The 2014 Two Performance Artists book tour was a smash hit!—17 stops in 14 cities from San Diego to New York—and we're always open for more dates! If you're involved with a bookstore, college, art program, library, gallery, museum, cafe, or other creative venue and are interested in a book reading, performance, or talk about performance art, please drop us a line!

 

April 3, 2014		Los Angeles		Tour Kickoff! Skylight Books 1818 N. Vermont Ave. 7:30PM
April 12 & 13		Los Angeles		LA Times Festival of Books USC Campus Booth #837 10AM - 5PM
April 17		Long Beach		Gatsby Books 5535 E. Spring St. 7PM
April 19		Ventura		Bank of Books 748 E. Main St. 2PM Reading 3-4PM Signings
May 1		Irvine		The Hill - UC Irvine Bookstore 210-B Student Center (Corner of W. Peltason Dr. & Pereira Dr.) 530-7PM
May 3		San Diego		UC San Diego Bookstore California Bookstore Day 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 12:30PM
May 5		Los Angeles		Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood 7PM
May 10		Fresno		SoapCo Gallery & Theater (Tower District) 1470 N Van Ness Ave 7PM Reading 7:30PM Signing
May 15		San Francisco		Mermaids Tattoo Scotch will unleash some surreal performance, sell & sign books, and then get inked with a tattoo that's described in his novel! And it all kicks off with darkly hilarious comedian Loren Kraut! Don't miss this wild happening at San Francisco's favorite tattoo studio! 3032 Mission Street 7PM
May 16		San Francisco		Green Apple Books 506 Clement St. 7PM
May 19		Portland		Show & Tell Gallery Three Friends Coffeehouse SE 12th and Ash 7PM
May 20		Seattle		The Project Room 1315 E. Pine Street 7PM
May 22-26		Washington, D.C.		Impromptu Locations Send us a message to see where we're at in DC!
May 29-31		New York, NY		BookExpo America (BEA) Javits Center 635 W. 34th St. Booth #660 9AM - 5PM
June 2		Columbus		Kafe Kerouac 2250 North High St. 8PM
June 4		Cleveland		Visible Voice Bookstore 1023 Kenilworth Ave 7PM
June 7-8		Chicago		Chicago Printers Row Literary Festival 10am-6pm Booth Z-3
				Contact us if your bookstore, library, gallery, or college would like to be included!

 

Book Tour Launch Party at Skylight Books, Los Angeles

 

Freakshow Books' Booth at L.A. Times Festival of Books

 

Reading & performance at Sean Moor's Gatsby Books bookstore in Long Beach

 

Reading at Bank of Books in Ventura

 

Even Ron Burgundy loves Two Performance Artists!
Scotch was picked to read & perform at UC San Diego as part of CA's inaugural
Bookstore Day. Other authors selected included Dave Eggers & Don DeLillo.
Stay classy, San Diego!

 

Reading for a band of book lovers at gorgeous Book Soup on the Sunset Strip

 

Say hello to the creative minds behind Fresno SoapCo., Fresno's
newest venue for independent theater, performance, and art!
We loved this space and can't wait to go back!

 

 

Reading & having fun with a hilarious, art-crazed,
and standing-room-only crowd at Green Apple Books
in San Francisco
 

 

After doing some hyperactive performance art, Scotch followed up
with a surreal tattoo happening at San Francisco's popular
Mermaids Tattoo salon, where he was inked in front
of spectators with a tattoo described in his novel
while the chapter was read aloud.
 

 


Scotch performed, read from Two Performance Artists, and did a little fishing
at Seattle's The Project Room gallery
 

 









The tour hits Washington DC!  Even Lincoln, the National
Archives, Capitol Hill, the FBI, the Jefferson & Washington Monuments,
the White House, Marion Barry, and the Hope Diamond like Two
Performance Artists!
 

 

Scotch excited to receive the Bronze Medal for Best Regional Fiction
at the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards in NYC  

 
 


The tour hits BookExpo America in New York City. Here's a view
from the Freakshow Books booth—then Two Performance Artists
pays a visit to Carl Hiaasen
 

 
 



Scotch shops for the perfect performance art fish in Cleveland,
then performs for a rapt crowd at the Visible Voice bookstore

 

 
 




A busy day in Chicago! Scotch says hello to mayor Rahm Emanuel,
gives a hug to Rose Laws (Chicago's oldest madam—retired),
and then hangs out with hilarious Two Performance Artists
fans at the city's amazing Printers Row literary festival