Archive for September 17th, 2006

it’s a mystery

September 17th, 2006

The UK edition of Fun Home was just released, and got a nice review in the Times. Thanks to Pam Isherwood for alerting me to it. I don’t understand why there needs to be a separate UK edition, though. It’s not like it has to be translated. Unless maybe they threw in some spanners or torches. Or puddings maybe.

Another thing I don’t understand is these bugs that keep appearing in my basement. They’re some kind of ants that crawl up through cracks in the floor, metamorphose into winged bugs every night, and in the morning they’re all dead.

bugs

Fall Tour: space-time coordinates

September 17th, 2006

space-time continuum
I’m leaving in a week for another book tour. I thought making a map of where I was going might help me to pre-emptively (god, that word is ruined forever) adjust to the psychic displacement entailed by serial air travel. In case you can’t decipher it, here’s the text version, too.

Fun Home Fall Tour

Austin, Texas
Sunday, September 24, 2006, 3:00 pm

BookPeople
603 N Lamar Blvd.
Austin TX 78703
(512) 472-4288

Atlanta, Georgia
Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 8:00 pm

Outwrite Bookstore
991 Piedmont Ave. NE
Alanta, GA 30309
404.607.0082

Miami, Florida
Thursday, September 28, 2006, 8:00 pm

Books & Books, Miami Beach
933 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach FL
305-532-3222
Co-sponsored by Miami-Dade G&L Chamber of Commerce

Asheville, North Carolina
Friday, September 29, 2006, 7:00 pm

Malaprop’s Bookstore and Café,
55 Haywood St. Asheville, NC 28801
828-254-6734

St. Louis, Missouri
Saturday, 30 September, 2006, 7:00 pm

Left Bank Books
399 N Euclid Ave, St. Louis MO 63108
314-367-6731

Washington, D.C.
Monday, October 2, 2006, 8:00 pm

Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC 20008
202-363-7663

Cleveland, Ohio
Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 7:00 pm

Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Legacy Village
24519 Cedar Road, Lyndhurst OH 44124
216.912.1981

Oberlin College
Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 4:30 pm

I’ll be giving a lecture about Dykes to Watch Out For and Fun Home for the Comparative American Studies program. But anyone’s welcome to come. It’s in the Craig Lecture Hall, Science Center, 119 Woodland St., Oberlin, OH

University of Michigan
Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 7:00 pm

The School of Art & Design and the Office of LGBT Affairs is bringing me in. I’ll be speaking at the East Quad auditorium. This is a National Coming Out Day event.

Toronto, Ontario
Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 7:00 pm

Pages, ‘This is Not A Reading Series’
http://www.pagesbooks.ca/

I’ll be having a conversation with Ivan Coyote and Zoe Withall.

Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St W,, Toronto.
Wed, Oct 11, 7:30-10pm (doors 7pm), free

Coming up:
London and Paris at the end of October

NY ComicCon in February