Poets Junior Clemens
and Meredith Stricker
read their work
Sunday, November 4th – 2:00 pm Poets Junior Clemens & Meredith Stricker read from recently published works. Junior Clemons received his MFA in Creative Writing at the California College of…
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Spotlight on the legendary
baritone sax player Pepper Adams!
Sunday, Oct. 28th Pepper’s music played live 4:30-6:30 p.m., preceded at 3:00 p.m. by a talk by discographer, biographer and jazz fan Gary Carner. Gary Carner has recently completed and…
Read MoreNLCS Game 7! Closing early!
Ryan Vogelsong!No kidding! This is big! Better get to the bookshop before 4:30, ’cause by then you’ll find that closed sign flapping in the breeze. We’ll be back — elated,…
Read MoreRagtime Skedaddlers
Sunday, October 21st – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? weekly concert series. No cover charge, but your kind donations helps us pay the musicians and make the propagation of…
Read MoreBooks getting too expensive?
Look at it this way… A new book published by Random House, Yale University Press or Penguin — or any real publisher — has a set retail price that’s the…
Read MoreThe Oy Way!
Sunday, October 21st – 2:00 p.m. Follow the Path of Most Resistance! Cogitator, philosopher & humorist Harvey Gottliffe imparts the technique and wisdom — and the beneficial health effects – of “The Oy Way”.…
Read MoreHouse of the Unexpected — poet Julie Rogers, together with David Meltzer
Sunday, October 14 – 2 p.m. A dual reading to celebrate the release of Rogers’ book, House of the Unexpected: Selected Poems, 1981-2012, from Wild Ocean Press. Julie Rogers began…
Read MoreMessin’ with Mezz
Sunday, October 14 – 4:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series Gerry Fialka & jazzbos reinvent the seminal music book Really The Blues by Mezz Mezzrow (Louis Armstrong’s herbalist)…
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POETS!
Christopher Bernard & Philip Fried
open mic follows
Monday, October 15th at 7 p.m. POETS! 1st & 3rd Monday of Every Month Featured poets plus an open mic hosted by B&B’s resident troubadour, Jerry Ferraz. Philip Fried has…
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Beat icon ruth weiss
with David Brinks & Megan Burns
poets!
Tuesday, October 16th at 7 p.m. A reading by the trailblazing beat icon and a key New Orleans poet/publisher couple. ruth weiss is returning from Europe, where she participated in…
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