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Talking Walkaway on the Techdirt podcast

Last week I sat down with Mike Masnick, the crusading technology journalist who coined the “Streisand Effect” and runs the fantastic site Techdirt, and we had a good, chewy discussion (MP3) about my new novel Walkaway; he’s just posted it to the Techdirt podcast. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

See you tonight for the Walkaway tour stop in Bellingham! (then Vancouver, Burbank, Oxford…) (!)

Thanks to everyone (especially Neal Stephenson) who came out to last night’s Walkaway event in Seattle: if you’re in the area and couldn’t make it, you get another chance tonight when I’ll be at Bellingham’s Village Books at 7PM.

After the event, I’m driving to Vancouver for an appearance tomorrow at the Vancouver Writers’ Festival, and then on Saturday I’m doing an afternoon event at my local bookstore in Burbank, the excellent Dark Delicacies, just before I hop in a cab to LAX to fly to...

A few tickets left for tonight’s event in Seattle! (the Bellingham, Vancouver, Burbank…) (!)

We had a fabulous time last night at Portland’s Powell’s City of Books and now I’m on the runway to fly up to Seattle for tonight’s event at the Neptune Theater with Neal Stephenson (it’s not too late to get tickets!) — then tomorrow I’ll be at Bellingham’s Village Books before heading to the Vancouver Writers’ Festival.

After that, there’s only one more stop on this leg of the US/Canadian tour: an afternoon appearance at Burbank’s Dark Delicacies on Saturday before I fly to the UK for t...

See you tonight at Powell’s, Portland! (then Seattle, Bellingham, Vancouver…) (!)

Yesterday’s Walkaway event at San Diego’s Mysterious Galaxy was terrific (there was birthday cake) and now I’m flying to Portland for an event at Powell’s City of Books tonight with Andy “Waxy” Baio before heading to Seattle for an event with Neal Stephenson at the Neptune Theater, then a stop in Bellingham’s Village Books.

From there, I’ll head to the Vancouver Writer’s Festival and then Burbank’s Dark Delicacies — here are the US/Canadian dates.

Then I head to the UK where I’ll be in...

See you this afternoon, San Diego! (then Portland, Seattle, Bellingham…) (!)

We had a great Walkaway tour stop last night in Scottsdale, AZ, and now I’m headed to San Diego to help the legendary Mysterious Galaxy store celebrate its birthday, closing out a fantastic day of speakers, readers and signings at 4PM.

Tomorrow, I’ll be in Portland, OR, with Andy “Waxy” Baio, speaking at Powell’s City of Books, and on Monday you can catch me on-stage with Neal Stephenson at Seattle’s Neptune Theater.

From there, I’ll head to Bellingham, WA, then Vancouver, then Burbank...

See you tonight, Scottsdale, AZ! (then San Diego, Portland, Seattle…) (!)

Thanks to everyone who came out to last night’s Walkaway tour-stop at Houston’s Brazos Books; I’m just arriving at the airport to fly to Phoenix for tonight’s event at Scottsdale’s Poisoned Pen Books with Brian David Johnson.

Tomorrow, you’ll find me in San Diego at Mysterious Galaxy’s Birthday Bash, and then on Sunday I’ll be at the Powell’s City of Books in Portland, OR, with Andy “Waxy” Baio. From there, it’s off to Seattle for an event with Neal Stephenson.

Then the tour continues!...

Houston, I’ll see you tonight on the Walkaway tour! (then Scottsdale, San Diego, Portland…) (!)

Thanks to everyone who turned up last night for a stellar event at Austin’s Book People! I’m about to head to the airport to fly to Houston, where I’ll appearing tonight at 7PM at Brazos Books, before heading to Scottsdale, AZ for appearance at Poisoned Pen (with Brian David Johnson)>

From there, it’s appearances in Portland, OR (with Andy “Waxy” Baio), Seattle (with Neal Stephenson), Bellingham, Vancouver, and Burbank.

Then I head to the UK, where I’ll be in Oxford (with Tim Harford),...

See you tonight in Austin! (then Houston, Scottsdale, San Diego…) (!)

We had a fantastic event last night at Denver’s Tattered Cover — thanks to everyone, especially the Denhack crew, for making it so great — and now I’m headed to the airport to fly to Austin for an event tonight at Bookpeople with a special guest appearance from EFF-Austin!

Tomorrow night I’m at Houston’s Brazos Bookstore, before heading to Phoenix/Scottsdale where I’ll be onstage with Brian David Johnson, then on to San Diego, Portland (with Andy Baio), Seattle (with Neal Stephenson), Be...

Wrapping up the Crooked Timber seminar on Walkaway: Coase’s Spectre

Two weeks ago, the excellent Crooked Timbre groupblog kicked off a symposium on my novel Walkaway, inviting ten scholars, practitioners, activists and thinkers to weigh in on the novel with thoughtful, sometimes sharply critical essays.

Today, Crooked Timber publishes my response, an essay called “Coase’s Spectre,” about the underlying themes of the novel (as I see them), and whether novels even have themes, and whether the authors are at all qualified to identify them.

I am a Coasean...

See you tonight in Denver! (then Austin, Houston, Scottsdale…) (!)

Thanks to all of you who came out to my tour-stop last night for Walkaway at Winnipeg’s McNally Robinson bookstore — what a fine time we had! Now I’m leaving for the airport to fly to Denver, where I’m appearing at Tattered Cover at 7PM.

Tomorrow, I’ll be at Austin’s Book People, before heading to Houston, Phoenix/Scottsdale, San Diego, Portland (with Andy Baio), Seattle (with Neal Stephenson), Bellingham, Vancouver and Burbank (full details on the US/Canadian tour schedule).

Then I head...