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Robin McLean

FISH OBITUARIES (RESURRECTED)
 

Sidewinder Tour Blog Post #10: IOWA CITY / BOOK OASIS

June 5, 2015

For Window Shoppers

IOWA CITY: Prairie Lights Books.

The Center of the Creative Writing Universe

Kurt Vonnegut Country.

Corn Art in Every Window.

Steak in Every Kitchen.

Vegans Go Home.


IOWA CITY: We Ate.

We Played in Fountains.

Nearly Ran Out of Gas.

Driving Home.

Did not.


Next stop: DALLAS / The Wild Detectives / June 11.



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Sidewinder Tour Blog Post #9: SKYLIGHT / GET A DAMN TICKET

June 4, 2015

UNITED FROM HARTFORD

Los Angeles: Skylight Books.

So when I came up with this "tour" idea, I did not not really know if I was really going to get invited to read in one single book store. The book stores part of the "tour" was really more of a hypothetical, and hypothetical have sometimes gotten me into  Read More 
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Sidewinder Tour Blog Post #9.5: BACK EAST (ALMOST)

June 4, 2015

THE RED EYE

When you need
to get to Iowa
the way is clear.

The middle seat
is never chosen
but sometimes fine.

The girls waited
in the parking lot
The sitter forgot

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Tour Blog Post 8.3 /8.4: DERAILMENT & RERAILMENT as CANINE AGILITY

June 3, 2015
SIDEWINDER TOUR BLOG POST 8.3: Derailment: A many-miles book tour like this one, cannot go off with going off the rails somewhere. It happened last night in San Juan Capistano where Fish Obit staff left the laptop in the restaurant next to the train station, did not remember till on the train, jumped off. Spent the night in the Best Western. Had a wonderful dinner /reunion otherwise with old MHC pal Tiffany C. S.

SIDEWINDER TOUR BLOG POST 8.4: I think I can, I think I can...I think I love LA. When not biking or hiking or visiting farmers markets or film screenings or weird / cool museums with monumental sculptures or eating gourmet toast or drinking bubbly wine or smelling flowers / viewing huge-armed plants... a gal on a book tour in S. California tries CANINE AGILITY TRAINING. Thanks Stevie, a very alert and intuitive dog -- she did what she was supposed to do even when I instructed her wrong. Angie Lee you are the best. Photo of Stevie to follow...

Next stop Skylight Books tomorrow night!

Next next" Prairie Lights Bookstore -- Iowa City!

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Sidewinder Tour Blog Post #8: SIRENLAND REUNION

June 2, 2015

BEFORE SIRENLAND REUNION. THE BOX WILL GET LIGHTER

CULVER CITY CALIFORNIA: Dani Shapiro, Michael Maren, Hannah Tinti-- you would have been so proud -- you started all this!! The West Coast SIRENLAND Reunion was FANTASTIC, the first of many book celebrations. A beautiful space, great wine and treats. Wonderful readings by about half the attendees. It was a so great to see everyone, meet new friends and old, hear the work, share amazing LA. What a tribe!

Thanks Lauren and Marissa, especially, for welcoming us into BAR AND GARDEN, and everyone who came from Far and Wide, who got home at 2 am or whenever! I'm afraid to try to list all of you since I know I'll forget someone.

THANK YOU!!!!!! Could not have been better!

I'll throw the next East Coast Party...

Next few stops:
SKYLIGHT BOOKS, Los Angeles, CA. @ 7:30 pm

June 4, 2015. Reading -- PRAIRIE LIGHTS BOOKSTORE, Iowa City, Iowa. 7pm  Read More 
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Sidewinder Tour Blog Post #7.999: REPTILE HOUSE TAKES TO THE AIR

May 28, 2015

WHEN YOU CAN'T GET THERE IN TIME BY CAR

OVER THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Farmer drove me to BDL

I cried

Strawberry season. He was busy.

My sister Debbie was in the line.

She thought I was gone the day before.

Her friend forgot her ID, waited for her husband to deliver it.

I refused the body scan, had to wait for a pat down.

Just made the plane but did. Read More 
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TOUR BLOG POST #7.5: MHC HARTFORD

May 27, 2015

Mary Lyon???


Reptile House TOUR BLOG POST 7.5: Hartford. Thanks so much for the Mount Holyoke Club of Hartford for inviting me to join them last week for the Mary Lyon Dinner. Great to meet yo all! Thanks Kate Ballentine for the inspiring presentation. See you all in the fall at book club with Reptile House , or sooner!

Signed copies of the book are available at:

THE ODYSSEY, South Hadley, Mass and
AMHERST BOOKS, Amherst Mass.

California here I come!

Next stop: BAR AND GARDEN, Culver City, Ca. 7-10 with Reptile House for the Sirenland Reunion on May 29th. Stay tuned...

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NEW INTERVIEWS... Thanks BOA

May 26, 2015
GO TO BOA

RE-POST from BOA:

TWO NEW INTERVIEWS WITH ROBIN MCLEAN ON REPTILE HOUSE.
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Sidewinder Tour Blog Post #7

May 25, 2015

Harvard Reading with Sylvia True and Stephanie Kegan

Harvard Book Store with an All Star Cast!

Pretty fancy to be there:

Shared half a brown banana with Stephanie Kegan before. See you in Dallas Stephanie.

Found out about Monkey Ladies from the hilarious and generous Sylvia True.

Lots of old friends, new friends and loyal family filled the place.

THANKS to Sylvia True and Stephanie Kegan for their books and for sharing the stage at the Harvard Bookstore. Thanks Launch Lab, Grub Street and all the people who came out to support. Hello Kirstin Butler! Betsy Keane Dorr, Ellen Herrick,Michael Blanding,, Annie Weatherwax, Mary Wissemann and Andrew King for coming out..

Next stop -- the West Coast -- Skylight Books in LA on June 3 @ 7.  Read More 
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CUT OFF THE COVER AND READ IT

May 21, 2015

THANK YOU FWR

Thank you Alden Jones for this INTERVIEW interview on Double Axels, Subtraction / Compression / Extrusion, Premeditation, Murder with Fingers, Reptiles, Goodness and Necessary Destruction of Reading material.

Thank you Fiction Writers Review for having me.


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