CLASSES at Politics and Prose:
Our in-person classroom spring classes are postponed. Classes in session are being tested as an option in most cases to offer online. We will post more information on this soon.
For direct class inquires please email: classes@politics-prose.com
BOOK GROUPS:
All book group meetings are suspended. The book store and DEN are temporarily closed.
Thank you for your support at this time.
ONLINE CLASS: It's All About Us: Diversity in Speculative Fiction (2043)
Science fiction is not just about men in a lab or robots in space--it's also about us, all of us, our families and our communities. Developments in science and technology affect people of all genders, races, and nationalities, so we should all have a voice in exploring the changes we'll face. Join us to start imagining--and writing--the world of the future! Sunday: March 29 from 2 to 5 p.m. Online Class
Forché's What You Have Heard Is True (2023) Online Class
Join author Sandra Beasley to discuss Carolyn Forché’s memoir of travel to El Salvador, 1978-80, that forged Forché's identity as an activist and poet. Our discussion will focus not only on Forché’s personal journey, but her formidable lyric craft even when working in prose. Wednesday, April 1, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.Online Class
What the Folk? The Evolution of Folk Music (2019) Rescheduled with online date TK
Join Rick Massimo, author of I Got a Song: A History of the Newport Folk Festival, for a look at how folk music has gone from back porches to festival stages, how it’s changed and how it hasn’t. Please note new rescheduled date: Saturday, March 28th, from 1 to 3 p.m.Rescheduled with online date TK
Next Book Group Meetings
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Oh! The Horror!
March 29, 11:30 am
LIBRARY AT MOUNT CHAR, by Hawkins
$17.00
ISBN: 9780553418620
Availability: In Stock—Click for Locations
Published: Broadway Books - March 15th, 2016
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True Crime
March 31, 7:00 pm
SAY NOTHING, by Keefe NOTE: Meeting on Tues., March 31 this month
$16.95
ISBN: 9780307279286
Availability: In Stock—Click for Locations
Published: Anchor - February 25th, 2020
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Futurist
April 1, 7:30 pm
SMART ENOUGH CITY, by Green
$16.95
ISBN: 9780262538961
Availability: In Stock—Click for Locations
Published: MIT Press - February 18th, 2020
Travel with Politics & Prose
A Spring Walking Tour through Rock Creek Park - POSTPONED
Saturday, April 11, 2020, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. POSTPONED
Join Melanie Choukas-Bradley and Susan Austin Roth, the author and photographer of A Year in Rock Creek Park—the Wild, Wooded Heart of Washington, D.C., on a spring nature walk in Rock Creek Park.
Lincoln in the Bardo Spring Walking Tour
Sunday, April 19, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm
Join Andréa Seiger and John Dean, author and photographer of 111 Places in Washington That You Must Not Miss guidebook for a walk in this elegant and peaceful cemetery, the setting of George Saunders prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo. Sunday, April 19, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm
P&P TRIP FALLINGWATER SPRING 2020
Saturday, April 25, 2020 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
This spring, Politics and Prose invites you to a perennial P&P favorite: the wonder of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural masterpiece, Fallingwater! We are leading a trip to the wooded area of western Pennsylvania where you can enjoy the serenity of the surroundings and explore the house known worldwide as a resonant feat of architectural achievement and now a UNESCO World Heritage site! Saturday, April 25, 2020, 8 am to 8 pm.
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The Den opens at 8 a.m. daily
Happy Hour: MON – FRI, 4 – 7 p.m.
$5 Craft Beer, $7 Wine
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