Wonkette
BIG THINGS on the DC book circuit this week. For instance: your third-favorite Wire personality George Pelecanos (after David Simon and Omar), in addition to Colon Whitehead! Plus, go check out the Arab-American Handbook: A Guide to the Arab, Arab-American & Muslim Worlds, the hotly anticipated fan-written prequel to Barack Obama’s bildungsroman, The Marx-Engels Reader: Die Träume Von Meinem Vater.
Monday, May 11: Michael Eric Dyson will be at Politics & Prose—along with his evidently legendary “sparkling” presentations—to talk about his new book, Can You Hear Me Now? 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
Nawar Shora will brings his new book, Arab-American Handbook: A Guide to the Arab, Arab-American & Muslim Worlds to Busboys & Poets. 6:30 PM. [Busboys & Poets]
Tuesday, May 12: Alphabetic glutton Richard Haass has a new book about wars and their corollary necessities and choices called War of Necessity, War of Choice. 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
Wednesday, May 13: Ooh Colson Whitehead brings his much-anticipated new novel, Sag Harbor, to Politics & Prose for purposes of reading from it. 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
If your business is in the position to be working towards anything more that trying to actually remain a business right now, maybe this thing about “going green” would be of interest. [Hooks Books Events]
Thursday, May 14: Check out the most recently published left-over Wire script from George Pelecanos, as he and his new crime thriller thing stop by Politics & Prose. 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
New book about the Coast Guard, which we are repeatedly told in the event announcement is loneliest branch of the military. Pity will get you everywhere, David Helvarg. [Hooks Books Events]
Saturday, May 16: Performance artist Staceyann Chin will be at Busboys & Poets, for poetry and performance about growing up in Jamaica (not Queens). [Busboys & Poets]
Omar is totally my favorite character. Naturally Brother Mouzone is second.
I saw Colson Whitehead do a reading once and he is pretty much the coolest dude ever created. He wore tight-ish plaid green pants and was still cool, that’s how cool he is.
Also, a friend of mine was at a bar once and she accidentally caught her sleeve on fire from a candle and this dude at the next table quickly doused it with his ice water. And that dude was Colson Whitehead. Absolutely true story. Dude is cool and a hero.
Are any of those first editions? I only read first editions.
I always heard that the Coasties were the most debauched of the services, worse than either the Navy or the Marines!
Zhu Bajie
Nice robot, but it pales next to the Crotch Master 2000.