In light of Jean-Christophe Valtat’s upcoming book tour, here’s a music video called “Song for New Venice,” which celebrates the themes and motifs of Valtat’s book, Aurorarama, just out in… Read more »

Tomorrow afternoon the author of Aurorarama (and its forthcoming sequel: Luminous Chaos), the learned Jean-Christophe Valtat, will make his way by ”transaerian psychomotive” airship to Boston for a three-day steampunk festival.… Read more »

For those who missed the original airing, as I did, this post over at the Daily News points to a very contrary Diane Keaton appearing on the Colbert Report recently… Read more »

Dave Tompkins has been traveling around the world during the last year to talk about his history of the vocoder, How To Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World… Read more »

Last Thursday saw the launch of Melville House’s 200th title, The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein, a hilarious debut novel that captures the youth zeitgeist and has been wowing the critics. The… 3 / Read more »

It’s a classic tale of Hollywood. You show up with stars in your eyes, visions of your name in lights, and it all ends in… tow trucks. Christopher Boucher, author… 2 / Read more »

Christopher Boucher, author of How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, begins his cross-country book-tour roadtrip today. In his first blog-post from the road he finally got to “meet” the little… Read more »

Rarely do second editions get a lot of press. Even less likely is the chance an author will tour for the release of a second edition, especially if the book… Read more »

Well, Americans haven’t proven very adept at disrupting the book tours/victory laps of politicians who supped at the public trough and used the opportunity to ruin the economy in order… 6 / Read more »

“I’ve just come back from a book tour in America,” says Hillel Halkin in a Jerusalem Post commentary. “It’s called a ‘book tour,’ it turns out, because of all the… Read more »