The Book

My kind editor at the U of Iowa Press FedExed me a copy of The Adventures of Cancer Bitch. I got it yesterday and brought it to Show and Tell today, where it was roundly oohed and ahhed over.

My first local reading is March 25, but I have others before:

~Reading, 6:30 pm, March 17, 2009, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI
~Reading, 12:30 pm, March 19, 2009, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids
Debut Chicago reading of The Adventures of Cancer Bitch, Wed., March 25, 2009, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL 60640. Tel: 773.769.9299
~Reading, 7:30 pm, April 16, 2009, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
~Writing Workshop: The Joy Joy Joy of Repetition in Writing about Health, Medicine and the Body, 6-7:15 pm, Wed., April 29, 2009, The Examined Life: Writing & the Art of Medicine Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City
~Pizza and conversation, "From Blog to Radio to Book," 12:30-1:30 p.m., May 14, 2009, Northwestern University Center for the Writing Arts, Evanston, IL

TBA: Loyola University Chicago; Program in Medical Humanities and Bioethics,
Feinberg School of Medicine