Notable Upcoming Events of Interest: The great Marion Winik at Ruta Maya, tonight, Thursday, May 11, 6pm… Josh Frank, Caryn Ganz, and friends celebrate the release of Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies (St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.95) later that night at Club de Ville at 8pm… and Chronicle critic Marrit Ingman (also the author of Inconsolable) has a couple of quibbles with old friend Neal Pollack‘s Alternadad at www.austinmama.com. This could get interesting.

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