MONDAY:
Aaron Raz Link will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of What Becomes You (American Lives), the memoir of Link, who started life as a girl named Sarah and 29 years later began life anew as a gay man. 6:30 p.m.

Carol Gilligan, known for her work in gender studies during her 34 years on the Harvard faculty, will be at Politics and Prose to discuss her first work of fiction, Kyra. 7 p.m.

TUESDAY:
Susan Arnout Smith, a former NPR essayist for Weekend Edition-Sunday, will be at the Penn Quarter Olsson’s to read from her latest book, The Timer Game, a tale of kidnappings, scavenger hunts and somebody named “the Spikeman.” 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:
McSweeney’s celebrates its 50th anniversary at Olsson’s in Dupont Circle with McSweeney’s Editor Eli Horwitz and author John Brandon, who wrote their major spring release, the novel Arkansas. According to Olsson’s, all in attendance will receive a temporary tattoo and a chance to see a man swallow a sword. Promises, promises. 7 p.m.

New York University professor David Levering Lewis, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of W.E.B. DuBois, will be at Politics and Prose to talk about God’s Crucible, a history of the rise and decline of the Islamic civilization in Europe. 7 p.m.