and Democratic Party. In telling Rauh’s story, Parrish, the Distinguished The Great Plains On 11/18 - Cleveland Park Library 7-9 pm , among others books, recounts his unforget- Professor of History at U.C. San Diego, also chronicles American history The Rez contact: [email protected] for details table meetings not just with the present inhabitants of the region, both from Sacco and Vanzetti to the Reagan presidency. human and animal, but also with the many ghosts of the past, from • Poetry (4th Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.) 1820s Decembrist revolutionaries to Communist-era political prisoners. Saturday, November 6, 6 p.m. 11/23: A Coney Island of the Mind by Ferlinghetti • Public Affairs (4th Monday, 7:30 p.m.) Nov6 10 Robert Dallek 11/22: Thursday, November 4, 7 p.m. The Lost Peace • Science Fiction (& Fantasy) (2nd Thurs., 7:30 p.m.) Simon Winchester 4 (HarperCollins, $28.99) Nov 10 11/11: Kindred, by Butler Atlantic In Dallek’s analysis of mid-20th-century conflicts, the • Spanish Language (3rd Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.) (HarperCollins, $27.99) strife in China, Korea, and the Middle East was rooted 11/16: With his gift for compulsively readable narrative in a missed opportunity at the end of World War II. • Spirituality (3rd Sunday, 6 p.m.) nonfiction and knack for finding fascinating subjects, When leaders including Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill, de Gaulle, and 11/21: Winchester is the perfect biographer for the Atlantic Stalin had the opportunity to strengthen international cooperation, they • Travel (1st Tuesday, 7 p.m.) Ocean. The author of The Professor and the Madman, instead fell back into the old patterns of power politics that had just 11/2: Girl From Foreign, by Shepard Krakatoa, and many others here takes a long, close look at a body of plunged their nations into war. • Women’s Biography (2nd Monday, 7:30 p.m.) water pivotal to eras of exploration and colonization, commerce and war. 11/8: Personal History, by Katharine Graham. Author Photo Credits: Frazier_Ian - Sigrid Estrada, Joan Nathan - Linda Spillers, Madhur Jaffrey - Lisa Levart, Oliver Sacks - Elena Seibert, Ross Alex - David Michalek, Salman Rushdie - Alberto Conti, Simon Winchester - Setsuko Winchester, Eugene Robinson - Julia Ewan, Carla Cohen - Bruce Gutherie Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 7 p.m. 2 3 10:30 a.m. 4 10:30 a.m. 5 7 p.m. 6 1 p.m. November Alex Ross Jonathan Stroud Henry Cole Oliver Sacks Michael E. Parrish Listen To This The Ring of Solomon A Nest For Celeste The Mind’s Eye Citizen Rauh A Bartimaeus Novel 7 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. Simon Winchester Robert Dallek Ian Frazier Atlantic The Lost Peace Election Day Travels In Siberia

1 p.m. 7 p.m. 10:30 a.m. 4 p.m. 7 p.m. 10:30 a.m. 1 p.m. 3 p.m. 7 Washington Writers’ Publishing 8 9 10 11 12 13 Dana Milbank Kate Buford Michelle Meadows John Heilemann & Reza Aslan Matthew Locricchio Mary Ann Larkin House Prize Winners That Deep And Tears Of A Clown Native American Son Hibernation Station Mark Halperin Tablet And Pen Teen Cuisine Steady Hum 2010 Poetry Prize 2010 Fiction Prize 6 p.m. Holly Karapetkova Andrew Wingfield Game Change Martin Galvin Sounding The Atlantic Mary Frances Words We Might One Right Of Way 7 p.m. 7 p.m. Berry & Day Say Carlos Eire 7 p.m. Madhur Jaffrey Josh Gottheimer 5 p.m. Learing To Die In Miami & Wendell Potter At Home With Madhur Jaffrey Power In Words Joan Nathan Quiches, Kugels, And Couscous Miami y Mis Mil Muertos Deadly Spin 14 1 p.m. 15 7 p.m. 16 10:30 a.m. 17 10:30 a.m. 18 7 p.m. 19 7 p.m. 20 1 p.m. Timothy Snyder Harold McGee David Wiesner John Feinstein Richard Wolffe Siddhartha Mukherjee Justin Spring Art & Max Secret Historian Bloodlands Keys To Good Cooking The Rivalry: Mystery At The Revival The Emperor Of All Maladies 7pm Army-Navy Game 3:30 p.m. 5 p.m. Bethesda Library Dirk Hayhurst Patricia Engel John Feinstein 7 p.m. The Bullpen Gospels Vida The Rivalry: Mystery At The Army-Navy Game Sixth & I Historic Synagogue 6 p.m. Danielle Evans 7 p.m. Barnet Schecter Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Salman Rushdie Chris Chivers Luka And The Fire Of Life George Washington’s America The Gun 21 1 p.m. 22 7 p.m. 23 7 p.m. 25 26 27 Carla Cohen Tribute Event Eugene Robinson Alan Khazei 24 Disintegration Big Citizenship

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