Welcome to what Random House has dubbed the "Silicon Valley Bleeding Edge Tour." Three authors—Kara Swisher, Po Bronson, and myself—will be traveling to seven cities to duke it out, debate style, in what our publisher is billing as "the McLaughlin Group of Silicon Valley." I’m the designated contrarian, the left-of-center critic who offers a different perspective than what you read when sifting through the daily offering of news stories from out of the Valley. Score the match for yourself!
As a preview, you might want to check out the verbal jousting as we take turns filling out a daily tour diary. Click here for the Bleeding Edge Diary.
Too, I’ll be doing three readings on my own, at Capitola Book Café in Capitola, CA; at Diesel: A Bookstore in Oakland; and at Cody’s Books in Berkeley. Capitola and Diesel take place in August, Cody’s in September. See below for the details.
July
14
7:30 pm
Barnes & Noble
3600 Stevens Creek Blvd
San Jose, CA
July
15
12:30 pm
Stacey's
581 Market Street
San Francisco, CA
July
21
6:00 pm
Borders
1501 Fourth Avenue
Seattle, WA
July
22
7:30 pm
Keplers
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA
July
26
7:30 pm
Barnes & Noble
33 West 17th St
Union Square, NY, NY
July
27
6:00 pm
Cambridge Public Library
449 Broadway
Cambridge, MA
July
29
7:00 pm
Book People
603 North Lamar
Austin, TX
August 12
7:30 pm
Capitola
Book Café
1475-
41st Ave
Capitola,
CA
August 19
7:30 pm
Diesel:
A Bookstore
5433
College Ave.
Oakland,
CA
September 28
7:30 pm
Cody’s
Books
2454
Telegraph Ave.
Berkeley,
CA
A Wall Street Journal, Kara Swisher is the author of AOL.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads, and Made Millions in the War for the Web, just released in paperback.
"The best tech-scene book of the year."
-Chicago Tribune
"A fascinating and instructive story...a detailed, warts-and-all history of one of the greatest capitalist success stories of all time."
-The New York Times
Po Bronson is the author of Bombardiers (a personal favorite
of mine) and The First $20 Million is the Hardest. His new book—and
the one he’ll be talking about on The Bleeding Edge Tour—is The Nudist
on the Late Shift.
"A book about a dream valley that kept me glued to my seat—laughing, sighing, shaking my head—while also leaving me with a deeper sense of the human energy and hubris that fuels America’s new entrepreneurial capital, Silicon Valley. A home run.
-Ken Auletta
"Two
of the writers I look to with tremendous interest are Richard Price and
Po Bronson…because they are so talented.
- Tom Wolfe
