Independent Bookstore in Washington DC Also Serves Gourmet Food and Drinks

Located at 418 7th Street Olssons’s Books and Records store has an impressive selection of books. The bookstore frequently invites authors and has a cozy coffee shop to sit back and relax. Olssons is smaller than the mammoth bookstore so you don’t feel snowed under.

April  Authors:

Tuesday, April 10, 7:00pm. Laura Lippman — Former Baltimore Sun reporter and author, Laura Lippman reads from her new mystery novel, What The Dead Know, based on a true story that took place in suburban Maryland, thirty years ago, when two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall and their bodies were never found.

Thursday, April 12, 7:00pm. Laura Flanders –Air America host Laura Flanders discusses her new book, Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians, based on her bottom-up style of journalism.

Wednesday, April 18, 7:00pm. Heather Ewing — Drawing on unpublished diaries and letters from across Europe and the U.S., historian Heather Ewing, who has worked for the Smithsonian Institution, presents her timely new book, The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian.

Tuesday, April 24, 7:00pm. Steven Bach — Bennington and Columbia University professor Steven Bach discusses his new book. Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl, which reveals the truths and lies behind this gifted woman’s lifelong self-vindication as an apolitical artist.

Wednesday, April 25, 7:00pm. Zachary Leader in a discussion with Christopher Hitchens — In his authorized biography, The Life of Kingsley Amis, Zachary Leader, the editor of Kingsley Amis’s letters, argues that Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.

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