Author Event Recordings
Politics & Prose records most of our in-store author events. In addition to posting some here on our website, P&P stores all of these recordings on a public archive.Click here to listen to, or download, an MP3.Enjoy the free recordings!
You’ve heard of Hemingway’s wives, but what about Pilar? A
thirty-eight-foot motor yacht, Pilar was Papa’s refuge, his escape
vehicle, and his occasional muse. Reflecting the boat’s central place
and myriad roles in the writer’s life, Hendrickson, author of Sons of
Mississippi, focuses this critical and biographical study on Hemingway’s
voyages, his on-board entertaining, and the vessel’s effect on his
turbulent moods.
Wright examines what fundamentally
makes a religion a religion, and
whether Scientology is, in fact, deserving of this constitutional
protection. With the thorough investigative skills that earned him a Pulitzer for The Looming Tower, his exhaustive account of 9/11, Wright has
given us an evenhanded yet keenly incisive book that
reveals the very essence of what makes Scientology the
institution it is.
On August 22, 2012, Jennifer Close and Rebecca Harrington spoke at Politics & Prose about their booksGirls in White Dressesand Penelope.
Join us for an evening of great summer fiction. Harrington’s debut novel
tells the story of a geeky young woman’s first year at college. She may
lack a few social graces, but her observations of her classmates are
spot-on and very, very funny. Close’s first novel—now in
paperback—focuses on a group of young women who put up with bad jobs and
worse boyfriends as they find their ways in life.
