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June 2021

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		Tuesday, June 1, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Michelle Orange — Pure Flame: A Legacy - with Leslie Jamison 6:00 pm Tuesday, June 1, 7:00 pm P&P Live! Pride Panel — The Pocket Change Collective - with Leo Baker, Adam Eli, Chella Man, Alok Vaid-Menon moderated by Deborah Taylor 7:00 pm Tuesday, June 1, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Sasha Issenberg — THE ENGAGEMENT - with Amy Walter 8:00 pm	Wednesday, June 2, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Sharice Davids & Joshua M. Pawis Steckley — Sharice's Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman 6:00 pm Wednesday, June 2, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Peter L. W. Osnos — An Especially Good View: Watching History Happen - with Evan Osnos 6:00 pm Wednesday, June 2, 7:00 pm P&P Live! Ben Rhodes — AFTER THE FALL - with George Packer 7:00 pm Wednesday, June 2, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Alice Waters — We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto - with Kim Severson 8:00 pm	Thursday, June 3, 12:00 pm P&P Live! Francis Fukuyama & Mathilde Fasting — After The End of History 12:00 pm Thursday, June 3, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Michael Dobbs — King Richard - in conversation with Garrett M. Graff 6:00 pm Thursday, June 3, 7:00 pm P&P Live! Body Diversity Panel — Every Body Shines: Sixteen Stories About Living Fabulously Fat—with Cassandra Newbould, Alex Gino and Francina Simone - with Sylvie Shaffer 7:00 pm Thursday, June 3, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Zakiya Dalila Harris — The Other Black Girl - in conversation with Riley Sager 8:00 pm	Friday, June 4, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Presents a Super-Powered Panel — Miles Morales: Shock Waves - with Justin A. Reynolds, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, John Jennings, and Angélique Roché 6:00 pm Friday, June 4, 6:00 pm POSTPONED: Chris Matthews (New Date: June 29) 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Friday, June 4, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Sebastian Junger — FREEDOM - with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon 8:00 pm	Saturday, June 5, 1:00 pm P&P Live! Casey McQuiston — One Last Stop - in conversation with Talia Hibbert 1:00 pm Saturday, June 5, 7:00 pm P&P Live! Kristen Arnett — WITH TEETH - with Alissa Nutting 7:00 pm
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Sunday, June 6, 4:00 pm P&P Live! Eley Williams — ATTRIB. AND OTHER STORIES - with Mary Norris 4:00 pm	Monday, June 7, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Jocelyn C. Zuckerman — PLANET PALM 6:00 pm Monday, June 7, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Black Women & Romance Panel - with The AntiRacist Table and The Ripped Bodice 8:00 pm	Tuesday, June 8, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Melissa Scholes Young — The Hive - in conversation with Jared Yates Sexton 6:00 pm Tuesday, June 8, 7:00 pm P&P Live! & JACL Present Maia & Alex Shibutani-Kudo Kids: The Mystery in Manhattan—with David Inoue 7:00 pm Tuesday, June 8, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Michael Farquhar — More Bad Days in History: The Delightfully Dismal, Day-by-Day Saga of Ignominy, Idiocy, and Incompetence Continues with Jared Yates Sexton 8:00 pm	Wednesday, June 9, 4:00 pm P&P Live! Gigi Georges — DOWNEAST: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America - with Sophia DeSchiffart and Hillary Clinton 4:00 pm Wednesday, June 9, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Adam Rothman and Elsa Barraza Mendoza — Facing Georgetown's History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation - with Lauret Savoy 6:00 pm Wednesday, June 9, 7:00 pm P&P Live! Bill Konigsberg-The Bridge—with David Levithan 7:00 pm Wednesday, June 9, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Daisy Hernandez — THE KISSING BUG - with Patricia Engel 8:00 pm	Thursday, June 10, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Andrea Bajani — IF YOU KEPT A RECORD OF SINS - with Sasha Frere-Jones 6:00 pm Thursday, June 10, 7:00 pm P&P Live! Sheba Karim-The Marvelous Mirza Girls—with Piyali Bhattacharya 7:00 pm Thursday, June 10, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Emma Goldberg — Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic - with Nicholas Kristof 8:00 pm	Friday, June 11, 12:00 am Summer Member Sale 12:00 am to 11:30 pm »
					Friday, June 11, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Lisa Taddeo and Raven Leilani in Conversation 6:00 pm
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« Friday, June 11, 12:00 am Summer Member Sale 12:00 am to 11:30 pm	Monday, June 14, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford — Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth - with Jehmu Greene 6:00 pm Monday, June 14, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Carol Anderson — The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America - with Rashawn Ray 8:00 pm	Tuesday, June 15, 4:00 pm P&P Live! & DC Public Library Present Ambreen Tariq-Fatima's Great Outdoors with Tara Thomas 4:00 pm Tuesday, June 15, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Hilary Mantel — THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT - with Barrie Hardymon 6:00 pm Tuesday, June 15, 7:00 pm P&P Live! Jake Tapper — THE DEVIL MAY DANCE - with Taffy Brodesser-Akner 7:00 pm Tuesday, June 15, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Christine Platt — The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less - in conversation with Courtney Carver 8:00 pm Tuesday, June 15, 8:00 pm P&P Live! In The Heights - Virtual Book Launch 8:00 pm	Wednesday, June 16, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Caleb Scharf —The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm - with David Grinspoon 6:00 pm Wednesday, June 16, 7:00 pm P&P Live! Bethany C. Morrow-A Chorus Rises: A Song Below Water Novel—with Sandhya Menon 7:00 pm Wednesday, June 16, 8:00 pm P&P Live! George Packer — LAST BEST HOPE - with Franklin Foer 8:00 pm	Thursday, June 17, 5:00 pm P&P Live! Author Panel — Future War and the Defence of Europe 5:00 pm Thursday, June 17, 7:00 pm P&P Live! Alyson Gerber-Taking Up Space—with Lisa Fipps 7:00 pm Thursday, June 17, 7:00 pm P&P Live! Kerri Arsenault & Lacy Crawford in Conversation 7:00 pm	Friday, June 18, 4:00 pm P&P Live! Dax-Devlon Ross — LETTERS TO MY WHITE MALE FRIENDS - with Julie Lythcott-Haims 4:00 pm Friday, June 18, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Barbara Boyle Torrey & Clara Myrick Green — Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC - with James Fisher and Maurice Jackson 6:00 pm	Saturday, June 19, 1:00 pm P&P Live! Craig Melvin — Pops - in conversation with Jon Meacham 1:00 pm Saturday, June 19, 3:00 pm P&P Live! Parenting Panel: Gregg Behr, Ryan Rydzewski, and Jordan Shapiro-When You Wonder, You're Learning & Father Figure—with Anya Kamenetz 3:00 pm

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Sunday, June 20, 5:00 pm P&P Live! John Burgess — Angkor's Temples in the Modern Era: War, Pride and Tourist Dollars 5:00 pm	Monday, June 21, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Kai Bird — THE OUTLIER - in conversation with David Ignatius 6:00 pm Monday, June 21, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Claire Boyles — Site Fidelity: Stories - with Alexander Chee 8:00 pm	Tuesday, June 22, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Bob Bauer & Jack Goldsmith — After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency 6:00 pm Tuesday, June 22, 7:00 pm P&P Live! Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner-Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution 7:00 pm Tuesday, June 22, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Joshua Henkin — Morningside Heights - with Marisa Silver 8:00 pm	Wednesday, June 23, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Ashley Molesso & Chess Needham — THE GAY AGENDA 6:00 pm Wednesday, June 23, 8:00 pm P&P Live! A Conversation with Brandon Fleming & Kiese Laymon 8:00 pm	Thursday, June 24, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Jonathan Rauch — The Constitution of Knowledge - in conversation with Nadine Strossen 6:00 pm
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Sunday, June 27, 5:00 pm P&P Live! Summer Poetry Spotlight — Kim Addonizio, David Keplinger, and Gary Lemons 5:00 pm	Monday, June 28, 1:00 pm Rachel Cusk — SECOND PLACE - with Makenna Goodman 1:00 pm Monday, June 28, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Thomas E. Crocker — Empire's Eagles 6:00 pm Monday, June 28, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Brandon Taylor — FILTHY ANIMALS with Vinson Cunningham 8:00 pm	Tuesday, June 29, 4:00 pm P&P Live! and DC Public Library Present G. Neri and Jesse Joshua Watson-Concrete Cowboy 4:00 pm Tuesday, June 29, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Clare Sestanovich — OBJECTS OF DESIRE - with Brandon Taylor 6:00 pm Tuesday, June 29, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Chris Matthews — This Country: My Life in Politics and History 8:00 pm	Wednesday, June 30, 6:00 pm P&P Live! Geoffrey Cain — The Perfect Police State - in conversation with Ishaan Tharoor 6:00 pm Wednesday, June 30, 8:00 pm P&P Live! Theodore R. Johnson — When the Stars Begin to Fall - in conversation with Karen Finney 8:00 pm

Ticketed Events

Monday, June 28 at 1:00 pm

Wednesday, July 7 at 7:00 pm

Thursday, July 8 at 8:00 pm

Sunday, July 18 at 2:00 pm

Monday, July 19 at 7:00 pm

Tuesday, August 10 at 8:00 pm