MONDAY:
Steve Gillon will be at the New America Foundation to discuss The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation. 12:15 p.m.

Washington, D.C.-based author and journalist Ron Suskind will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest book, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism. 7 p.m.

TUESDAY:
George Pelecanos and contributors Rhozier "Roach" Brown and James Grady will gather at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss the latest volume of D.C. Noir, D.C. Noir 2: The Classics — a collection of stories from Ed Jones to Langston Hughes. 6 p.m.

The Knight Conference Center at the Newseum will hold a panel moderated by Kevin “Seamus” Hasson, founder and chairman of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, to discuss Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts. 6 p.m.

Jim Sciutto, a senior foreign correspondent for ABC News, makes an appearance at Politics and Prose to discuss Against Us: The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World. 7 p.m.

Lincoln Chafee, the former Republican senator from Rhode Island, will discuss his latest book, Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President, at the New America Foundation. 12:15 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:
Josh Frank, author of Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies, and Charlie Buckholtz will be at the Olsson's in Dupont Circle to discuss In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre. Ivers, who was the host of an underground music and sketch-comedy cable show called New Wave Theatre, was found bludgeoned to death in his loft in downtown Los Angeles. 7 p.m.

In Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Oscar — a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd from New Jersey — dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diaz will be at Politics and Prose to talk about and sign copies of the novel. 7 p.m.

THURSDAY:
Louis Bayard makes an appearance at the Olsson's in Dupont Circle to discuss The Black Tower, a detective story set in 1811 Paris. 7 p.m.

Gustav Niebuhr, an associate professor of religion and the media at Syracuse University, discusses Beyond Tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America at the New America Foundation. 12:15 p.m.

United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, a former revolutionary who fought Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime, will be at Politics and Prose to talk about his book, The Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet. 7 p.m.

FRIDAY:
New York Times-bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld will be at Politics and Prose to discuss her third novel, American Wife, the story of Alice Blackwell — a school librarian, a Democrat and the wife of the Republican U.S. president. Awkward! 7 p.m.