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Jonathan Lethem's Book Tour Schedule

Filed under: Jonathans are Illuminated Tagged: books, events, fiction, Jonathan Lethem

for You Don't Love Me Yet. From Lethem's website:

Wed 3/21 New York, Barnes & Noble Union Square

Thurs 3/22 Philadelphia, Free Library

Mon 3/26 Raleigh, North Carolina, Quail Ridge Books

Tues 3/27 Boston, Brookline Booksmith/Coolidge Theater

Wed 3/28 Princeton New Jersey, Princeton University

Thurs 3/29 Washington D.C., Politics and Prose

Fri 3/30 New York, Housing Works

Mon 4/2 Minneapolis, University Book Center

Tues 4/3 Milwaukee, Harry W. Schwartz Bookseller

Wed 4/4 Iowa City, Prairie Lights

Thurs 4/5 Ann Arbor, Michigan, Shaman Drum

Mon 4/9 Los Angeles, LA Public Library, Central Library

Tues 4/10 Pasadena, Vroman's

Wed 4/11 Los Angeles, Skylight Books

Thurs 4/12 Portland, Oregon, City Arts & Lectures

Sat 4/14 Berkeley, Moe's Books

Sun 4/15 Santa Cruz, Bookshop Santa Cruz

Mon 4/16 San Francisco, Booksmith

Tues 4/17 Menlo Park, Kepler's

Wed 4/18 Seattle, Seattle Arts and Lectures

Sun 4/22 Denver, Denver Public Library

Mon 4/23 Boulder, Colorado, Boulder Bookstore

Tues 4/24 Denver, Tattered Cover

Wed 4/25 New York, 92nd Street Y

Thurs 4/26 Brooklyn, P.S. 107

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Canadians like him, too, dammit! Would it kill him to cross the border just to say hi?

Get your passport in order, Mr. Lethem!

patriciaMarch 21, 2007

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