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CREATURE DISCOMFORT Aimee Bender reads from her sometimes surreal short-story collection “Willful Creatures” (Double day), in which a woman’s beloved children are potatoes and a boy with keys for fingers searches for the matching locks. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Astor Place, 4 Astor Place at Broadway, 212-420-1322, free.
DECIDING FACTOR Benjamin Kunkel reads from and signs his novel “Indecision” (Random House), which follows a young man who leaves a dull Manhattan job to meet an old high-school girlfriend in Quito, Ecuador. Benjamin Lytal wrote in The New York Sun that “Indecision” is “one of this year’s best debut novels.” Tonight, 6 p.m., Corner Bookstore, 1313 Madison Ave. at 93rd Street, 212-831-3554, free.
TANZANIA AND TOMATOES Tom Robbins, the author of “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” discusses his new collection of short writings, “Wild Ducks Flying Backward” (Bantam).The pieces range from a travel story about a Tanzanian game park to an ode about a tomato sandwich. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 E. 17th St. at Broadway, 212-253-0810, free.
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