MONDAY:
Nizam Ali — whose parents, Ben and Virginia Ali, opened Ben’s Chili Bowl 50 years ago — and Tracey Gold Bennett will be at the Busboys and Poets in D.C. to discuss and sign copies of their new book, Ben’s Chili Bowl: 50 Years of a Washington DC Landmark. 6:30 p.m.

TUESDAY:
Dexter Filkins, an award-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times, will be at Politics and Prose to talk about his latest book, The Forever War, which chronicles his work in Afghanistan and Iraq since 1998. 7 p.m.

Salvadoran-American author and artist Mario Bencastro will make an appearance at Busboys and Poets in D.C. to read from his young adult novel, A Promise to Keep. 6 p.m.