Books
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QUESTIONS AND STORIES
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz discusses his new book “We Jews: Who Are We and What Should We Do?” (Jossey-Bass) (tonight, 7 p.m., Borders Books Time Warner Center, 10 Columbus Circle, Broadway at 58th Street, 212-823-9775, free). Author Shalom Auslander, who also has a reading tonight, has tackled some of the same questions in fiction. His short story collection “Beware of God” (Simon & Schuster) includes a yeshiva student who wakes up one morning, “Metamorphosis”-like, as a “very large goy”; Leo Schwartzman, who is instructed by God to shop at Home Depot for ark supplies; and Yankel Morgenstern, who ascends to heaven only to discover that God is a chicken (tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Astor Place, 4 Astor Place at Broadway, 212-420-1322, free).
MODERN MERMAID
Samantha Hunt reads from her first novel, “The Seas” (MacAdam/Cage), a retelling of “The Little Mermaid” set in an American fishing town. Tonight, 7 p.m., BookCourt, 163 Court St., between Dean and Pacific streets, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, 718-875-3677, free.
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