Events

Green Apple Books is thrilled to be a stop on James Kaelan's 1900 mile bike tour to promote his new book, We're Getting On. The first edition of the book, published by Flatmancrooked Press, is 100% green, recycled, and post-consumer. But that's not all: the covers are even made of seed paper that, upon burial, germinate and grow into birch trees, allowing the book to offset its own carbon footprint ten times over. Fittingly, We're Getting On is a series of interconnected short stories and novellas which explore youth, dissolution, the impact technology has on the modern world, and what happens when one tries to live completely off the grid.
Don't miss this revolutionary moment in publishing as James Kaelan stops his bicycle in Green Apple's Granny Smith room to read from, discuss, and sign copies of this amazing new work. Call the store today to reserve your copy in advance. 

Join Green Apple Books as we take our Noir on the road, raise a glass
to the history of mystery in San Francisco, and let those rapscallions
from Los Angeles know which collection of tales is the hardest-boiled!

That's right you'ze mugs, on Thursday, July 22nd Green Apple will be hosting a
NoirCitySmackdown, when we welcome the editors of San Francisco Noir 1
and 2 (Peter Maravelis) and Los Angeles Noir 1 and 2 (Denise Hamilton),
along with a couple of very special guests certain to tip the scales in
The City's favor: Eddie Muller (The Czar of Noir) and Cara Black
(bestselling author of the Aimee Leduc Investigation series). This
four person panel will be a unique opportunity for readers of all types
to learn about the genre and determind which city out-Noirs the other.

This FREE event will be held in the oh-so-noir subterranean event space at the Cantina, right next to the Rex Hotel. It's a bar (of course), so leave the kids at home and come help Dashiell Hammett whup-up on Raymond Chandler.

Sportswriter, author, and NPR correspondent Howard Bryant will be joining us in the side room to read from his newest book, Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron. Based on meticulous research and interviews with former teammates, family, two former presidents, and Aaron himself, The Last Hero chronicles
Aaron’s childhood in segregated Alabama, his brief stardom in the Negro
Leagues, his complicated relationship with celebrity, and his historic
rivalry with Willie Mays—all culminating in the defining event of his
life: his shattering of Babe Ruth’s all-time home-run record.
Eloquently written, detailed and penetrating, Bryant's biography is a revelatory
portrait of a complicated, private man who became an
enduring American icon.

Join us for this opportunity to meet the author, hear him read some of his
favorite moments from the biography, and pick up a signed copy of The Last
Hero. See you there.

We're thrilled to be hosting one of our favorite authors, Howard Norman, as he reads from and signs copies of his newest novel, What Is Left The Daughter.

Norman, widely regarded as one of this country’s finest novelists, has returned to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books with this stirring and morally complex story of seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer. Wyatt's account of his life starting with the double suicide of his parents and leading up to the birth of his daughter unfolds in a confession that speaks profoundly of the mysteries of human character in wartime.

Howard Norman is a three-time winner of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a winner of the Lannan Award for fiction. His 1987 novel, The Northern Lights, was nominated for a National Book Award, as was his 1994 novel, The Bird Artist (a long time staple of our Staff Favorites display). We can't wait to welcome Howard to Green Apple, and hope you'll join us to meet and mingle and grab your signed copy of What Is Left the Daughter.