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Little Brother at Los Altos Main Branch Library and San Francisco’s Borderlands Books today

Today’s the last day of the Bay Area leg of my book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother. This afternoon, it’s the Los Altos Library Main Branch and tonight, the wonderful Borderlands Books in San Francisco. Hope you’ll make it!

Los Altos Main Library, Los Altos, CA
13 South San Antonio Rd
Los Altos, CA 94022
* Event held in conjunction with Linden Tree Children’s Books
(650)949-3390
Thursday, May 22, 2008
4:00 pm

Borderlands, San Francisco, CA
Thursday, May 22, 2008
866 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

7:00 pm

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Little Brother at Berkeley’s Cody’s Books and Dark Carnival today

I’m in San Francisco now, on my book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother. Today, I’m at Cody’s Books and Dark Carnival in Berkeley, and tomorrow I’m at the Los Altos Library Main Branch and Borderlands Books in San Francisco. Hope you’ll make it!

Dark Carnival, Berkeley, CA
3086 Claremont Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94706
(510) 654-7232

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
5:30 pm

Cody’s Books Inc., Berkeley, CA

2201 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
7:00 pm

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Column: Stats of rare events are the roots of insecurity

My latest Guardian column just went live, on the security risks of the failure to grasp the statistics of rare events:

This is the same calculus that allows the fear of terrorism to take away our liberty: the statistically super-rare terrorist attacks present, on average, a much lower risk to our health, safety and person than, say, depriving us of our liquid medications, or of requiring us to leave our bags unlocked in flight so that sticky-fingered handlers can make off with our laptops and financial data and valuables.

The everyday threat of having our goods stolen, our ability to travel and earn our livings curtailed, and our personal information harvested by every junior terrorist fighter who wants to see your ID before letting you do anything is overshadowed by the one-in-a-billion confluence of someone with terrorist goals, the means to accomplish them, and the intelligence to bring them off (hint: you can’t really blow up an airplane with hair-gel and iPods).

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Little Brother at Seattle’s Third Place Books tonight

This is my last day on the Seattle leg of my book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother. I’m at Third Place Books at 7PM tonight, Tomorrow, it’s the Bay Area, with an appearance at Cody’s Books and Dark Carnival in Berkeley — hope you can make it!

Third Place Books, Seattle WA

6504 20th Avenue, NE
Seattle, WA
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
7:00 pm

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Free event at NYC’s Books of Wonder, May 26

We’ve just finalized the details for a second NYC appearance on my book tour for Little Brother. On Monday, May 26, I’ll be appearing at midtown’s Books of Wonder from 5-7 PM for a free reading/talk/signing, complete with cupcakes!

This is in addition to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund benefit on the night of May 25 at Comix — hope to see you in New York!

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Little Brother at All for Kids Books Seattle this afternoon

This afternoon on the Seattle leg of my book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother, I’ll be at All For Kids Books and More. I’m here for one more day, coming to Third Place Books on Tuesday, then it’s on to San Francisco. Hope to see you!

All For Kids Books, Seattle, WA
Monday, May 19, 2008
2900 N.E. Blakeley
Seattle, WA 98105
4:00 pm

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Little Brother in NYC: Comic Book Legal Defense Fund benefit

We’ve just announced the first of two events in New York as part of the book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother: a charity fundraiser for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund at the nightclub Comix. The CBLDF is a fantastic organization who work tirelessly to defend comics professionals, distributors and retailers from laws that censor the content of comics (often in response to the decades-old moral panic that comics are warping the morals of our children). I’m an annual donor to CBLDF and it tickles me to be able to support them in other ways.

There’s going to be one other New York event, a free reading at a midtown bookstore, that I’ll be announcing in the next day or so. I hope I see you at one or both events!

On May 25 join Cory Doctorow to celebrate the premiere of LITTLE BROTHER, his New York Times Best Selling Young Adult Fiction debut! Cory will present an all-ages reading & Q&A to benefit the First Amendment legal work of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!

Addressing internet and government security, censorship, and civil liberties in a post-9/11 atmosphere, LITTLE BROTHER tackles timely issues while telling a smart, funny, and jam-packed-with-pop culture story…

Proceeds from this event will benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The CBLDF provides legal defense on behalf of artists, retailers, and librarians facing criminal and civil prosecution for First Amendment related actions. The Fund also fights unconstitutional legislation that threatens First Amendment rights. Most recently, the CBLDF won a three year legal battle in Georgia, where Gordon Lee, a retailer, faced up to two years in prison for allegedly distributing a comic book containing drawings of Picasso in the nude to a minor. All charges were dismissed, but only after more than three years and $100,000 of CBLDF resources were spent to prove Lee’s innocence..

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Little Brother at Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Company tonight

Tonight, I kick off the Seattle leg of my book tour for my new young adult novel, Little Brother, with an appearance at the Elliott Bay Book Company. I’ve got a jam-packed schedule here, including appearances at the Seattle Public Library on Sunday, All For Kids Books and More on Monday and Third Place Books on Tuesday. Hope to see you!

Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
101 S. Main Street
Seattle, WA 98104
Saturday, May 17, 2008
7:30 pm

Link to tour schedule

Little Brother at Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Company tonight

Tonight, I kick off the Seattle leg of my book tour for my new young adult novel, Little Brother, with an appearance at the Elliott Bay Book Company. I’ve got a jam-packed schedule here, including appearances at the Seattle Public Library on Sunday, All For Kids Books and More on Monday and Third Place Books on Tuesday. Hope to see you!

Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
101 S. Main Street
Seattle, WA 98104
Saturday, May 17, 2008
7:30 pm

Link to tour schedule

Little Brother is a New York Times and Booksense bestseller!

‘Scuse me while I bask: Little Brother, just hit the New York Times Kids bestseller list (#9) and the Booksense Children’s Interest bestseller list (#14) and I’m about to splode with joy! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to all the readers who helped put it there!

(Image: Pablo Defendini’s sketch for the Little Brother paperback)

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