The summer photo dump spectacular continues! Here are a bunch of photos from the bookstore readings I was a party to this summer while out promoting Bad Faith, my debut collection of short fiction.
On to the photos in a second, but first, thanks to all the booksellers, book buyers, and bookstores along the way for your hospitality and hard work. And a special thanks to Dave Madden, Amina Gautier, and Tyrone Jaeger, my compatriots out on the road. This was such an amazing experience and I couldn’t have found any better people to share it with.
My turn to read at Indigo Bridge Books in Lincoln.
The marquee at Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco.
A great crowd at Beaverdale Books in Des Moines.
“Yes, I actually do this for a living,” at Pegasus Books Downtown in Berkeley.
Our introduction at the Book Cellar in Chicago.
Leg 2 begins at Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco.
On stage at the incredible Mother Foucault’s antiquarian bookshop in Portland.
Signing books at the Bookworm in Omaha.
The flyer Pegasus made up for our reading in downtown Berkeley.
Group photo from our last night of leg 1, at Beaverdale Books in Des Moines.
Me, Amina, and Dave at Pegasus Books Downtown in Berkeley.
Pegasus Books Downtown in Berkeley.
A life ambition fulfilled, reading at Prairie Lights in Iowa City.
Boswell Book Co. in Milwaukee.
Ty reading at Boswell Book Co.
A dear old friend, Mr. Jake Hoppe Esq.
Dave reading at Boswell Book Co.
Stained glass beer ad inside Vesuvio’s, San Francisco.
The front window at Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis
It’s publication day for my first book!
The big night is finally here, as the pre-release party for 
From now until publication day on July 12, my debut collection of fiction (Bad Faith) is in pre-sale mode from 
Check out the awesome wrap-around cover for my short story collection Bad Faith! The cover was designed by 
As the July release date for my story collection, Bad Faith, inches ever closer, we’ve been pulling together some of the promotional materials. Here are the blurbs, if you’re interested. Thanks so much to Jonis, Amina, Brent, and Mark for their generosity in taking the time to plug my book! (And check out below for a teaser of the front cover that I’ve been sending out on postcards.)
Things are coming along as the July release of 
In Don’t Think, his ninth collection of short fiction, Burgin offers us his most daring and imaginatively varied work to date. The stories explore universal themes of love, family, and time, examining relationships and memory―both often troubled, fragmented, and pieced back together only when shared between characters. In the title story, written in propulsive, musical prose, a divorced father struggles to cling to reality through his searing love for his highly imaginative son, who has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. In “Of Course He Wanted to Be Remembered,” two young women meet to commemorate the death of a former college professor with whom they were both unusually close―though in very different ways. In “V.I.N.,” a charismatic drug dealer tries to gain control of a bizarre cult devoted to rethinking life’s meaning in relation to infinite time, while in “The Intruder,” an elderly art dealer befriends a homeless young woman who has been sleeping in his basement.
Theodore Wheeler 