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Marin Country Mart
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Sat, 31 May, 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (GMT-07:00)
Marin Country Mart
2257 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, United States
LARKSPUR --
Comedy fans and hot dog lovers rejoice!
Join comedian and Emmy-nominated TV writer Jamie Loftus in Larkspur for an afternoon celebration featuring her wonderfully weird debut - .
Enjoy a lively discussion with hot dog bites and beverages followed by an audience Q&A and book signing with photo opportunities.
This is an outdoor event behind Copperfieldβs Books under canopy with beautiful Bay Area views.
This is a free event, registration required due to limited seating.
A NEW YORK TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER!
New paperback edition includes Jamie's road trip map and author illustrations throughout, in addition to a brand-new introduction.
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critiqueβcomedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now.
A Best Book of the Year from NPR and Vulture. Featured in: NPR Weekend Edition β’ Bon AppΓ©tit β’ Oprah Daily β’ Glamour β’ NY Mag β’ Splendid Table β’ The Wall Street Journal β’ Eater β’ Betches β’ USA Today β’ Boston Globe β’ Eater β’ Slate β’ The Next Big Idea Club β’ Buzzfeed and more
βWise and funnyβ βANDY RICHTER β’ βRevealing, funny, sad, horny, and insatiably curiousβ βSARAH MARSHALL β’ βA wild rideβ βROBERT EVANS β’ βDeeply incisive and hilariously honestβ βJACK OβBRIEN β’ βGonzo yet vulnerableβ βGABE DUNN β’ βHot dog Moby-Dickβ βBRANSON REESE β’ βOne of the freshest and most insightful new comedic voices of this decade.β βLINDSAY ELLIS
Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. Theyβre high culture, theyβre low culture, theyβre sports food, theyβre kids' food, theyβre hangover food, and theyβre deeply American, despite having no basis whatsoever in America's Indigenous traditions. You can love them, you can hate them, but you canβt avoid the great American hot dog.
Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs is part investigation into the cultural and culinary significance of hot dogs and part travelogue documenting a cross-country road trip researching them as theyβre served today. From avocado and spice in the West to ass-shattering chili in the East to an entire salad on a slice of meat in Chicago, Loftus, her pets, and her ex eat their way across the country during the strange summer of 2021. Itβs a brief window into the year between waves of a plague that the American government has the resources to temper, but not the interest.
So grab a dog, lay out your picnic blanket, and dig into the delicious and inevitable product of centuries of violence, poverty, and ambition, now rolling around at your local 7-Eleven.
"Raw Dog will leave you nourished." βBuzzFeed
"You will certainly never read a funnier book about taking a hot dog-themed road trip across America." βGlamour
"A journey both silly and profound." βVulture, Best Books of 2023
Author: Jamie Loftus is a comedian, Emmy-nominated TV writer, and podcaster. Sheβs worked as a staff writer on Teenage Euthanasia, Robot Chicken, and Star Trek: Lower Decks, and wrote and starred in her own web series for Comedy Central. She writes and hosts popular limited-run podcastsββMy Year In Mensaβ (2019), βLolita Podcastβ (2020), βAack Castβ (2021), and βGhost Churchβ (2022)βand cohosts, with screenwriter Caitlin Durante, a podcast on the How Stuff Works Network called βthe Bechdel Cast.β She has her baby teeth bronzed and loaded into a slingshot.
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Tickets for JAMIE LOFTUS (Marin) can be booked here.
Ticket type | Ticket price |
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General Admission | Free |
GA + Signed Book (Event Pick Up) | 22 USD |
Signed Book (US Shipping) | 27 USD |
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