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WGN Radio 720
www.wgnradio.com/shows/sundaypapers
1354 N. Wabansia, Chicago, IL 60622, 773.227.4433
www.hideoutchicago.com
All are welcome to celebrate the publication of
Good Money After Bad, and later listen to music by
country/blues band Devil in a Woodpile (no cover).
823 South Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60304, 708.848.6909
www.oakparkcigars.com
Dave's cigar shop is a great place to hang out, smoke, watch a
little of the NBA all-star weekend, and play darts, all of which
we plan to do Friday night. It's mostly guys but women are encouraged,
as well, and in fact several are threatening to do just that. There'll
be some food there, too, and Dave is going to raffle off some nice
cognac cigars to book buyers.
5112 Main Street, Downers Grove, IL 60515, 630.963.2665
www.andersonsbookshop.com
Having graduated from Downers Grove South ('83), this is a homecoming,
of sorts, though I'm in Downers Grove a lot to see friends and family.
My mom used to work at DG National, just down the block from Anderson's,
and my first short-lived job was at a place next to the bakery called,
if I remember correctly, People Eaters. Tribeca is a new, and, I think,
important addition to the strip.
129 Van Buren Street, Woodstock, IL 60098, 815.206.5967
www.readbetweenthelynes.com
The Woodstock town square was, of course, the setting for Groundshog Day;
it's almost as pretty in person. After the reading, I'll be at The Gambler
(1232 N. Green Street, McHenry 60050) for at least a few pints of Guinness.
475 N. Main Street, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137, 630.469.2891
www.justthebookstore.com
This is a great little independent store in a good little downtown,
and it's also the closest reading venue to my old Lombard newspaper office.
811 Elm Street, Winnetka, IL 60093, 847.446.8880
www.thebookstall.com
I wanted to read here just as an excuse to do some book shopping.
The North Shore is a beehive of literary intrigue, including the
headquarters of StoryQuarterly, which was the first big journal
to publish one of my stories.
1564 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60622, 773.862.4882
http://www.myopicbookstore.com/poetry.html
Adam is a fellow Syracuse University graduate, and he might line up
other literary Orangemen for the event.
University of Louisville
Paul Griner asked me to talk to his students, so I'll see how
many I can scare into other professions.
4600 Shelbyville Road, Louisville, KY 40207, 502.893.0133
http://www.bordersstores.com/stores/store_pg.jsp?storeID=616
545 Cool Springs Boulevard, Suite 190, Franklin, TN 37067, 615.771.2870
http://www.bordersstores.com/stores/store_pg.jsp?storeID=536
4235 N. Oracle Road, Tucson, AZ 85705, 520.292.5049
http://www.bordersstores.com/stores/store_pg.jsp?storeID=18
The Cubs-White Sox play at Tucson Electric Park (1:05 pm start), which gives
me time for dinner before heading to the bookstore. I'm hoping to drag a few
baseball fans with me.
1152 N. Power Rd., Suite 105, Mesa, AZ 85205, 480.981.3647
www.alschicagohotdogs.com
The Padres visit Ho Ho Kam to play the Cubs at 1:05 pm,
and after the game I'll be at my Uncle Rick's hot dog stand,
eating some world-class greasy food and signing books. Food
and books are going to be raffled off throughout the evening.
3190 W. Highway 89A (At Dry Creek Road), Suite #400, Sedona, AZ 86336, 928.282.2284
www.wellredcoyote.com
When I wrote Good Money After Bad,,I was determined
to depict an honest world with the kinds of heartbreaks and moral
confusion and tragedy not so neatly summed up in a broken kneecap.
In this writing workshop, I'll attempt to teach ways invent a fictional
world that arises from intimate knowledge rather than TV myths.
3705 N. Bishop Lane, Scottsdale, AZ 85251, 480.941.0900
www.thelarsengallery.com
Scott and Polly Larsen run a first-class art gallery in an idyllic
location. We'll start at Scottsdale Stadium for the Cubs-Giants (1:05 pm MST)
before getting ready for the reception. This is a sophisticated place
but then again Jay Raemont and a bunch of McHenry ex-pats will be there,
so we'll see.
699 S. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ 85281, 480.921.8631
http://www.bordersstores.com/stores/store_pg.jsp?storeID=460
WBEZ Chicago Public Radio 91.5
www.chicagopublicradio.org/programs/848
1441 W. Webster Ave., Chicago, IL 60614, 773.871.3610
www.barnesandnoble.com/clybourn
Featured readers include John McNally (America's Report Card and
The Book of Ralph), and Elizabeth Crane (When I Was A Loser: True
Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School by Today's Top Writers).
7419 W. Madison St., Forest Park, IL 60130, 708.771.7243
www.centuriesandsleuths.com
2103 W. Lamon Ave., Chicago, IL 60639, 773.534.3070
www.lloyd.cps.k12.il.us/
1100 South Street, Elgin, IL 60123, 847.888.1860
www.booksatsunset.com
1519 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, 650.329.1217
www.http://www.bkstr.com/
1475 41st Avenue, Capitola, CA 95010, 831.462.4415
www.http://www.capitolabookcafe.com
San Francisco, CA
Modern Language Building, 812 East Washington, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, 734.369.3366
www.http://www.aabookfestival.org
500 South Main St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 734.369.3366
www.http://www.aabookfestival.org
Upcoming
115 Solar, Syracuse, NY 13204, 315.424.7650
Representatives of three decades of Syracuse University's creative writing program
will read at the downtown coffee house. Poets Brooks Haxton (1981), Chris Kennedy (1988) and Sarah Harwell (2005) will join short story writer George Saunders (1987) and myself (1996). We'll each read a little bit and discuss our graduate student experiences.
601 Nassau Park Blvd., Building G, Princeton, NJ 08540, 609.514.0040
www.bordersstores.com/stores/store_pg.jsp?storeID=131
766 Grand St., Brooklyn, New York 11211, 718.387.7840
www.stainbar.com
Di Johnston (www.dijohnston.com) and other Partial Comfort (www.PartialComfort.org),
actors join me for a staged reading of selected chapters. Johnson, who will read the
part of Sophie, has appeared in Sam Marks' "Happy, Happy" and also is renown as a
recording and voice-over artist.
302 Broome St., Lower East Side, New York, New York 10002, 212.334.9676
www.gelfmagazine.com
Featured readers include Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly.
Dearborn & Polk, Chicago, IL, 312.222.3986
www.chicagotribune.com/about/custom/events/printersrow/.com
I'll be at the Chicago Writer's Association table for a few hours Sunday morning,
and my books will likely be around most of the day. Authors from Chicago Writer's Association (www.chicagowrites.org) will be there throughout the weekend.
Live from Loyola in Rogers Park
www.openbooksradio.com
This is the fundraising show, so maybe we'll have people bet against
me for pledge totals. You know, I win it's double; you win...we bet again.
Harrison Works, 17 Harrison St., Oak Park, IL 60304, 708.308.4602
www.harrisonworks.com
4736 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL 60625, 773.293.2665
www.www.bookcellarinc.com
International Friendship Gardens, 2055 East Route 12, Michigan City, IN 46360, 219.879.6711
www.margochanningtheater.com
Sheffield's, 3258 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657, 773.281.4989
www.readingundertheinfluence.com
Big Spring, 2763 College Drive, Decorah, Iowa, New York 52101
Black Road Branch, Joliet, IL 60431, 815.740.2660
http://www.joliet.lib.il.us/