Literary Calendar

April 21-27, 2008

21 MONDAY

6:30 P.M. Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks reads from her new novel, People of the Book, at the National Press Club, Murrow-White-Lisagor Rooms, 529 14th St. NW. Call 202-662-7129 or e-mail opus@press.org for details and to RSVP. She will also read on Tuesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; call 202-408-3100 or visit http://www.sixthandi.org for details and to RSVP.

7 P.M. Keith Gessen, a founder of the literary magazine n+1, reads from and signs his new novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men, at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919.

22 TUESDAY

10:30 A.M. Children's book author and illustrator Jackie Urbanovic reads from and discusses her new picture book, Duck Soup, at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 202-364-1919.

Noon. Environmentalist Laura Lynne Williams, who opened the World Wildlife Fund's first office in Russia in 1993, discusses her new memoir, The Storks' Nest: Life and Love in the Russian Countryside (illustrated by her husband, noted photographer Igor Shpilenok), at a brown bag lunch at the World Wildlife Fund, conference room 2004 C, 1250 24th St. NW. She will also speak at 7 p.m. that evening at George Mason University, Environmental Studies Dept., Student Union II, rooms 3 & 4, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax, Va., and again on Wednesday, April 23, at 6 p.m. at Books-A-Million, 11 Dupont Circle NW, 202-319-1374.

7 P.M. Professors Carola and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco discuss and sign Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society at the Arlington Central Library, 1015 N. Quincy St., Arlington, Va., 703-228-5990.

23 WEDNESDAY

11:30 A.M. Raff Ellis discusses Kisses from a Distance , a memoir of his family's emigration from Lebanon to the United States (inspired by hundreds of letters discovered after his mother's death), at the National Archives, Room 500, 700 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 202-357-5000. A book signing follows.

Noon. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Eric Lichtblau, of the New York Times's Washington bureau, discusses and signs Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice at the Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Call 202-789-5229 or e-mail events@cato.org to RSVP.

7 P.M. Michael Hastings, a one-time correspondent for Newsweek in Iraq, discusses and signs I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story at Olsson's Books-Penn Quarter, 418 Seventh St. NW, 202-638-7610.

7 P.M. Jim Lo Scalzo, a photographer for U.S. News & World Report, discusses his experiences and the stories he covered while on assignment, recounted in his recent book Evidence of My Existence, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW. A book signing follows. Admission is $10 for nonmembers; call 202-639-1770 for details.

7 P.M. V.V. Ganeshananthan reads from Love Marriage, her new novel of a Sri Lankan immigrant family, at Olsson's Books-Dupont, 1307 19th St. NW, 202-785-1133.

24 THURSDAY

12:30 P.M. Quil Lawrence, the Middle East correspondent for the BBC/PRI program "The World," discusses and signs Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Rome Auditorium, 1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW, in an event sponsored by the International Reporting Project and the school's Middle East Studies Program. For details and to RSVP, call 202-663-7726 or e-mail irp@jhu.edu. He will also speak on Saturday, April 26, at 1 p.m. at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 202-364-1919.

7 P.M. Writer and poet Terese Svoboda discusses Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan, which delves into her uncle's past and his recent debilitating depression and suicide, along with Askold Melnyczuk discussing his third novel, The House of Widows, at the Shirlington Public Library, 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington, Va., 703-228-6545. A book signing will follow across the street at Busboys and Poets, 703-379-9756.