Reading Tonight: Rick Moody, Lesley Dorman

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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.