Readings

Weds., June 2 Of the journalist/liar all-star team of Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass and David Brock, Brock has bounced back the hardest. His media watchdog website mediamatters.org has become a must-read for hate-radio watchers. Tonight at Barnes & Noble Union Square he reads from his new book, The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy (7, free). NPR commentator and Romanian emigre poet Andrei Codrescu also reads from his new novel Wakefield at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church (8, $8).

Thurs., June 3 Sugar up your sandwich and shake out your dandruff: OG goth pin-up Ally Sheedy is at the Bowery Poetry club tonight reading from Debra Weinstein's poetry satire Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z (8, free).

Fri., June 4 Author and historian Kevin Baker is at ABC No Rio tonight to tell you all the facts about New York City that they leave out of the official literature. He'll be reading a little from each of his three books, Sometimes You See It Coming, Dreamland and Paradise Alley, all of which chronicle the seamier crevices of the city (8, $5).

Mon., June 7 Former Ramones roadie and all-around punk rock madman George Tabb will be at Barnes & Noble on 6th Ave. tonight, reading from his memoir Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows in Greenwich. Hopefully he'll be wearing big sneakers and women's stretch pants (6, free).

If you want stoner politics instead, High Times political columnist Jason Flores-Williams reads from The Last Stand of Mr. America at Junno's (7:30, free). The Telephone Bar is also hosting its biweekly "Library Lounge" poetry and prose event, with NYC judge Gary Sherbell reading from his comedic novel Talking to Richard. He'll be joined at the mic by Julie Androshick, Greg Sanders and Barbara Buckman Strasko (8, free).

Tues., June 8 The Clark Kent of the Times Op-Ed page, David Brooks, has penned a cutesy new cultural critique, titled On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense, and he'll be calmly reading from it at Barnes & Noble in Lincoln Triangle tonight (7, free).

ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St. (betw. Suffolk & Clinton Sts.), 212-254-3697; Barnes & Noble, 1972 B'way (betw. 65th & 66th Sts.), 212-595-6859; Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 E. 17th St. (betw. B'way & Park Ave. S.), 212-253-0810; Barnes & Noble, 396 6th Ave. (betw. Waverly Pl. & 8th St.), 212-674-8780; Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (betw. Bleecker & Houston Sts.), 212-614-0505; Junno's, 64 Downing St. (betw. Varick St. & 6th Ave.), 212-627-7995; St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St (2nd Ave.), 212-674-0910; The Telephone Bar, 149 2nd Ave. (9th St.), 212-529-5000.