Brandon buys a suit from a clearance store, hires an interpreter, and begins contacting people under the pretense that he is a foreign journalist writing about the local arts scene. The project ends uneventfully when he runs out of money. Some time later, our hero decides to steal the story that enchanted him most, incidentally about a foreigner becoming an object of public attention, and pass himself off as its author in order to attract the respect and affection that he desires once and for all.
Goodloe has teamed up with the good folks at Brown Paper publishing to produce this lovely little book in a an 10,000 copy first edition that maintains the hard-to-beat price of nothing.
"The Abstract Zero Dollars Tour" will kick off in September with events and readings in all the standard coastal fair Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Eugene, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, Austin, Philadelphia, Washington DC, New York, and Boston. click here to read an excerpt.
