PAST: BOOK TALKS: Tonight, MON, May 19th, Free

Kimberly Dozie discusses and signs copies of Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report and Survive the War in Iraq at 6:30pm, Free at the National Press Club, 529 14th St, NW. For reservations call (202) 662-7564.

Kelly McMasters reads from and signs copies of Welcome to Shirley at 7:00pm, Free, at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave, NW. (202) 364-1919

Rick Perlstein discusses and signs copies of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America at 7:00pm, Free, at Olsson's Books & Records, 418 7th St, NW. (202) 638-7610