Literary Calendar

January 7-13, 2008

7 MONDAY

6:30 P.M. Les Leopold, co-founder and current director of the nonprofit educational groups the Labor Institute and the Public Health Institute, discusses and signs his recent book, The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi, at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, 202-387-7638.

7 P.M. Nation magazine columnist Jonathan Schell discusses and signs The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919.

7 P.M. Poets Kurt Olsson and Gretchen Primack read from their work as part of the Cafe Muse series held at the Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 S. Park Ave., Chevy Chase, Md., 301-656-2797. Refreshments and classical guitar (courtesy of Michael Davis) will open the program and an open reading (sign-up at 7 p.m.) will conclude it.

8 TUESDAY

6:30 P.M. Robert F. Dalzell Jr. and Lee Baldwin Dalzell discuss and sign their recent book, The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America, at the National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. Admission is $20 for nonmembers; call 202-272-2448 for details and to RSVP.

7 P.M. Local poet and opera aficionado Karren L. Alenier discusses and signs her new book, The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas, at Bridge Street Books, 2814 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 202-965-5200.

7:30 P.M. Douglas Preston reads from and signs his new thriller, Blasphemy, at Borders Books-Baileys Crossroads, Route 7 at Columbia Pike, Baileys Crossroads, Va., 703-998-0404.

9 WEDNESDAY

6:30 P.M. Robin Gerber, a commentator on women in leadership and politics, reads from and signs her first novel, Eleanor vs. Ike (historical fiction about a contest between Eleanor Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election) at Borders Books-Downtown, 18th & L Sts. NW, 202-466-4999.

7 P.M. Journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins discuss their new book on Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan, The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets ... And How We Could Have Stopped Him, at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 202-364-1919.

7 P.M. Thomas Norman DeWolf discusses and signs Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History at Olsson's Books-Penn Quarter, 418 Seventh St. NW, 202-638-7610.

7 P.M. Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University (where she also holds the Lincoln Professorship in History), discusses and signs This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War at the National Archives, William G. McGowan Theater, 700 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Call 202-357-5000 for details.

7:30 P.M. Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright discusses and signs Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership at Barnes & Noble-Georgetown, 3040 M St. NW, 202-965-9880. She will also speak on Sunday, Jan. 13, at 3 p.m. at Barnes & Noble-Bethesda, 4801 Bethesda Ave., Bethesda, Md., 301-986-1761.

10 THURSDAY

7 P.M. Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks reads from her new novel, People of the Book, at Borders Books-White Flint, 11301 Rockville Pike, Kensington, Md., 301-816-1067. The event features a Power Point presentation and closes with a book signing.