About Politics and Prose

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Located in Washington D.C., Politics and Prose has been a beloved and award-winning staple for book lovers around the nation's capital and the world. In addition to our incredible selection of titles, P&P offers public events with the authors and journalists that you love best!

Psyche Williams-Forson — Eating While Black - with Chef Rahman "Rock" Harper

Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public polic…

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Efrén Olivares — My Boy Will Die of Sorrow

My Boy Will Die of Sorrow reflects on the immigrant experience then and now, on what separations do to families, and how the act of separation itself adds another layer to the immigrant identity. Our concern for fellow human beings who live at the margins of our society—at the border, literally and…

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Maya Payne Smart — Reading for Our Lives - with Corey Minor Smith

Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through personal stories, historica…

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