Reader, Meet Author

Author Deepa Fernandes will discuss Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration, a part analytical, part historical examination of what constitutes a threat to national security. Busboys and Poets. 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:
Warehouse Theater will screen a 30-minute film on Atonement author Ian McEwan and his latest novel, On Chesil Beach. The film includes "interviews with McEwan in London, commentary from peers, critics, and fans, and on-location footage from the novel's setting." Following the screening, local authors Susan Coll, Keith Donohue and Thomas Mullen will hold a roundtable discussion. Event admission is free with the purchase of the book. 7 p.m.

Did you miss author Jabari Asim's interview on the Colbert Report? See him at Busboys and Poets as he discusses and signs his book The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why. Here's a brief overview: Just don't say it — and that goes doubly for the idiots on Xbox Live. 4 p.m.

THURSDAY:
Mr. Timothy author Louis Bayard will be at Olsson's Books & Records-Dupont Circle to read from his newest novel, The Pale Blue Eye, a detective story set in 1830 that features a curious character named Edgar Allen Poe. 7 p.m.

Ralph Nader, the man Democrats love to hate and hate to love, will be at Borders at 18th and L streets to sign DVD copies of the documentary An Unreasonable Man and his best-selling novel, The Seventeen Traditions. 12:30 p.m. He'll also be at Busboys and Poets at 7 p.m.

FRIDAY:
Charles McCarry's newest book, Christopher's Ghosts, is all about spies and personal demons, not things that go "boo" in the night. Bummer. We like ghosts. Either way, you can see McCarry reading from the book at Politics and Prose. But as far as we know, there are no ghosts there, either. 7 p.m.

SUNDAY:
Today is Father's Day, so buy your dad a book, not a tie.