Politics and Prose is a large, independent bookstore uniquely situated in the nation’s capital and serving a broad array of Washington readers, writers, thinkers, teachers, and policy-makers. In addition to our incredible selection of titles, Politics and Prose offers more than 500 public events each year, bringing leading authors across all genres to venues in Washington, DC. Visit us online at www.politics-prose.com.
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Politics and Prose is a large, independent bookstore uniquely situated in the nation’s capital and serving a broad array of Washington readers, writers, thinkers, teachers, and policy-makers. In addition to our incredible selection of titles, Politics and Prose offers more than 500 public events each year, bringing leading authors across all genres to venues in Washington, DC. Visit us online at www.politics-prose.com.
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August 11, 2026
Nina Mandell — A Fraction of a Point: A Gymnastics Dynasty on the Line - with Robert Samuels
<p>When the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gymnastics team competes in the Ohio High School Athletic Association state gymnastics meet, they're expected to win. That's because they've won each year-since 2004. And as the streak builds, there's more pressure each year on the public school's team to continue that tradition. No year was more tense than the year that they were hoping to take home their 20th straight title.</p><p>A Fraction of a Point follows the Bees throughout the intense 2022-2023 season as the team works toward the state meet. During one of their most competitive seasons in recent years, sports journalist Nina Mandell explores the gymnasts' backstories and traces the legacy of the Ganim family, the team's longtime coaches.</p><p>But this isn't just a story about one historic season. At its heart, it's also about the teenagers balancing athletics with high school life, the larger community that supported the team, what it means to compete for the joy of the sport, and the athletes' and coaches' dedication even while facing immense pressure.</p><p>Ultimately, the state title comes down to the final event. As the Bees line up to compete, the gym falls silent. Hundreds of gymnasts and their supporters from around the state watch and wonder: Will the Bees maintain their streak? Or will this be the year it all ends?</p><p><strong>Nina Mandell</strong> is a journalist living in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who has written for Bustle, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, The New York Daily News, and NBC Regional Sports Networks. She is the former managing editor of USA Today's "For The Win" site and the former digital director/managing editor of NBC Sports Washington, and currently works in sports marketing.</p><p>Mandell is joined in conversation with<strong> Robert Samuels</strong>, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and national enterprise reporter at The Washington Post. For close to a decade, Robert has traveled across the country to chronicle politics, policy and the changing American identity. He is the co-author of His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Robert has also worked as a staff writer at The Miami Herald and the New Yorker. He grew up in The Bronx and resides in Washington, DC.</p><p>PURCHASE:</p><p>https://politics-prose.com/book/9781606355077?ic_referral=d7z4Za7e6EaaRoTGKW7syfDgReIJ3lT4O5Jk_Fk_GW0wM6pNowqbREzMKB3Xe8TIgf3m_1IkK27dALQXet2zQB2HYWYXJdWUGVDX4CShcY5zvBojOFv5HL0Yl0q7Lf7Bn-G2zuY</p>
August 10, 2026
Mark Oppenheimer — Judy Blume: A Life - with Katherine Marsh
<p><strong>The highly anticipated biography of one of the world’s most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted.</strong><br>To know the name Judy Blume is to know and love literature. Her influential novels turned classics—including Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret; Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; Deenie; and Summer Sisters—touched the lives of tens of millions of readers. For more than fifty-five years her work has done something revolutionary: it rewired the world’s expectations of what literature for young people can be—frank, candid, earthy, and unafraid to show the messier sides of humanity. But little is known about the real woman behind the iconic persona, and the unlikely journey of her literary ascension, until now.<br>In <a href="https://politics-prose.com/book/9780593714447"><strong>Judy Blume</strong></a>, journalist, historian, and longtime Blume aficionado Mark Oppenheimer pens a beautiful, multidimensional portrait of the acclaimed author through extensive interviews with Blume herself, invaluable access to her papers and correspondence, and thoughtful analysis of Blume’s beloved novels, including early, unpublished works that shed light on the pathbreaking writer she would become. Oppenheimer goes deep, exploring Blume’s middle-class 1950s upbringing, complicated childhood, varied relationships and marriages, unabashed sexual experiences, bouts of heartache and loss, and enduring legacy as a champion of free speech and contemporary literature. Oppenheimer peels back the curtain to reveal the woman behind the literary empire in all her complex, multifaceted glory—a true gift for anyone who grew up reading and loving these extraordinary books.</p><p><strong>Mark Oppenheimer</strong> is the author of four critically acclaimed books, including Squirrel Hill, Wisenheimer, and Thirteen and a Day. He has taught at NYU, Stanford, Yale, and Washington University in St. Louis, where he is Professor of Practice. Mark lives with his family in New Haven, Connecticut.</p><p>Oppenheimer is in conversation with <strong>Katherine Marsh</strong>, an award-winning author of novels for middle-grade readers including The Lost Year; Nowhere Boy; The Night Tourist; and The Myth of Monsters series. Among her honors are National Book Award finalist, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, winner of the New York Historical Society Book Award, and winner of the Middle East Book Award. Her books have also been Junior Library Guild Selections, American Library Association Notables, and have been translated into eighteen languages. A former magazine journalist, Katherine lives in Washington, DC with her husband, two children and an astonishing array of pets.</p><p>PURCHASE:</p><p>https://politics-prose.com/book/9780593714447?ic_referral=zJV4wnKfGGAwxuSDLBpgvT1QTxDYBw6dL4uOI1O67qIwM7WBXbPKxr-tn33N8Dis9M6xHimb85tjc51-byVnhAf9y2GOsMlwmpRaVyobNPnsMzYZu_BXGad2q_fq7gZYALlBJhE</p>
August 9, 2026
Rashad Robinson — From Presence to Power: How to Take On the Fights That Matter--and Win - with Joy Ann Reid
<p><strong>Why do some fights for justice hit a wall while others succeed? What does it take to win social change, especially now? It comes down to understanding one thing: the difference between presence and power.</strong><br>Failing to do so is one way we got into this mess, but understanding how power really works is a big part of how we get out of it. <br>Rashad Robinson would know. A social change strategist, he’s spent more than twenty years at the highest levels of leadership in two of the most significant social movements of our time: the fight for LGBTQ rights and the fight for racial justice. He’s taken on tech giants and the criminal justice system, politicians in Washington and corporate executives in Hollywood. He’s been on the front lines of protest and in the back rooms of negotiation. <br>Robinson argues that achieving presence—the visibility of marches, media fads, and making issues popular—is not the same as gaining the leverage required to change the rules for how society works or change the decisions that politicians, corporate executives, and other people in authority make. <br>This book offers a set of essential lessons about power for anyone who wants to understand it, gain it, and use it to win the progress we all deserve—and to defeat the forces trying to take our freedoms away. Robinson provides the tools needed to help everyday people build real leverage in systems designed to prevent them from doing so.<br>As someone who helped shape the resistance after the 2016 election, and continues to help leaders at every level find innovative ways to fight back and win progress today, Robinson offers a hopeful, practical guide to achieving positive impact in the most challenging times.</p><p><strong>Rashad Robinson </strong>is a social justice leader, strategist and organization builder. He has designed campaigns to change public policies, corporate practices, electoral outcomes, and media representations. He speaks widely on corporate accountability, narrative change, infrastructure for organizing, and strategies for creating a more equitable world. Through Rashad Robinson Advisors (RRA), he advises and collaborates on developing high-impact strategies to bring about progress with foundations, nonprofits and leaders across media, politics, government and business. He previously led Color Of Change for nearly fourteen years, transforming it from a start-up into a national force for racial justice, and also led programs at GLAAD, reshaping media representations of LGBTQ people during the fights to win marriage equality and end discrimination. More information about Rashad, including his weekly How We Win newsletter, can be found at <a href="http://www.rashadrobinson.com/" target="_blank">www.rashadrobinson.com</a>.</p><p>Robinson is in conversation with <strong>Joy Ann Reid</strong>, a New York Times bestselling author, a former Emmy nominated, two time NAACP Image Award winning primetime host at the artist formerly known as MSNBC and the current host of The Joy Reid Show streaming podcast which you can find on YouTube at <a href="http://thejoyreidshow.com/" target="_blank">thejoyreidshow.com</a>, on audio podcast platforms, and at <a href="http://joyannreid.com/" target="_blank">joyannreid.com</a> on Substack.</p><p>PURCHASE:</p><p>https://politics-prose.com/book/9780593243565?ic_referral=IKxCP2H8EHc963yofaM8vneG3kF0tRYv9hweGA5Ynf4wM_OWtl8iINx9GIacZtJBnFPlygOlPQu7mqvKOrRKN2aHwlv2OpT1MSN_0-VoyLJhXO8LV4g00YU4A9-Q6He3wgzekdU</p>
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