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I read Canto 27 of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" as part of a celebration of his 201st birthday. This was a longtime annual event organized by Tony Adler in Evanston, Illinois.

What happens when you set up a book talk and no one shows up? Paul Durica (of the Newberry Library) and I talk about Soviet Stamps and the writing racket to a bunch of empty chairs in the secret back room of Uncharted Books in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago.

I make my triumphant return to The Green Arcade in San Francisco and discuss Soviet Stamps, art, cabdriving, and other related and unrelated topics with Ben Terrall (Namaste, Motherfucker!)

Kyle Beachy (author of The Slide and The Most Fun Thing) puts me through my paces about Soviet Stamps, art, writing, making a living, and much else at Logan Square's City Lit Books.

Christian TeBordo interviews me about my new book, Soviet Stamps and other related topics at The Dial Bookshop in Chicago.

Tim Kinsella interviews me about my book, art, writing, and all that jazz at the Rainbo Club in Chicago on August 31st, 2019.