MONDAY
What a weekend of basketball! It’s going to be hard to come down from over the next few days, so step off gradually. Go check out Tom Graham and Rachel Graham Cody as they discuss Getting Open: The Unknown Story of Bill Garrett and the Integration of College Basketball. It’ll help to augment your game IQ, which may be feeling a little shattered after all your Big 10 picks got spanked. Barnes & Noble, 3040 M St. NW. Mon., 7:30 p.m.

TUESDAY
Huge day for author events in town. Out in Reston, music fans and aficionados of sentimental British romantic comedies will want to schlep out to Reston to discuss all things pop musical with Nick Hornby, author of A Long Way Down and a personal fave, Fever Pitch (which was unfortunately made into a craptastic flick about the Red Sox). Closer to home, the mega-influential Erica Jong drops by the Olsson’s in Arlington to discuss her latest, Seducing the Demon, in which she discusses her life as a writer and why Martha Stewart doesn’t like her. Hornby: The Center Stage, 2310 Colts Neck Road, Reston, 8 p.m. Jong: Olsson’s at 2111 Wilson Blvd., 7 p.m.

Also, James L. Swanson, author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, celebrates his 90th straight week discussing his book with locals. The six of you who haven’t been to one of his signings can join with the diehards determined to go to all of them at Olsson’s in Alexandria, 106 South Union Street, 7 p.m.