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Hi everyone,

I'm giving some readings throughout the south and points elsewhere for my new novel, THE UNNATURAL HISTORY OF CYPRESS PARISH, this spring and summer, including some in Louisiana. If you're in the neighborhood, please stop in and say hello.

So far my Louisiana gigs are: May 2 in New Orleans (hosted by the Faulkner Society/Faulkner House); May 6 in Baton Rouge (in conjunction with Cottonwood Books and probably held at BR Gallery in City Park); and May 9 in Monroe (on radio show The Book Report and later reading/signing at Windows). I'm in other states as well, including a reading at the KGB Bar in NYC on 3/11.

You can check out the book and events as they are confirmed at unbridledbooks.com under "forthcoming" and "events." Again, please say howdy if I'm in your town. (and, I promise, no pressure to buy a book!)

p.s. Elise Blackwell, that is, KLSU dj around 1985/86.

slightly re-scheduled and now set:

May 6-Baton Rouge (in association with Cottonwood Books, probably at Baton Rouge Gallery, City Park, 4 pm-reading, signing, reception)

May 8-New Orleans (hosted by the Faulkner Society, appearing with Walter Isaacson, at the Cabillo, Jackson Square, early evening-reception, signing, reading)

May 10-New Orleans, Garden District Book Shop, 5 pm, signing and talk/reading

May 14-Monroe, evening reading/signing/reception

May 17-Oxford MS, Square Books, evening reading/signing

Maybe: May 24-University of California Irvine

Assorted other appearances in LA and MS before and after above dates

Non LA and MS appearance:

March 11-NYC-KGB Bar, 7 pm

March 21 -Durham NC (Regulator Books)

March 22-Raleigh NC (Quail Ridge Books)

March 23-VA Book Festival, Charlotte VA

March 29-Charlotte NC (Park Road Books)

April 5- Columbia SC

April 12-Dartmouth College, Hanover NH

June 13-Coral Cables FL

others tba on unbridledbooks.com

Again: please say hi if I'm in your town; it's so nice to see friendly faces on the road!