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P A U L   C O L L I N S D A T E S . - - - - Paul Collins will be on tour for his new book The Trouble With Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine, a travelogue following the missing body of America's founding father, whose bones were stolen by an admirer in 1819 and have been turning up in odd places ever since—including inside a statue, amid savage dogs and crazed monkeys, and under a London tailor's stool. - - - - Friday, October 21 IOWA CITY, IA Prairie Lights 7:00 p.m. Saturday, October 22 BERKELEY, CA Cody's (Telegraph Ave.) 7:30 p.m. Monday, October 24 SAN FRANCISCO, CA Booksmith 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 25 SANTA CRUZ, CA Capitola Book Café 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 26 PORTLAND, OR Powell's 7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 27 SEATTLE, WA University Book Store 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 1 CHICAGO, IL Quimby's Literary Revival with Paul Collins, Elizabeth Crane, Nathan Rabin, and Claire Zulkey. Join us for a Day of the Dead reading of strange and forgotten old books to celebrate the release of the next title in the Collins Library: Harry Stephen Keeler's berserk 1934 mystery The Riddle of the Traveling Skull. 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 9 NEW YORK, NY Housing Works "A Wake for Tom Paine," featuring Paul Collins, Tim Carvell, David Rees, and J.M. Tyree. 7:00 p.m. Thursday, November 10 BOSTON, MA Booksmith (Brookline) 7:00 p.m. Friday, November 11 AUSTIN, TX BookPeople 7:00 p.m. Thursday, November 17 MADISON, WI University of Wisconsin 126 Memorial Library 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 30 CHICAGO, IL The Bookstall (Winnetka) 7:00 p.m. NOTE: McSweeney's is not directly affiliated with these events, and has no control whatsoever over their content, quality, or drink prices.

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