Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad ...

IDA — Gerfrude Stein — Random House ($2).Most readers require of prose that it make concrete sense as they think sense should be made. So Gertrude Stein, who uses prose to build a series of ...

Books & the Arts / A work of biography, an essay on literature and memory and the South, a prose poem full of lyrical dexterity, Trethewey’s latest book is like all of her others: a master study ...

A new bookstore has opened its doors in the neighborhood. Called Politics and Prose, the new addition is located at 1270 Fifth St. NE in Brentwood's Union Market. It joins the bookstore's recently ...

Symbol and character, verse and conversation, song and story coexist in the prose/poems of “The Lights.” Lerner populates his poetry with fictions like Emma, Rose, Marcela, Lucía, Ari, Bob ...

The poet Anne Carson has said that if “prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it.” Everett has always seemed to be on fire in his best novels. He can seem less so ...

President Obama visited Politics and Prose, an independent bookstore in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, to promote small businesses by buying a giant stack of books. The president, accompanied by ...

Famed independent bookstore Politics and Prose has successfully become the first unionized bookstore in Washington, D.C. “We are pleased to announce that Politics and Prose and UFCW Local 400 ...

Employees at D.C.’s Politics and Prose bookstore are now officially unionized under a collective bargaining agreement with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400, which represents ...

4,137 Views Program ID: 322992-1 Category: White House Event Format: Appearance Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States First Aired: Nov 29, 2014 | 3:46pm EST | C-SPAN 1 ...

A work of biography, an essay on literature and memory and the South, a prose poem full of lyrical dexterity, Trethewey's latest book is like all of her others: a master study of the self.