The Week In Catastrophe: Health Care, Hurricane Katrina, 25 Year-Old Thrice-Published Novelists
Books this week are all about devastation: There are a few about our economy and health care system, oh and one that is a chilling testament to the impossibly tragic early onslaught of ennui that befalls New York City private school kids every year. Plus, it is also the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a terrible American disaster.
Monday, August 24
Fantastically mustachioed Wall Street Journal economics editor Dave Wessel's new book is In Fed We Trust . Go hear him talk about it if only to find out whether or not he's being cheeky. 7 PM. [ Politics & Prose ]
Tuesday, August 25
The Healing of America sounds like it is something about health care reform. Zeitgeist-y. 7 PM. [ Politics & Prose ]
Wednesday, August 26
The history of the LAPD is a topic about which we know quite little actually! John Buntin, whose book, L.A. Noir , is about this very subject, probably knows quite a lot! 7 PM. [ Politics & Prose ]
New MUSIC BOOK about your favorites Bob Marley and Nina Simone, plus others. 7 PM. [ Busboys & Poets ]
Thursday, August 27
An Expensive Education is the third novel from Nick McDowell, the twenty-five year-old who also wrote that book about New York City private school kids doing drugs that was somehow different from Gossip Girl . 7 PM. [ Politics & Prose ]
Sunday, August 30
It is the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this weekend, and Busboys & Poets is hosting a for-charity screening of a documentary called Paradise Faded: The Fight for Louisiana . 7 PM. [ Busboys & Poets ]