SANDWICHED IN: Meet Alix Strauss: What’s more suitable for a hot Friday the 13th than a chilling compendium of famous suicides? In Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious (HarperPaperbacks, 2009), Alix Strauss bids each one a final good-bye while examining the last days and the unbearable incidents that drove these notables to end their lives. Books will be available for purchase and signing. 12:10 p.m.