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featherproof books presents

The Dollar Store Super Summer Tour!

featherproof books is excited, no, totally pumped, to announce our biggest event of the year: The Dollar Store Summer Tour of Awesomeness! That’s right, we’re taking this renowned reading series on the road: packing 7+ of our beloved writers in a van, buying tons of dollar store junk, and hitting 11 (other) cities in 14 days. Which ones? These ones:

CHICAGO, Sunday June 28th

1-6pm, $8
The Hideout
1354 W Wabansia Ave
Chicago, IL 60642

Read something embarrassing about it at the Decider!

Readings by: Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf, Chris Bower, Aaron Burch, Elizabeth Crane, Zach Dodson, Natalie Edwards, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Lindsay Hunter, Jac Jemc, Jonathan Messinger, Caroline Picard, Diana Slickman, Scott Stealey, Jill Summers, Robbie Q. Telfer

Improv by: 1, 2, 3, Fag and Hag! (Seth Dodson, Kellen Alexander, John Hartman and Christina Boucher), and An Oak (Neil Dandade and Adam Schwartz)

Thanks for BBQ'ing with us. Big thanks to The Hideout, Eye Spy Optical, Red Stripe, and Working Bikes!
You can see event photos on featherproof's flickr!

NASHVILLE, Friday July 3rd
7pm, FREE Davis Kidd 2121 Green Hills Village Dr Nashville, TN 37215	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc Featuring: Todd Dills

AUSTIN, Sunday July 5th
8pm, $1 Scoot Inn 1308 E. 4th Street @ Navasota Austin, TX 78702	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc Featuring: Ryan Markel, Owen Egerton

HOUSTON, Monday July 6th
7:30pm, FREE Domy Books 1709 Westheimer Houston, TX 77098	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, Caroline Picard Featuring: Ryan Call, Gene Morgan

NEW ORLEANS, Tuesday July 7th
8pm, FREE The Allways Lounge 2240 St Claude New Orleans, LA 70117	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, Caroline Picard Featuring: Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Ken Foster, Michael Patrick Welch

ATLANTA, Thursday July 9th
9pm, FREE Kavarna 707 E Lake Decatur, GA 30030	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, Caroline Picard Featuring: Todd Dills, Jamie Iredell Music by: Lyonnais Special Book Release! Get Early copies of Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler!

BALTIMORE, Saturday July 11th
Doors 7:30, Show 8, $1 The Lof/t 120 W North Baltimore, MD 21201	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, Caroline Picard Featuring: Lauren Bender, Michael Kimball, Adam Robinson, Joseph Young

NEW YORK, Sunday July 12th
8pm, $1 The Slipper Room Lower East Side 167 Orchard at Stanton New York, NY 10002	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc Featuring: D.E. Rasso, Robert Lopez and The DJs are Deadbeats from: Take the Handle

PHILADELPHIA, Monday July 13th
9pm, FREE Part of The Monday Night Club at National Mechanics 22 South 3rd Philadelphia, PA 19106	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc Featuring: Christian TeBordo, Barry Graham, Sasha Fletcher and then: The Monday Night Club

BOSTON, Tuesday July 14th
7pm, FREE Brookline Booksmith 279 Harvard Brookline, MA 02446	With: Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, Patrick Somerville Featuring: MC Mr. Napkins, Carla Barger, Eugenia Williamson

ALBANY, Wednesday July 15th
7pm, FREE Valentines 17 New Scotland Ave Albany, NY 12208	With: Aaron Burch, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, Patrick Somerville Featuring: Colie Collen, Shane Jones, Daniel Nester, Christian TeBordo

ANN ARBOR, Thursday July 16th
7pm, FREE Vault of Midnight 219 S. Main Ann Arbor, MI 48104	With: Aaron Burch, Zach Dodson, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton, Jac Jemc, Patrick Somerville Featuring: Matt Bell

This tour was cooked up by the following authors. The books, reading series, and presses they represent are in parentheses.

Amelia Gray (AM/PM , Featherproof Books, 5 Things Austin reading series), Aaron Burch (Hobart), Caroline Picard (Green Lantern Press, The Parlor reading series), Zach Dodson (boring boring boring, Featherproof Books, The Show 'n Tell series), Mary Hamilton, and Lindsay Hunter (QUICKIES! reading series), Jac Jemc (My Only Wife, Dzanc Books), Blake Butler (Scorch Atlas, Featherproof, EVER, Calamari, Lamination Colony), Patrick Somerville (Trouble, Vintage, The Cradle, Little, Brown), and of course Jonathan Messinger (Hiding Out , Featherproof Books, The Dollar Store reading series).

Press shots can be found here.

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