Baseball Poets
Writers Step Up to the Plate! After a tough homestand against the Braves, the Giants have a travel day on Monday, so we’ll use the pause in the schedule for…
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Jazz bookends the weekend The Chuck Peterson Quintet on Friday, 4/22, 5:30 to 8:00 pm Also known as the “230 Jones Street Local 6 Literary Jazz Band,†Chuck’s quintet plays…
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here on the roof of hell… Thursday, April 14th, 7:00 pm Bird & Beckett Political Book Discussion Group This Month’s subject of discussion: All the Devils are Here: The Hidden…
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The pleasures of the page Nothing is really like a book, though only a very few of them are really important as books… still, many would lay down their lives…
Read Moreanachronistic and obsolete
old-time is not a crime talked to a couple of guys at the shop on Sunday, while the Saddle Cats held forth on the stage, zipping along the route felicitously…
Read More52nd Street to the Chisholm Trail
From 52nd Street to the Chisholm Trail FRIDAY (4/8) – 5:30 to 8:00 pm jazz in the bookshop – a neighborhood party every week! This week: The Jimmy Ryan Quartet…
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Hot tamales, and they’re red hot, yes, we got ’em for sale! Well, no we don’t, but we got books! Start thinking about Paris! Brand new Lonely Planet France guide…
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Speaking of Amazon… Must we? unless it be the river… But back here at home, that giant big box store on the internet continues to throw its weight around. On…
Read MoreFriday to Wednesday at Bird & Beckett
Poets Monday night… and, then, the night train to Lisbon…arriving Wednesday… MONDAY (4/4) – 7:00 to 9:00 pm POETS! Hosted by Jerry Ferraz Jason Morris and Patrick James Dunagan…
Read MoreWhat Was Communism?
What Was Communism? We sure as hell ain’t sure… but they’re contemplating the question big time at Kolkata’s Seagull Books. (That’s Calcutta to you!) Specifically, they’re wondering why it’s so…
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