The Eagle Has Landed

Tour dates! Press hits! Inchoate anxiety! Joy!

The Country of the Blind is out today! There’s nothing more to say, really, but it’s nonetheless important to announce, formally and with brio:

It’s here! Tour dates below! And: check out these recent press hits!

• An action-packed excerpt in the New Yorker;

• A very warm profile in the New York Times;

• An absolute rave in the UK Guardian;

• An over-the-top hyper-rave in the Millions (“this the best book I’ve read this year and also one of the best books I’ve ever read in my life”)

• More!

If you haven’t already, you can now obtain a copy immediately from your local indie; at bookshop.org; on the Kindle store or at Kobo; at Audible or its wonderful alternative, libro.fm. (Before you cancel me for linking to Amazon, please recall that despite its serious labor problems, Amazon remains an important resource for print-disabled readers to find accessible ebooks and audiobooks.) Also: libraries!

If you’ve bought or borrowed it already: hey seriously thank you so much. Please consider writing a review at whichever online retailer you used, or at Goodreads, or all over your freaking social media. OK that’s it we’re done!

I will be doing seven bookstore events over the next few weeks; please tell your friends and come through! (Note that several of these events require preregistration online; links below.)

THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND U.S. BOOK TOUR

South Hadley, MA

July 25 at 7pm

Odyssey Bookshop

9 College Street, South Hadley, MA 01075

In conversation with Andrea Lawlor

[register]

Boston, MA

July 27 at 7pm

Harvard Book Store

1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138

In conversation with Namwali Serpell

[register]

Brooklyn, NY

August 2 at 7pm

Books Are Magic [at the new Brooklyn Heights location]

122 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

In conversation with Chloé Cooper Jones

[register]

Los Angeles, CA

August 7 at 7pm

Vroman’s

695 E. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91101

In conversation with Rachel Khong

[register]

San Francisco, CA

August 11 at 7pm

Green Apple Books

1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122

In conversation with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

[register]

Rhinebeck, NY

August 13 at 7pm

Upstate Films

6415 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck NY 12572

In conversation with Ashley Mayne

Manhattan, NY

October 3, time TBD

Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute

New York University

Location TBD

In conversation with Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Housekeeping note: subsequent issues of this newsletter will be infinitely less self-promotional