• Author A.M. Homes and playwright Adam Rapp kick off KGB Bar's reading series on behalf of Behind the Book, a nonprofit dedicated to improving literacy among students in low-income public schools around the city. What have you done for the local community today, asshole? [Paper]
• Over at the New York Public Library, Bill Clinton and historian John Hope Franklin (the man tapped to run the former President's Initiative on Race) get together to discuss how to best "destroy the color line that continues to divide our country." Good luck with that one, fellas. [NYPL]
• Artist Chuck Close discusses arts education, activism, architecture, and, of course, painting with Parsons' Dean Paul Goldberger at the school's Tishman Auditorium. Bring your own limited-edition print of Close's head for signing! [flavorpill]