TUESDAY:
Bobby Austin will be at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to sign and discuss Circus Clowns & Carnival Animals: Growing Up in the Ebb and Flow of Rural Black Life. 6 p.m.

Daniel Mendelsohn, the best-selling author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, will make an appearance at Politics and Prose to talk about his latest collection of essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken. 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY:
Pollster John Zogby has an idea of where contemporary American life is heading. Why? Because a poll told him, of course. It’s the subject of his book, The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream. Politics and Prose. 7 p.m.

Author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner makes an appearance at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of Abortion & Life. 6:30 p.m.