Posts Tagged ‘book tour’
In praise of GyPSy
As I said the other day, when it comes to being a travelling companion, my GPS/SatNav, whom I call GyPSy Rose, is a bit unfulfilling. However I have to say that, as a servant, she is nothing short of incredible. Most of us live in a society where servants are a theoretical or fictional entity.…
Read MoreMy friend GyPSy Rose
Thank you to everyone who came out to the Cleveland Park library on a rainy afternoon yesterday and made it such a grand success. And I hope to see more of you at the SW Anchor library in Baltimore this afternoon. ___________ As I mentioned, I have a travelling companion. She is small and dark,…
Read MoreLRK on the road, again!
The Bee is coming! That’s right: The Language of Bees launches on Tuesday, with a fiesta abuzz with bees and Bohemians and vintage aeroplane talk—at the great Book Passage store in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. And beginning Wednesday, I will post a blog about every stop I make between Launch Day and Mother’s Day. Here’s…
Read MoreLiterary sex
If, as Kurt Vonnegut declares, unusual travel invitations are dancing lessons from God, then the invites have been running hot this week. Wednesday’s memorable seder was followed by last night’s…reading? at the Make-Out Room in San Francisco. Minal Hajratwala’s memories of her Indian family, Stacie Boschma’s slam reading that was the very definition of performance…
Read MoreHello, goodbye
The preliminary list of LRK sightings is up over on the events page, although we’ll be adding things and we’re still working on the details of May 1-5. I’ll be on tour much of May, and for the first time in, oh, ten years or so, I’m putting together stops on the east coast (If…
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