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NEW YORK - GO HEAR A READING TONIGHT

If you're around the Upper West Side early this evening make it a point to have your ass inside the Barnes & Noble at 82nd and Broadway at 7. Barry Gifford, master storyteller and

contributor to our last Fiction Issue

, will be reading from his new book

The Imagination of the Heart

, aka the final chapter of the Sailor and Lula saga. Just in case the long weekend barfed all over your powers of recall, Mr. Gifford is responsible for

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Wild at Heart

, the

Lost Highway

screenplay,

Wyoming

,

Night People

, and a veritable smorgasbord of some of the best American writing of the last century. Unless your mother's on her deathbed or you've recently lost at least one leg, there's really not a valid excuse to skip it.