This week, among the city’s other offerings are those being conducted as a part of the “Fall for the Book Festival.” For more information, hit up their website.

MONDAY

That famous opening line of Anna Karenina has done more to fill the retail shelves with memoirs than just about anything else. Take that, opening line of Moby Dick! Alison Bechdel adds to the canon with Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW., at 8 p.m.

At the Fall for the Book Festival:
Come hear Will Blythe discuss and To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry, and marvel at the way the two schools nevertheless manage to not get burned to the ground every year. George Mason University Center for the Arts, Grand Tier, Third Floor, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax. Mon., at 7:30 p.m.

TUESDAY

Lanny Davis will be on-hand to talk about his book, Scandal: How “Gotcha” Politics Is Destroying America, but we’re guessing he’ll probably want to steer the conversation around Mark Foley. Olsson’s Books & Records, 1307 19th St. NW., at 7 p.m.

At the Fall for the Book Festival:
Geraldine Brooks lays down some deconstructivist shazam on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women in March, which invents the backstory of the absent Mr. March. George Mason University Center for the Arts, Grand Tier, Third Floor, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, at 6 p.m.