Doug Fine: Author, Journalist, Adventurer, Goat-Herder

*The first leg (hardcover tour) has now ended, but please support your local bookstore and let me know if you’d like to arrange a full-body, sustainable reading/slide show or speaking engagement. Below were the first legs dates.*

With the release of Farewell, My Subaru, I’ll be putting on a full-body reading and slide show across North America illustrating the carbon neutral misadventures here at the Funky Butte Ranch. This’ll be in March, April and May. I’d love to see you come by, and I promise you’ll leave smiling, if only with relief that you’ve not suffered the near-electrocutions, coyote assaults and other humiliations I have in the course of getting oil out of my life. Check this link regularly as the event bookings are growing. For the middle of the country and West Coast, I’ll be driving the R.O.A.T. (Ridiculously Oversized American Truck) I’ve described (and gotten the vicious munchies from) in these Dispatches. For events to which I have to fly, I’ll be figuring out carbon offsets. Hence the “Carbon Neutral Book Tour.”

Wednesday, March 26—ALBUQUERQUE, NM
7:00 pm
Talk & Signing
Barnes & Noble
6600 Menaul Blvd NE

Thursday, March 27—SANTA FE, NM
7:00 pm
Talk & Signing
Borders Books & Music
500 Montezuma

Saturday, March 29—ANCHORAGE, AK
12:00 pm
Keynote Speech & Signing
Anchorage Alaska Sustainability Fair
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive

Tuesday, April 1—LAS CRUCES, NM
7:00 pm
Talk & Signing
Barnes & Noble
700 S. Telshor Blvd

Thursday, April 3—WASHINGTON, D.C.
7 p.m.
Speech & Signing
National Geographic Live/Heroes of Our Planet series
Grosvenor Auditorium
National Geographic Society
1600 M Street, NW
Tickets: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/nglive/washingtondc/s2008/ecosessions/fine.html

Monday, April 7—BOULDER, CO
7:30 pm
Talk & Signing
Boulder Bookstore
1107 Pearl St.

Tuesday, April 8—DENVER, CO
7:30 pm
Talk & Signing
Tattered Cover
1628 16th St.
This event is part of the Rocky Mountain land series.

Wednesday, April 9—STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, CO
7:00 pm
Talk & Signing
Epilogue Book Company
837 Lincoln Ave

Tuesday, April 15—PALO ALTO, CA
7:00 pm
Talk & Signing
Books Inc.
855 El Camino Real (and Embarcadero — Town and Country Village)

Wednesday, April 16—CAPITOLA, CA
7:30 pm
Talk & Signing
Capitola Book Café
1475 41st Ave.

Thursday, April 17—BERKELEY, CA
7:30 pm
Talk & Signing
Mrs. Dalloway’s
2904 College Ave.

Sunday, April 20—WILLITS, CA
11:00 am
Keynote Address: “How Anyone Can Get Oil Out of His or Her Life”
Willits Earth Day Festival
Willits Community Center
111 E. Commercial Street

Monday, April 21—PORTLAND, OR
7:30 pm
Talk & Signing
Powell’s Books
1005 W Burnside

Tuesday, April 22—BELLINGHAM, WA
Interview & Signing
Chuckanut Radio Hour (with Village Books)
American Museum of Television & Radio
1312 Bay Street

Wednesday, April 23—SEATTLE, WA
6:30 pm
Talk & Signing
Queen Anne Avenue Books
1811 Queen Anne Avenue North

Thursday, April 24—BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WA
7:30 pm
Talk & Signing
Eagle Harbor Book Company
157 Winslow Way East

Wednesday, May 9—SILVER CITY, NM

7:00 pm
Talk & Signing
Benefit for conservation groups GRIP (http://www.gilaresources.info/) and GCEC (www.http://gcecnm.org/)
Global Resource Center
Western New Mexico University
$10 donation
Info: 505/538-8078