MONDAY:
Jerome Groopman — a New Yorker staff writer, best-selling author and professor at Harvard Medical School — will be at the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue to discuss his latest collection of essays, How Doctors Think. If they're like our favorite television doctor, it's probably "What's the best way to humiliate my employees today?" 7 p.m. $6

TUESDAY:
Min Jin Lee will be at the Johns Hopkins University-SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building to read from her debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires. No, it doesn't promote welfare for the wealthy. It's actually about a first-generation immigrant trying to find balance between the ways of her parents and American culture. Books will be sold by Olsson's. 5:30 p.m.

Janet Malcolm will be at Politics and Prose to discuss her latest, Two Lives, which looks at the relationship between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:
We love Anthony Bourdain's wry sense of humor, even though he can be a little blunt. That's what makes his show, No Reservations, so entertaining. You can catch him in two places promoting his new book, No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach. Noon at Olsson's in Penn Quarter and 7 p.m. at GW's Lisner Auditorium. For more information and tickets, call Smithsonian Associates at 202-633-3030.

Gregory Rodriguez will be at Politics and Prose to read from Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans and Vagabonds. While it sounds like the name of a great Tom Waits' album, it's actually an account of the long-term cultural and political influences that Mexican Americans will have on the collective character of the U.S. 7 p.m.

THURSDAY:
Lawrence Hill will be at Olsson's in Penn Quarter to read from his latest book,
Someone Knows My Name, the story of one woman’s experience across six decades and three continents and brings to life a crucial chapter in world history. 7 p.m.

Ursula Hegi will be at Politics and Prose to read from her newest novel, The Worst Thing I've Done, which chronicles love and friendship among a trio of young people on Long Island. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY:
New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast will be at Politics and Prose to talk about her latest collection, The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z!, which buoys comedian Steve Martin's humorous text to Chast's pen-and-ink drawings. 7 p.m.

SATURDAY:
Sinan Antoon will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody. 6 p.m.