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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!
Politics & Prose also makes CDs of our events for $7.50 plus tax. We ask for a pre-payment for these orders. Please click here to order a CD.
If you have questions, send an email to Wendy Brown.
Did you know that it is possible to get a signed copy of our event books? We are best able to accommodate your request if you order signed copies at least 48 hours in advance of the author's appearance. If you are interested in obtaining a signed book from an event occurring tonight or tomorrow - or from an event that has already passed, please call the store at 202-364-1919 or 1-800-722-0790 to confirm availability and to ensure that we receive your order more quickly.
Pre-order a signed book by selecting the book from our events calendar and adding a request for a signed book in the order comments field.
Sunday, November 1, 1 p.m.
Washington Writers' Publishing House Prize Winners
Washington Writers' Publishing House is a non-profit organization that has published over 50 volumes of poetry since 1973 and so far nearly a dozen volumes of fiction. The press sponsors an annual competition for writers living in the Washington-Baltimore area. P&P is proud to host a reading by the latest winners.
2009 Poetry Winner
Jehanne Dubrow
From The Fever-World ($15)
Through the voice of Ida Lewin, an imaginary Yiddish poet who lives in the village of AlwaysWinter, Dubrow recreates the pre-War world of Eastern European Jewry. Steeped in Yiddish literature and oral history, this award-winning sequence was completed while Dubrow served as a Sosland Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington.
2009 Fiction Winner
William Littlejohn
Calvin ($15.95)
Littlejohn’s award-winning novel is a story of the 1940s Deep South. Billy Smithson is ten years old when his mother, in flight from her ex-husband, leaves him with his grandfather in rural South Carolina. Then his grandfather, unable to keep him, leaves the boy with Calvin, an African-American servant. What happens between the two, and how they bridge gaps of age, class, and race, is a moving coming-of-age story.
All our in-store events are free and open to the public. All event titles are 20% off for members during the month in which the author appears at the store. Click here for directions. There is ample parking available in the lot behind the store and in the surrounding neighborhood.
If you can't come to an event and still want an autographed copy of the book, you may purchase titles in advance either in the store, over the phone (202.364.1919 or 1.800.722.0790), or through our website. When buying online, simply use the checkout comments field to indicate that you would like us to request the author's signature at our event before shipping it to you. Event recordings on CD or MP3 are also available in the store and online.
All event-related inquiries can be sent to our Events Coordinator, Mike Giarratano, at events@politics-prose.com. For Children and Teens' Events, contact Gussie Lewis at glewis@politics-prose.com.
