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TIP: Starting today and running through the 16th you can see some of Off-Broadway's best for only $20! Go here for more details about the 20at20 deal.

READING: Clintons + book stores = long lines, so start heading to Union Square now for tonight's reading. Our former president will be giving everyone a glimpse from his new book "Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World." Read more about the book, which is out today, here.

6pm // Barnes & Noble [33 E 17th St] // Free

EVENT: Share in the love as this year's summer of love comes to a close. Tonight join "a phenomenal and international group of people for the first ever crushON.love experience." One camera will be set on a tripod which will take a photo every minute for one hour as the group congregates around the famous sculpture. The post-love party is at Amalia in the Dream Hotel and will feature some free cocktails!

6:30pm // LOVE Sculpture at W 56th and 6th // Free

THEATER: After attending the funeral of her former acting coach in 1955, Marilyn Monroe spent the rest of the day wandering around downtown with Truman Capote. His experience with Monroe that day – downing champagne, trading dark confessions, watching the “platinum sex explosion” freak out – became fodder for a short non-fiction story called “A Beautiful Child.” A stage adaptation of the piece was a success at last month’s Fringe Festival; it’s been extended for two-week run that begins tonight. - John Del Signore

9:30pm // SoHo Playhouse [15 Vandam St] // Tickets cost $18.

MUSIC: If you didn't get tickets in time for the opening night of the Music Hall of Williamsburg (a fête featuring Patti Smith) -- there's plenty going on off of North 6th. Sweet, troubled soul Daniel Johnston will be blowing minds at the Spiegeltent tonight. He'll be playing oldies and some fresh tunes off his new album Lost and Found.

10pm // Spiegeltent, South Street Seaport, Pier 17 // $25-30