Between Heaven and Here
by Susan Straight
What I’m reading now… an occasional post by the proprietor… Susan Straight has long been on the short list of English-language fiction writers dear to my heart– along with Michael…
Read MoreDavid Solbach Trio
Sunday, September 16 – 4:30-6:30 p.m. “which way west” Sunday afternoon concert series. All ages welcome. Never a cover charge, but your generous donations help us pay the musicians. David…
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Sunday Poets:
Jennifer Arin & Meg Schoerke
Sunday, September 16 – 2 p.m. A special reading by two SFSU English Dept. professors and poets. Jennifer Arin has just published a new collection entitled Ways We Hold, while…
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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…
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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,…
Read MorePAWA 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…
Read MoreLitquake @ 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,…
Read MorePOETS! 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…
Read More8 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…
Read MoreBooks 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…
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