MONDAY

Eliot Spitzer, current New York Attorney General and likely Democratic nominee for governor, is known to have a “quick temper” and a “passion for reform,” but he just might be the only state attorney general in the history of the United States to share a stage with Yo La Tengo. And to at least two dozen East Village record store clerks, that means a whole lot. Brooke Masters will tell you a lot more as she reads from Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW., 7 p.m.

TUESDAY

If you were looking for a way of learning about how badly the relationship between Iraqi Sunnis and Shia has destabilized over the past few years, then hearing what Naval Postgraduate School professor Vali Nasr has to say on The Shia Revival could be very valuable. This is not for people who think the Shia are “those little animals that grow sprouts from seeds” however, so, maybe you ought to take in a screening of Talledega Nights, Mr. President. Politics and Prose, 7 p.m.