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All About San Francisco’s Stairways: No Walking Required! w/ Mary Burk & Alexandra Kenin
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesTake a comfy seat and celebrate the grand finale of SF Stairway Month hearing authors Mary Burk (Stairway Walks in San Francisco) and Alexandra Kenin (Urban Trails series, San Francisco, East Bay, Peninsula and South Bay). And sharpen your wits: We will have special SF stairway trivia game designed by moderator Liz Novoa (aka Instagram’s…
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Danny Rosen & J Grabowski w/ Starry Skemes: A Two-Way Book Party & Concert
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesTwo-Way Mirror books celebrates the release of its latest books: Danny Rosen's A Love Poem Called War and J Grabowski's POMPEI: or The Notes Are In The World, with music by J Lee's Starry Skemes. Publisher Marina Lazzara hosts. Each morning Danny Rosen pees on the bank of the largest unnamed tributary to the East…
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Tom Molanphy – Marie’s Tree: Implosions and Injustice in San Francisco
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesLocal journalist Tom Molanphy will discuss his new book, Marie's Tree: Implosions and Injustice in San Francisco, with the three people who played crucial roles in this biography of Bayview Hunters Point environmental activist Marie Harrison (1948-2019.) Arieann Harrison, her daughter who carries on her mother's fight through the Marie Harrison Community Foundation; Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai,…
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Esmail Rahimian – “I Was There Before: Stories Without Names”
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThey said it didn't happen. But someone remembers. Esmail Rahimian's book is a gripping work of literary fiction that draws you into the moments where everything begins to break, and nothing ever returns the same. A girl steps into the streets and does not come back. A mother listens through the night as the sky becomes…
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