I’ve got some readings coming up for The Complete Collection of people, places & things. (At most of these, I’ll also be presenting some of my new comics.) Really looking forward to getting out and seeing people.

Book Launch: Soda Bar, Brooklyn, NY – Sept. 22 (w/Shanthi Sekaran and Sabrina Orah Mark)

I’m looking forward to this one, in particular. I’m reading with two old friends, from Baltimore and Athens, respectively, and I’ll be reading a block and half from from my new house in my new neighborhood (assuming we’ve moved by then).

510 Reading Series at the Baltimore Book Festival - Sept. 26 (w/ Terese Svoboda, Michael Kimball, Jen Michalski, Justin Sirois, Savannah Schroll Guz, and Shanthi Sekaran)

This one’s al fresco, down in Mount Vernon. Michael’s put together a line-up that I’m really proud to be a part of, and it will be very cool to get back to Baltimore, a city which I will always have a great deal of nostalgia and affection for (and it’ll be cool to read with Shanthi, one of my buddies from my B’more days).

Small Animal Project – Cambridge, MA – October 11 (w/Matthew Derby and Kristen Iskandrian)

Should be a great afternoon of odd fiction. Kristen is one of my closest friends and favorite writers, and Matthew’s Super Flat Times is one of those books that really gave me intellectual license to write The Complete Collection. Thanks to Jessica Bozek for putting this one together.

&NOW Festival - Action Books Reading – Buffalo, NY – October 17 (w/ Johannes Goransson, Joyelle McSweeney, Arielle Greenberg, and Lara Glenum)

This is going to be a fun week – check out this line-up for the &NOW Festival. I don’t normally “enjoy” conferences or “look forward” to them, but &NOW is different – it’s smart and weird and attracts people who think, not people just a bunch of people who want to show off their half-baked ideas over free continental breakfast. Action Books (the sister press of Action,Yes) publishes the work of a lot of these smart people, so I’m happy to share the stage with them. Also, that Thursday, I’ll be doing a critical panel about ruptures in image-text collaboration – more on that soon.

Later this autumn, Sabrina Orah Mark and I are also planning a Southern launch for The Complete Collection and her new book Tsim Tsum down in Athens, GA. More on that and a few other things when plans are set…