MONDAY
Audrey Niffenegger follows up her best-selling The Time Traveler’s Wife with another Edward Goreyian flight of fancy, The Adventuress. We bet she has one of the prettiest signatures of any author on this page. National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW., at 7 p.m. $10. Reservations: (202) 783-7370.
TUESDAY
Of course, Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi’s flair for visual artistry and imaginative text is on abundant display in Chicken With Plums, which tells the story of her great uncle, legendary musician Nasser Ali Khan, and the last eight days of his life. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW., at 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Edward P. Jones’ ambitious and circuitous short-fiction style has won great acclaim for his most recent short-story collection, All Aunt Hagar’s Children. It is getting to be time to place Jones alongside Pelecanos as one of our city’s great chroniclers. He’ll be at American University’s Katzen Arts Center, in the Abramson Family Recital Hall, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW., at 8 p.m.
