And here it is, the schedule for my epic US bookshop tour! This will in all likelihood be the best trip of my life.

The only thing that worries me slightly is flying. Not only am I a little, tiny bit afraid of it, but when I visited bookshops in the UK I ended upp traveling (by train) with five or six bags from the bookshops I visited. It seems physically impossible for me to enter a bookshop without buying a book. And when I say “a book”, I mean of course three or four. Or possibly five. Seldom more than ten, at least. And that is fine, and natural, and reasonable when traveling by train. But surely I can’t go through the security check with five different bags of books? Or check them in – “Do you have any bags you need checked in?” – “Why, yes, I have these five plastic bags?”

I guess I’ll have to FedEx them home as I go along.

I hope I’ll see you at one of these lovely bookshops!