TWO NEW BOOKS. ONE NEW TOUR. ZERO TIME TO WASTE.

Gwen and I will be heading out on a week-and-a-half long tour of these great American middle-western states! Come visit.

Thursday, August 11: Kenosha, WI (at Houston's Bar & Grill)

Friday, August 12: Cincinnati, OH (in a fucking tunnel somewhere)

Saturday, August 13: Bloomington, IN (at The Back Door)

Sunday, August 14: Indianapolis, IN (STILL LOOKING! SET US UP!)

Monday, August 15: Louisville, KY (at Dreamland)

Tuesday, August 16: St. Louis, MO (at Foam)

Wednesday, August 17: Lawrence, KS (at Raven Books)

Thursday, August 18: Omaha, NE (at Solid Jackson Books)

Friday, August 19: Des Moines, IA (at Plain Talk Books)

We're promoting our new books, my chapbook of music essays called Maybe Don't Drown Everything You've Ever Wanted In a Mop Bucket That Isn't Yours and Gwen's chapbook of tough-ass midwest girl essays I'm Ruining My Own Life. Only $5 shipped each! Order them up!

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KILL US ON THE WAY HOME: STORIES BY GWEN BEATTY

KILL US ON THE WAY HOME

STORIES BY GWEN BEATTY

FIVE BUCKS SHIPPED. GET IT WHILE IT'S HOT!

NEW BOOK/NEW TOUR

Soft

Ryan Werner

"With the wit and heartbreak of Amy Hempel, the satirical eye of George Saunders, and the "we're on this earth to fart around" mentality of Kurt Vonnegut, the 258 micro-chapters of Ryan Werner's Soft tell the story of a failed rock band on tour. In sharp, spare, laugh-out-loud prose, Werner's misfit characters struggle to find their purpose in a world defined by alienation, death, and soul-sucking capitalism. These characters desire more from life, but are unsure what more looks like or how to get it. While they're figuring it out, they cope by trading clever one-liners, eating a lot of gas station food, obsessing over the world's extinction, and mailing koan-like postcards sacross the country. This is a small, smart book that asks the big questions about the age we're stuck in: What is the good life? Does it exist? How can we create authentic selves and art in a world that values neither?" - Megan Martin, author of Nevers

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THE SUMMERBRUISE 2015 TOUR

Thursday, July 16th: Normal, IL

Friday, July 17th: Champaign/Urbana, IL

Saturday, July 18th: Bloomington, IN

Sunday, July 19th: Cincinnati, OH

Monday, July 20th: Columbus, OH

Tuesday, July 21st: Harrisonburg, VA

Wednesday, July 22nd: Washington DC

Thursday, July 23rd: Philadelphia, PA

Friday, July 24th: Brooklyn, NY

Saturday, July 25th: Greensburgh, PA

Sunday, July 26th:Akron, OH

Monday, July 27th: Toldeo, OH

Tuesday, July 28th: Ann Arbor, MI/Lansing, MI

Wednesday, July 29th: Grand Rapids, MI

Thursday, July 30th: Kalamazoo, MI

Friday, July 31st: South Bend, IN

Saturday, August 1st: Chicago, IL

TOUR TIME AGAIN!

Ryan Werner with sporadic guests Megan Martin, Austin Hayden, and Michael Lambert will be on the road this summer. Come on out.

Thursday, July 16th: Normal/Bloomington, IL

Friday, July 17th: Champaign/Urbana, IL

Saturday, July 18th: Bloomington, IN

Sunday, July 19th: Cincinnati, OH

Monday, July 20th: Columbus, OH

Tuesday, July 21st: Pittsburgh, PA

Wednesday, July 22nd: Washington DC

Thursday, July 23rd: Philadelphia, PA

Friday, July 24th: Brooklyn, NY

Saturday, July 25th: Selinsgrove, PA/Allentown, PA

Sunday, July 26th: Cleveland, OH/Akron, OH

Monday, July 27th: Toldeo, OH/Bowling Green, OH

Tuesday, July 28th: Ann Arbor, MI/Lansing, MI

Wednesday, July 29th: Grand Rapids, MI

Thursday, July 30th: Kalamazoo, MI

Friday, July 31st: South Bend, IN

Saturday, August 1st: Chicago, IL

NO COAST SPRING BREAK 2014 TOUR

More info when it happens, but come out and see Ryan Werner read in these cities on these days. It's all being booked now, and will be updated with other readers and venues as they happen. If you have any leads or want to be involved, drop a line to passengersidebooks [at] gmail.com.

Thursday, March 13: Rock Island, IL
Friday, March 14: St. Louis, MO
Saturday, March 15: Carbondale, IL
Sunday, March 16: Nashville, TN
Monday, March 17: Louisville, KY
Tuesday, March 18: Cincinnati, OH
Wednesday, March 19: Fort Wayne, IN
Thursday, March 20: Grand Rapids, MI
Friday, March 21: Chicago, IL
Saturday, March 22: Madison, WI

Let's party.

Infinity's Jukebox: Stories by Matthew Burnside

Infinity's Jukebox

Stories by Matthew Burnside

A two-headed, eight-eyed monster of a book that moves in all directions, building hearts out of Legos and dreams out of mere existence. The possibilities and feelings and imagination in these stories are as endless as infinity itself, as fulfilling as a fistful of quarters in the jukebox of a lifetime.

SEPTEMBER 9TH.

Matthew Burnside on the internet.

Cover art by Nick Patterson.

Whatever Don't Drown Will Always Rise: Stories by Justin Lawrence Daugherty

Whatever Don't Drown Will Always Rise

Stories by Justin Lawrence Daugherty

Ten stories of myths and the roads that sprawl out from them. These are not the stories of Greek and Roman gods, but of the daily hurts and hopes people cling to in lieu of a simple other, the apparitions and rumors of science and tradition that can give or take away.

Coming soon.

(Cover art by the incredible Matt Kish of One Drawing for Every Page of Moby Dick brilliance.)

Justin Lawrence Daugherty on the internet.

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