My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music is the story of pianist Leon Fleisher, written with the esteemed Washington Post classical music critic Anne Midgette. Fleisher suffers from a mysterious and debilitating hand condition, but his love of music -- plus botox injections in his hand -- has sustained him. Wednesday, Jan. 5, at 7 p.m. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Call 202-364-1919 or visit politics-prose.com.






