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- 1. Ayelet Waldman
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February 6 at Barnes & Noble
2289 Broadway, at 82nd St.; 212-362-8835; 7pm, free
The best-selling author (and wife of Michael Chabon) got her start writing the popular “Mommy-Track Mysteries,” but her buzzy new novel, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, explores relationships, motherhood, and loss as experienced on the Upper West Side (see review).
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- 2. Siri Hustvedt
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February 1 at Coliseum Books
11 W. 42nd St., near Fifth Ave.; 212-803-5892; 6:30pm, free
The title essay in Hustvedt’s collection A Plea for Eros isn’t a request for sex—it’s an analysis of the interplay between everyday life and the erotic.
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- 3. Bruce Benderson
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February 2 at Barnes & Noble
675 Sixth Ave., at 22nd St.; 212-727-1227; 7pm, free
In his award-winning erotic memoir, The Romanian, local writer Benderson explores—at great length—his love affair with a 24-year-old street hustler.
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