Politics are hilarious–when they're fiction, of course! No one knows better than these three novelists. Susan Coll's "Bookish People," Grant Ginder's "Let's Not Do That Again" and Xochitl Gonzalez's "Olga Dies Dreaming" are comedies centered around the chaos that happens when politics and families collide. Join us for a laugh in this program moderated by Roswell Encina.

Highlights among the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

Susan Coll’s eighth novel, “The Literati,” is a funny, sometimes zany comedy of errors with a splash of rom-com — heavy on the com and light on the rom, which is refreshing.