"...and I am a doggerel bard..."

PEN WORLD VOICES NEW YORK has announced its schedule. You can find the stuff with me in it at http://www.pen.org/author.php/prmAID/36

On April the 25th is the event that gives me butterflies...


April 25 | Town Hall Readings: Writing Home When: Wednesday, April 25
Where: The Town Hall: 123 West 43rd St.
What time: 8 p.m.–9:30 p.m.

With Don DeLillo, Kiran Desai, Neil Gaiman, Nadine Gordimer, Alain Mabanckou, Steve Martin, Salman Rushdie, Pia Tafdrup, Tatyana Tolstaya, Saadi Youssef

Tickets: $15/$10 PEN Members
Purchase tickets from The Town Hall, (212) 840-2824 or Ticketmaster, (212) 307-4100

Which is preceded by

April 25 | Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage
When: Wednesday, April 25
Where: Small Press Center: 20 West 44th St.
What time: 6–7:30 p.m.

With Neil Gaiman, Isabel Hoving, Janne Teller, Markus Zusak; moderated by Robert Lipsyte

Free and open to the public. No reservations.

And then on April the 26th there are a couple of events

April 26 | Conversation: Neil Gaiman & Marguerite Abouet, with Sean Wilsey When: Thursday, April 26 Where: 37 Arts: 450 West 37th St. What time: 6–7 p.m. >> More information & buy tickets

and

April 26 | An Evening with The Moth
When: Thursday, April 26
Where: 37 Arts: 450 West 37th St.
What time: 8–10 p.m.

With Neil Gaiman, Pico Iyer, Laila Lalami; and John Hodgman as your MC

>> More information & buy tickets

(Was thrilled that my daughter Holly is taking time off from school to come up to New York and make sure I don't embarrass myself too badly, or that, at the least, if I do there will a member of the family to remember it and never let me forget.) ("Hey Dad. Do you remember that time you made a complete idiot of yourself in front of Don Delillo, Salman Rushdie, Steve Martin, Nadine Gordimer...")

If you want to go to any of the New York events, buy your ticket now. They famously sell out really fast.

And then on the Saturday, April the 28th, I shall be in Montana, talking first to librarians at an author lunch and then to and probably signing for the public...

Details -- along with downloadable bookmarks and things -- at...

http://www.mtlib.org/conf/mla2007/index.htm#gaiman

...

Several people have written in to point out that the excellent Gerd Köster is the Tom Waits of Cologne. I know this, but he still doesn't have those wonderful barking mad qualities that Martin Semmelrogge had, that made him such a joy to write about. Or to put it as a sort of a doggerel Clerihew...

Martin Semmelrogge
Is a gift to a blogger
While Gerd Köster
Is a disöster.

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