birdbeckett

We’re now open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday. We can fill your requests for specific titles and help you find the books you don’t know you need. Upon request, we can admit you to the shop to browse. Walk down, take a bus or find a parking space — and visit our…

5/5 update: Slow down, people! Just kidding, but really, the onslaught of orders is hard to handle. We’re in it for the long haul, so we need to slow it down. Twenty years and counting now… When the City announces that you can come to — though not into — the shop, we’ll ask you…

The New York Times, June 6, 1970   10 Foes of Draft Guilty in Chicago: Convicted of Burning Files — 3 Absent from Court On May 25, 1969, Linda Quint, now Emily L. Quint Freeman, with a number of others, broke into the South Side Chicago draft board office. dragging 40,000 files of draft-eligible young men…

Join us online at Bird & Beckett this afternoon, Sunday, May 17 at 2pm  for a reading by the proprietor’s eldest son’s childhood baseball coach Greg Harmon now a distinguished and acclaimed writer for youngsters and author of The Tar Pits Cantos a poetic reimagining of a long gone world swallowed up in the glorious…

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Darren Johnston, trumpet aka (also known endearingly as) the peace cannon Matt Renzi, tenor sax, clarinet, English horn Adam Shulman, piano Eric Vogler, bass Jon Arkin, drums On the eve of a live recording session to take place the next day at the Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley, Bye…