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MAGIC AND MEMORIES Joan Didion reads from and signs her new memoir “The Year of Magical Thinking” (Knopf), about grieving the sudden death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, while their daughter was seriously ill. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 E. 17th St. at Broadway, 212-253-0810, free.
HORN HISTORY Michael Segell reads from his book “The Devil’s Horn” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a history of the saxophone. Tonight, 7 p.m., the Half King, 505 W. 23rd St. at Tenth Avenue, 212-462-4300, free.
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