Literary Thursday

Erica Jong is reading at McNally Jackson at 7 p.m. Fear of Flying is still sitting on my bookshelf -- maybe if I had her autograph I'd finally get myself to read it! Her new collection of poems is Love Comes First.

Take the 6 to Spring St.; R, W to Prince St.; B, D, F, V to Broadway-Lafayette or J, M, Z to the Bowery. Walk to 52 Prince.

Afterward, go for fair-trade tea, beer, wine, dessert at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe (walk 2 blocks to 126 Crosby St.). All profits go to Housing Works, which provides free housing, health care and legal services to New Yorkers with HIV or AIDS.