653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
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Sunday, August 11th:
An Afghan Afternoon
Little Kabul comes to San Francisco! 2:00 pm – “Secrets of Little Kabul: The Inside Scoop on Afghans in America” A panel discussion with journalist Fariba Nawa, memoirist Atta Arghandiwal and poet/fiction writer Nahid Fattahi. 4:30 pm – A concert of music by Afghan-American vocalist Abu Sofyan with tabla accompaniment performing modern and traditional music Fariba…
Thursday, August 8th, 7 pm
The Righteous Mind by Haidt
Bird & Beckett Political Book Group
This week’s subject of discussion is Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. Anyone can come and join the discussion, and take part in choosing future books… Following are some thoughts on the book by one of the regulars in the group, Dwight Smith: The Righteous Mind I…
Wednesday, August 7th, 7:00 pm:
Killing All Your Darlings…
& finding an audience
An evening with writers Seth Harwood and Jim Sidel - the first in a series featuring prose writers with emerging careers, who will read from their work and discuss matters of craft, process and getting one’s work published. Seth Harwood, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, was born in Boston…
Sunday, Aug. 4th, 4:30-6:30 pm:
The Ruth Keady Quartet
which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, August 4th – 4:30-6:30 pm: Vocalist Ruth Keady with Madaline Duran, sax; Keith Saunders, piano; Scott Chapek, bass. Ruth Keady has a powerfully swinging way with jazz standards that’s gained…
Wednesday, July 31, 6:30 pm:
Poets Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Jason Morris, Jackson Meazle
DOUBLE BOOK RELEASE READING Jackson Meazle joins Jason Morris and Sunnylyn Thibodeaux in reading to mark the publication by Bird & Beckett of Morris’ Local News and Thibodeaux’s 88 Haiku for Lorca by Morris’ PUSH Press. Meazle’s Jack of Diamonds and the Queen of Spades was published by Bird & Beckett in 2012. Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is the author…
Sunday, July 28th, 2:00 pm:
Writer Donnelle McGee
Donnelle McGee is the author of Shine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012). He earned his MFA from Goddard College, and is now on faculty at Mission College in Santa Clara, California. Donnelle’s work has appeared in Controlled Burn, Colere, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Home Planet News, Iodine Poetry Journal, Permafrost, River Oak Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review,…
Friday, July 26th, 9 pm:
Lao She’s “Teahouse”
a bilingual reading of excerpts
“Don’t Discuss State Affairs” (a sign mounted on the wall of the Yutai Teahouse — 1898, 1917, 1945) Lao She’s Teahouse is a classic of the Chinese theatre from the late 1950s, an episodic observation over the decades from the turn of the 20th century through the 1940s, set in a milieu where the common preoccupations of the…
Sunday, July 21st, 4:30-6:30 pm
Noel Jewkes / Grant Levin Duo
which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, July 21st – 4:30-6:30 pm:  Noel Jewkes/Grant Levin Duo. Noel Jewkes is an acknowledged master of the jazz saxophone in Northern California, a musician’s musician with decades of top flight…
Friday, July 19th, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The Scott Foster Organ Trio
We’re proud to announce that beginning in July, our “jazz in the bookshop” series will now feature a group led by guitarist Scott Foster on the third Friday of each month. Scott is a founding member of Bird & Beckett’s live jazz tradition, having played guitar on our Friday night dates ever since the series began back in late 2002….
Sunday, July 14th, 4:30 to 6:30 pm
The Grant Levin Trio
 which way west? a weekly concert series at Bird & Beckett every Sunday afternoon, 4:30 to 6:30 there’s no cover charge, but your generous donations at the gigs and to the non-profit “Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project” make it possible for us to pay the musicians!  Pianist Grant Levin has made a name…