LNG interview with Jeff Baker of the Portland Oregonian...

...complete with a helpful list of "Do's & Don't's" here.

Women & Children First first

Tonight, Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object had its hometown premiere at Women and Children First on Chicago's far north side, with Jac Jemc introducing. If you are ever in Chicago, you should go to this store. Also? They make nice signs for their events:
Lindsay Hunter read with me. Her name, as you can see, is on the sign above. She was great! You should check out her reading series, Quickies! This is one half of the beautiful audience:
And this is the other:
After the reading, as is customary, people asked questions and got their books signed:
Thanks to everyone for coming!

Melissa Albert reviews LNG at Time Out Chicago

“Rooney benefits from the tendency of a silent someone to become furniture, making her a great source of voyeuristic wisdom,” she says.

Also? “Considering the constant co-opting of her face and figure for any number of mythical people, Rooney’s take on the job is fittingly schizophrenic.”

Read the whole (very thoughtful) review here.

Take a picture—it’ll last longer.

Often, if you are uploading a photograph of yourself camera-faced in the bathroom mirror, it means you’re some guy placing an ad on Craigslist for casual sex. In this case, it means I finally got a digital camera. After years of my life passing visually undocumented, I can now record any and everything of interest on the tour. Lucky you.

Steal this poster.

Really! Use the color printer at work to print it out and then hang it up--on your fridge, above your desk, around your hometown, especially if that town is one of the ones that Kyle and I will be reading in. Thanks!

Major thanks, also, to Steven Seighman, who designed the poster, and who edits the spectacularly named Monkeybicycle.

My new filing technique is unstoppable

As you might imagine, a 25 (or so) city book tour requires a lot of planning.

Fortunately, I like to plan.

That is why I have carefully assembled the two red binders pictured to the left. Each one contains maps of and directions to each of the locations that Kyle and I will be visiting as we travel to and fro, from airports to people’s houses, from people’s houses to bookstores, from Megabus bus stops to universities and on and on. We want to know how to get from Clark and Clark’s apartment in LA to Skylight Books? We look in the binders. We want to know how to get from the Tulsa airport to University of Arkansas Press in Fayetteville? We look in the binders. We want to know how to take the subway from Brendan’s in Manhattan to Rose Live Music in Brooklyn? We look in the binders. Beautiful, beautiful binders.

LNG reviewed at Bookslut...

...here.