MONDAY:
Jerome Groopman — a New Yorker staff writer, best-selling author and professor at Harvard Medical School — will be at the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue to discuss his latest collection of essays, How Doctors Think. If they’re like our favorite television doctor, it’s probably “What’s the best way to humiliate my employees today?” 7 p.m. $6
TUESDAY:
Min Jin Lee will be at the Johns Hopkins University-SAIS Bernstein-Offit Building to read from her debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires. No, it doesn’t promote welfare for the wealthy. It’s actually about a first-generation immigrant trying to find balance between the ways of her parents and American culture. Books will be sold by Olsson’s. 5:30 p.m.
Janet Malcolm will be at Politics and Prose to discuss her latest, Two Lives, which looks at the relationship between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY:
We love Anthony Bourdain’s wry sense of humor, even though he can be a little blunt. That’s what makes his show, No Reservations, so entertaining. You can catch him in two places promoting his new book, No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach. Noon at Olsson’s in Penn Quarter and 7 p.m. at GW’s Lisner Auditorium. For more information and tickets, call Smithsonian Associates at 202-633-3030.
