Photos and Story from LitCrawl/Dirty Laundry (9/10)

LitCrawl 2011/Dirty Laundry!  The Launderette on Second Avenue was packed, as you can see from the photo below:

credit: nytimes/Jake Sugarman

We got some love from the local arm of the New York Times, too.  I read a flash piece titled Sacrifices, which appears below.  But before that, some more pictures.  Big thanks to my wife for taking these great photos and also editing my story.

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9/10: LitCrawl/Dirty Laundry: Remains of the Stain

On September 10, LitCrawl will be happening all around downtown NYC, and I’ll be doing my small part.  Dirty Laundry, the great reading series that takes place in various laundromats, will be on at 6pm that evening:

Dirty Laundry: Remains of the Stain

September 10, 2011, 6:00 PM

Launderette (All Ages)
97 2nd Ave

Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose

Emily Rubin, author of Stalina, will host “Remains of the Stain”, writings about dribbles, spills and other moments of lust and panic.  Ten writers read short shorts inspired by memorable stains. Hear how a lipstick stain inspired a novel, and more.

The Last Leg of the Tour

Thirty-six events.  Driving to Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Flying to San Francisco.  Yesterday marked the eight-month anniversary of my novel’s publication, and I can now declare that the tour is done for 2009, because I have no more bookstores, colleges, or events to visit for the rest of the year.  I’ve done a lot of driving around for this tour:

April 10 – NJ indie bookstores visits – 230
April 11 – NJ indie bookstores visits – 180
April 18 – KGB reading – 122
April 25 – Borders @ Eatontown – 142
April 29 – Princeton Public Library – 96
April 30 – Boston Public Library (Metro Park, NJ) – 74
May 9 – CAAA – 122
May 14 – AABF – 606
May 19 – Cornell Club of Lancaster, PA – 200
May 21 – AAWW – 122
May 22 – Newark Airport Borders – 110
May 28 – Newark Airport for SF reading – 110
June 5 – to Ithaca, NY – 171
June 7 – from Ithaca, NY – 176
June 10 – Beatrice reading – 122
June 13 – Bootleg Books interview in Brooklyn – 136
June 14 – Books NJ (Paramus, NJ) – 122
June 18 – Cornell Club of Phillie – 138
June 23 – McGoldrick (Queens, NY) – 60
June 25 – Generations XYZ, NYC – 122
June 30 – Scotch Plains Library – 80
July 1 – Korea Society – 122
July 16 – KCCP Princeton – 97
July 31 – Brielle Library – 168
August 7 – Raconteur – 92
August 20 – hunterdon county lib – 51
September 12 – baltimore and gaithersberg, md – 224
September 13 – DC – 240
September 17 – Montclair – 104
September 19 – Princeton – 96
October 14 – Ridgewood, NJ – 123
October 20-22 – Aurora, NY – 398
November 4 – Easton, PA – 27
November 12 – NYC – 122
November 18 – Hackettstown – 28

That comes to a total of 5133 actual miles.  That’s New-Jersey-to-California-round-trip kind of miles.  I’m sort of floored by that number, but really, I shouldn’t be.  It’s the power of gradual accrual, and it’s how books are written, too, a page at a time.

Check out some nice photos from the Dirty Laundry reading with Ed Park, which was just all-around awesome.  Ed read a hilarious excerpt from his new novel (tentatively titled Disambiguation), and I read from my short story “Translation” [PDF].

The last photo is actually from Centenary College before I started reading (Smith Hall Rotunda).  This was a delightful event — it was part of International Week, so I got to meet students from Korea, China, and Japan.

And that’s all she wrote.  Until next year, that is, when the paperback comes out.