A listing in the literary calendar the July 5 Outlook section incorrectly said that Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter, authors of "The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today," would be discussing their book at 6 p.m. today on Saturday, July 11, at Politics and Prose Bookstore. Soodalter will be speaking today.
LITERARY CALENDAR JULY 6-12, 2009
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LITERARY CALENDAR JULY 6-12, 2009
6 MONDAY 7 P.M. Bill Wasik, a senior editor at Harper's magazine, discusses and signs And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919.
8 WEDNESDAY Noon. U.S. Navy Cmdr. Henry J. Hendrix discusses and signs his new book, Theodore Roosevelt's Naval Diplomacy: The U.S. Navy and the Birth of the American Century, as part of the "Authors on Deck" series at the United States Navy Memorial, Naval Heritage Center, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Visit http:/
7 P.M. Alyssa Katz discusses and signs Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 202-364-1919.
7:30 P.M. Mary Kay Andrews reads from and signs her new novel, The Fixer Upper, at Borders Books-White Flint, 11301 Rockville Pike, Kensington, Md., 301-816-1067.
9 THURSDAY 1 P.M. The National Park Service (National Capital Parks-East) is hosting a reading and discussion with Katie McCabe, author of Justice Older than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree, at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, 1318 Vermont Ave. NW. McCabe's biography, written with Roundtree, chronicles the life of the civil rights activist as one of the first African American women to break the color barrier in the military in World War II. For details and to RSVP, call 202-673-2402.
10 FRIDAY 6 P.M. Craig Nelson discusses this month's 40th anniversary of the Moon landing, drawn from his new book Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, at the College Park Aviation Museum, 1985 Cpl. Frank Scott Dr., College Park, Md. A Q&A and book signing follow; call 301-864-6029.
11 SATURDAY 6 P.M. Kevin Bales, president of the organization Free the Slaves and a professor of sociology, joins co-author Ron Soodalter, a historian and folklorist, for a discussion of their new book, The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today, at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 202-364-1919.
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