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Notes From Book Tour #9: So Where Does That Leave Liz Phair?
On the 44th day of book tour I borrowed my friend’s car and drove south to Oberlin College, 2.5 hours down the 23 and across the 80/90 toll road. I have an iPhone now and I read short articles with the...
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Notes From Book Tour #10: Readings, Classes, Pandemics
I’m back in San Francisco for a week. That week is almost up. I’ve been doing events of one kind or another for The Adderall Diaries almost every day. On Wednesday, in San Jose, I interviewed Denis...
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Notes From Book Tour #11: That’s Why They Call it New York
I’m in the final stretch of my book tour, but it’s a long one with something scheduled every night until December 18, with the exception of six days over Thanksgiving. Yesterday I flew from San...
View ArticleNotes From Book Tour #12: From Bethel, with Love
There was a reading last night in Connecticut. I was told it was a disaster, not because there were only twelve people there, but because of the old woman who owned the building and the used bookstore...
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Notes From Book Tour #13: The Part About Leaving; The Part About Finding Love
I’m in a barn on a hundred acres of land trust in upstate New York. I hear a machine going somewhere but outside all I can see are naked trees and then hills descending to a small pond and past that a...
View ArticleNotes From Book Tour #14: What Did You Get When You Got What You Asked For?
Last night was the big Rumpus event in New York. Ticket sales were looking slow, mostly because I’ve been spending all my energy promoting my book. So I went through Twitter, asking all the people I...
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Notes From Book Tour #15: Rock Star
I couldn’t really write a Daily Rumpus today (not a long one certainly, until I decided not to). Why? Last night I was with rock stars. A performance, then to a bar, and I didn’t get home until one....
View ArticleNotes From Book Tour #16: Heart, Pittsburgh
In Washington I sold thirty books, or so I hear. In Naperville I sold twenty more. Luis and Cindy Urrea came to see me and I spent the night in their house. I had a reading planned in my foster...
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Notes From Book Tour #17: Describing Beautiful Women
(Note, these go out as part of The Daily Rumpus email. Most of them aren’t posted on the site so consider subscribing to get all the Notes From Book Tour.)It’s morning in Los Angeles and it’s raining....
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Notes From Book Tour #18: Numbers
A couple of days ago a friend wrote and told me my psychiatrist was crazy. Work on getting close to people, he said. The rest will follow.The next day I walked through the blizzard to meet a friend who...
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