MONDAY
>> E.L. Doctorow has had a storied career — a National Book Award for 1986’s Ragtime, a pair of film adaptations, and a prestigious position at New York University. Keep this in mind and don’t ask him about whether that story you heard about your Spring Breaking friends getting pulled over in Atlanta and tossed in the clink for joking about General Sherman’s relative velocity is an urban legend or not. He’s just got better things to do, like read from and sign copies of his new piece of historical fiction, The March. Olsson’s of Arlington, 7 p.m.
TUESDAY
>> Enjoy the poetry of Jim Foy, Elspeth Cameron Ritchie and Stephen Rojcewicz this evening at the Juste Lounge. The readings are free, and upon their conclusion there will be martinis and presumably, lots of reggaeton. 6821 Reed St., NW, 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
>> One of this DCist’s favorite humorists, David Rakoff, will be bringing his acidic brand of humor to Politics and Prose, where he’ll be signing copies of Don’t Get Too Comfortable, his satiric treatise on “First World Problems.” And hey, speaking of, across town at the Museum of Natural History’s Baird Auditorium, John Travolta and Kelly Preston will be signing copies of Architectural Digest: Hollywood at Home. Go get your Thetans all cleared. Both events at 7 p.m., the first at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW; the second at Baird Auditorium, 10th & Constitution Ave. NW.
THURSDAY
>>Cable news channel loyalists can support their faves today at dueling readings. Short story author and CNN American Morning Correspondent Touré will be at the Howard University Bookstore (2225 Georgia Avenue, NW) reading and signing copies of his short story anthology, Soul City. Meanwhile, at the Borders Bookstore at 14th and F Streets, NW, Fox News’ Neil Cavuto shall be doing likewise for his book, Your Money Or Your Life. Fans of MSNBC will likely gather this evening at Lauriol Plaza, bitching as usual. Cavuto at noon, Touré at 5:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
>> In 2004, National Lampoon scribe Tony Hendra wrote his memoir, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul, which described the friendship between Hendra and a Benedictine priest who became his spiritual mentor and confessor. The book was hailed as a brutally honest work about Hendra’s myriad sins, but Hendra’s daughter Jessica has published a book that begs to differ. Written with Blake Morrison, Jessica Hendra’s How To Cook Your Daughter describes the child abuse she suffered at the hands of her father. She tells her side of the story at Olsson’s in Old Town this afternoon. 106 South Union Street in Alexandria, 4 p.m.
SUNDAY
>> Jennifer Miller, at twenty-four years of age, is a nine-year veteran of Seeds Of Peace, which brings students from Israel and Palestine to the United States to learn conflict resolution and negotiating skills. Her unique and concentrated experiences are detailed in Inheriting the Holy Land, which offers her perspective on whether the younger generations of the conflict have what it takes to achieve the lasting accord their parents could not. She’ll be at Politics and Prose this afternoon at 5 p.m.
