Jan-Feb 2011  US, UK tours for Caribou Island, a new novel, and Norwegian, German, and Italian tours for Legend/Sukkwan

Jan 18 Copperfield’s Books, Santa Rosa, CA

Jan 20 Powell’s, Portland, OR

Jan 21 OSU Corvallis, OR

Jan 23-28 London and Bath tour

Jan 29-Feb 2 Oslo tour

Feb 3-5  AWP conference, Washington, D.C.

Feb 6  Lakeport, CA

Feb 7  Ukiah, CA

Feb 8  Books Inc., Berkeley, CA, 7pm

Feb 9  Booksmith, San Francisco, CA, 7:30 pm

Feb 10 Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA, 7 pm

Feb 11  Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA

Feb 13 Belmont Library, CA, 2pm

Feb 15  The Tattered Cover, Denver, CO

Feb 17  Elliot Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA

Feb 18  Village Books, Bellingham, WA

Feb 21  English Theater, Berlin, Germany

Feb 22 Haus des Buches, Leipzig, Germany

Feb 23 Amerikanisches Zentrum, Hamburg, Germany

Feb 28-March 2 Italian tour (Milan)

March 7-May 30 teaching at Victoria U in Wellington, New Zealand

April 7  Sydney, Australia

April 20-27 Barcelona tour (Spain)

April 27-28 Danish launch

May 14-15  Auckland Writers’ Festival (New Zealand)

June 4 Hay on Wye (festival in Wales)

June 7  German-American Institute, Heidelberg (Germany)

June 8  Waschhaus, Potsdam (Germany)

June 10 Rennes (France)

June 11-13 Etonnants Voyageurs, Saint-Malo (France, film and lit festival)

June 21-24 Portuguese launch of Sukkwan Island (Lisbon and Oporto)

June 24-26 Polar-Frontignan Festival Intl du Roman Noir (France)

June 28 Brest (France)

June 29 Vannes (France)

June 30 Nantes (France)

July 2  La Milanesiana Festival (Milan, Italy)

July 7 Geneva (Switzerland)

July 8 Lausanne (Switzerland)

July 9 La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland)

August 11 Kilkenny Arts Festival (Ireland)

Aug 15-18 Edinburgh International Book Festival (Scotland)

Aug 31-Sept 2  The Bjørnson Festival of International Literature (Norway)

Sept 3  “Suicide and Literature” Symposium, Litteraturhuset, Oslo, Norway

Sept 5-19 French launch of Caribou Island (Desolations)

Sept 6  bookstore Mollat (Bordeaux, France)

Sept 7 bookstore Sauramps (Montpellier, France)

Sept 8 bookstore L’Armitiere (Rouen, France)

Sept 9 bookstore La Galerne (Le Havre, France)

Sept 10 bookstore Le Furet du Nord (Lille, France)

Sept 11-16 interviews in Paris

Sept 13 bookstore L’Arbre a Lettres (Paris, France)

Sept 16 bookstore Millepages (Vincennes, France)

Sept 17 bookstores Le Arpenteurs and La Manoeuvre (Paris, France)

Sept 18  Le Livre sur la Place festival (Nancy, France)

Sept 19  Strasbourg Bibliotheques Ideales festival, bookstore Soif de Lire (France)

Sept 20-23 Dutch launch of Caribou Island

Sept 20  BorderKitchen (Antwerp, Belgium)

Sept 21 BorderKitchen (The Hague, Netherlands)

Sept 22-23 interviews in Amsterdam

Sept 23-30 Spanish and Catalan launches of Caribou Island

Sept 24-25 Hay Festival, Segovia (Spain)

Sept 26 Madrid

Sept 27 Pamplona

Sept 28 Zaragosa

Sept 29 Barcelona

Oct 1  Wigtown Book Festival (Scotland)

Oct 3  Pau (France)

Oct 5 Chambery (France)

Oct 6 Vienne (France)

Oct 7-8 Lyon (France)

October 11 Cheltenham Literature Festival

October 12-14 Prague, Czech Republic, American Center and a bookstore

Oct 15  Prix du Marais, Ville de Lomme (France)

Oct 23-29  Alaskan library tour (Ketchikan, Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks)

Nov 1-8  Canadian tour (Montreal, Quebec, Toronto)

Nov 8 DeKalb, IL

Nov 9  Chicago

Nov 10  Tattered Cover, Denver

Nov 13 Belmont Public Library, with M is for Mystery bookstore (California)

Nov 14 Santa Rosa High School (Santa Rosa, CA)

Nov 15 University of San Francisco

Nov 16 Stanford University

Nov 17 UC Santa Cruz

Nov 30 Spanish Cultural Center, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Dec 5-6 New York City (Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize finalist)