Olsson's - The Lansburgh - Penn Quarter

Journalist Amy Sutherland discusses and signs her book.

Political commentator Keli Goff discusses and signs her book.

Comedienne and actress Alison Larkin reads from and signs her new, semi-autobiographical novel.

The author discusses and signs his new compendium.

The author reads and signs her new novel.

The author discusses and signs his book.

"A month and a half into his Senate term, Senator Arlen Specter learned he had the most severe grade of Hodgkin's Disease. In this memoir, he describes the treatment he received, the side effects, and his decisions about how to handle life with a potentially fatal disease." (booksite.com) Book discussion ... (more)and signing.

"For parents of finicky eaters, The Sneaky Chef was the answer to their prayers, giving them solutions for hiding healthy food in the meals kids crave. Within a month of publication, it was a New York Times bestseller. But author Missy Chase Lapine knew another secret: the kids aren’t the only ones ... (more)in the family not eating their veggies! Now Lapine targets the other picky eater in the family with these hearty meals that successfully cloak ingredients that specifically target men’s health issues" (booksite.com)

"At age twenty-five, Michael Hastings arrived in Baghdad to cover the war in Iraq for Newsweek. He had at his disposal a little Hemingway romanticism and all the apparatus of a twenty-first-century reporter. In startling detail, he describes the chaos, the violence, and the never-ending threats of bomb ... (more)and mortar attacks. Back in New York, Hastings had fallen in love with Andi Parhamovich, a young idealist who worked for Air America. A year into their courtship, Andi followed Michael to Iraq, taking a job with the National Democratic Institute. Their war-zone romance is another window into life in Baghdad." (booksite.com)

"Meet Newsweek contributing editor Eleanor Clift as she signs copies of her new book, Two Weeks of Life. What has become known as the Schiavo affair—the death of a brain-damaged woman in Florida in 2005, and the controversy that surrounded it—was a revelatory moment in American society, demonstrating ... (more)both the political power of religious fanaticism and the beginning of an American movement away from dangerous radicalism. Eleanor Clift witnessed this event from a unique vantage point. At the same time that Schiavo was dying in her Florida hospice, Clift’s husband, Tom Brazaitis, was dying of cancer at home; the two passed away within a day of each other. Two Weeks of Life alternates between these two stories to provide a moving commentary on how we deal, or fail to deal, with dying in modern America." (booksite.com)

"In The Rebels’ Hour, world renowned journalist Lieve Joris illuminates the dark heart of contemporary Congo through the prism of one lonely and complicated rebel leader who becomes a high ranking general in the Congolese army. The Rebels’ Hour thrusts us into Assani’s world, forcing us to navigate ... (more)the chaos of a lawless country alongside him, compelled by an instinct to survive in a place where human life has been stripped of value. Though pathologically evasive, Assani—in Joris’s horrifying and brilliant zoom-lens portrait—stands out in relief as a man who is both monstrous and sympathetic, perpetrator and victim. 202-638-7610."

"On his way to stardom in the pros after a hugely successful college football career at Arizona State, where he graduated summa cum laude, Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract in response to the 9/11 attacks to enlist as a Ranger in the U.S. Army. On April 22, 2004, Pat Tillman ... (more)was killed in Afghanistan in what the Administration and the Pentagon initially portrayed as a dramatic gun battle with the enemy. But in the weeks that followed, disturbing facts emerged. Army officials had been hiding the truth: Pat was killed by his fellow Rangers. Mary Tillman shares the story of her son’s extraordinary life and the Tillman family’s impassioned and tenacious efforts to uncover the truth about what happened to him and how our government went to such great lengths to keep the circumstances secret." (202) 638-7610. (booksite.com)

The author discusses and signs his book. 202-638-7610. (Book World, the Washington Post)

Interview, Q&A, signing. Interviewer: Eric Nuzum, writer.