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SUNDAYS ON TUESDAY Actor Billy Crystal signs his new memoir, “700 Sundays” (Warner Books), the book version of his solo Broadway show. Today, 12:30 p.m., Barnes & Noble Fifth Avenue, 555 Fifth Ave. at 46th Street, 212-697-3048, free.
BAT BOY AND FRIENDS The executive vice president of the Weekly World News,David Perel moderates a panel of “experts” on the world of faux journalism. Topics include the Bigfoot Hooker, the Vampire Reincarnated as a Tree, and Bat Boy. Afterward, Mr. Peel signs his book “Bat Boy Lives! The Weekly World News Guide to Politics, Culture, Celebrities, Alien Abductions, and the Mutant Freaks That Shape Our World” (Sterling). Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 675 Sixth Ave. at 22nd Street, 212-727-1227, free.
REAL ROSA PARKS Herbert Kohl discusses and signs his book “She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott” (New Press), in which he emphasizes that Parks’s bus protest was a product of her activism, not simple fatigue. Tonight, 7 p.m., Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen St. at Stanton Street, 212-777-6028, free.
FUTURISTS’ PAST Celebrity psychic Terry Iacuzzo reads from and signs her memoir “Small Mediums at Large” (Putnam), about growing up in Buffalo as part of a Sicilian family in which almost every member has some sort of extrasensory gift. Tonight, 7 p.m., McNally Robinson Booksellers, 50 Prince St. at Mulberry Street, 212-274-1160, free.
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