The Happy Booker

DC Event Tonight

Hear  This: Daniel Levitin will be discussing This is Your Brain on Music tonight with Jeffrey Brown, Senior Correspondent, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer at Politics and Prose. 

Levitin fuses his careers in professional music and neuroscience to look at the profound impact of music on the brain, examining the relationship between music production (how music is composed with sensory integration in mind) and perception (how certain songs get stuck in our head).

Wednesday, August 29, 8 p.m. Free.

DC Event Tonight

Mary Gordon comes into town tonight (August 21). Catch her at Politics and Prose reading from Circling My Mother, her memoir that blends her own memories with the facts of her mother’s life including losing her mother to senile dementia.

[ed. note: We place Gordon's early novel Spending near the top of our enjoyable beach reads, while Men and Angels and The Company of Women were always favored by our college professors as required reading. ]

DC Event Tonight

Don't miss William Gibson tonight (August 17th) at Politics and Prose. Techno-savvy Gibson reads at 7pm from his ninth novel, Spook Country.

DC Event—Saturday Night

It's the dog days of Summer, so pack up the pooch and head to Politics and Prose Saturday night. Starting at 6 p.m. the bookstore will once again celebrate man’s (and woman’s) best friend. 

The store will feature a number of activities and treats for families and their dogs, offer 20% off all dog-related literature, and raise money and awareness for Homeward Trails Animal Rescue.

We're Baaack...

Today kicks off a week-long discussion and heralding of Always, by Nicola Griffith, over at the LBC. Don't miss the roundtable discussion and musings on literary fiction by some of our favorite folks in the blogosphere. Go. Read. Enjoy.

Yes, the Happy Booker is back.  Back from whirlwind travels abroad with hubby and children and way too much luggage. We'll be posting holiday photos anon but for now here's a complete list of our amazing guest bloggers—in case you missed any of the smart and witty postings around these parts while we were away:  Patricia Storms, Mary Kay Zuravleff, Liam Callanan, Carole Burns, Chris Meeks, Laurel Snyder, Dan Vera,  Kate Blackwell, C.M. Mayo, Lauren Cerand, Kim Roberts, Antoine Wilson, plus a movie review by Richard Peabody and an open letter from the Potomac Review.