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Vagabonding hits Korean bookstores

[The cover for the Korean translation of Vagabonding.] A recent slew of emails from Korean readers has tipped me...
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More good news from Italy

The Italian translation of Vagabonding appears to doing very well in the six weeks since it was released. On the...
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La Repubblica's Vagabonding review

Following on to my surprised announcement on Monday that Vagabonding had been translated into Italian, here's an English version of...
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The perks of speaking in front of drunk people -- Book tour stop #10: New York, February 24

When I traveled to New York for the first time back in 1994, the very first person I met while...
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Going home again, kind of -- Book tour stop #9: Wichita, February 20 & 22

While driving through Texas a couple weeks back, I heard a country radio song called "You're Always Seventeen in Your...
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Something was bound to go wrong eventually -- Book tour stop #8: St. Louis, February 13

Before my book tour ever started, I tried to think of all the worst-case scenarios that might occur as I...
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Vagina-gabonding -- Book tour stop #7: Kansas City, February 11

Shortly before I left for the Kansas City leg of my book tour, a second-hand email message landed in my...
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Waffle Houses and purple bedsheets -- Book tour stop #6: Tulsa, February 6-7

Ever since I had a book tour schedule to worry about, I'd been worrying about Tulsa. Tulsa, to all appearances,...
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Six degrees of country music: On the road in Texas -- Book tour stop #5: Dallas, February 4

Today, en route to a book reading in Dallas, I finally felt like I was traveling America in the pure,...
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Cruising Berkeley in the Bourgeois-mobile -- Book tour stop #4: Berkeley, January 30

I mentioned yesterday that I rented a car in Oakland, but I never included the humbling details of the automobile...
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Breaking my own rules of vagabonding -- Book tour stop #3: San Francisco, January 29

Today was the day when, at no real choice of my own, I was forced to break one of the...
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The bungled tale of Kurt Vonnegut's asshole -- Book tour stop #2: Portland, January 28

Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon holds a place in my heart -- and not just because it's one of the...
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What was the name of my book again? -- Book tour stop #1: Seattle, January 27

My Vagabonding book tour started in earnest this morning at about 4 a.m., when I woke up with a twinge...
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This week: Back in the tour-diary saddle

After several weeks in limbo, I have finally converted the hurried scribblings from my gray pocket notebook into a coherent,...
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Vagabonding debuts on Book Sense bestseller list

The American Booksellers Association has released its Book Sense Bestseller List for the month of January, and it looks like...
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William Gibson is neglecting his book tour blog, too

Well, despite having racked up eight very enjoyable Vagabonding book events on the West Coast and in the Midwest thus...
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Vagabonding a Bay Area bestseller

Today’s Travel Quote of the Day is "Miracles" by Walt Whitman, and it would seem to be a small miracle...
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The Amazon.com factor

This morning I awoke to discover that -- in less than 12 hours -- the Amazon.com ranking of Vagabonding: An...
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Live from the Acropolis Steakhouse and Strip Club

If there has been a distinctive moment that has defined my travels in recent weeks, it came this evening at...
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Vagabonding Q&A in USA Today

Jayne Clark from USA Today spoke to me about Vagabonding during a wee-hours phone call to Bangkok earlier this week....
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