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End of the Road, Part III (The Beginning)

My Dear Peoples,
If you're interested this Saturday I'll be heading up to Annandale on Hudson to be see the honorable Steven Cleaver's, acclaimed writer of C.S. Lew-ish allegories, and be a part of his fantastic radio-stradiovaganza 'leave it to cleaver', www.leaveittocleaver.net , which can be listened to live! online from 12-2, or unlive! at any time you like through a podcast, or so my completely baseless faith in technology would lead me to believe. Then I'll be heading to an abandoned...

Escape from Chicago AWP

Dear Peoples,

Alright so I have just driven back from Chicago, a town that lives up to its reputation as one of the greatest cities on the planet, when it's not one of the worst cities on the planet. There was a little book fair going on around Grant Park, and I was The first two days were largely passed in an old style and deep-dish induced laconic trance, either sitting at the table or watching specials on beluga whales in the hotel room. But eventually there were some good shenanigans...

Seasons Greetings

Dear Peoples,

Ho ho ho, anyways, vis a vis books, I am proud to announce that a new old book, which has not been printed before, is just about (re)done, and I intend to print up a couple of copies for any and all of you that are interested, for the usual price point (i.e. nada). This one, 'Revisions of', follows the adventures of an idiot-savant biographer as he undertakes his most ambitious project to date; the collected writings of a random ordinary man. For those of you who loathed The...

Book Cover Showdown

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The Zero Dollar Tour is over, long live the zero dollar tour. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, last September a friend of mine and I loaded up a truck with four thousand copies of a book and went around handing them out for free, mostly to vagabonds. We went to Chicago then up to Seattle down to LA, back to Chicago etc. The heap of books has dwindled down regularly since then to basically nothing, and now down to nothing, proper. Last Saturday I was going about my DC...