Literary Calendar: January 8-14, 2007

6:30 P.M."Covert Action: Valuable Tool or Dangerous Game?" is the topic of a panel discussion with retired CIA senior officer William Daugherty, author of Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency (written with Mark Bowden), and John Prados, a senior fellow at the National Security Archive and the author of Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA, at the International Spy Museum, 800 F St. NW. Admission is $20 for nonmembers; for details, call 202-393-7798.

6:30 P.M. Guest readers Roberta Cohen, Jeffery Paine and Hussein Ibish join editor Dedi Felman for a reading from the anthology Literature from the "Axis of Evil": Writings from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, 202-387-7638.

7 P.M. Award-winning satirist P.J. O'Rourke discusses and signs On the Wealth of Nations, a volume in the new series "Books That Changed the World," at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919. He will also speak on Tuesday, Jan. 9, at 6 p.m. at the Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Call 202-789-5229 or e-mail events@cato.org for details and to RSVP.

9TUESDAY

7 P.M. CIA veteran Tyler Drumheller discusses and signs On the Brink: An Insider's Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 202-364-1919.

10WEDNESDAY

6:30 P.M. Randall Horton, a graduate of the Cave Canem poetry workshop, reads from and signs his new book of verse, The Definition of Place, at Karibu Books, Bowie Town Center, 15624 Emerald Way, Bowie, Md., 301-352-4110. The program is part of "Dwayne Betts Presents!," a series hosted by Karibu Books' first poet in residence.

7 P.M. Yoga instructor Kimberly Wilson, founder of the D.C. studio Tranquil Space, discusses and signs her new book, Hip Tranquil Chick: A Guide to Life On and Off the Yoga Mat, at Olsson's Books-Dupont, 1307 19th St. NW, 202-785-1133.

11THURSDAY

Noon. Marianne Kamp, a professor of history at the University of Wyoming, discusses and signs The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling Under Communism at the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Bldg., Room 119, 10 First St. SE, 202-707-2692.

Noon. The Cato Institute hosts a forum, "Has U.S. Income Inequality Increased?," with Alan Reynolds, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, former director of Economic Research at the Hudson Institute and the author of Income and Wealth, and Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Hudson Institute and Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institution. Call 202-789-5229 or e-mail events@cato.org for details and to RSVP.

6:30 P.M. Alicia C. Shepard discusses and signs Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate at the Cleveland Park Branch Library, Connecticut & Macomb Sts. NW, 202-282-3080.

7 P.M. Longtime New Yorker magazine staff writer Calvin Trillin discusses and signs About Alice, a book celebrating his wife, who passed away in 2001, at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 202-364-1919.

7 P.M. Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz, both journalists at Newsweek magazine, discuss and sign Is it Hot in Here? Or Is It Me? The Complete Guide to Menopause at the Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 S. Park Ave., Silver Spring, Md., 301-656-2797.

7:30 P.M. Po Bronson discusses and signs "Why Do I Love These People?": Understanding, Surviving, and Creating Your Own Family (the revised paperback, recently published) at Borders Books-Baileys Crossroads, Route 7 at Columbia Pike, Baileys Crossroads, Va., 703-998-0404.