Clement St: Michelle Brittan Rosado
This event will be held at our Clement St. location.
Charting a journey through schoolyards and laundromats, suburban gardens and rice paddies, yoga studios and rural highways, Michelle Brittan Rosado crafts poems that blend elegy and praise. In settings from California to Malaysian Borneo, and the wide Pacific between them, she explores themes of coming-of-age, mixed-race identity, diaspora, and cultural inheritance.
Clement St: Eleanor Burke on Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods
This event will be held at our Clement St. location.
Eleanor Burke, author of A Walker's Sketchbook of San Francisco, discusses her new book Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods.
About Walking Manhattan's Neighborhoods
Clement: Keith Spencer
This event will be held at our Clement St. location.
Keith Spencer discusses his new book A People's History of Silicon Valley.
About A People's History of Silicon Valley
Literary Nonfiction. A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF SILICON VALLEY follows the history of the people exploited, displaced, and made obsolete by the tech industry, from the colonization of the Bay Area to the present day.
Clement: Shepherd Siegel
This event will be held at our Clement St. location.
Shepherd Siegel discusses their new book, Disruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics and Culture.
About Disruptive Play
Disruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics and Culture journeys from ancient folkloric appearances of Tricksters such as Raven and Èṣù-Elegba, to their confined role in Western civilization, and then on to Trickster's 20th century jailbreak as led by dada and the hippies.
Clement: Peter Field
This event will be held at our Clement St. location.
Peter Field discusses his new book, The Tenderloin District of San Francisco Through Time.
About The Tenderloin District of San Francisco Through Time
The Tenderloin District of San Francisco Through Time is a brief history of a neighborhood known to early San Franciscans as St. Ann's Valley.
Clement 51st Anniversary
We're 51 years old, and we hope you'll come celebrate with us on October 13-14!
Also, we're seekin
g new customers, and offering a reward!
Bring us a new customer--a booklover who has never been to Green Apple--and we'll give them a $15 gift card and give YOU a tote bag. (fine print below)
Clement: Sarah Stone
This event will be held at our Clement St. location.
Sarah Stone discusses her new novel, Hungry Ghost Theater.
Praise for Hungry Ghost Theater
An inventive, funny, sometimes heart-breaking exploration of the connections between art and hunger, duty and desire, and loss and survival. Brother and sister Robert and Julia Zamarin are trying to awaken the world to its peril with their tiny political theater company, while their sister Eva, a neuroscientist, searches for the biological roots of empathy.
Clement: Sally McGrane
This event will be held at our Clement St. location.
Sally McGrane discusses her new novel, Moscow at Midnight.
Praise for Moscow at Midnight
Downsized by the CIA, Max Rushmore is re-hired by a private contractor—operating on a tightened budget in a world of ratcheting tensions—to return to Moscow and investigate the death of a beautiful nuclear waste disposal expert.
Clement: Russell Johnson
This event will be held at our Clement St. location.
Russell Johnson discusses his new book Tales of the Radio Traveler.
About Tales of the Radio Traveler
Russell Johnson tunes into the wavelengths of the world as he blends radio lore, science, and wry, sometimes irreverent humor in his travel adventures in 18 countries. As a child growing up in Midwestern America, radio was his window on the world and the universe.
Clement: Susannah Carlson and Peter Bradbury, editors of Sanctuary
This event will be held at our Clement St. location.
Editors Susannah Carlson and Peter Bradbury discuss Sanctuary: A Collection of Poetry and Prose.
When we started this project eight months ago, we had no way of knowing how bad things would get or how timely the final product would be. The idea of sanctuary has become a flashpoint. Empathy and kindness seem, on the surface, to have taken a backseat to hatred, nationalism, and fear. Yet, while some spew hatred, still more speak out on behalf of kindness.
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