Dollar Store reading and BBQ in Chicago, Hobart 10 release!

This weekend, I will be reading in Chicago, as part of the Dollar Store Super Summer Tour Launch BBQ Patio Party. If you are anywhere nearby, you should probably, definitely come by. In addition to me reading a short piece, there's like 40 other readers, an improve comedy group, all the BBQ you can eat, free beer from 1-3, and practically anything else you could wish for. Also, I'll have some fresh-off-the-press copies of Hobart 10!

Also, if you live in or near Nashville, Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, Baltimore, New York, Philly, Boston, Albany, or Ann Arbor... come see is there!

Here's the full line-up and details:

featherproof books is excited, no, totally pumped, to announce our biggest event of the year: The Dollar Store Summer Tour of Awesomeness! That’s right, we’re taking this renowned reading series on the road: packing 7+ of our beloved writers in a van, buying tons of dollar store junk, and hitting 11 (other) cities in 14 days. Which ones? These ones:

CHICAGO LAUNCH BBQ PATIO PARTY, Sunday June 28th

1-6pm, $8 The Hideout 1354 W Wabansia Ave Chicago, IL 60642

Readings by: Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf, Chris Bower,Aaron Burch, Elizabeth Crane, Zach Dodson, Natalie Edwards, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Lindsay Hunter,Jac Jemc, Jonathan Messinger, Caroline Picard, Diana Slickman, Scott Stealey, Jill Summers, Robbie Q. Telfer Improv by: 1, 2, Fag and Hag! (Seth Dodson, Kellen Alexander and Christina Boucher), and An Oak (Neil Dandade and Adam Schwartz) It's ALSO a big barbeque, and all you can eat drumsticks, and veggie burgers, and fixin's, and corn-on-the-cob, and picnic sides! Oh, and one more thing: we’re raffling off a custom-built, featherproof-themed bike, compliments of Working Bikes Cooperative. This afternoon delight will cost $8 at the door, and for $8 you get 8 things: 1. Admission 2. A featherproof mini book 3. Readings by Chicago’s finest and Improv by Chicago’s funniest 4. Hosted bar by Red Stripe 1-3pm! Yum! 5. All the barbeque you can eat 6. Your very own Dollar Store official souvenir pin 7. A Working Bikes bike raffle ticket 8. A shot at a missed connection, and the time of your life. Buy tickets HERE! NOW! Food generously sponsored by Eye Spy Optical. Bring old glasses to be recycled! Check out eyespyoptical.com! Open bar generously sponsored by Red Stripe. Come from 1 - 3pm for beers! Check out redstripebeer.com!

NASHVILLE, Friday July 3rd
Venue TBA	With: Aaron Burch, Zach Dodson, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc Featuring: TBA

AUSTIN, Sunday July 5th
8pm, $1 Scoot Inn 1308 E. 4th Street @ Navasota Austin, TX 78702	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc Featuring: Ryan Markel, Owen Egerton

HOUSTON, Monday July 6th
7:30pm, FREE Domy Books 1709 Westheimer Houston, TX 77098	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, Caroline Picard  Featuring: Ryan Call, Gene Morgan

NEW ORLEANS, Tuesday July 7th
8pm, FREE The Allways Lounge 2240 St Claude New Orleans, LA 70117	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, Caroline Picard  Featuring: Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Ken Foster, Michael Patrick Welch

ATLANTA, Thursday July 9th
9pm, FREE Kavarna 707 E Lake  Decatur, GA 30030	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, Caroline Picard  Featuring: Jamie Iredell Music by: Lyonnais Special Book Release! Get Early copies of Scorch Atlas byBlake Butler!

BALTIMORE, Saturday July 11th
Doors 7:30, Show 8, $1 The Lof/t 120 W North  Baltimore, MD 21201	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Lindsay Hunter, Jac Jemc, Caroline Picard  Featuring: Lauren Bender, Michael Kimball, Adam Robinson, Joseph Young

NEW YORK, Sunday July 12th
8pm, $1 The Slipper Room Lower East Side 167 Orchard at Stanton New York, NY 10002	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Lindsay Hunter, Jac Jemc  Featuring: D.E. Rasso, Robert Lopez and The DJs are Deadbeats from: Take the Handle

PHILADELPHIA, Monday July 13th
9pm, FREE Part of The Monday Night Club atNational Mechanics 22 South 3rd  Philadelphia, PA 19106	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Lindsay Hunter, Jac Jemc  Featuring: Christian TeBordo, Barry Graham, Sasha Fletcher and then: The Monday Night Club

BOSTON, Tuesday July 14th
7pm, FREE Brookline Booksmith 279 Harvard  Brookline, MA 02446	With: Aaron Burch, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Lindsay Hunter, Jac Jemc, Patrick Somerville  Featuring: MC Mr. Napkins

ALBANY, Wednesday July 15th
7pm, FREE Valentines 17 New Scotland Ave Albany, NY 12208	With: Aaron Burch, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, Patrick Somerville Featuring: Colie Collen, Shane Jones, Daniel Nester,Christian TeBordo

ANN ARBOR, Thursday July 16th
7pm, FREE Vault of Midnight 219 S. Main  Ann Arbor, MI 48104	With: Aaron Burch, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, Patrick Somerville Featuring: Matt Bell

-aaron

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