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FEMINISM AND SOLITUDE Vivian Gornick discusses her new book, “The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), with the publisher of Paris Press, Jan Freeman. Tonight, 7 p.m., 192 Books, 192 Tenth Ave. at 21st Street, 212-255-4022, free, reservations suggested.
PAGODA STORIES The founding editor of the Threepenny Review, Wendy Lesser, reads from and signs her first novel,”The Pagoda in the Garden” (Other Press), which follows three American women living in England over the course of the 20th century. Tonight, 7 p.m., Three Lives & Co., 154 W. 10th St. at Waverly Place, 212-741-2069, free.
LETTERS, THEY’VE GOT LETTERS Lisa Grunwald and Stephen Adler discuss and sign their book “Women’s Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present” (Dell Publishing), an illustrated collection of more than 400 letters.The book includes an intercepted missive to Paul Revere from his wife, Rachel; a letter from Jacqueline Kennedy to Nikita Khrushchev written a week after President Kennedy’s assassination, and a thank-you note from a New York City schoolgirl to a firefighter, written on September 12,2001. Tonight,7:30 p.m.,Barnes & Noble Upper West Side, 2289 Broadway at 82nd Street, 212-362-8835, free.
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