January 28, 2013

FIGHT SONG tour & other literary shenanigans



There will be more coming, but this is the first round of readings.  I hope to see you at one of these events! 

2/7: Amnesia Bar, Mission District.  Book party for “Fight Song” and Susan Steinberg’s “Spectacle,” hosted by the Rumpus’s Isaac Fitzgerald.

2/9: East Bay on the Brain, Berkeley. 

2/16: Writers with Drinks, Mission District, Makeout Room.

2/21: Official Fight Song Release Party presented by City Lights, with performances by Bucky Sinister, Daphne Gottlieb, Tony Dushane, and Jon Longhi.  

2/25: Diesel Books, Berkeley, with Sam Sattin.

2/26: San Francisco Public Library, main branch: I’ll be interviewing Patrick DeWitt, author of “The Sisters Brothers” and “Ablutions” for On The Same Page.

3/2: Bernal Yoga Series, San Francisco.

3/5: Cantab Lounge, Boston, with Jillian Lauren, Gina Frangello, James Greer, Tyler McMahon, Ben Tanzer, among others.

3/10: KGB Bar, NYC, sponsored by Vol. 1 Brooklyn.  Also performing Teddy Wayne, Kathleen Alcott, and Matt Dojny.

3/11: Franklin Park Reading Series, Brooklyn. 

3/12: City Lights, San Francisco: I’ll be interviewing Sam Lipsyte about his new story collection “The Fun Parts” for a Litquake Epicenter event.

3/14: Copperfields, Petaluma.

3/21: Powells, Portland: also reading, Pat DeWitt and Jim Frost.

3/22: Writers’ Dojo, Portland: I’m teaching a one-day seminar.  Info here.

3/25: Elliott Bay, Seattle: After the reading, I’ll be in conversation with Mia Lipman. 

4/9: Books Inc, Mountain View.

4/11: Why there are words, Sausalito

4/18: Book Passage, Corte Madera.  I’ll be interviewing Pam Houston, author of “Contents May Have Shifted.”

4/20-21: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

4/27: Saturday Night Special, Berkeley.

5/10: Gallery Books, Mendocino. 

See you soon,
Josh

PS: There's a new excerpt of FIGHT SONG posted at The Nervous Breakdown.