"September/October reading tour" re Shoplifting from American Apparel
New York
08 BookCourt (163 Court Street), 7 pm, launch party
10 Spoonbill & Sugartown (218 Bedford Ave.), 7 pm, free "Shoplifting" "chapbooks" for 1st 25 people
12 New York Public Library (15 East 46th Street), 2 pm
13 Brooklyn Book Festival, 12 pm, with Nicholson Baker, Ben Marcus, Yona Zeldis McDonough
14 Bluestockings (172 Allen Street), 7 pm
Massachusetts
16 Back Pages Books (Waltham, 289 Moody Street), 7:30 pm
17 Brookline Booksmith (Brookline, 279 Harvard Street), 7 pm
18 Harvard Coop (Cambridge, 1400 Mass Ave.), 7 pm
California
26 Vroman's (Pasadena, 695 E. Colorado Blvd), 4 pm
27 Book Soup (Los Angeles, 8818 Sunset Blvd.), 4 pm
28 Copperfield's Books (Petaluma, 140 Kentucky Ave.), 7 pm
29 Bar Amnesia (San Francisco, 853 Valencia Street), 7 pm, with Stephen Elliott, hosted by The Rumpus and City Lights
30 Pegasus Books (Berkeley, 2349 Shattuck Avenue), 7:30 pm
02 The Booksmith (San Francisco, 1644 Haight Street), 7:30 pm
04 Alphonse Berber Gallery (Berkeley, 2546 Bancroft Way), 7 pm
Maryland
08 Atomic Books (Baltimore, 3620 Falls Road), 7 pm
Connecticut
29 Broad Street Books (Middletown, 45 Broad Street), 7 pm
08 BookCourt (163 Court Street), 7 pm, launch party
10 Spoonbill & Sugartown (218 Bedford Ave.), 7 pm, free "Shoplifting" "chapbooks" for 1st 25 people
12 New York Public Library (15 East 46th Street), 2 pm
13 Brooklyn Book Festival, 12 pm, with Nicholson Baker, Ben Marcus, Yona Zeldis McDonough
14 Bluestockings (172 Allen Street), 7 pm
Massachusetts
16 Back Pages Books (Waltham, 289 Moody Street), 7:30 pm
17 Brookline Booksmith (Brookline, 279 Harvard Street), 7 pm
18 Harvard Coop (Cambridge, 1400 Mass Ave.), 7 pm
California
26 Vroman's (Pasadena, 695 E. Colorado Blvd), 4 pm
27 Book Soup (Los Angeles, 8818 Sunset Blvd.), 4 pm
28 Copperfield's Books (Petaluma, 140 Kentucky Ave.), 7 pm
29 Bar Amnesia (San Francisco, 853 Valencia Street), 7 pm, with Stephen Elliott, hosted by The Rumpus and City Lights
30 Pegasus Books (Berkeley, 2349 Shattuck Avenue), 7:30 pm
02 The Booksmith (San Francisco, 1644 Haight Street), 7:30 pm
04 Alphonse Berber Gallery (Berkeley, 2546 Bancroft Way), 7 pm
Maryland
08 Atomic Books (Baltimore, 3620 Falls Road), 7 pm
Connecticut
29 Broad Street Books (Middletown, 45 Broad Street), 7 pm
36 Comments:
i'll be at the williamsburg one i think.
first.
wish you could come to upstate ny
feel moderately left out
guess i will just read the book to/by myself
oh well
i'll be at your sep29 SF reading, look forward to meeting you; don't worry, i'm a mellow person. fyi, 853 valencia is a bar 'amnesia,' not city lights. people will be confused.
yay. see you in LA.
nice
HUZZAH!!!! (enthusiasm)
fuck. can't go to SF reading.
weirdly visiting seattle during break from 'fucking grad school.'
need 2 'take the plunge' and pre-order.
who gets a break from school in September?
If you feel the desire to 'expand internationally' you could come read in Toronto. Not that it's terribly nice in the fall. I feel that you'd be pretty well received by the leftist university population.
I'd love to try and get to one of your NY readings. We'll see.
hi everyone. i'm a writer from South Africa. i like Tao Lin's work and Muumuu House. i have not read any of Tao Lin's or Muumuu House's books, but i like what is available online. i have written a poem inspired by this school of writing. i would like to know what you think. thank you.
(sorry Tao for misusing your comments section)
'accidentally callled a white man sir and immediately after had thoughts of killing him'
by M.N.N
today i heard a Maxwell song and listened closer it sounded like the end of the world
at the back of a taxi which is at the back of a taxi-rank which is at the back of Albert Camus’ A Happy Death i am late for work
i take my time
i take all of my time and pull all of it over my head;
i hide inside a waste of time
i want to create something beautiful
i want to create an ornament to stand above my laptop and i will sleep while it writes misnomers without passion
i don’t understand poetry
i’m just fucked everyday inside the elevator at work
i am too thin;
i pull me through the elevator doors and then at the end of the workday i push me back through the elevator doors
i wake up at home and drink a beer
i feel very alienated; i watch a soccer match and i don’t care
next door Okwonko cuts himself shaving
he is explaining how he hates his job
he rubs the blood off his loin-cloth and says “oh, well”
in my room an ornament stands above my laptop with a reticent facial expression writing poetry without passion
i feel like the worst poem written by this ornament
i feel like understanding that has been obscured but makes sense because i am the one obscuring the understanding, if that makes sense
i wake up at work and drink a beer
it is only 10 a.m.
my editor walks up to me says “nigga” high-fives me says “meeting in 10 stanzas”
i feel like my heritage is obstinate
it drains me
a version of microsoft word walks up to my poem and draws a red line beneath ‘nigga’ and changes it to nigger
‘i cannot tolerate you,’ it says
‘i cannot tolerate you,’ my heritage says and jumps off a tall modern building in the centre of a Cape Town banking park
in my room the ornament wins a Pulitzer prize and walks up to the podium burning the worst poem written by ‘the ornament wins a Pulitzer prize’
i wake up inside a deadline and drink a beer
i feel bored
the ornament says “meeting in 1 stanza”
meeting
Bro, do it in London.
come to pittsburgh tao, all my roommates would come and probably sarah's parents. thats like a billion people or something.
wow. strong poem, dude. maybe you can try to write another one sometime.
@Anonymous
i am enrolled in a 'very exclusive' advertising school. we break between september 11 and october 5th, the beginning of fall quarter.
@david sweet
@colin what bookstore is in upstate ny
@jimmy sweet, thank you for correct info
@hannah sweet
@brandon sweet
@kira damn
@erik sweet
@anonymous damn
@cm sweet
@dj sweet
@m.n.n. sweet
@anonymous damn
@benji sweet
@adam damn
@erik damn
come to chicago. read at quimbys.
hey tao how huge is this novella gonna be?
thank you, adam moorad.
thank you, Tao Lin.
hope you have a successful tour.
alone
Enjoying the news section at the top.
the m.n.n. poem is rad.
Hope I get to go to every reading on the list
good job news section
Fuck your layout is confusing. I feel like my retina is going to detach.
I might teach your poetry this year. Might not. Might thought.
Keep it up.
S
can you elaborate re layout confusion
minneapolis minneapolis minneapolis
stay out of california
http://twitter.com/dirtytwitts/statuses/3196675966
saw this and laughed a little
Tom Waits lives in Petaluma.
we don't have a house yet but you can stay with us on a park bench after your berkeley reading. we're arriving in CA tomorrow, so we'll probably have a house by then though. good news for everyone.
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
oh my god, i want to meet you in LA!
what time will you be at the alphonse berber gallery? bed is my favorite book of the last year, and i'd love to have you sign it. :-)
i havent been this excited since NKOTB went back on tour!
cometovassarcollege?
our book store sucks but we like you.
you would sell 'mad' books to alla the rich faux hipster children here.
i know this is too late but i wish.
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