The PM Press Tabling Tornados are bringing the noise to these upcoming anarchist book fairs, big and small city book festivals, conferences, activist gatherings, punk fests, folk festivals, and more. Look up these events and support their work! Come find the PM tables and say hello. Follow along on our socials to learn more.

• We’ll be on tour with Martha in the UK July 11 to 20

• Basilica Farm and Flea in Hudson, NY on July 12 and 13

• Readercon in Burlington, MA from July 17 to 20

• Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival in Ithaca, NY from July 17 to 20

• Mosswood Meltdown in Oakland, CA on July 19 and 20

• Nashville Punk Rock Flea Market in Nashville, TN on July 19 and 20

• Wicker Park Fest in Chicago, IL from July 25 to 27

• New Jersey Punk Rock Flea Market in Edison, NJ on July 26

• The Society for the Study of Social Problems in Chicago, IL from August 8 to 10

• Young Democratic Socialists of America National Convention in Chicago, IL from August 6 and 7

• Democratic Socialists of America National Convention in Chicago, IL from August 8 to 10

• Rebellion Punk Festival in Blackpool, UK from August 7 to 10

• Hull Radical Book Fair in Hull, UK on August 9

• WorldCon – World Science Fiction Convention in Seattle, WA from August 13 to 17

• Lehigh Valley Pride Festival in Bethlehem, PA on August 17

• Black Cat Book Fair in Belfast, ME on August 23 and 24

• San Francisco Zine Fest in San Francisco, CA on August 31

• Printer’s Row in Chicago, IL on September 6 and 7

• Ithaca is Books Fest in Ithaca, NY on September 13 and 14

• Baltimore Book Festival in Baltimore, MD on September 13 and 14

• NYC Anarchist Book Fair in New York, NY on September 13

• London Anarchist Book Fair in London, UK on September 20

• Riot Fest in Chicago, IL on September 19 to 21

• Seattle Punk Rock Flea Market in Seattle, WA from September 19 t0 21

• Brooklyn Book Festival in Brooklyn, NY on September 20 and 21

• Victoria Anarchist Book Fair in Victoria, BC on September 20 and 21

• Apple Harvest Festival in Ithaca, NY on September 26 to 28

• Another Carolina Anarchist Book Fair in Asheville, NC from September 26 to 28

• Punk in the Park in Worcester, MA on September 27

• Furnace Fest in Birmingham, AL from October 3 to 5

• Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, GA on October 3 and 4

• Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) conference in Philadelphia, PA from October 10 and 12

• Atlanta Pride in Atlanta, GA on October 11 and 12

• Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair in Oakland, CA on October 18

• Northwest Teaching for Social Justice (NWTSJ) in Portland, OR on October 18

• Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN on October 18 and 19

• Seattle Anarchist Book Fair on October 18 and 19

• Peterborough Radical Bookfair in Peterborough, UK on October 18

• The Fest in Gainesville, FL from October 24 to 26

• Boston Book Festival in Boston, MA on October 25

• Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair on November 8

• Amsterdam Anarchist Bookfair on November 22 and 23

• Howard Zinn Book Fair in San Francisco, CA on December 7

Saturday, July 19, 2025, 12:00 pm PST

Abigail Susik and Paul Buhle discuss Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues. Rediscover the most insightful and incendiary cultural commentaries from a leading figure in the revival of Surrealism.

City Lights and PM Press celebrate the publication of Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues: Selected Writings on Popular Culture by Franklin Rosemont and coedited by Abigail Susik and Paul Buhle.

This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. It’s free, but registration is required. Learn more here.

The Unbanned & Unbothered Storytime Tour with Lil Miss Hot Mess and Jacinta Bunnell, author of many great children’s books.

July 21 to 25 in Upstate, NY and Berkshires. Learn more and follow along here.

As Jacinta writes, “After years off the road, I am heading out on tour again— because it feels more necessary now than ever.

The Unbanned & Unbothered Storytime Tour is a folded friendship note passed under the desk to kids and families who deserve to see their lives reflected with joy, enthusiasm, and love.

For me, this is a return, a resistance, and a reminder of why I started writing books for LGBTQAI+ families in the first place— to offer a literary hug to those of you who need it most right now. In a moment where inclusive and diverse books are being challenged and pulled from shelves and schools, we are showing up in person to remind you that you and your children are integral and important to our communities and to the world.

I am truly honored to be teaming up with the legendary @lilmisshotmess for this series of readings. We have known each other for so many decades, before either of us had written a story book, and it feels like such a full-circle moment to collaborate with her on this project.

Join us! Lil Miss Hot Mess will lead us all in some cute songs and you know that will feel so amazing.”

Join Owen Hill for a reading and discussion of The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story at Book Passage Corta Madera on July 26th at 11am. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA.

About the book

Clay Blackburn—poet, book scout, and sometimes detective—cruises the mean, and sometimes not so mean, streets of Berkeley. With his accomplices, a soldier of fortune, a “defrocked” FBI agent, and a smooth and sexy con man, he lives a life of bisexual sensation with a little crime solving on the side. As such, Blackburn is a sly, witty, and more or less reliable raconteur of the last thirty something years of the Bay Area’s radical bohemia and bookselling. And in the tradition of Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh, and Jean-Claude Izzo’s Marseilles, bears uncomfortable witness to Berkeley’s descent from countercultural paradise to neoliberal inferno.

This omnibus collection collects the novels The Chandler Apartments (2002), The Incredible Double (2010), and the previously unpublished Mayakovsky’s Bugatti (2025), and includes the Blackburn short story “Righteous Kill” (2021).

“Yet the more we get to know him, the more we’re persuaded Blackburn is a Pure Product of Berkeley. He’s not only queer, but a queer sort of all else he declares himself to be: a queer sort of detective, a queer sort of Communist or Anarchist, and beyond—a queer sort of gourmet, ethical thinker, cat owner, and—for certain—a queer sort of narrator.” —Jonathan Lethem, from the Introduction

Owen Hill is the author of three crime novels, two books of short fiction, and many collections of poetry. He coannotated and edited The Annotated Big Sleep (Vintage Crime), and coedited Berkeley Noir (Akashic Books). He was a buyer at a secondhand bookstore for many years, and now is a union organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World. He lives in Oakland.