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GET HER DRIFT Lisa Fugard reads from her first novel, “Skinner’s Drift” (Scribner), a family drama set in South Africa. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Astor Place, 4 Astor Place at Broadway, 212-420-1322, free.
FICTIONAL FRIENDS Julian Barnes reads from and signs his new novel, “Arthur and George” (Knopf), an imagined account of the intertwined Victorian lives of the lawyer George Edalji and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Tomorrow, 7 p.m., 192 Books, 192 Tenth Ave. at 21st Street, 212-255-4022, free, reservations suggested.
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