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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POETS!
Virginia Barrett & Bobby Coleman
+ open mic
Monday, Sept. 17 — 7 p.m. Featured poets plus an open mic 1st & 3rd Monday of each month hosted by Jerry Ferraz. Virginia Barrett is a poet inspired by her surroundings, her writing tied to her eye as a visual artist as well as the sense of spirit she gathers from a place. While…
live jazz at Bird & Beckett…
Happy birthday, Dorothy!
Friday, Sept. 14, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., it’s drummer Jimmy Ryan’s quintet swinging through another bop-drenched session of our weekly “jazz in the bookshop” series… and Sunday, Sept. 16, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., clarinetist/composer David Solbach brings in a trio with Jason Martineau on piano/vocals and Aaron Germain on bass in our weekly “which…
PAWA presents: Birds of a Feather
Sunday, Sept. 23 – 2 p.m. Rabih Alameddine, Laura Goode, Barbara Jane Reyes, hosted by G. Justin Hulog Rabih Alameddine is the author of three novels, The Hakawati, I, the Divine, and Koolaids, as well as The Perv, a book of short stories. He lives in San Francisco and Beirut. Laura Goode is a novelist,…
Litquake @ B&B: RADICALS
Sunday, Oct. 7 – 2 p.m. Elaine Elinson, Hilton Obenzinger, Jonah Raskin, Nina Serrano, Barry Willdorf Elaine Elinson, coauthor of the award-winning Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California, worked with the UFW and reported from the Philippines during the Marcos regime. Hilton Obenzinger reads,…
POETS! Rebecca Farivar & Ben Mirov, plus open mic
Monday, Oct. 1 – 7 p.m. Featured poets plus an open mic 1st & 3rd Monday of each month hosted by Jerry Ferraz. Rebecca Farivar is the author of Correct Animal (Octopus Books, 2011) and chapbook American Lit (Dancing Girl Press, 2011). She holds an MFA in poetry from St. Mary’s College of California and…
8 day forecast
Literature with a chance of pulp fiction coming up, a little stormy political commentary, some gentle philosophical breezes out of the west. Between now and Thursday, we’re selling books. Open 11 a.m. every day, closing at 7 p.m… except when we’re here late for an event… and this week the fun begins on Thursday… Thursday…
Books at Bird & Beckett!
Pity the Billionaire, Thomas Frank’s latest salvo in the struggle to scrape away the scales from the eyes of Americans conned by the rhetoric of wealth and righteousness, arrives in stock Tuesday (paperback, $16). Also in that shipment, Good Girls Revolt by Lynn Povich, about the uprising of women on staff at Newsweek magazine in…
Bird & Beckett Book Club
Thursday, Sept. 6th at 7 pm: The Bird & Beckett Book Club discusses Chad Harbach’s debut novel, The Art of Fielding. Harbach’s novel has been acclaimed for its rich, character-laden narrative, and likened to the best work of John Irving, Michael Chabon, Larry McMurtry and other masters of the contemporary American novel. The Bird &…
Every Day is an Act of Resistance:
The Poetry of Carol Tarlen
Sunday, Sept. 9th at 2 pm: Work by the late poet/activist Tarlen will be read by Jack Hirschman (SF Poet Laureate, 2003-2006) and David Joseph, as well as Nellie Wong, Sarah Menefee, Agneta Falk and Louise Nayer. Carol Tarlen, who passed away in 2004, was a hugely influential and well-loved figure in the progressive literary…
Upcoming Which Way West?
Sundary afternoon concerts
Sunday concerts coming up (4:30 to 6:30 pm): Sept 9Â Â Â Â Sukhawat Ali Khan Ensemble – sufi two vocalists, harmonium, flute, tabla Sept 16Â Â Â Â David Solbach Trio – jazz David Solbach (clarinet), Jason Martineau (piano and vocals), Dan Fabricant (bass) Sept 23Â Â Â Â New Monsters – jazz Dan Plonsey (tenor sax), Steve Adams (alto and soprano saxes),…