Pressed for Time: Howard Bloom & Richard Foreman

Feb. 16, The Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway (at E. 12th St.), 212-473-1452; 7, Free.

Need to look smart this week? Here’s your chance. Literary critic Bloom does girl talk with Richard Foreman, playwright and prolific hanger of posters with his name on them. Bloom, notably erudite and prickly, is sure to cast some bons mots onto the quivering cake holes of literary hangers on.

Bottom Line:Wanna see a rumble ’bout Shakespeare? Yeah you do.