Readings
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SOLDIER STORIES Actors Joan Allen, Matthew Modine, and David Strathairn read from the publication “Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience” (National Endowment for the Arts), a collection of stories from soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tonight, 8 p.m., Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, 212-864-5400, $21–$26.
FAMILY REUNION The editor of the literary magazine Tin House, Lee Montgomery, reads from “The Things Between Us” (Free Press), a memoir about reuniting with her dysfunctional New England family in the wake of her father’s death. Tonight, 7 p.m., McNally Robinson Booksellers, 52 Prince St., between Mulberry and Lafayette streets, 212-274-1160, free.
IT COMES OUT IN THE WASH As part of its Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose series, Cosmo’s Launderama presents readings by authors Douglas Light, who reads from “East Fifth Bliss” (Behler), about seven defining moments in a person’s life, and Susan Shapiro, who reads from “The Five Men Who Broke My Heart” (Delacorte), a memoir of failed relationships. Tonight, 8 p.m., Cosmo’s, 142 First Ave., between St. Marks Place and 9th Street, $5 suggested donation.
