About

These two are on their way to your town.  They are driving from Minneapolis, Minnesota.  They know how to drive.  Why?

For years, Sam Osterhout and Geoff Herbach have been driving.  They know how to drive.  Don’t question that.

They’ve got a reason to drive right now.  Herbach’s new novel, The Miracle Letters of T Rimberg, is dropping into the world (April 15).  Sam and Herbach have a committment to fulfill.  They are committed to dropping their pants, figuratively speaking.  They will do it, utterly.  For them, dropping pants equals reading great work.

Who are they?

Sam and Herbach formed the Lit 6 Project in the fall of 2003.  Their goal was to make a literary reading an event to contend with, an event you’d want to bring your teenage child to, an event not only for avid readers, but for lumberjacks and veterinarian’s assistants who would never read, because why would they?  There must be something better on TV.  Teamed with Brady Bergeson and Stephanie Wilbur Ash, they wrapped hard-boiled humor and jokes about your mother’s bottom around serious writing, so the serious writing might have an appreciative audience.  They also gave away free beer AND created themed events: Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, murder mysteries, riffing on horrible childhood memories, remembered war stories, and occasional classic books.  The thing took off.  They gave away free beer AND were even booked to open, disastrously, for Of Montreal.

Along the way, they met with Creative Electric Studio owners Dave Salmela and Jenny Adams.  Within six months, the Lit 6 writers were collaborating with a huge crew of musicians and voice actors and had made this thing called Electric Arc Radio.  The bastard is so huge, you just have to hit the site: Electric Arc Radio.

This tour is about all of that.  And this tour is to support Herbach’s new book, which is a serious book, and might also make you laugh, but maybe not for the right reasons.  He reads this stuff loud.  Sam, Sam, will make you cry for terrible reasons and he’ll also make you laugh, because that is what he does.