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.

• Upstate Anarchist Book Fair (UABF) in Binghamton, NY on May 3 and 4

• Basilica Hudson Farm and Flea in Hudson, NY on May 10 and 11

• Godspeed You! Black Emperor tour in the Pacific Northwest May 6 to 11

• Los Angeles Anarchist Book Fair in Los Angeles, CA on May 17

• DC Anarchist Book Fair in Washington, DC on May 17

• WisCon Feminist Science Fiction Convention (online) from May 23 to 26

• Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas, NV from May 24 to 26

• Montreal Anarchist Book Fair in Montreal, QC on May 24 and 25

• Tacoma Book Fair in Tacoma, WA on May 24 and 25

• National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) in New York, NY from May 27 to 30

• The Great Transition in Montreal, QC from May 29 to June 1

• Ithaca Fest in Ithaca, NY from May 29 to June 1

• Open Baar Market in Albany, NY on May 31

• Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, CA on June 1

• Teach Truth! Day of Action in Berkeley, CA on June 7

• Inland Empire Anarchist  Book Fair in San Bernardino, CA on June 7

• Southeast Punk Rock Flea Market in Myrtle Beach, SC on June 8

• Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) in Chicago, IL from June 12 to 14

• Positive Force DC 40th Anniversary Celebrations in Washington, DC from June 19 to 21

• Great Labor Arts Exchange in Silver Spring, MD on June 21

• Camp Punksylvania in Gilbert, PA from June 20 to 22

• Ottawa Anarchist Book Fair in Ottawa, ON on June 28

• Socialism in Chicago, IL from July 3 to 6

• National Women’s Music Festival in Madison, WI from July 3 to 6

• 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

• Veterans for Peace Convention in Las Vegas, NV from July 25 to 27

• 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

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

• Punk in the Park in New York, NY 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

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

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

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

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

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

Join Owen Hill for a reading and discussion of The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story at Bird and Beckett in San Francisco on July 10th at 7pm. 653 Chenery St, San Francisco, 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.