Readings
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REMEMBERING TENNESSEE Film director and writer John Waters discusses his introduction to the newly released collection “Memoirs” by Tennessee Williams (New Directions). Tonight, 6:30 p.m., Drama Book Shop, 250 W. 40th St., between Seventh and Eighth avenues, 212-944-0595, free.
NORTHERN VERSES Housing Works Bookstore Café and the Poetry & Writers nonprofit organization presents a night of readings by authors from Vermont. Writers include Dorothy Gannon and Paige Ackerson-Kiley. Tonight, 7 p.m., Housing Works, 126 Crosby St., between Houston and Prince streets, 212-334-3324, free.
FRIENDS OF FREDERICK The New School Writing Program presents a fiction forum featuring friends and admirers of the author Frederick Busch. Selections from his posthumous collection,”Rescue Missions” (Norton), are read. Tonight, 6:30 p.m., the New School, 66 W. 12th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, room 510, 212-229-5488, $5.