BOOKISH: Pizza poetry, teengirl fantasies and the enigmatic Mrs. Nixon

Each week, Nina Willbach puts together a rundown of book-centric events. This week: Pizza poetry, teengirl fantasies and the enigmatic Mrs. Nixon.

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BOOKISH: Pizza poetry, teengirl fantasies and the enigmatic Mrs. Nixon

POSTED: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 2:00 PM

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Each week, Nina Willbach puts together a rundown of book-centric events. This week: Pizza poetry, teengirl fantasies and the enigmatic Mrs. Nixon.

Thursday, March 1

Who knows Mrs. Nixon?

In the years since Richard Nixon left the Oval Office, people have been trying to unravel the shock and controversy that characterized his time as president. Tonight, the library offers two readings on that period: Thomas Mallon's book Watergate takes a new look at one of our country's messiest affairs, giving human voices to names on documents and crafting the kind of intriguing account that only a historical novelist could conjure. Ann Beattie seeks to understand things from the eyes of one of the more forgotten first ladies, Mrs. Pat Nixon, wondering what it must have been like to support such a public and controversial husband. As the unofficial voice of the baby boomers, Beattie draws from news sources to piece together a picture of a woman often misunderstood by her generation.

7:30 p.m., $15, Free Library Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., libwww.freelibrary.org/authorevents/

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