<strong>ANDY WILLIAMS: </strong>Singer will discuss and sign his new book, &ldquo;Moon River and Me.&rdquo; Sponsored by Rainy Day Books. 2 p.m. Oct. 25, Unity Temple on the Plaza, 707 W. 47th. $25.95. www.rainydaybooks .com (913-384-3126) </p><p><strong>NATIONAL NOVEL-WRITING MONTH KICKOFF: </strong>Information session and party. 6 p.m. Oct. 25, the Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania. Free. <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org">www.nanowrimo.org</a> (816-753-1090) </p><p><strong>JENNIFER THOMPSON-CANNINO AND RONALD COTTON: </strong>Authors of &ldquo;Picking Cotton&rdquo; appear as part of daylong activities highlighting injustice of wrongfully convicted. Sponsored by Midwestern Innocence Project and Rainy Day Books. 5:30 p.m. Oct. 27, Unity Temple on the Plaza, 707 W. 47th. $10. <a href="http://www.themip.org">www.themip.org</a> (816-221-2166) </p><p><strong>MARISA MARCHETTO: </strong>Author will discuss and sign her book, &ldquo;Cancer Vixen.&rdquo; Sponsored by Rainy Day Books. 6-8 p.m. Oct. 27, Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Care Pavilion, 2330 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Westwood. $15. Registration required. <a href="http://www.rainydaybooks.com">www.rainydaybooks.com</a> (913-384-3126) </p><p><strong>KATI MARTON: </strong>Author will discuss her new book, &ldquo;Enemies of the People: My Family&rsquo;s Journey to America.&rdquo; 6:30 p.m. Oct. 27, Kansas City Public Library, 14 W. 10th. <a href="http://www.kclibrary.org">www.kclibrary.org</a> (816-701-3407) </p><p><strong>TAYLOR BRANCH: </strong>Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and best-selling author will discuss and sign his book &ldquo;The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President.&rdquo; Sponsored by Rainy Day Books. 7 p.m. Oct. 27, Unity Temple on the Plaza, 707 W. 47th. $35. www.rainyday books.com (913-384-3126) </p><p><strong>AN EVENING WITH MITCH ALBOM: </strong>Journalist and author will speak and sign his new book, &ldquo;Have a Little Faith.&rdquo; 7 p.m. Oct. 27, United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, 13720 Roe, Leawood. Free. <a href="http://www.cor.org">www.cor.org</a> (913-897-0120) </p><p><strong>ROBERT GOLDSTEIN: </strong>Author will discuss his book &ldquo;American Blacklist.&rdquo; 6:30 p.m. Oct. 28, Kansas City Public Library Plaza Branch, 4801 Main. <a href="http://www.kclibrary.org">www.kclibrary.org</a> (816-701-3407) </p><p><strong>LIDIA MATTICCHIO BASTIANICH: </strong>Author will discuss and sign her book &ldquo;Lidia Cooks From the Heart of Italy.&rdquo; Sponsored by Rainy Day Books. 11:45 a.m. Oct. 29, Central Exchange, 1020 Central. $35, includes lunch. www.rainyday books.com (816-471-7560) </p><p><strong>DAVID TREUER: </strong>Ojibwe Indian and author will speak as part of John F. Eberhardt Memorial Lecture. 7:30 p.m. Oct. 29, University of Kansas, Alderson Auditorium, Lawrence. (785-864-2519) </p><p><strong>SPECIAL RIVERFRONT READING: </strong>&ldquo;An Evening of Dangerous Fiction for Halloween&rdquo; will feature Peter Glasser and Evan McNamara, with music by Gib Shell. 8 p.m. Oct. 30, the Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania. <a href="http://www.writersplace.org">www.writersplace.org</a> (816-753-1090)</p><p><strong>THE ART OF POETRY: </strong>Workshop with Andres Rodriguez. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 31, the Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania. <a href="http://www.writersplace.org">www.writersplace.org</a> (816-753-1090)