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RUN, DON’T WALK Ron McLarty reads from his novel “Memory of Running” (Viking), which he disseminated as a book on tape before he had a publishing deal. Stephen King championed the recording as “the best book you can’t read,” and a bidding war for the print version soon followed. “Memory of Running” tells the story of a self-described middle-age loser who takes an impulsive cross-country bicycle ride. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway at 66th Street, 212-595-6859, free.
THE GLOW TEAM Vincent Pieribone and David Gruber discuss, read from, and sign their book “Aglow in the Dark: The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence” (Belknap). It explores the discovery in the 1960s, by a self-taught Japanese scientist, of a green fluorescent protein that changed the science of molecular biology. Tonight, 7 p.m., Mc-Nally Robinson Booksellers, 50 Prince St. at Mulberry Street, 212-274-1160, free.
MIAMI STORY Gail Godwin reads from and signs her latest novel, “Queen of the Underworld” (Random House), about a young reporter working in Miami in 1959. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Upper West Side, 2289 Broadway at 82nd Street, 212-362-8835, free.
LOVER’S EYES Dutch writer Arthur Japin reads from and signs his novel “In Lucia’s Eyes” (Knopf), the fictional story of Casanova’s first great love affair. Tonight, 7 p.m., 192 Books, 192 Tenth Ave. at 21st Street, 212-255-4022, free, reservations suggested.
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