Posts Tagged ‘books’
Books for Xmas
Fresh Print Some new books to please the avid reader: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Goldblatt. In this gloriously learned page-turner, both biography and intellectual history, Harvard Shakespearean scholar Greenblatt (Will in the World) turns his attention to the beginning of the Renaissance as the origin of Western culture’s foundation: the…
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Thursday, Nov. 3rd, 7 pm Book Club 1st Thursday of each month all welcome! Falconer, by John Cheever, will be the book discussed this week. Next up: Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom This group has been meeting monthly since long before there was a Bird & Beckett! Formed when our predecessor “Glen Park Books” was first established…
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Two Book Events This Weekend Sunday, October 9th, 1:00 pm Vaganova Today: The Preservation of a Pedagogical Tradition Agrippina Vaganova (1879-1951) is revered as the visionary who first codified the Russian system of classical ballet training. The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, founded on impeccable technique and centuries of tradition, has a reputation for elite…
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Sunday, July 10th, 2:00 pm TEN YEARS THAT SHOOK THE CITY: SAN FRANCISCO, 1968-1978 A reading by editor Chris Carlsson and contributors Pam Peirce, Andrew Lam and Mary Jean Robertson Though the starting and ending dates of this anthology may be mere signposts in a much more extended, impossible to define continuum, the period of…
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Sunday, July 10th, 2:00 pm TEN YEARS THAT SHOOK THE CITY: SAN FRANCISCO, 1968-1978 A reading by editor Chris Carlsson and contributors Pam Peirce, Andrew Lam and Mary Jean Robertson Appropriate that ten days following our reading with poet Neeli Cherkovski, we present a conclave of contributors to this newly published anthology of essays on…
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Thursday, June 23, 7:00 pm Eminent Authors’ Birthdays Open Reading A monthly conclave of literature devotees Each month, we gather to read aloud from the works of authors we admire– or suspect we might admire. The organizing conceit is that the author should be born in the month at hand… June in this case… Check…
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