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FLU SEASON The author of “Bee Season,” Myla Goldberg, reads from and signs her new novel “Wickett’s Remedy” (Doubleday), about a young Irish woman working at a shop in Boston when the flu epidemic of 1918 hits. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Astor Place, 4 Astor Place at Broadway, 212-420-1322, free.


FORWARD MARCH In “Backward-Facing Man” (Ecco), three 1960s radicals must deal with the consequences of their sometimes ineffective, sometimes violent actions almost 30 years later. Don Sil ver signs the novel, his first, in SoHo. Tonight, 7 p.m., McNally Robinson Booksellers, 50 Prince St. at Mulberry Street, 212-274-1160, free.


LUNACY Bret Easton Ellis reads from and signs his latest novel, “Lunar Park” (Knopf), about a writer named Bret Easton Ellis with a doomed marriage,a distant son, and a career whose best days may be over. Tonight, 8 p.m., BookCourt, 163 Court St., between Dean and Pacific streets, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, 718-875-3677, free.


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