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TALK SOUP Marsha Mehran reads from and discusses her debut novel “Pomegranate Soup” (Random House), about two Iranian sisters who move to Ireland and open an exotic cafe. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Astor Place, 4 Astor Place at Broadway, 212-420-1322, free.
BEFORE COLUMBUS Charles Mann reads from and signs “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus” (Knopf). In a review of the book in The New York Sun, Peter Pettus wrote, “[Mr. Mann] has not only absorbed the substance of a vast range of new research that has emerged during the past 10 years but has personally visited many of the important sites in the company of key archaeologists and scholars. What he has to tell us is indeed a revelation.” Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Barnes & Noble Upper West Side, 2289 Broadway at 82nd Street, 212-362-8835, free.
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