Matt Bell

Kyle Minor has just posted tentative dates for his book tour in support of his upcoming collection from Dzanc Books, In the Devil's Territory.  It looks like he'll be doing a couple dates by himself before embarking on the well-named Live Nude Girl in the Devil's Territory Tour with Kathleen Rooney, who will be reading from her forthcoming Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object (they're also blogging about the tour here).  It looks like there will be several dates I should be able to be at (Ann Arbor, AWP, Toledo), and since he's going all over the country there's no reason you shouldn't make one.   Kyle's a great guy, and In the Devil's Territory is a great book.  I'm really looking forward to seeing him read from it.

Here are the dates for the In the Devil's Territory mini-tour this November:

• Mon, Nov. 3 – Lexington, Kentucky, Nicholasville Public Library w/ Jim Tomlinson
• Wed, Nov. 5 (tentative) – either Athens, GA (w/ Jillian Weise and Ida Stewart), or Myrtle Beach, SC (w/ Joe Oestreich)
• Thu., Nov. 6 , 7 pm – Kernersville, NC, Shakespeare & Co. w/ Susan Woodring
• Fri., Nov. 7, 7 pm – Winston-Salem, NC, Borders, w/ Denzil Strickland
• Sat., Nov. 8 (tentative) – either Athens, GA, or Myrtle Beach, SC
• Wed., Nov. 12 - Toledo, OH

And here are the dates for the Live Nude Girl in the Devil's Territory Tour, starting in Spring 2009:

• Tues., February 3: Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA, with Kathleen Rooney and This American Life's Joshuah Bearman
• Wed., February 4, 7:30 pm: Modern Times Bookstore in the Mission District, San Francisco, CA, with Kathleen Rooney and Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket)
• Thu., February 5: Powell’s City of Books, Portland, OR, with Kathleen Rooney and TBA
• Friday, February 6: Seattle, WA, with Kathleen Rooney and Jonathan Evison
• Saturday, February 7: Bellingham, WA at Village Books with Kathleen Rooney and Elizabeth Colen
• Sunday, February 8 (date tentative): Vancouver, BC with Kathleen Rooney
• Monday, February 9 (date tentative): Minneapolis, MN, with Kathleen Rooney and Rebecca Kanner
• Tuesday, February 10 (date tentative): Milwaukee, WI, with Kathleen Rooney
• Wednesday, February 11- Saturday 14: AWP Conference in Chicago, IL
• Dzanc Reading: Kyle Minor, Roy Kesey, Mike Czyzniewjiewski, Allison Amend,
• Louella Bryant
• Panel on Postevangelical Literature: Kyle Minor, Pinckney Benedict, Scott Kaukonen,
• David McGlynn, Angela Pneuman
• Table for Rose Metal Press at the Book Fair: Kathleen Rooney with Abby Beckel
• signing at University of Arkansas Press Table: Kathleen Rooney
• Monday, February 16 (date tentative): Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA with Kyle Minor, Kathleen Rooney and Steve Almond
• Tuesday, February 17 (date tentative): Provincetown, MA, likely at the Provincetown Association of Art Museum (PAAM), with Kathleen Rooney
• Wednesday, February 18 (date tentative): Providence, RI, with Kathleen Rooney
• Thursday, February 19: NYC, with Kathleen Rooney and Rebecca Barry
• Friday, February 20 (date tentative): Philadelphia, PA with Kathleen Rooney and Caroline Noble Whitbeck
• Saturday, February 21: Baltimore, MD, with Kathleen Rooney
• Sunday, February 22: Washington, DC, with Kathleen Rooney
• Monday, February 23: Charlottesville, VA, with Kathleen Rooney and Megan Fishmann
• Friday, February 27 (date tentative): Memphis, TN or Fayetteville, AK, with Kathleen Rooney
• Wednesday, March 11 at 7:00pm: Shaman Drum, Ann Arbor, MI with Kyle Minor, Kathleen Rooney and Dan Wickett
• March 9-13: Ann Arbor, MI, Greenhills School Visiting Writer Residency and evening reading TBA
• Monday, March 23: Carbondale, IL, SIU-Carbondale, with Kathleen Rooney, and Laura Benedict.
• Tuesday, March 24: Indianapolis, IN, with Kathleen Rooney and Andrew Scott
• March 25-26: Muncie, IN, Ball State University, In Print Festival, with Nickole Brown and Laurie Lindeen
• April 9: Columbus, OH, Ohio State University
• April 10: Delaware, OH, Ohio Wesleyan University Festival of Writing with Erin McGraw and Steve Davenport
• May 4-8: Ann Arbor, MI, Greenhills School Visiting Writer Residency with evening reading TBA

In the Devil's Territory is out November 1st from Dzanc Books, and Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object will be out from University of Arkansas Press in February 2009.