653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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Open to walk-in trade and browsing
Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
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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…
Friday, April 18th – 5:30 to 8:00 pm
Two Tenors: The Scott Foster Ensemble
Every third Friday, guitarist Scott Foster brings in a newly constituted ensemble for the occasion.  This week:  tenor sax players Ken Rosen and Harvey Robb make up the front line, with Scott on guitar and Richard Saunders on bass.  We’ll hear some marvelous players delving deep into the tenor sax tradition that is a cornerstone of…
Sunday, April 13th — 4:30 to 6:30 pm
Jenny Ferris & Friends
Vocalist Jenny Ferris will be joined by reed player Rich Lesnik, pianist Laura Klein, bassist Dean Reilly and drummer Tom Hassett in a program of jazz standards.
Sunday, April 13th — 2:00 pm
PEN Oakland Writers
A reading by six writers, all officers or Board members of PEN Oakland: Â Floyd Salas, Claire Ortalda, Sharon Doubiago, Kirk Lumpkin, Judith Cody and John Curl. About PEN Oakland: PEN Oakland (the “blue collar PEN”) was founded in 1989 to promote emerging multi-cultural literature and to educate about the nature of that work. Â PEN Oakland…
In Oakland: Friday, April 11 at 8 pm
Amerarcana Release Reading No. 2
An East Bay launch party for the new, fifth, issue of our lovely literary magazine, Amerarcana, will take place with readings by contributors Micah Ballard, Steve Dickison, Marina Lazzara, Jackson Meazle and John Sakkis at on Friday, April 11th, 8 pm, at the Public School — 2141 Broadway, near 19th Street BART station. Nick Whittington will host, and…