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Featured Author Event
Monday, May 19, 2008 at 7pm
Rick Perlstein - Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America’s turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency. Between 1965 and 1972, America experienced no less than a second civil war. Out of its ashes, the political world we know now was born. It was the era not only of Nixon, Johnson, Spiro Agnew, Hubert H. Humphrey, George McGovern, Richard J. Daley, and George Wallace but Abbie Hoffman, Ronald Reagan, Angela Davis, Ted Kennedy, Charles Manson, John Lindsay, and Jane Fonda. There are tantalizing glimpses of Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Jesse Jackson, John Kerry, and even of two ambitious young men named Karl Rove and William Clinton—and a not so ambitious young man named George W. Bush.
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Tuesday, June 3 - 8pm - Avalon Theater, 5612 Connecticut Ave., NW
Olsson's Presents An Evening With:
Chuck Palahniuk
Author of Snuff
An on-stage interview moderated by author Eric Nuzum, followed by a reading and Q&A
Tickets available in advance at all Olsson's and at the door, if space available. Not suitable for younger audience members. Tickets are non-refundable. Photos are permitted at the event, but no recording devices. Additional signed copies of Snuff and other titles will be available for purchase at the event. Mr. Palahniuk will not be available to sign or personalize anything at the event. No memorabilia. Please note for this ticketed event only: In-store pickup is not available. We will have a Will-Call table at the event for all online and telephone ticket orders.
Olsson's Blogs
Recommended Reads by Elizabeth Frengel
Elizabeth Frengel worked at the Lansburgh/Penn Quarter store from 2005 to 2006 and now works on-call with the crew in book ordering. She is close to finishing a master's in library science at Catholic University and is employed almost full time at American University in the reference, cataloging and special collections divisions. She also teaches writing at AU. Each week, she sends out a rundown on some of her favorite books. Read More...
New & Noteworthy with Andrew Getman
A D.C. kid and fierce Olsson's loyalist, Andrew Getman, after 8 years of teaching, felt a need to return his first love - literature. (He studied French and Russian Lit at Yale, and at Nizhni Novgorod State University in Russia.) Having sorted books at four Olsson's in four years and driven the delivery truck, he is now happily ensconced in his cubby-sized store, as the Airport Store Manager since August 2006. Read More...
The News From Poems by Malaika Robinson
Dupont Circle is Malaika I. Robinson's home away from home. She is often seen at Washington's oldest independent bookstore with a step stool in front of the poetry section. Malaika used to pass poems to fellow English majors at Spelman College. Now the Cincinnati native reads poetry to pigeons on her Capitol Hill fire escape. Malaika has worked at National Public Radio and co-edited a literary magazine in Florence, Italy.Read More...
Classical Corner with Cate Hagman
From 1991 until 2005, Cate Hagman worked at Olsson's Bethesda store and focused particularly on classical music, in which she betrayed a decided weakness for early music ensembles, mezzos, and baritones. Since 1995 she has been a political transcriber for a local independent newswire. Read More...
Subsonics by Ama Wertz
Ama Wertz has street cred. She is a self-proclaimed: snob, Germanophile, spinster, and cyclist. She's worked in radio on two continents. She knows more than ten people in Montana. She likes: crafting, good acoustics, attractive typeface, pomegranates, and bulleted lists. She dislikes: musicals, sneers, classic rock, and bios written in third person. Her favorite band is SSLYBY. She does not subscribe to any magazines.Read More...
Buyer's Corner with Alexis Akre
Alexis Akre, a DC-area native, has worked at Olsson's for almost six years. She received her BA in English from Barnard College, and lived in New York for several years. Since her return to her home town, Alexis has honed her gift for skewering both vapidity and pretension with concise, well-worded psychological assessment. She can be seen tooling around town on her minty green bike, reading one of the hundreds of books she has stacked in her home, and teaching her cat to do tricks. Read More...
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