Julian in America!
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Me reading a book in Alaska
This coming week, I will attempt to please the pants off you, my beloved readers, by reading fiction in Washington DC (March 5th), San Francisco (March 8th), and New York City (March 10th). (And if you don't know my stuff, I apologise for my presumption. Please, have one on me.) The fiction will be extremely, almost pathologically Irish. It may be, according to some, funny. It might even be award winning.
For those too lazy to click the links above – or who have just been afflicted by a deadly nerve toxin, spread on their keyboard by a rival in love, leaving them helpless, paralyzed, unable to click on the links above, no matter how bitterly they yearn to – I’ll slap in the details below.
Washington DC
The Washington DC gig takes place on Saturday, March 5 at 7pm, in Sova, 1359 H Street NE, Washington, DC. Get a seat at the front with a good view, for I am thinking of wearing my black damask silk frock coat and bright yellow trousers.
San Francisco
The San Francisco gig takes place on Tuesday, March 8th from 7:00pm to 8:30pm, in the United Irish Cultural Center, Room 2700 45th Avenue @ Sloat Avenue, San Francisco. The wonderful Yiyun Li (author of Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, The Vagrants, and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers) will moderate, and boy do I need moderating. As Yiyun Li points out here, the last time she heard me read, I was accompanied by milking machines and cows.
New York
And the New York gig features me and Cady Finlayson. a “spirited Irish fiddler.” It takes place on Thursday, March 10, 2011, 6 p.m. at the Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, New York, NY.
OK, now I've got to go pack. Tell your friends, lie to your enemies, and I'll see you down the mosh pit.