Self-Romancing On Tour!
GET READY: September 9, 2025 is the publication date for L Scully’s Self-Romancing, a poetry collection bursting with intimacy and giddy charm. In a tonal mash-up of Jenny Holzer’s Truisms, confessional poetry, and fortune telling, Self-Romancing draws you into the amorous and obsessive inner life of an unnamed romantic. Relatable and snarky, heartfelt and horny, L Scully fortifies irony with vulnerability, bringing readers into a narrative as intimate as slumber parties and ordinary as Trader Joe’s. Bursting with the giddy charm of the everyday, Self-Romancing plays with form, turning a book into a crush, a crank call, a manifesto. “Brilliant,” says CAConrad, “I needed these spells, will keep them close,” says K Iver, “This book pulses with electric sensation and stray-thought beauty,” says Nate Lippens.
Catch L Scully on tour, in a town near you!
Self-Romancing Tour Dates
Friday, September 12th @ 7 PM, Unfurl Tattoo, 56097 29 Palms Highway, Yucca Valley CA, 92284, with special guests Vera Blossom and Brooke Palmieri
Saturday, September 13th @ 3pm, David Horvitz’s 7th Ave Garden, 1911 7th Ave, LA, CA 90018, with Elaine Kahn, Jack Skelley, Ali Liebegott, Clement Goldberg, & Cleo Abramian
Monday, September 15th @ 7PM, Fabulosa Books, 489 Castro St. San Francisco, CA 94114, with Michelle Tea
Saturday, September 20 @ Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W North Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60622, with Riley Yaxley
Friday, September 26 @ Papercuts Bookshop, 60 South Street, Jamaica Plain MA, with K Iver and Zoe Tuck
Saturday, September 27 @ East End Books, 389 Commercial Street, Provincetown MA, with Madison Murray and Zac Smith
Sunday, October 5 @ Faceclock Gallery, 1935 N 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Saturday, October 11 @ Spotty Dog Books, 440 Warren Street, Hudson NY 12534, with La Warman and Mayah Money Lovell
Saturday, October 25 @ Unnameable Books, 66 Avenue A, Turners Falls Western Mass 01376, with CAConrad
Tuesday, November 11 @ as part of “Experiments and Disorders” Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, NYC NY 10002
Saturday, November 22 Riffraff Bookstore, 60 Valley St. No. 107A, Providence RI 02909, with Ambra Brooks