Readings
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SAVE ME A.M. Homes reads from and discusses her novel “This Book Will Save Your Life” (Viking), about a day-trader who decides to change his life after a panic attack.The reading is presented by Coliseum Books’ Word-For-Word lunchtime reading series. Today, 12:30 p.m., Bryant Park, Reading Room, 42nd Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-803-5890, free.
WRITE LIKE ME David Goodwillie, author of “Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time” (Algonquin), is the host of the Gotham Writer’s Workshop. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 240 E. 86th St. at Second Avenue, 212-794-1962, free.
DEVOTED AUNT DAISY Rita Williams reads from “If the Creek Don’t Rise: My Life Out West With the Last Black Widow of the Civil War” (Harcourt), the African-American author’s account of a segregation-era childhood spent with an aunt in rural Colorado. Tomorrow, 7 p.m., McNally Robinson Booksellers, 50 Prince St., between Mulberry and Lafayette streets, 212-274-1160, free.
