MONDAY
>> Who can forget T.C. Boyle’s memorable turn in the movie Kinsey? Most of you, probably. Well, look: if you’re an enthusiast of short stories, stop by Olsson’s in Arlington this evening to meet T.C. Boyle, whose recent collection, Tooth and Claw, travels to the four corners of the globe to reveal men and women on the edge of primal fear, weird nature, and the threat of untimely death. 2111 Wilson Boulevard, 7 p.m.
TUESDAY
>> We know that working on the Hill can be an awful, soul-killing drag. We probably don’t thank you guys enough for all the work you do to make the engines of democracy run. But we have found you a little reward for all of your efforts. Go feed your mind with some poetry at the Poetry At Noon series at the Library of Congress, totally free at the Mary Pickford Theater in the James Madison Building. This week features poems from Kwame Alexander, Patricia Clark and Kim Roberts. It’s better for you than the kind of nooner that’ll get your written up in Wonkette. 101 Independence Avenue SE, noon.
>> Anthony Shadid, author of Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War, at Politics and Prose, 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
>> Hey! Who’s into some mathematics? Mario Livio will be at the S. Dillon Ripley Center tonight discussing his book The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry. And before you shoot your mouth off, you calculus scribbling Good Will Huntingesque freaky genius wannabes, the equation he’s talking about has been solved. And no, I didn’t just give away the ending! Sponsored by the Smithsonian. 1100 Jefferson Drive SW, 6:30 p.m.
>> Zadie Smith, author of On Beauty, at Olsson’s Penn Quarter, 418 7th Street NW, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY
>> More an institution than a mere author, for over half a century Art Buchwald has been plying his trade in the op-ed sections of newspapers across the nation. Even after all the hours he’s clocked on the job — piercing the Beltway bubble with a wry wit and deadly acute insight — he’s no relic. He’ll be at Politics and Prose talking about his soon-to-be-released Beating Around The Bush. 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, 7 p.m.
FRIDAY
>> What’s life like for a homosexual member of the typical college fraternity? The answer may surprise you. Join Shane Windmeyer, editor of Out On Fraternity Row, at Lambda Rising tonight where he’ll discuss the forthcoming Brotherhood: Gay Life in College Fraternities, which he also edited. 1625 Connecticut Avenue NW, 6 p.m.
SATURDAY
>> A decade before the name Gitmo re-entered our everyday conversations, a group of Yale law students left school to fight on behalf of Haitian refugees detained at that camp. Their story is told in Storming The Court. Author Brandt Goldstein will discuss and sign the book at Politics and Prose, 6 p.m.
