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PEARL OF WISDOM Mary Gordon reads from her novel “Pearl” (Pantheon), about a New York single mother whose daughter chains herself to a flagpole outside the American Embassy in Dublin while studying linguistics in Ireland.
Tonight, 6 p.m., Labyrinth Books, 536 W. 112th St., between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, 212-865-1588, free.
EXCLAMATION POINT British writer Lynne Truss reads from her best seller “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: A Zero-Tolerance Approach to Punctuation” (Gotham).
Tonight, 6:30 p.m., Coliseum Books, 11 W. 42nd St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-803-5890, free.
IS THAT ALL THERE IS? GQ writer Peter Richmond reads from his biography “Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee” (Henry Holt). Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Chelsea, 675 Sixth Ave. at 21st Street, 212-727-1227, free.
