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HIDING THE HURT Colson Whitehead reads from his latest novel, “Apex Hides the Hurt” (Doubleday), about a consultant whose job is to come up with catchy product names. His next project is renaming a small town that wants to reinvent itself. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Astor Place, 4 Astor Place at Broadway, 212-420-1322, free.
WRONG DOING John Weir reads from his new novel, “What I Did Wrong” (Viking), which follows up on his 1989 debut novel, “The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket,” one of the first novels to deal with the AIDS epidemic. In the new novel, the 42-year-old protagonist is a professor in Queens who has lost many of his friends to the disease. Tonight, 7 p.m., the Half King, 505 W. 23rd St. at Tenth Avenue, 212-462-4300, free.
TRULY MADLY Poet Bill Benton reads from his first novel, “Madly,” in which the narrator falls in love with an unstable young Russian immigrant. Tonight, 7 p.m., McNally Robinson Booksellers, 50 Prince St. at Mulberry Street, 212-274-1160, free.
