Readings
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O SOLE MIO Chef and writer Anthony Bourdain and journalist Bill Buford read from their respective works. Mr. Bourdain reads from his travelogue “The Nasty Bits” (Bloomsbury), and Mr. Buford reads from “Heat” (Knopf), which details his experiences as a line cook at Babbo restaurant, and as an apprentice to a Tuscan butcher. Interested participants should arrive early. Tonight, 7 p.m., the Half King, 505 W. 23rd St. at Tenth Avenue, 212-462-4300, free.
TWO GIRLS The 92nd Street Y presents novelist Mary Gaitskill, who reads from “Veronica” (Pantheon), about an improbable friendship between a failed model and an eccentric proofreader in 1980’s Paris and New York, and novelist Edna O’Brien, who reads from her book “The Light of Evening” (Houghton Mifflin), about a 78-year-old widow who recounts her life from a hospital bed in rural Ireland. Tonight, 8 p.m., Kaufmann Concert Hall, 1395 Lexington Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-415-5500, $18 general, $10 for 35 and under.
DUB POETRY As part of its “Voices of the Rainbow” series, the Brooklyn campus at Long Island University presents a reading by poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, who reads from “Mi Revalueshanary Fren” (Ausable), a book of verse inspired by Jamaican culture and militancy. Tomorrow, noon, Salena Library Learning Center, LIU, 1 University Pl., between Dekalb and Flatbush Avenue Extension, Brooklyn, 718-488-1011, free.