Author James Kaelan embarks on his book tour July 2nd. 1900 miles, by bike, no electricity, formal lodging, or technology requiring the use of carbon. He will be followed by documentarian Mile Kittredge. Here are the dates thus far:

Jul-2 Los Angeles, Ca:   [Skylight Books, 730pm](RSVP via Facebook)

Jul-3 Oxnard, Ca:   camping @ Join the Farm

Jul-4 Carpenteria, Ca:   camping @ Shepard Farms

Jul-7 Santa Maria, Ca:   camping @Blosser Urban Garden

Jul-8 San Luis Obispo, Ca: [Barnes & Nobles] pending

Jul-13 Santa Cruz, Ca:   [Santa Cruz Bookshop] pending

Jul-16 San Francisco, Ca:   [Green Apple Books] (RSVP via Facebook)

Jul-19 Davis, Ca: [Avid Reader: Davis] [730pm] (RSVP via Facebook)

Jul-20 Sacramento, Ca: |M| James to appear on NPR/CPR’s Insight 10-11a 
(90.9 FM KXJZ Sacramento; 90.5 FM KKTO Tahoe City/Reno; 91.3 FM KUOP Stockton/Modesto; 88.1 FM KQNC Quincy)

Jul-20 Sacramento, Ca:   [Pangaea Cafe & Pub] (map) [7pm and after-party to follow] (RSVP via Facebook)

Jul-21 Marysville, Ca:   camping @ Godfrey Family Farms

Jul-22 Chico:   [Lyon's Books] pending

Jul-23 Marysville, Ca:   camping @ Kitchel Family Organics

Aug-2 Tiller, Or:   camping @ Perma Organic Farm

Aug-6 Lebanon, OR: camping @ The Mushroomery

Aug-7 Salem, OR:   camping @ Minto Island Growers

Aug-8 Portland, OR:   [Powell's Books] (map) (details) 4pm (RSVP via Facebook)

Aug-10 Colama, WA:   camping @ R & C Ranch

Aug-13 Puyallup, WA:   camping @ Mother Earth Farm

Aug-14  Seattle, WA: [Ravenna Third Place Books] (7pm) (RSVP via Facebook)

Aug-17 Arlington, WA:   camping @ Garden Treasures

Bookcourt: 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY | 7PM

The paperback edition of Josh Weil’s critically acclaimed collection of novellas, THE NEW VALLEY, will be released by Grove on May 11th. Alyssa Knickerbocker’s novella, YOUR RIGHTFUL HOME, just came out with Flatmancrooked. We’re all friends. What better way to celebrate than a reading/battle of wits!

Come meet the authors, hear them talk about themselves, get your books signed, and then watch them sword fight. It’ll be sick.

The Flatmancrooked editors will be in town, so you know there will be a party afterwards, probably somewhere like a bar.

Oh, by-the-bye, this thing is Hella Free. RSVP NOW!

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JOSH WEIL is the author of The New Valley (Grove, 2009), a New York Times Editors Choice and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters; the New Writers Award from the Great Lakes Colleges Association; and a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Glimmer Train, Poets & Writers and American Short Fiction, among others, and he has received the Dana Award in Portfolio as well as fellowships from the the Writer’s Center, the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, and the Fulbright Foundation. As the 2009 Tickner Fellow, Weil is the writer-in-residence at Gilman School in Baltimore.

ALYSSA KNICKERBOCKER is currently completing her MFA in fiction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her novella “Your Rightful Home” was recently published by Flatmancrooked, and other work has appeared in Avery Anthology, Bat City Review, Meridian, Sou’wester, and elsewhere. She and her husband will soon move to Kentucky, where she has been awarded the Axton Fellowship at the University of Louisville.

Emma Straub will read from, and sign copies of, her new book, “Fly-Over State,” which Flatmancrooked officially releases in October. Straub, along with the Flatmancrooked editorial staff, will take questions, give out free dances, and thumb wrestle any brave and willing souls. Here’s your chance to get an early copy of Emma’s masterpiece and meet some geniuses. This event is super FREE (and rumored to be followed by a private party).

Festivities start at 7:00pm

BookCourt:

163 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 875-3677

After-Party:

Floyd, NY Bar
131 Atlantic Avenue (just around the corner from Bookcourt)
Brooklyn, NY
Time: After release until cows come or go.
Open to the public, free save spirits.

The inimitable Whitey Erickson will represent Flatmancrooked at LDM’s debut in Los Angeles on August 11th. He’ll be competing for top reading honors, which is to say, he’ll be winning. There is also a literary Wiffle Ball match preceding LDM–Flatmancrooked vs. Opium. Todd Zuniga claims he’s got some good pitches. We shall see.

This is also the official Southern California release of Flatmancrooked’s Anthology of Great New Writing Done During an Economic Depression. Copies shall be available.

Festivities start at 7:00pm

Cinespace:

6356 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 817-3456

*Wednesday, June 17th @ Bistro 33 in Davis, California – 9pm
*Readings by Peter Grandbois & James Kaelan from Flatmancrooked’s Anthology of Great New Writing Done During an Economic Depression, with a special performance tribute by Executive Editor Elijah Jenkins to host Andy Jones.

*Hosted bar courtesy of Bistro 33 and Flatmancrooked.
*FIRST 50 ATTENDEES GET A COMPLIMENTARY DRINK TICKET.
*Purchase of a book buys you ANOTHER DRINK TICKET.

RSVP here!