MONDAY:
Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, will be at Politics and Prose to talk about her latest book, Peony in Love. 7 p.m.

We had to yell “STOP THE PRESSES!” for this one. Laura Sessions Stepp, our favorite Washington Post personality, will be at Arlington Central Library to promote her latest book Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both. For those of you unfamiliar with Sessions Stepp, she believes women should bake more and stop “hooking up” for one-night stands. We can’t wait to hear about how her head exploded when she found out there are “girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they’re girls who do girls like they’re boys.” 7 p.m. UPDATE: In Print, In Person with Laura Sessions Stepp has been rescheduled for October 2007.

TUESDAY:
Elk’s Run editor Jason Rodriguez will be at Olsson’s in Dupont Circle to talk about his latest compilation Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened. Rodriguez sent vintage postcards to a group of cartoonists and asked them to create a back story for each. The results range from a silly story about tic-tac-toe hustlers to a tale of Americans in France during the Great Depression. 7 p.m.

Randy “Duke” Cunningham, former representative of California’s 50th District near San Diego, has been labeled one of the most corrupt members of Congress in U.S. history. If you need a refresher, Cunningham in 2005 pleaded guilty to tax evasion, conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud and wire fraud. Plus, we’ve heard he hates kittens. Marcus Stern, Jerry Kammer and George E. Condon Jr. will be at Politics and Prose to talk about The Wrong Stuff, their book on what happened. 7 p.m.