Cass Sunstein Writes Malcolm Gladwell's New Book
Monday, Feb. 23: Last Lion is an anthology of Boston Globe articles about one of Boston's top five-ish most famous All-Time Kennedys, Teddy Kennedy. The book's editor Peter Canellos will be giving a talk at Politics & Prose, and hopefully the "Other" of the Kennedys, Caroline, will not be mentioned in any way, lest Canellos would like the book to, we don't know, unpublish itself, or fuck Arthur Sulzberger. 7 PM. [ Politics & Prose ]
Tuesday, Feb. 24: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders has been said to be something like the Dubliners of Lahore, Pakistan. Author Daniyal Mueenuddin will be at Politics & Prose, maybe drunk and wishing he were in Paris instead. 7 PM. [ Politics & Prose ]
Wednesday, Feb. 25: Prolific ladykiller Cass Sunstein has a new book he wrote with some other people who are not married to Samantha Power. It's called Nudge and it's a Gladwellian-style EXPOSE about how people will make better choices more often if they are given a small push in the right direction. [ Hooks Book Events ]
Thursday, Feb. 26: Liaquat Ahamed makes the case that the Great Depression, not this new one, was caused by France, Germany, the US and England mismanaging basically everything related to economics in the Interwar period. Lords of Finance: The Bankers that Broke the World is his new book in which he calls them out on it. 7 PM. [ Politics & Prose ]
Friday, Feb. 27: Fool is like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, except with King Lear and his court jester, Pocket. The author's other work includes something called You Suck! , which is clearly his Coast of Utopia . 7 PM. [ Politics & Prose ]
Saturday, Feb. 28: All along America was blaming handi-capable inspirational figure Dick Cheney for the Iraq War. Really, it is the fault of this comically sinister neocon banker Ahmed Chalabi. 1 PM. [ Politics & Prose ]
Sunday, March 1: Dalton School mascot Adam Gopnik, famous for being the only writer in history to go to Paris and like it, will read some choice selections of the finely crafted sentences in his new book, Angels and Ages . [ Hooks Books Events ]