October 2021

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Friday, October 1, 10:00 am
P&P Live! Lucy Ruth Cummins-Vampenguin
10:00 am
 
Friday, October 1, 6:00 pm
POSTPONED: P&P Live! Kathryn Paige Harden — The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality - with Angela Duckworth
6:00 pm
 
Friday, October 1, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Caoilinn Hughes and Mona Awad—THE WILD LAUGHTER and ALL'S WELL
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 2, 3:00 pm
P&P Live! Kris O'Shee — Our Last Blue Moon - with Nicholas Delbanco
3:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 2, 5:00 pm
P&P Live! Jess Walter — The Cold Millions - with Wiley Cash
5:00 pm
 
 
Saturday, October 2, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Anita Hill — Believing - with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
7:00 pm
 
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Sunday, October 3, 3:00 pm
P&P Live! Poetry Panel with Michael Collier, Hannah Baker Saltmarsh & Charlie Clark
3:00 pm
 
Sunday, October 3, 5:00 pm
P&P Live! Steven Pinker—RATIONALITY - with Dacher Keltner
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
 
Monday, October 4, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Ayana Gray — Beasts of Prey - with Namina Forna
7:00 pm
 
Monday, October 4, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! "Race in America" Panel moderated by April Ryan
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 5, 2:00 pm
P&P Live! Christian McKay Heidicker — Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The City
2:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 5, 6:00 pm
P&P Live! Derecka Purnell — Becoming Abolitionists - with Michelle Alexander
6:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 5, 7:00 pm
POSTPONED UNTIL 10/26/21: P&P Live! Siena Cherson Siegel and Mark Siegel-Tiny Dancer
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 5, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Joshua Ferris — A Calling For Charlie Barnes - with Lynne Tillman
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 5, 8:00 pm
P&P Live! Maggie Nelson — On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint - with Grace Lavery
8:00 pm
 
Wednesday, October 6, 5:30 pm
P&P Live! Jo Piazza and Christine Pride — We Are Not Like Them - in conversation with Sarah Pekkanen
5:30 pm
 
 
Wednesday, October 6, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Jonathan Franzen — CROSSROADS - with Tony Tulathimutte
7:00 pm
 
Wednesday, October 6, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride-Me (Moth)—with Ashley Woodfolk
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 7, 5:00 pm
P&P Live! Parag Khanna — Move: The Forces Uprooting Us - in conversation with Michael Hirsh
5:00 pm
 
 
Thursday, October 7, 7:00 pm
Anthony Doerr — CLOUD CUCKOO LAND: A Novel
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 7, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Rex Ogle — Punching Bag - with Deborah Taylor
7:00 pm
 
Friday, October 8, 6:00 pm
P&P Live! Fiona Hill — There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century - with Susan Glasser
6:00 pm
 
Friday, October 8, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Sharon Cameron — Bluebird - with L.M. Elliott
7:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 9, 3:00 pm
P&P Live! Panel Discussion — A Harp in the Stars
3:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 9, 5:00 pm
P&P Live! St. Clair Detrick-Jules — My Beautiful Black Hair - with Markette Sheppard
5:00 pm
 
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Sunday, October 10, 2:00 pm
P&P Live! Ferren Gipson—The Ultimate Art Museum
2:00 pm
 
Sunday, October 10, 5:00 pm
P&P Live! Andrea Elliott — Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City - in conversation with Ayad Akhtar
5:00 pm
 
 
Monday, October 11, 6:00 pm
P&P Live! Rick Riordan-Daughter of the Deep
6:00 pm
 
Monday, October 11, 8:00 pm
P&P Live! Margaret D. Jacobs — After One Hundred Winters - with Alaina E. Roberts
8:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 12, 6:00 pm
P&P Live! Toufah Jallow — Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement - with co-author Kim Pittaway
6:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 12, 8:00 pm
P&P Live! Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods — This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life - in conversation with Lawrence Bartley
8:00 pm
 
Wednesday, October 13, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Michelle Coles—Black Was the Ink-with Danielle Holley-Walker
7:00 pm
 
 
Wednesday, October 13, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Louise Penny & Hillary Rodham Clinton — State of Terror: A Novel
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 14, 6:00 pm
P&P Live! John and Liza Marshall — Off Our Chests - with Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
6:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 14, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Gayle Forman—Frankie & Bug-with Rebecca Stead
7:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 14, 8:00 pm
P&P Live! Thoreau Panel—NOW COMES GOOD SAILING - with Celeste Headlee, Pico Iyer, A.O. Scott, Rafia Zakaria and Andrew Blauner
8:00 pm
 
Friday, October 15, 10:00 am
P&P Live! Brendan Wenzel-Inside Cat
10:00 am
 
 
Friday, October 15, 6:00 pm
P&P Live! Jeanette Winterson—12 Bytes - with Adrian Daub and Laura Goode
6:00 pm
 
Friday, October 15, 8:00 pm
P&P Live! Sesali Bowen — Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes From A Trap Feminist
8:00 pm
 
 
Saturday, October 16, 4:00 pm
Indies Unite! Warren Binford & Michael Garcia Bocheneck—Hear My Voice/Escucha Mi Voz
4:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 16, 5:00 pm
P&P Live! Tara Laskowski & John Copenhaver — The Mother Next Door & The Savage Kind
5:00 pm
 
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Sunday, October 17, 5:00 pm
P&P Live! Anushay Hossain — THE PAIN GAP - with Soraya Chemaly, Jill Filipovic, and Sophia A, Nelson
5:00 pm
 
 
Monday, October 18, 6:00 pm
P&P Live! Elizabeth Strout — Oh William! - with Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
6:00 pm
 
Monday, October 18, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Jocelyn Nicole Johnson — My Monticello: Fiction - with Venita Blackburn
7:00 pm
 
Monday, October 18, 8:00 pm
P&P Live! Catherine Grace Katz — THE DAUGHTERS OF YALTA - with Andrew Roberts
8:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 19, 10:00 am
P&P Live! John Rocco—Hurricane
10:00 am
 
Tuesday, October 19, 5:00 pm
P&P Live! Farah Stockman—AMERICAN MADE - with Connie Schultz
5:00 pm
 
 
Tuesday, October 19, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Amor Towles — THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY - with Ken Burns
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 19, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Jack Fairweather—A Rebl in Auschwitz: The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp-with Neal Bascomb
7:00 pm
 
Wednesday, October 20, 6:00 pm
P&P Live! Sarah Ruhl — Smile: The Story of a Face - in conversation with Catherine Lacey
6:00 pm
 
 
Wednesday, October 20, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Mary Gaitskill — The Devil's Treasure - with Yiyun Li
7:00 pm
 
Wednesday, October 20, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Paula Chase, Varian Johnson and Kekla Magoon—"My So-Called Family" Panel-with Dr. Kimberly N. Parker
7:00 pm
 
Wednesday, October 20, 8:00 pm
P&P Live! General Stanley McChrystal — RISK: A USER'S GUIDE - with Anna Butrico
8:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 21, 6:00 pm
P&P Live! Myisha Cherry — The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle - with Kate Manne
6:00 pm
 
Thursday, October 21, 8:00 pm
P&P Live! Daniel de Visé — King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King - in conversation with Diane Williams
8:00 pm
 
Friday, October 22, 11:00 am
P&P Live! Mags DeRoma—Awake
11:00 am
 
Friday, October 22, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Marita Golden — The Strong Black Woman - with Dolen Perkins-Valdez
7:00 pm
 
 
Friday, October 22, 7:00 pm
Rep. Adam Schiff — Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could - with Ben Rhodes
7:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 23, 5:00 pm
P&P Live! Michael Krepon—WINNING AND LOSING THE NUCLEAR PEACE - with Steven E. Miller
5:00 pm
 
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Sunday, October 24, 3:00 pm
P&P Live! Bruce A. Ragsdale — Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery - with Cynthia A. Kierner
3:00 pm
 
Sunday, October 24, 5:00 pm
P&P Live! Chris Hedges — Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison - in conversation with Boris Franklin
5:00 pm
 
Monday, October 25, 1:00 pm
P&P Live! Eugene Yelchin—The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
1:00 pm
 
Monday, October 25, 5:00 pm
P&P Live! Mary Beard — Twelve Caesars - with Daniel Mendelsohn
5:00 pm
 
Monday, October 25, 8:00 pm
P&P Live! Saru Jayaraman—ONE FAIR WAGE - with Jane Black
8:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 26, 6:00 pm
P&P Live! Scott D. Seligman — A Second Reckoning: Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis
6:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 26, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Siena Cherson Siegel and Mark Siegel-Tiny Dancer
7:00 pm
 
Tuesday, October 26, 8:00 pm
P&P Live! Jayne Allen, Mia McKenzie, and LaTanya McQueen In Conversation
8:00 pm
 
Wednesday, October 27, 6:00 pm
P&P Live! Joshua Myers — Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition - with Chigozie Onyema
6:00 pm
 
Wednesday, October 27, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Thriller Panel with Wiley Cash and Kimi Cunningham Grant
7:00 pm
 
 
Thursday, October 28, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Susan Orlean — ON ANIMALS
7:00 pm
 
Friday, October 29, 12:00 pm
P&P Live! Roger Luckhurst—GOTHIC: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
12:00 pm
 
Friday, October 29, 7:00 pm
P&P Live! Wil Haygood — Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
7:00 pm
 
Saturday, October 30, 3:00 pm
P&P Live! Jo Nesbø — The Jealousy Man and Other Stories
3:00 pm
 
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Sunday, October 31, 5:00 pm
P&P Live! Terence Smith—FOUR WARS, FIVE PRESIDENTS - with Elisabeth Bumiller
5:00 pm
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Ticketed Events

Friday, October 22 at 7:00 pm
Thursday, October 28 at 7:00 pm
Wednesday, November 3 at 7:00 pm
Friday, November 5 at 7:00 pm
Thursday, November 11 at 8:00 pm
Tuesday, November 16 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 21 at 5:00 pm
Tuesday, November 23 at 6:30 pm