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  What are you reading now?

  “W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz is a book I try to re-read once a year. A historical novel that seems to exist outside of both history and the novel; a strange, hallucinatory work written in a language so flattened of pretense as to appear almost boring. By the end, though, you’ll be bewitched by the force of its melancholy intelligence.”

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  “I love to read in layers. I’m finishing We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, a startling, dark look inside the mind of a school shooter from his mother’s perspective; in the midst of Hisham Matar’s elegant In the Country of Men and looking forward to jumping into Ana Menendez’s rich, Borgesian Adios Happy Homeland .”

• Celebrity birthdays on Jan. 25

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• Heat players celebrate after charity event

  Heat players celebrate after charity event

  On Friday night, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade hosted a private dinner at STK in celebration of Saturday’s South Florida All-Star Classic charity event. Wade’s main squeeze, Gabrielle Union, was, says our snitch, “very affectionate” with her basket-beau throughout the night. Fellow Heat player Chris Bosh was there, too, but teammate James spent lots of time catching up with Busta Rhymes . James’ girlfriend, Savannah Brinson, was also there, but his mother, Gloria, “was the life of the party,” dancing and having a good time with a group of girlfriends. At the end of the night, James and Brinson left the restaurant holding hands. Also there: Dorell Wright (Golden State Warriors), Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City Thunder), James Hardin (Oklahoma City Thunder), Jonny Flynn (Houston Rockets), Rudy Gay (Memphis Grizzlies) and Russell Westbrook (Oklahoma City Thunder).