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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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

Link to tour schedule

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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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

Link to tour schedule

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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