Talks / Interviews
Events
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SFLives Livestream: Journalist Denise Sullivan in conversation with Dr. Saidah Leatutufu-Burch
Independent reporter Denise Sullivan brings the SF Lives series to Bird & Beckett for a Sunday morning livestream. This month's guest is Dr. Saidah Leatutufu-Burch. We expect a wide-ranging discussion…
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Gil Duran (The Nerd Reich) & Amy Westervelt (Brought to You By)
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesGil Duran, author of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy; and Amy Westervelt, author or Brought to You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned…
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Walker Talks, on Attar of Nishapur – a live stream
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAttar of Nishapur, the 12th century Sufi poet, composed his poetry while working as an herbalist and perfume-maker, making medicines and potions as well as poems, in the city of…
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CANCELLED: Amy O’Hair / “History Walks in Sunnyside”
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. History Walks in Sunnyside, the recent book by Amy O'Hair, is available at Bird & Beckett. Take a walk through history! This compact book brings…
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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,…
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Walker Talks
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAn almost-monthly series of talks by Walker Brents III (9 or 10 talks a year for more than two decades) on various topics in poetry, mythology, folklore, philosophy, etc. Although…
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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…
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Walker Talks
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAn almost-monthly series of talks by Walker Brents III (9 or 10 talks a year for more than two decades) on various topics in poetry, mythology, folklore, philosophy, etc. Although…
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Tate Swindell/Thomas Antonic on Allen Ginsberg/William Burroughs
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThe well-oiled machine that is the road show of two intrepid archive divers, San Francisco's Tate Swindell and Vienna's Thomas Antonic, reaches Tate's home base with a program built around the Allen Ginsberg's 1980 Graz, Austria poetry event with Peter Orlofsky and musician Steven Taylor "America: Give A Shit," a 2026 double lp release on Swindell's Unrequited Records label, and Antonic's forthcoming book, The Three Wives of William Burroughs.
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Walker Talks
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAn almost-monthly series of talks by Walker Brents III (9 or 10 talks a year for more than two decades) on various topics in poetry, mythology, folklore, philosophy, etc. Although…
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Glen Park History Project with Evelyn Rose
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United Statesdetails tba
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