Liteary Calendar

December 3-9, 2007

3MONDAY

7 P.M. Poets featured in the new anthology Echoes: Voices from Prince George's County Poets, including J. Joy Matthews Alford, Steve M. Buter, Spencer L. Duffy and Susan Levy, read from their work at the Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 S. Park Ave., Chevy Chase, Md. This event, part of the "Cafe Muse" series, will open with classical guitar by Michael Davis and conclude with an open reading (sign-up at 7 p.m.). Visit http://www.wordworksdc.com for details.

7 P.M. Cass R. Sunstein, a professor of law and politics at the University of Chicago, discusses and signs both of his new books out this season: Republic.com 2.0 (on the Internet's impact on democracy) and Worst-Case Scenarios (on cost-budget analyses in government), at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919.

7 P.M. ReShonda Tate Billingsley reads from and signs her new novel, The Pastor's Wife, at Borders Books-Largo, 913-A Capital Centre Blvd., Largo, Md., 301-499-2173.

7:30 P.M. American poet Richard Howard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Untitled Subjects and, most recently, Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003, presents the annual Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE. A reception (with black cake made from Dickinson's own recipe) and book signing follow. Tickets are $12; call 202-544-7077 or visit http://www.folger.edu/poetry to RSVP.

7:30 P.M. Ronald Florence discusses and signs Lawrence and Aaronsohn: T. E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn, and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict at Barnes & Noble-Rockville, 12089 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Md., 301-881-0237.

4 TUESDAY

Noon."A Sampling of South Carolina Poets" is the theme of the Poetry at Noon series featuring readings by Carol Ann Davis, John Lane, Susan Meyers and Marjory Wentworth (the state's current poet laureate) at the Library of Congress, James Madison Bldg., Pickford Theater, 101 Independence Ave. SE, 202-707-5394.

7 P.M. Julie M. Fenster discusses and signs The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President at Olsson's Books-Penn Quarter, 418 Seventh St. NW, 202-638-7610.

7 P.M. Judith Jones, a senior editor and vice president at publisher Alfred A. Knopf (where she helped introduce America to the likes of Julia Child and Marcella Hazen via their cookbooks), discusses and signs The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 202-364-1919.

5 WEDNESDAY

Noon. Ann Blackman discusses and signs Wild Rose: The True Story of a Civil War Spy, her look at Confederate operative Rose O'Neal Greenhow, at the National Archives, Jefferson Room, 700 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 202-357-5000.

6 P.M. Shashi Tharoor, a former UN undersecretary general for communications and public information, discusses and signs his new book, The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power, at the Woman's National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW. This event, co-sponsored with the English-Speaking Union, begins with a cash bar followed by dinner and lecture at 7 p.m. Admission is $40; call 202-232-7363 or e-mail pfitzgerald@democraticwoman.org for details and to RSVP.

6:30 P.M. Olsson's Books & Records will host a screening (part of a nationwide program with booksellers) of the new short film chronicling the late David Halberstam's decade-long endeavor, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, the historian's final book, at the Lyceum, 106 S. Washington St., Alexandria, Va. A discussion follows the viewing, part of the "Out of the Book" film series created by Powells.com; for further details, visit http://www.outofthebookfilms.com or call Olsson's at 703-684-0077.

7 P.M. Poets Stanley Plumly and Kevin Craft join novelist Howard Norman in a reading of their work as part of the "Writers Here & Now" series held at the University of Maryland, Special Events Room in the McKeldin Library, College Park, Md. A reception, held on the ground floor of Dorchester Hall, precedes the reading; call 301-405-3820 for details.