Thu., June 29, 7 p.m., free, Borders, 1 S. Broad St., 215-568-7400

Now that Chuck Klosterman has left his job as senior writer at the tabloid-fied Spin, he has time to travel in support of more literary meanderings—namely the paperback version of Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story. The plot? He traipsed all over the nation and visited the sites where rock stars bit the big one.

While Klosterman says the tour is going well—mainly because his publisher sprang for nice hotels—there is one major downside to being a road warrior of the authorial variety: no groupies. At least not ones that are willing to be pleasured by a sand shark, or other stuff of rock legend.

"I don't think literature caters to nymphomania," says Klosterman. "People either want to get drunk with me or get high with me [and] ask me questions about the second Velvet Underground album—that's my type of groupies."

If you miss the signing and VU note trading this go-round, Klosterman will head out again in November in support of his fourth book, Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas. Yeah, just like the Led Zeppelin album.

Or the Foreigner record, depending on how much your taste in music sucks.