Dear Gentle Readers,

While it remains all too cliché for a writer to blog-document a (first) book tour, I will scribble only a few thoughts (and an event listing). Perhaps best exposed as a natural opiate or a loss of virginity, I had the rare luxury of connecting with a cross-American audience after years of writerly (or is it agoraphobic?) reclusion (a juxtaposition that may jar the mind-body).

I sincerely want to THANK everyone who attended my readings, bought A Gesture Through Time (and continue to buy it), curated me into their non-traditional and commercial bookstore reading series and salons, treated me to celebratory dinners, organized book parties, hosted me at their home or elsewhere (while away from home), challenged me with provocative post-reading inquiry, mentioned my reading in the local press through bookstore newsletters, reviews, features, or event-listings, shelved my book at the front of the store (without payoffs), blogged (yes, the verb) me into their bloggo-tinkering, and of course, offered me scintillating distraction from jet lag and extreme weather conditions.

I am truly grateful and lucky. Please check back for updated and evolving appearances and events.

THANK YOU.

All Best,
ERB


2005/2006 Live and Media Appearances
for A Gesture Through Time and new work

Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
January 31, 2005 (advanced limited edition launch)

Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe
April 21, 2005 (advanced limited edition reading)

City Lights Books (with David Lincoln), San Francisco
May 24, 2005 (advanced limited edition reading)

LIT QUAKE 2005, San Francisco (paperback original launch)
October 9, 2005, San Francisco Public Library: Koret Auditorium

The Avid Reader Books, Davis
October 15, 2005

Modern Times Bookstore (with Noria Jablonski), San Francisco
October 20, 2005

23rd Avenue Books, Portland, OR
November 3, 2005

Dutton’s Beverly Hills Books, Beverly Hills
November 18, 2005

Moe’s Books (with Laynie Browne), Berkeley, 2005
November 21, 2005

Shaman Drum Bookshop, Ann Arbor
December 7, 2005

Discrete Reading and Performance Series (with Jordan Stempleman), Chicago
December 9, 2005

The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle
January 7, 2006

Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe
March 9, 2006, public reading and lecture at the College of Santa Fe,
Tipton Hall (with Evri Kwong)

&Now Festival of Innovative Literature and Art,
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL / April 5-7, 2006

Dutton’s Brentwood Books (with Spuyten Duyvil Press authors) Los Angeles
May 19, 2006

The Lab (with Lidia Yuknavitch), (an interdisciplinary arts organization that supports the development and presentation of new visual, performing, media and literary art) San Francisco
Elizabeth reads from A Gesture Through Time and also from new works; she presents her work in an electronically mediated environment with Lidia Yuknavitch
August 17, 2006
http://www.thelab.org/

Additional salon and private home appearances

 

March and April 2006 Cable Television and Radio Appearances

Cable Television Interview: PEN Women Presents: Eileen Malone Interviews Creative People Talking About Living Creatively, San Francisco Bay Area cable television, 1/2 hour Interview with Elizabeth Block, featuring a brief reading from A Gesture Through Time and a screening of her short film, Make Haste, Slowly (uncut on-air interview in San Francisco, February 21, 2006), later airing on San Francisco Access Channel 29, Berkeley Media Channel 29 and 33, Mid-Peninsula Community Center Channels 27 and 28, and Napa Valley Channel 28 (please check local listings and/or stations; dubs can also be attained from Elizabeth). Airs in San Francisco on April 16, Channel 29, 5:00 p.m.

KSFR Radio (90.7), Santa Fe Radio Café, Interview with Elizabeth Block and Evri Kwong: Friday March 10, 2006, 8:00 a.m. (mountain time) Santa Fe, NM, hosted by Mary-Charlotte Domandi. Live from the Santa Fe Baking Company, KSFR's daily talk show featuring people you know and others you'd like to. Community-spirited, smart talk: From Presidential candidates and nationally known experts to local Santa Fe artists, authors, healers, and minor miscreants. It's where all of Santa Fe has time to talk. Comment/Contact: info@ksfr.org or www.ksfr.org. To attain an audio file of the radio interview, please contact KSFR or Elizabeth Block.