653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
[email protected]
Open to walk-in trade and browsing
Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
Live Streams every weekend!
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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!
Sunday, May 4th — 4:30-6:30 pm
The Jon Frank Jazz Quintet
which way west? Sunday concerts
Two Franks — drummer Jon and trumpeter Noah — bookend a group that includes guitarist Jordan Samuels, pianist Dave Gibbons and bassist Rob Woodcock this Sunday for our “which way west?” concert. This Sunday, nestled into two sets of standards, modern jazz masterpieces and new compositions, the quintet will treat us to a sequence…
California Bookstore Day!
Saturday, 11am-7pm at Bird & Beckett…
Riding the backdraft of that big ol’ semi known as California Bookstore Day, Bird & Beckett will be proudly displaying (and selling) some eyepopping examples of what some particularly lovely publishers have to offer. Â There will be cookies & juice & discounts too! Â Do drop in!
Friday, June 6th, 5:30-8:00 pm
Don Prell’s SeaBop Ensemble
plays jazz in the bookshop
On the first Friday of each month, our weekly jazz in the bookshop series features Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble. Bassist Prell is a veteran of the 1950s LA-based Bud Shank Quartet and 30 years with the San Francisco Symphony. He’s a fiercely avid jazz player, willing to play anywhere and any time and has been…
Sunday, April 27 — 2:30 pm
Walker Brents III perambulates
through the Bhagavad Gita
Each month, Walker Brents III spins a tale investigating the work of a poet, a philosopher, perhaps a bit of mythology or a vast national epic — or some other subject that holds a fascination for the incurably curious among us. Today, as the annual frolic known as the Glen Park Festival unfolds just down…
Sunday, April 27 – 4:30-6:30 pm
A Harry Nilsson Celebration
Nilsson Schmilsson! Wrap up your Glen Park Festival outing with this romp deep into the catalog of famed-among-many-of-us American pop songwriter Harry Nilsson. Â The addled brainchild, or rather the rational brainchild of delightfully addled improvisors Christopher Gray, Joshua Raoul Brody and their stalwart cohorts, this event is the reprise & elaboration of a memorable evening…
Glen Park Festival This Sunday!!
10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Plenty of fun in the sun this Sunday at the corner of Chenery & Diamond in the heart of Glen Park… come up the block to the bookshop when you need a break from the festivities, & browse awhile… Keep in mind we’ve got a talk at 2:30 on the Bhagavad Gita and, at 4:30,…
Thursday, April 24th, 7pm: Ryan Gallagher & Sunnylyn Thibodeaux – Double Bootstrap Book Release
Bootstrap Productions has just published new books by poets Ryan Gallagher (Red Book of Blues) & Sunnylyn Thibodeaux (As Water Sounds), and will be celebrating their release with a reading by the poets, hosted by Derek Fenner (co-publisher w/ Gallagher), Thursday, April 24th, at 7:00 pm. Ryan Gallagher is the author of Red Book of…
Wednesday, April 23rd at 7:30 pm
Designing with the Mind in Mind
book event with
GUI wizard Jeff Johnson
Jeff Johnson, Ph.D., founder of UI Wizards, Inc., explores the psychology underlying the rules that make graphical user interfaces work. Early user interface (UI) practitioners were trained in cognitive psychology, from which UI design rules were derived. But as the field evolves, designers enter the field from many disciplines. Practitioners today have enough experience in UI…
Monday, April 21 — 7:00 pm
POETS! hosted by Jerry Ferraz
Featured readers: Ronald Sauer
& Michael Koch — open mic follows
Ronald Sauer is a poet, translator and raconteur steeped in the work of Baudelaire, Aloysius Bertrand, Voltaire, Jacques Prevert, Jacques Roumain, the surrealists, and more. Â A little background on Michael Koch will follow. Jerry Ferraz hosts featured poets and an open mic at Bird & Beckett on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month.
Saturday, April 19th — 7:00 pm
Writer Daisy Rockwell: Taste
Daniel is a twenty-first century connoisseur with distinctive and often anachronistic tastes-aesthetic, culinary, and even mind-altering. When Daniel sets out to seek answers about his past in long-sealed documents, he makes a startling discovery that leads him on a cross-country quest. In the course of his travels, he becomes preoccupied with Antoinette, an enigmatic archivist…