Featherproof Books is excited, no, totally pumped, to announce our biggest event of the year: The Dollar Store Summer Mega Tour! That's right, we're taking this renowned reading series on the road: packing 7+ of our beloved writers in a van, buying tons of dollar store junk, and hitting 11 cities in 14 days.

For three years, The Dollar Store has sold out its hometown venue with its blue-collar literature, absurdist humor, and circus of junk. This summer, Zach Dodson, co-founder of featherproof books, will host a month long Dollar Store Tour.

Stealing from the improv community's bag of tricks, The Dollar Store uses a "suggestion" for the pieces performed in the show. Each writer or comedian is given an item purchased at a local dollar store (mundane to insane) and a month to craft a story that involves the item as directly or obliquely as the performer wishes. The Show has been featured on National Public Radioand in newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times.