Zadie Smith

A few months ago, Zadie Smith wrote in the New York Times about being an extra in a PBS screen adaptation of her autobiographical debut novel, White Teeth. It was a touching piece in which the writer acknowledged the shortcomings of her novel, and the bizarre experience of being an extra in the movie of your own life. (Actually, it was, among other things, the raucous story of how her biracial hippie parents met in the paisley heyday of London circa 1975.) Here, she’ll undoubtedly read from The Autograph Man, her likeable second novel, which came out last fall. Ruminator, 1648 Grand Ave., St. Paul, (651) 699-0587, ruminator.com