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We've been curious about what goes on when authors are out on the road, reading and signing their books. We keep a listing of some of the events at BookSense.com, but we generally only get to readings in the New York area. So, in the name of living vicariously, we asked a few authors if they would send us tour diaries!

Our most recent victim, er, tour-diarist, is Steve Almond, author of My Life In Heavy Metal, a May/June 2002 Book Sense 76 pick.

Here's a bit of his diary:

Among the topics I will not be covering:
1) Other writers I met and the crazy times we spent together
2) The terrible hardships of the understocked mini-bar
3) Jetlag

Topics I will be covering:
1) The strange and beautiful aphorisms one acquires on the road
2) How the world might be saved by a more vigorous promotion of art
3) Whether I got laid

Want to read the whole thing? Go to it!

In May of 2002, Kelly Link (Stranger Things Happen) toured with Shelley Jackson (The Melancholy of Anatomy), driving across the country reading from their debut short-story collections on a 16-bookshop tour. They started the tour in their hometown of Brooklyn, NY, and went on to visit great independent bookshops in Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle!

Further Reading:

• Patrick O'Leary interview
• Renee Grant-Williams interview
• Jim Kokoris
• Pen/Faulkner winners
• Summer Paperback Book Sense 76
• Shelley Jackson interview
• Eva Ibbotson interview
• Maureen McHugh
• Events Calendar

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