MONDAY

[EDITOR’S NOTE: We received an email yesterday from Amy Pennington from Tom Douglas Restaurants, informing us that, due to circumstances beyond Mr. Douglas’ control, he has had to cancel his book tour and thus will not be making his scheduled appearances in Dupont Circle this week. We wish Mr. Douglas the best, and look forward to seeing him in town whenever he next has the opportunity.]

Paul Rieckhoff will be in town this evening discussing and signing his book, Chasing Ghosts. The book is a hard-hitting memoir of Rieckoff’s journey to Iraq to fight in Operation Iraqi Freedom and the founding of Operation Truth at home. If you go thinking he is instead the writer behind the Michael Madsen/Meat Loaf movie of the same name, we cannot stress enough just how stupid you will look. Olsson’s Books & Records, 2111 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, at 7 p.m.

TUESDAY
Authors Ilene Leventhal and Francine Levinson are pulling out all the stops for tonight’s signing of their book, Extraordinary Women: Fantasies Revealed—58 Women of Accomplishment Portray Hidden Dreams and Real Hopes, bringing not just themselves, but a whole crew: Kitty Kelly, Nora Pouillon, Charlene Drew Jarvis, Elenor Clift, Barbara Harrison, Sally Smith, Nancy Chistolini, Eleanor Merrill, and Maxine Isaacs. It’ll cost you fifty large, but this group of women at least won’t require you to carry all singles. National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. at 6:30 p.m. For reservations call (877) 226-5294.

WEDNESDAY
Marc Mauer and Sasha Abramsky will be discussing their respective books Race to Incarcerate and the more grammatically dubious Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George Bush to the White House, tonight at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. Wed., at 6:30 p.m.