For perhaps the first time in its 31-year history, Washington City Paper plans to let the facts slide in favor of letting its writers’ imaginations run truly untethered, as it plans to run a fiction issue in early 2013.

The Labor Day weekend is just around the corner, and with summer vacation heaving its last gasp, we’ve got slim pickings as far as area author events go. MONDAY Jennifer Egan’s latest novel, The Keep, blends meta-fiction, intimations of revenge, high-tech weirdness and claustrophobic creeps in a story of two cousins who reunite in Eastern Europe to refurbish an ancient castle. One of the characters in the book can apparently detect the presence of Wi-Fi…