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.