Vagabonding hits Korean bookstores
[The cover for the Korean translation of Vagabonding.] A recent slew of emails from Korean readers has tipped me...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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,...Read this article
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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,...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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,...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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...Read this article
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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....Read this article
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