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Weds., July 14 Apparently, it's Bastille Day. The Paris Review marks the occasion with readings from Paula Fox, Melvin Jules Bukiet and Nathaniel Bellows at Housing Works (7, free). Octogenarian author Paula Fox penned Desperate Characters and The Widow's Children, two books that the Guardian says "have a claim to a place on the list of 20th-century American classics." College professor Melvin Jules Bukiet, whose novels include the acclaimed Strange Fire, once posed for a fashion shoot in the style section of the New York Times magazine. Vive La France! Thurs., July 15 Douglas Rushkoff's oeuvre includes arguably the first novel centered around techno culture (Ecstasy Club), a rumination on information's diffusion and effect on society (Media Virus) and the article that led to the best New York Press cover ever ("Suicide Jews"). He's appearing at the Greenwich Village Barnes & Noble to talk about his new graphic novel, Club Zero-G (7:30, free). We're curious about how he's going to read from a graphic novel; maybe he can act out the pictures. Sat., July 17 The second-annual I Love New York Poetry Festival is today at Tompkins Square Park (2-6:30, free). Sponsored by Art Is Permitted Everywhere, the words will range from rants to laments to adoration. The mic is open, so bring transcripts of your 311 calls. Mon., July 19 The title of Stacy Sullivan's book, Be Not Afraid, For You Have Sons in America, is sickly sweet and wretched. The subtitle, How a Brooklyn Roofer Helped Lure the U.S. into the Kosovo War, is almost dangerously compelling. Purportedly based on real events, it recounts the story of how Kosovo native Florin Krasniqi was instrumental in the U.S.'s first humanitarian military intervention. Sullivan reads at Half King (7, free). Baffler editor and Conquest of Cool author Thomas Frank looks sort of like an owl. Lucky for him, he's a rare combination of brilliant thinker and sharp writer. His latest, What's the Matter with Kansas?, is particularly savage and sharp, far more historically informed and deeply considered than the rest of the current crop of anti-right lit. See the brilliant owl-man in person at Broadway Barnes & Noble (7:30, free). Tues., July 20 Karen Duffy has one of the strangest resumes in pop culture. She leveraged her MTV veejay cred to become Michael Moore's resident leftie hottie on TV Nation. Then she appeared in countless bad movies, including the allegedly funny Dumb and Dumber. She's set all this to print in her memoir Slob in the Kitchen, which she will read from at the Astor Place Barnes & Noble tonight (7:30, free). ADAM BULGER
Astor Place Barnes & Noble, 4 Astor Pl. (betw. B'way & Lafayette St.), 212-420-1322; Broadway Barnes & Noble, 2289 B'way (82nd St.), 212-362-8835; Greenwich Village Barnes & Noble, 396 6th Ave. (8th St.), 212-674-8780; Half King, 505 W. 23rd St. (10th Ave.), 212-462-4300; Housing Works Used Book Cafe, 126 Crosby St. (betw. Houston & Prince Sts.), 212-334-3324; Tompkins Square Park, Ave. A (betw. 7th & 10th Sts.).
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