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Nizam Ali — whose parents, Ben and Virginia Ali, opened Ben's Chili Bowl 50 years ago — and Tracey Gold Bennett will be at the Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of their new book, Ben's Chili Bowl: 50 Years of a Washington DC Landmark. 6:30 p.m.

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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.

Bobby Austin will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to sign and discuss Circus Clowns & Carnival Animals: Growing Up in the Ebb and Flow of Rural Black Life. 6 p.m.

Breena Clarke, a Washington D.C. native and alumna of Howard University, will be at Politics and Prose to discuss her novel, Stand the Storm, which is set in Georgetown but takes place before and during the Civil War. 7 p.m.

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Prize-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau talks about Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea at the Barnes and Noble in Georgetown. 7:30 p.m.

Michaele Weissman will be at Politics and Prose to talk about God in a Cup, Weissman’s investigation of coffee at every stage of its production, marketing and consumption. 7 p.m.

Karen Dawn will be Thanking the Monkey at the Olsson's in Dupont Circle. No, that doesn't mean what you think. Dawn, who founded the animal advocacy media group DawnWatch.com, merely wants us to rethink the way we treat animals. For starters, chimpanzees want all you horrible sitcom and commercial writers out there to stop calling them monkeys. They're apes, dorks. 7 p.m.

Ethan Canin, bestselling author of the The Palace Thief, will make an appearance at Politics and Prose to discuss America, America, a novel about America as it was and is. Or as Sam the Eagle would say, "It's a tribute to all nations, but mostly America." 7 p.m.

Stella Rimington will make an appearance at the Olsson's in Dupont Circle to talk about the new installment in her series of books about MI5 officer Liz Carlyle, Illegal Action. When it comes to mysteries and thrillers, an illegal action has to be more interesting than a legal action, right? 7 p.m.

Those of you interested in questions of population growth and its relationship to female sexual autonomy will want to catch Robert Engelman, vice president for programs at the Worldwatch Institute, as he discusses his new book, More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want, at Busboys and Poets. 6:30 p.m.

John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC and a political writer for The New York Times, will be at the Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of his new book, Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power. 7:30 p.m.

Jonathan Miles will be at the Olsson's in Dupont Circle to talk about his novel, Dear American Airlines, the story of a man stuck at Chicago's O’Hare airport with thousands of other passengers who decides to write a complaint letter. 7 p.m.

Robert Scheer will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his book, The Pornography of Power. If you swapped those words around, you'd have an entirely different book. 7 p.m.

George Lakoff, a linguist and cognitive scientist, will make an appearance at Politics and Prose to talk about his book, The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain. We can tell you why: With an 18th century brain, you'd be dead. We be smart. 7 p.m.

Carl Hiaasen will make an appearance at Politics and Prose to discuss and sign copies of his book, The Downhill Lie. A downhill lie must be like when you tell a friend that you love their favorite band, even though you don't, and then they say, "Well, I have an extra ticket to their show on Saturday," which you respond, "That's too bad. My sister's in town." Actually, the book is about golf. 7 p.m.

Kelly McMasters will be at Politics and Prose to talk about her memoir, Welcome to Shirley, which looks at the town of Shirley, New York — a wonderful place to grow up in the 1970s, but unfortunately not a great place to spend the rest of your life thanks to the close proximity of the leaky Brookhaven atomic research facility. 7 p.m.

Nostalgic for the grunge rock of yore? Laurie Lindeen will be at the Olsson's in Dupont Circle to talk about her memoir, Petal Pusher: A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story, which looks at her stint in the 80s and 90s as the guitarist for Zuzu's Petals. 7 p.m.

Washington, D.C's Big Read continues through May 24. Celebrating F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby this year, venues throughout town are holding events: On Tuesday the Arts Club of Washington will be "Flirting with the Masters," with two fiction writers discussing Fitzgerald's impact on their work, or try one of the many events at the MLK, Jr. Library, such as the ongoing Fitzgerald exhibit, or the film tribute screening of The Last Tycoon on Thursday. On Saturday, take a walking tour to experience the influence of the "Jazz Age," during which Fitzgerald placed his most famous book. See a list of all events, including dance lessons, dramatic readings, and various author events here.

Newsweek contributing editor Eleanor Clift will make an appearance at the Olsson's in Penn Quarter to read from and sign copies of her book Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, & Politics, a commentary on how we deal, or fail to deal, with dying in modern America. 6 p.m.

Keith Gessen will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men, which focuses on the lives of three young intellectuals at the beginning of the 21st century. 7 p.m.

NPR senior news analyst and ABC commentator Cokie Roberts will be at Politics and Prose to talk about the companion volume to her 2004 book Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, Ladies of Liberty. 7 p.m.

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Michael Eric Dyson will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to sign and discuss his new book, April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America. 6 p.m.

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New York Times journalist Jennifer 8 Lee, fresh off an appearance on The Colbert Report and a turn irritating us, will appear at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue to talk about her book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. Lee went around the U.S. and investigated American "Chinese food." $6. 7 p.m.