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DELIBERATE DISCUSSION A professor at Harvard Law School, Charles Ogletree Jr., discusses the effects of the Brown v. Board of Education decision and signs his book “All Deliberate Speed” (Norton). Tonight, 6 p.m., Hue-Man Bookstore, 2319 Frederick Douglass Boulevard at 125th Street, 212-665-7400, free.
FRANCE IN WINTER Paul La Farge reads from “The Facts of Winter” (McSweeney’s), a fictional series of dreams by people in and around Paris in 1881, translated by the author. Tonight, 7 p.m., McNally Robinson Booksellers, 50 Prince St. at Mulberry Street, 212-274-1160, free.
ON NEW ORLEANS Tom Piazza reads from and discusses his new essay collection “Why New Orleans Matters” (Regan Books). The author, a longtime resident of the city, evacuated to a Missouri cotton gin during Hurricane Katrina to write most of this book, which includes reminiscences of New Orleans’s restaurants, jazz clubs, politics, Mardi Gras traditions, and its people. Tonight, 7 p.m., the Half King, 505 W. 23rd St. at Tenth Avenue, 212-462-4300, free.
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