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PLAYING WITH FIRE Chef Jeff Blank signs his new cookbook, “Fired Up!” (Ten Speed Press), a collection of recipes from his Austin, Texas, restaurant, Hudson’s On the Bend. Lance Armstrong provided the foreword. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Barnes & Noble Upper West Side, 2289 Broadway at 82nd Street, 212-362-8835, free.
BROTHER BOOK Nick McDonell reads from his new novel, “The Third Brother” (Grove/Atlantic), about a Harvard student working in Hong Kong and his turbulent family back in Manhattan. Mr. McDonell wrote his first novel,”Twelve,” the story of a young Upper East Side drug dealer, when he was 17. Tonight, 7 p.m., the Half King, 505 W. 23rd St. at Tenth Avenue, 212-462-4300, free.
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