Midwest Tour, ready set go

plus sneak peek of UK dates

(My UK team made me incredible image to celebrate the caps and shirts they made for The Late Americans 🥹).

Hello friends,

The West Coast leg of tour came to an end in Los Angeles, and now I am embarking on the Midwest. I’ll be hitting Minneapolis, Iowa City, and finishing up in Madison. Then it’s back to New York for a few days, and then I’m off to Toronto to take part in the last taping of Writers and Company for the CBC. And after that, I’m headed to the UK.

Tour has been really wonderful. It’s been great to meet so many of you who have been following along from the very very very beginning. I was reminded that so much of this wacky journey began with live-tweeting Jane Austen adaptations. Truly, thank you for coming out to the West Coast events. They had the feeling of really great hang-outs with old pals. It’s more than I could have ever imagined.

I’ve met so many wonderful people over the last few days, and it’s been a humbling, moving, and totally beautiful experience. 10/10, no notes—except for that one hotel in California that stopped coffee after 9am. What a sick experiment.

As promised last week, here are the details for the Midwest dates over the next few days:

On June 6, 6:30PM, I’ll be speaking with Lissa Jones at Pohlad Hall at the Minneapolis Central Library as part of the Talk of the Stacks series.

On June 7, 7PM, I’ll be speaking at my beloved Prairie Lights in Iowa City.

On June 8, 6PM, at my cherished A Room of One’s Own in Madison, WI.

Also, another special thing on June 8 I will be appearing on BBC Radio with an essay I wrote about Jordan Neely and visiting the grave of Langston Hughes.

There are also some tickets for the live-show taping of Writers and Company in Toronto on June 16 at 7:30

ALSO. I can finally share the UK Tour Dates. Here’s a sneak peek before I share on Twitter.

Also, some further reading on things related to The Late Americans that have come out over the last couple weeks:

Got to speak to Colin Barrett about the novel for Hazlitt. He’s one of my favorite writers so this was a real treat.

Loved chatting paperwork movies and love across class with It’s Been a Minute.

Got profiled by Alex Needham for The Guardian, which was a lot of fun.

Great review of the novel in The Brooklyn Rail by Henry Hicks IV.

A review in over at NPR that finally picks up the Theodore Dresier undertones in my work, feeling very seen.

A TRULY stunning review of The Late Americans appeared in the Financial Times.

And this moving, beautiful meditation on work and poetry and art in the novel by Garth Greenwell, who in many ways made this novel possible in the first place. This one made me weep, guys. To be seen this way, read this way, known this way, by an artist whose work inspires you—I mean. Just wow.

Okay, back to this bad plane wifi. See you guys in the Midwest and later the UK!

B