Wednesday Night Live

In DC tonight, Politics and Prose hosts a bevy of Atlantic Monthly contributors, including Christopher Hitchens , Robert Dallek, Mark Bowden, James Fallows, William Langewiesche, and Congressman John Conyers, to celebrate the publication of The American Ideal an anthology of the last 150 years of The Atlantic Monthly. Yes, 150 years. We didn't realize that Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, as well as Robert Lowell’s epic “For the Union Dead." Come out tonight to celebrate, listen, admire and learn.

In NYC tonight, there's a happy gathering at the Happy Ending Music an Reading Series. Join our dear friend Min Jin Lee as she reads with Dzanc wonder boy Roy Kesey and author Benjamin Percy. The doors open at 7:00, the show starts at 8pm sharp.