Literary Calendar

December 10-16, 2007

10 MONDAY

Noon. Historian Marie Tyler-McGraw discusses and signs An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia at the Library of Congress, James Madison Bldg., West Dining Room, 101 Independence Ave. SE. For details on this "Books and Beyond" event, call 202-707-5221.

6:30 P.M. Caroline Kennedy signs A Family Christmas, an anthology of treasured holiday poetry, prose, lyrics and scripture, at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919. Note this is a book signing only.

7 P.M. Phoebe Damrosch, a former waiter at Thomas Keller's award-winning Manhattan restaurant, Per Se, discusses and signs her new memoir, Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter, at Olsson's Books-Penn Quarter, 418 Seventh St. NW, 202-638-7610.

11 TUESDAY

11 A.M. The U.S. Navy Museum presents a "6 Bells Author Event" with U.S. Congressman Steve Israel discussing Charge! History's Greatest Military Speeches at the museum located on the Washington Navy Yard, 805 Kidder Breese St. SE. For security reasons, call 202-433-6897 at least 24 hours in advance to RSVP (bring a photo ID and use the gate at 11th & O Sts. SE).

6:30 P.M. The Goethe-Institut, at 812 Seventh St. NW, will host pieces of the Password Project, an international artistic endeavor uniting graphic art (projected on the wall) and poetry (the verse that inspired the work is read aloud) in traveling exhibitions. This unique hybrid begins with writers posting fragments of their work at the project's Web site. Poets planning to read at this event, co-sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum, include Daniel Thomas Moran (United States) and Walter H¿lbling and Gabriele P¿tscher (Austria). Artists attending include Feng Lei (China) and Ruth Mateus Berr (Austria). Call 202-289-1200, ext. 162 to RSVP; for further information about the Password Project, visit http://www.password.or.at.

12 WEDNESDAY

6 P.M. Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, discusses Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States as part of the Arlington County Public Library's "Arlington Writes" series taking place at the Shirlington Library, 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington, Va., 703-228-6545. A book signing will follow across the street at Busboys and Poets, 4251 S. Campbell Ave., 703-379-9756.

7 P.M. Political journalist Michael Barone signs copies of the 2008 edition of The Almanac of American Politics (written with Richard E. Cohen) at Barnes & Noble-Potomac Yard, 3651 Jefferson Davis Hwy., Alexandria, Va., 703-299-9124.

7 P.M. Dana Kollman, a former crime scene investigator with the Baltimore County Police Department, discusses and signs Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand: Curious Adventures of a CSI at the Howard County Central Library, 10375 Little Patuxent Pkwy., Columbia, Md. Call 410-313-7800 or visit http://www.hclibrary.org to RSVP.

13 THURSDAY

3 P.M. New York Times journalist Elizabeth Bumiller, formerly the paper's White House correspondent, discusses her new biography, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, at the Woodrow Wilson Center, sixth floor board room, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Call 202-691-4147 to RSVP.

15 SATURDAY

12:30 P.M. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will sign copies of My Senator And Me: A Dog's Eye View Of Washington, D.C., his children's picture book illustrated by David Small, at the Kennedy Center, Hall of States gift shop, 2700 F St. NW. The book's inspiration, the senator's dog, Splash, will also attend.

16 SUNDAY

4 P.M."Sunday Kind of Love," the monthly poetry series at Busboys and Poets (2021 14th St. NW), hosts a reading by Heather Davis and Mike Maggio to celebrate the publication of The Lost Tribe of Us and deMOCKracy, respectively. An open reading follows; call 202-387-7638.