MONDAY:
Author Julia Serano will be at Busboys and Poets to discuss and sign her new book Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. 6 p.m.

TUESDAY:
The “Godfather behind creative nonfiction,” Lee Gutkind (as described by Vanity Fair), will be at Olsson’s Books & Records in Dupont Circle to read from The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1, as well as a selection from his book, Almost Human: Making Robots Think. 7 p.m.

Short story writer and novelist Mary Gordon will be at Politics and Prose to read from her latest book, Circling My Mother. The book is Gordon’s memoir and tribute to her mother, who died in 2002 but was lost to senile dementia long before then. 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:
Alec Klein will be at Politics and Prose to talk about A Class Apart, his book on New York City’s Stuyvesant High School and what makes the school one of the top in the nation. 7 p.m.

THURSDAY:
Every once in a while, we read a book description that makes us smack ourselves in the forehead and exclaim, “Wha?!” Today, it’s Dana Thomas’ Deluxe, an analysis of who shops at stores such as Tiffany’s, Louis Vuitton and Jimmy Choo. How about people with a lot of money? Thomas will be at Politics and Prose to, hopefully, elaborate. 7 p.m.