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  The Second Annual Black Friday Poetry Open Mic
  
  Fri 8pm
  
  The Afrikan Poetry Theater 17603 Jamaica Ave, at 176th St, Jamaica, Queens
  
  Ibrahim P.O.E.T. Siddiq, Jimmy Kennedy, Ras Roots, Nachy Bless, Controversy, B Boy Larry and K-Pot celebrate Black Friday with spoken-word performances and an open...
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  Lurid Pulp
  
  Sat 8pm
  
  Bleecker Street Theatre 45 Bleecker St, between Lafayette and Mott Sts, East Village (212-239-6200)
  
  Burlesque performer Jonny Porkpie has written a new noir titled The Corpse Wore Pasties, a murder mystery set in the burlesque world and that features characters...
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  The Modernist Book Club
  
  Sun 7:30pm
  
  Community Bookstore 143 Seventh Ave, between Carroll St and Garfield Pl, Park Slope, Brooklyn (718-783-3075)
  
  The lively, informal book group discusses Adolfo Bioy Casares’s modernist classic The Invention of Morel. Edwin Frank, the editor of the NYRB Classics series, makes...
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  Sunday Night Fiction
  
  Sun 7pm
  
  KGB Bar 85 E 4th St, between Bowery and Second Ave, East Village (212-505-3360)
  
  Graphic novelists and comics artists Ben Marra (Night Business), Nicholas Breutzman (Yearbooks), and Josh Bayer (iamwar) show their work....
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  Liz Welch
  
  Mon 7pm
  
  The Half King 505 W 23rd St, between Tenth and Eleventh Aves, Chelsea (212-462-4300)
  
  Welch’s funny and sad new memoir, The Kids Are All Right, is told in the alternating voices of four siblings who are grappling with a tragedy—the death of both of...
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  Paul Auster + Javier Marias
  
  Mon 8pm
  
  92nd Street Y 1395 Lexington Ave, at 92nd St, Upper East Side (212-415-5500)
  
  Auster’s most recent novel is Invisible, about a Columbia student who witnesses—and is deeply affected by—a violent act. Tonight he joins Spanish writer Marias, the...
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  Sports Literature Night
  
  Mon 7pm
  
  Housing Works Bookstore Cafe 126 Crosby St, between Houston and Prince Sts, Soho (212-334-3324)
  
  Celebrate the fusion of sports and writing at this reading event and roundtable discussion featuring Jesse Katz (author of The Opposite Field, a fine new memoir...
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  Allison Cobb + Ana Boži?evi?
  
  Mon 8pm
  
  The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery 131 E 10th St, at Second Ave, East Village (212-674-0910)
  
  Cobb’s poetry collection Born Two is a chronicle of Los Alamos, New Mexico—the birthplace of the author and the home of the atomic bomb. Tonight she reads with...
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  James Bradley
  
  Mon 7pm
  
  Barnes & Noble 150 E 86th Street, at Lexington Ave, Upper East Side (212-369-2180)
  
  James Bradley is the best-selling author of Flyboys and Flags of Our Fathers. His latest, The Imperial Cruise, retraces a 1905 diplomatic journey made by Secretary...
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  Monday Night Poetry
  
  Mon 7pm
  
  KGB Bar 85 E 4th St, between Bowery and Second Ave, East Village (212-505-3360)
  
  Kate Greenstreet (The Last 4 Things) and Catherine Bowman (Notarikon) read their work....
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