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Here is a list of upcoming author events at all three Busboys and Poets locations. For a complete schedule:  Busboys and Poets event calendar. If you are interested in booking an event at Busboys and Poets, see Info for Authors and Publishers.

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SEPTEMBER 2010

Wed., Sept. 1
at 6:30 pm
Location: 5th & K
Mark Warren
Fire in the Heart
Sponsor:
Advancement Project and the Poverty Race Research Action Council

Thurs., Sept. 2
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Rob Verchick
Facing Catastrophe
Sponsor:
Center for Progressive Reform
Tues., Sept. 7
at 6:30 pm
Location: 5th & K
Jordan Flaherty
Floodlines
Sponsor:
Haymarket Books
Wed., Sept. 8
at 6:30 pm
Location: Shirlington
David Haines
Safe Haven?
Tues., Sept. 14
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Adam Taylor
Mobilizing Hope
Sponsor: Sojourners

Thurs., Sept. 16
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Tariq Ali
The Obama Syndrome
Sponsor:
Verso Books
Sun., Sept. 19
at 4 pm
Location: 14th & V
Brenda Hillman
Practical Water
Mon., Sept. 20
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
James W. Loewen
The Confederate and Neo-
Confederate Reader


Tues., Sept. 21
at 6:30 pm
Location: 5th & K
Timothy Sheard
Slim to None
Wed., Sept. 22
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Charles Ogletree
The Presumption of Guilt
Thur., Sept. 23
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Steve Lerner
Sacrifice Zones
Sponsor:
Environmental Working Group

Mon., Sept. 27
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Ted Rall
Anti-American Manifesto
  Tues., Sept. 28
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Jeff Conant
A Poetics of Resistance
Sponsor: IPS
Tues., Sept. 28
at 6:30 pm
Location: 5th & K
Lisa Dodson
The Moral Underground
Co-sponsors: Heller, Huron, and Chertkof
   

 

OCTOBER 2010

Mon., Oct. 4
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Michael Blanding
The Coke Machine
Co-sponsors: Teaching for Change and IPS
Tues., Oct. 5
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Judy Richardson, Jean Smith Young, Betty G. Robinson, and more
Hands on the Freedom Plow

Thurs., Oct. 7
at 6:30 pm
Location: Shirlington
Richard E. Rubenstein
Reasons to Kill
Tues., Oct. 12
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Elisabeth Soep
Drop That Knowledge
Sponsor:
Latin American Youth Center

Wed., Oct. 13
at 6:30 pm
Location: 5th & K
Gloria Feldt
No Excuses
Co Sponsor: RH Reality Check
Sun., Oct. 17
at 4 pm
Location: 14th & V
Multiple authors
Full Moon on K Street
Mon., Oct. 18
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
William Upski Wimsatt
Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs
Wed., Oct. 20
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Edwidge Danticat
Create Dangerously
Sponsor:
TransAfrica Forum
Tues., Oct. 26
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Houshang Asadi
Letters to My Torturer
Sponsors:
National Iranian Council and Amnesty International
Wed., Oct. 27
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
John Perkins
Hoodwinked
  Thurs., Oct. 28
at 6:30 pm
Location: 5th & K
Nick Zinner
Please Take Me Off the Guest List
   

 

NOVEMBER 2010

Mon., Nov. 2
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Amiri Baraka
Digging
Mon., Nov. 8
at 6:30 pm
Location: 5th & K
Jared Duval
Next Generation Democracy
Sponsor: Demos

Mon., Nov. 9
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Blair Ruble
U Street

 

Wed., Nov. 10
at 6:30 pm
Location: 14th & V
Dr. William Jelani Cobb and Edward McClelland
The Substance
of Hope

and
Young Mr. Obama
Sponsor:
Howard University
Sun., Nov. 21
at 4 pm
Location: 14th & V
Steven Cordova
Long Distance
  Mon., Nov. 22
at 4 pm
Location: 14th & V
Jennifer Pozner
Reality Bites Back

 

DECEMBER 2010

Wed., Dec. 1
at 6:30 pm
Location: 5th & K
Bernice McFadden
Glorious
 

 

           


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