MONDAY:
Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, will be at Politics and Prose to talk about her latest book, Peony in Love. 7 p.m.

We had to yell "STOP THE PRESSES!" for this one. Laura Sessions Stepp, our favorite Washington Post personality, will be at Arlington Central Library to promote her latest book Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both. For those of you unfamiliar with Sessions Stepp, she believes women should bake more and stop "hooking up" for one-night stands. We can't wait to hear about how her head exploded when she found out there are "girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they're girls who do girls like they're boys." 7 p.m. UPDATE: In Print, In Person with Laura Sessions Stepp has been rescheduled for October 2007.

TUESDAY:
Elk's Run editor Jason Rodriguez will be at Olsson's in Dupont Circle to talk about his latest compilation Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened. Rodriguez sent vintage postcards to a group of cartoonists and asked them to create a back story for each. The results range from a silly story about tic-tac-toe hustlers to a tale of Americans in France during the Great Depression. 7 p.m.

Randy "Duke" Cunningham, former representative of California's 50th District near San Diego, has been labeled one of the most corrupt members of Congress in U.S. history. If you need a refresher, Cunningham in 2005 pleaded guilty to tax evasion, conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud and wire fraud. Plus, we've heard he hates kittens. Marcus Stern, Jerry Kammer and George E. Condon Jr. will be at Politics and Prose to talk about The Wrong Stuff, their book on what happened. 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:
What happens when the world's greatest literary characters are murdered one by one? Jasper Fforde’s fifth book in the Thursday Next series, First Among Sequels, has detective Thursday Next investigating the deaths of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, as well as all sorts of other screwy subplots we wouldn't be able to explain in the small space we're given. Fforde will be at Politics and Prose to talk about the series. 7 p.m.

THURSDAY:
D.C. author and economist Jared Bernstein will be speaking about his latest book All Together Now at the D.C. chapter of Drinking Liberally at Timberlake's Restaurant in Dupont Circle. 7:30 p.m.

Jeffrey Frank, a senior editor at The New Yorker, will be at Olsson's in Penn Quarter to discuss his latest book, Trudy Hopedale. Hopedale is a Washington socialite/talk show host whose life is slowly unraveling just in time for the 2000 election. The Washington Post's Book World calls it "frothily entertaining." We strongly dislike the word "frothily." Ewww. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY:
Norman Pearlstine, the former editor-in-chief of Time Inc., will be at Politics and Prose to explain why it's OK for journalists to turn over notes from confidential sources, the subject of Off the Record: The Press, the Government and the War over Anonymous Sources. Turning over confidential sources is also a good way of assuring no one will ever call you back on a story. 7 p.m.

SATURDAY:
Akbar Ahmed, a Brookings Institution nonresident senior fellow, professor of Islamic Studies at American University and former high commissioner of Pakistan to Great Britain, will be at Politics and Prose to discuss Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization, the result of a Brookings project on improving relations between Islam and the West. 6 p.m.