MONDAY:
French journalist Sylvain Cypel will speak about his book Walled, a look at relations between Jews and Palestinians in Israel and the barriers — both cultural and physical — between the two groups. Politics and Prose, 7 p.m.

D.C.-area Star Wars geeks will want to check out Olsson's Arlington/Courthouse, where science-fiction author Karen Traviss will be talking about her new novel Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice. We love Han, Chewie and the gang as much as the next guy, but these novels always lack the excitement and fun of the original trilogy. Not that we've read them or anything. 7 p.m.

Do you know what your $3.30 a gallon is supporting? The Cabral/Truth Circle will show the film "The Price of Oil" and then discuss the related book Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights and Oil. We'll give you a hint: it isn't pretty. Busboys and Poets, 6 p.m.

TUESDAY:
Actor John Lithgow will be at Olsson's Crystal City to read from his children's books, Mahalia Mouse Goes to College, I'm a Manatee and Micawber. We would like to know: how many celebrities have not written a children's book? 10:30 a.m.

Iranian journalist Camelia Entekhabifard talks about her memoirs, aptly titled Camelia: Save Yourself By Telling The Truth. Busboys and Poets. 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:
Sherman Alexie will be at Warehouse Theatre to discuss Flight, the story of a foster teenager who becomes a self-described "time-traveling mass murderer." Tickets $5, available only with purchase of the paperback from Olsson’s. 7 p.m.

THURSDAY:
John Updike will be at Temple Sinai to read from his book Terrorist, now in paperback. The novel follows 18-year-old Ahmad Mulloy Ashmawy, a New Jersey high school student who falls in with a terrorist cell plotting to destroy the Holland Tunnel. One ticket with the purchase of the book at Politics and Prose or $10 per ticket. 7 p.m.

Keith Donohue, director of communications for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, will be at Olsson's Books & Records-Dupont Circle to talk about his fantasy novel The Stolen Child. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY:
Head over to Politics and Prose to hear Jules Witcover discuss the odd couple pairing of Richard Nixon and his vice president Spiro Agnew, the topic of Witcover's book Very Strange Bedfellows. 7 p.m.

SATURDAY:
Washington Post reporters Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher will be at Politics and Prose to tell you more than you've ever wanted to know about Justice Clarence Thomas, who they profiled in the book Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas. 7 p.m.

SUNDAY:
Want to hear why D.C. commercial music radio is so bland? Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher may discuss it at 2 p.m. at the Washington D.C. J.C.C. when he talks about his new book, Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation, and the state of music radio with Lee Abrams of XM and Jonathan Adelstein, head of the Federal Communications Commission. We hope there is a question-and-answer period so you can take Abrams, the creator of the album rock radio format, to task for DC 101's forever narrow and bland programming.

Steve Kiviat contributed this week to Reader, Meet Author.