Here are some upcoming (mostly) fiction events over the next couple weeks. I'll post more if I find them. The Gish Jen reading looks particularly interesting.
Friday, January 7
7 P.M. Gish Jen reads from and signs her new novel, The Love Wife, as part of the literary series at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. Call 202-783-7370 or e-mail reservations@nmwa.org to RSVP.
7 P.M. Actor and playwright Ron McLarty reads from and signs his new novel, The Memory of Running, at Olsson's Books and Music-Penn Quarter, 418 Seventh St. NW, 202-638-7610.
Tuesday, January 11, 7 p.m.
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20008
Tel 202.364.1919
Susan Coll
Rockville Pike
(Simon & Schuster, $23)
Jane Kramer, an imaginative and witty forty-something wife with a quick-tempered husband and a teenage son named Goth, finds herself uprooted from a happy life in Manhattan for a rescue mission to save her in-laws' shabby and failing discount furniture store on Rockville Pike.
Friday, January 21, 7 p.m.
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20008
Tel 202.364.1919
Nani Power
The Sea of Tears
(Counterpoint, $25)
Powers has been acclaimed for the imaginative power and sensuality of her first two novels, Crawling at Night and The Good Remains. Her third is a rich tapestry of dream and desire. Her characters come from Iran, Iraq, South and North America, and even, possibly, Heaven.
Saturday, January 22, 1 p.m.
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20008
Tel 202.364.1919
t.p. Luce
Tha Bloc: Words, Photographs, and Baltimore City in Black, White, and Gray
(Obie Joe Media, $24.95)
This book of photos and poetry presents an intimate view of life in Baltimore. Luce composed dozen of poems about false perceptions and the harsh realities of life on his Baltimore block. He combines images and words to represent race, crime, work, poverty, and joy in a performance he calls a "photo-reading."
Saturday, January 22, 6 p.m.
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20008
Tel 202.364.1919
Jonathan Lowy
The Temple of Music
(Crown, $23.95)
Lowy has written an accomplished first novel about the Gilded Age, a time of vast disparities between poor workers, many of whom were immigrants, and wealthy tycoons. The characters will be familiar: Emma Goldman, William McKinley, and William Randolph Hearst.
3 comments:
These all sound interesting but I'm not familiar with them! Gosh, I am thinking I am not so very well read despite having a blog named LitBlitz (sigh)...
I'm familiar with Gish Jen and Nani Power. The rest I hadn't heard of before. But they looked interesting. Whether or not I actually go, though, is another matter entirely.
Ha, whether I go to things is generally another matter entirely myself... especially this time of year it seems difficult to motivate. It sounds like it's maybe slightly easier for you since you're already downtown... I live/work in Alexandria and therefore, I just end up kind of stagnated here and getting into the city sometimes seems like such a production. (Ah, the power of the mind to build up "a production" out of silly things.)
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