Jetpack Dreams

Events

2008 APPEARANCES

November 9: Wordstock: Portland’s Festival of the Book (Oregon), noon.

November 10: Stacey’s (San Francisco, CA), 12:30-1:30 p.m.

November 10: Books, Inc. (Mountain View, CA), 7:30 p.m.

November 11: Hiller Aviation Museum (San Carlos, CA), 7:30 p.m.

November 13: Book Soup (Los Angeles, CA), 7 p.m.

November 19: Barnes & Noble at the Inner Harbor (Baltimore, MD), 7:00 p.m.

November 20: 92^nd Street Y Tribeca (New York, NY), 7:30 p.m.

November 20: Book Party at Lolita Bar (New York, NY), 9-ish p.m.

December 19: Matchless (Brooklyn, NY), 8 p.m.

Jetpack Dreams explores that most amazing and mysterious of machines.

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"This snappily written, often funny book should attract dreamers of ... all ages."
— Publishers Weekly

"Montandon's entertaining adventures highlight a strange footnote of the space age."
— Booklist

"Reading this book is as fun as zooming through the sky with a rocket on your back. And better yet, you won't break your collarbone doing it."
— A.J. Jacobs, Author of The Know-it-All and The Year of Living Biblically

"Jetpack Dreams is a delightful and engrossing story of the quest for one of humankind's greatest technological fantasies—to strap on a device and fly like a bird."
— Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of Make Magazine and founder of BoingBoing.net

Innocent When You Dream is the definitive collection of writing about Tom Waits.

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