* Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me:
weekends of Aug. 2-3; Sept. 13-14; Oct. 10-11

*Appearances, speeches:

June 26, New York Public Library

Aug 29-30, Decatur, Georgia, Book Festival

Sept 26, Minneapolis: Midwest Booksellers Trade Show
Sept 27-30 The Biltmore, Asheville, NC: Field to Table Conference

Oct 15, Concord, MA, Festival of Authors
Oct 21, Free Library of Philadelphia
Oct 23, New York Public Library, Cullman Center
Oct 28, Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA
Oct 30, Vanderbilt University lecture

Nov 1-2, Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Nov 7, Columbus, Ohio, Metropolitan Library
Nov 8, Chicago Humanities Festival
Nov 11, San Francisco, City Arts and Lectures
Nov 12, 13: Los Angeles Public Library
Nov 14-17 New Orleans: Words and Music Festival

Jan 27 '09, Colony Club, New York
Feb 6-8, Savannah, Georgia, Book Festival  

* Soon:

articles in Oxford American, Gastronomica, Garden & Gun, and Esquire

Coming up a new book:

from Farrar, Strauss and Giroux in October

In January,
Counterpoint will publish a paperback edition of
Long Time Leaving:
Dispatches From Up South