READINGS Wednesday 8/1 MAC BARNES Author offers tips on how to ...
MAC BARNES
Author offers tips on how to make it big as he reads from Total Wealth: Lifetime Wealth & Lifelong Security; Borders, 461 Park Ave. (57th St.), 212-980-6785; 12, free.
KILL YOUR TV READING GROUP
Discusses Henry James' The Golden Bowl at Logos Bookstore, 1575 York Ave. (betw. 83rd & 84th Sts.), 212-517-7292; 7, free.
Thursday 8/2
JEFFREY FRANK
New Yorker political editor reads from The Columnist about media & politics; Village Barnes & Noble, 4 Astor Pl. (betw. Lafayette St. & B'way), 212-420-0816; 7:30, free.
LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER
New fiction series feat. emerging NYC authors; KGB, 85 E. 4th St. (betw. 2nd & 3rd Aves.), 212-894-3747, ext.9865; 7-9, free.
Friday 8/3
PINK PONY WEST
Maggie Balistreri & Jackie Street host weekly reading series feat. Alice B Talkless; Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia St. (6th Ave.), 212-989-9319; 6, $6, incl. 1 free drink.
Sunday 8/5
OUR UNORGANIZED READING (O.U.R.)
J.D. Rage, Bob Hart, Carl Herr, Bruce Weber & Peter Kerns host series?all-spoken words welcome, no time limit, no features, no b.s., bad acronyms welcome; ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St. (betw. Suffolk & Clinton Sts.), 212-638-2927; 3, contrib.
Monday 8/6
FRIENDLY FRENCH CONVERSATION GROUP
Weekly readings cater to 18th-century French literature; 54 Carmine St. (betw. Bleecker & Bedford Sts.), 914-803-0654; 7:30, free.
PROLETKULT POETRY CIRCUS
Open mic w/Dada poet David Lancet; Manitoba's, 99 Ave. B (betw. 6th & 7th Sts.), 212-228-4062; 7, $5 contrib.
Tuesday 8/7
STEPHEN COONTS
Author signs copies of America, thriller about the CIA taking over nuclear submarine; Barnes & Noble, 160 E. 54th St. (3rd Ave.), 212-750-8033; 6:30, free.
HARRY ELLISON'S POETS CIRCLE
Ellison lectures on "mystical poetry as a means for mediation," bring your own work as a workshop will follow; Corrado Bakery Cafe, 120 E. 15th St. (Irving Pl.), 718-651-1664; 6:30-9:30, $7.
PLANET OF THE APES REVISITED
Joe Russo & Larry Landsman discuss Apes w/actress Kim Hunter, who starred in the first three movies; Village Barnes & Noble, 4 Astor Pl. (betw. Lafayette St. & B'way), 212-420-0816; 7:30, free.
KAREN PLUNKETT-POWELL
Reads from Rememvering Woolworth's & discusses how an potato farmer started the popular chain store; Upper West Side Barnes & Noble, 2289 B'way (82nd St.), 212-721-5282; 7:30, free.