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From NYT Urban Eye:

Are you suffering from post-Sopranos Jersey withdrawal? You can cure yourself tonight without paying any Parkway tolls. Writers who contributed to the anthology “Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take On the Garden State”— including Jonathan Ames and Tom Perrotta — will share their tales of mallrats, big hair and turnpike-exit jokes. Bon Jovi, Bruce and Yo La Tengo fans welcome.

7 p.m., Mo Pitkin’s, 34 Avenue A (Second Street), (212) 777-5660; free.

6/11/2007 at 7pm--featuring poets Lynn Emanuel, Charles Bernstein, and the almost poet-laureate John Ashberry. At Mo Pitkin’s, 34 Avenue A (Third Street), (212) 777-5660; free.

From NYT Urban Eye:

A Little Help From His Friends

Even a “master of laconic revelation” like Rick Moody needs a professional nudge now and then. Friends like Dave Eggers and Michael Chabon urged him to try genre fiction, and the result is “Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas.” It shifts the scene from Moody’s usual middle-class setting to a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, a George Plimpton-esque beach party and an “Office”-like office. “Moody never puts a foot wrong,” Liesl Schillinger says.

He’ll put his best one forward when he reads from his new work tonight, along with Lesley Dorman, who bought Wendy Wasserstein’s West Village apartment and then centered her first book, “The Best Place to Be,” around it. Alex Kuczynski called it “a friendly, intelligent collection of stories” that is “often delightfully, crushingly funny.”

7:30 p.m., Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, at Richardson Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 302-3770; free.