MONDAY:
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, Michael Eric Dyson will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to sign and discuss his new book, April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death and How It Changed America. 6 p.m.

David Hajdu, music critic at the New Republic, will be at Politics and Prose to talk about The Ten-Cent Plague. No, he’s not talking about a cheap knockoff of the Black Death. The book is about comic books, which were blamed in the 1950s for antisocial behavior in young readers. 7 p.m.

TUESDAY:
In Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, Gene Baur highlights the appalling conditions billions of animals are forced to endure in factory farms. Baur will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of the book, and attempt to turn you into a vegetarian with tons of horror stories. 6 p.m.

Richard Price, who wrote for a little-known show on HBO called The Wire, will appear at Politics and Prose to talk about Lush Life, his new crime novel set in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. 7 p.m.