8 day forecast

September 10, 2012

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 11 a.m. every day, closing at 7 p.m… except when we’re here late for an event… and this week the fun begins on Thursday… Thursday…

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Books at Bird & Beckett!

September 9, 2012

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 stock Tuesday (paperback, $16).  Also in that shipment, Good Girls Revolt by Lynn Povich, about the uprising of women on staff at Newsweek magazine in…

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Bird & Beckett Book Club

September 6, 2012

Thursday, Sept. 6th at 7 pm: The Bird & Beckett Book Club discusses Chad Harbach’s debut novel, The Art of Fielding.  Harbach’s novel has been acclaimed for its rich, character-laden narrative, and likened to the best work of John Irving, Michael Chabon, Larry McMurtry and other masters of the contemporary American novel. The Bird &…

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On the literary side…

May 22, 2012

Thursday, May 24 – 7:00 pm The Monthly Eminent Authors’ Birthdays Open Reading a long-standing Bird & Beckett tradition, recurring on the fourth Thursday of each month Have a favorite writer born in May?  Come down to Bird & Beckett this Thursday evening to share aloud a bit of his or her work with fellow…

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Lynn Bonfield – Ventresco/Axelrod/Eggers – Tom Church/Dan Brady

May 20, 2012

Sunday, May 20 – 2:00 pm The Rix Journal: Small-Town Vermont to Gold Rush era San Francisco Historian Lynn Bonfield discusses the document and her work Lynn Bonield, former director of the San Francisco Labor Archives, now divides her time between Glen Park and Peachham, Vermont, where she was first drawn by the story of the Rix…

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