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COLOR COMMENTARY Novelist and poet Paul Beatty reads from and signs “Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor” (Bloomsbury), which he edited. The collection includes work by Toni Cade Bambara, Langston Hughes, Mike Tyson, Reverend Al Sharpton, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sojourner Truth, and W.E.B. Dubois, among many others. Tomorrow, 6 p.m., Hue-Man Bookstore, 2319 Frederick Douglass Boulevard at 125th Street, 212-665-7400, free.
DAUGHTER’S STORY Maile Meloy reads from her novel “Family Daughter” (Scribner), which follows the Santerre family, first introduced in Ms. Meloy’s 2003 debut novel “Liars and Saints.” Tomorrow, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Astor Place, 4 Astor Place at Broadway, 212-420-1322, free.
LIFE IN THE BIG CITY An editor at the Paris Review, Elizabeth Gaffney, reads from and signs her first novel, “Metropolis” (Random House), set in post-Civil War New York City. Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Borders Books Park Avenue, 461 Park Ave. at 57th Street, 212-980-6785, free.
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