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Schedule of events:
SATURDAY, SEPT. 22
Special Report
National Book Festival
The annual event takes place from Sept. 22-23 on the National Mall. Read more
2012 National Book Festival: Contemporary Life
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10:00-10:45 Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman and Johns Hopkins University professor Michael Mandelbaum are the co-authors of “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back.” Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, is also the author of “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century” and “Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America.” Mandelbaum, director of the American Foreign Policy program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, has written 10 books on U.S. foreign policy. Signing at 11.
10:55-11:40 Joy Harjo The poetry of Native American writer Joy Harjo has been influenced by her Muscogee Creek heritage as well as her feminist and social interests. Her most recent book is “Crazy Brave: A Memoir.” Signing at noon.
11:50 -12:35 Linda Greenhouse Pulitzer Prize-winner Linda Greenhouse, author of “The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction,” covered the court for nearly 30 years for the New York Times. In 2005 she published “Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey.” Signing at 10:30.
12:45-1:30 Marilynne Robinson won the PEN/Hemingway award for best first novel for “Housekeeping”; 24 years later she released her second novel, “Gilead,” which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Robinson teaches at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Her new essay collection is “When I Was a Child I Read Books.” Signing at 2.
1:40-2:25 Lisa Scottoline , best known as the author of legal suspense novels, wrote her latest book, “Best Friends, Occasional Enemies: The Lighter Side of Life as a Mother and Daughter,” with her daughter, Francesca Serritella. The two write a humor column called “Chick Wit” in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Scottoline, a former litigator who is also a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, published a new mystery, “Come Home,” earlier this year. Signing at 3.
2:35-3:20 Jeffrey Toobin, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, is the author of several books on legal affairs, including “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.” He is a staff writer for the New Yorker and a senior analyst for CNN. His new book is “The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court.” Signing at 4.
3:30-4:15 Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine. His books include “The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast” and, most recently, “Cronkite,” a biography of the legendary newsman. Signing at 2.
4:25-5:10 Donna Britt , a former reporter and columnist for The Washington Post, is the author of “Brothers (& Me): A Memoir of Loving and Giving,” an exploration of issues surrounding gender and race. Signing at 2:30.
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Book review: ‘The Fix,’ by Damian Thompson
How addiction is taking over your world, and how you are empowered to stop it.
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Book World: ‘My Life as a Weapon’ explores a superhero’s spare time
In comic series, writer Matt Fraction and artist David Aja follow Avengers’ Hawkeye through daily life.
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Book review: Philipp Meyer’s ‘The Son’
The author of ‘American Rust’ is back with a spectacular saga about the settling of Texas and the flow of oil.
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'Apocalypse Cow,' by Michael Logan
In Logan's absurdist first novel, sex-crazed zombie bovines threaten the earth.
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Khaled Hosseini’s exquisite ‘And the Mountains Echoed’
The bestselling author of “The Kite Runner” returns with another powerful story about Afghanistan.
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Two thumbs up! (I hated it)
What do the blurbs on book jackets really mean?
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‘Minotaur,’ by Benjamin Tammuz
A man becomes obsessed with a teenage girl, but does that obsession lead him to murder?
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Adam Mansbach at the Gaithersburg Book Festival
The fourth annual book fair offered 100 authors and a dozen workshops.
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Book review: ‘The Golem and the Jinni,’ by Helene Wecker
Can modest golem and a mercurial jinni find love in Lower Manhattan?
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Book review: ‘Cheat the Clock’
A science writer for The Washington Post, Margaret Webb Pressler decided to unravel the mystery of her husband’s biology.
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Book review: ‘Wash,’ by Margaret Wrinkle
The harrowing story of a black man pressed into sexual slavery after the Revolutionary War.
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Washington Post Bestsellers May 19
The books Washington has been reading.
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Book review: ‘The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter’
Steven Nadler’s fascinating survey of Golden Age Dutch culture, Cartesian philosophy and art connoisseurship.
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Book review: Eleanor Morse’s ‘White Dog Fell from the Sky’
A novel about the unusual friendship between a South African refugee and an American expatriate.
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