Direct from the traditional home kitchens of Bali, Paon is a cookbook of true Balinese food and recipes.
All Day Festivities Include
Masks Required for Attendance
Independent Bookstore Day is Saturday, April 24!
Join us both online and in-store to help us celebrate Independent Bookstore Day 2020!
This event will take place at our Clement St. store. 
Introduction to Zen Training is a translation of the Sanzen Nyumon, a foundational text for beginning meditation students by Omori Sogen--one of the foremost Zen teachers of the twentieth century.
This event will take place at our Clement St. store. 
Jim Schein joins us to discuss his book, Gold Mountain, Big City: Ken Cathcart's 1947 Illustrated Map of San Francisco's Chinatown.
About the Book
The unique character of San Francisco’s Chinatown is revealed in a historical map and fascinating photographs
This colorful and celebratory time capsule of San Francisco’s Chinatown—the largest Chinese community outside of Asia—shares the stories of the unique businesses, culture, and people encountered by map illustrator Ken Cathcart between 1939 and
Robert Steven Goldstein joins us to discuss his novel, Enemy Queen.
About Enemy Queen
When Stanley Berman, a Jewish New York attorney, is appointed Chief Counsel at a North Carolina University, he opts to share a house with his good friend, Thomas McClellan, a professor in the school's English Department. The men spend their evenings drinking wine, playing chess, and lamenting their ineptitude with women.
This event will take place at our Clement St. location.
Lynne Barnes was born in Georgia and moved to New York City in 1968 with a front row ticket to Hair, before migrating to San Francisco in 1969, two years after the Summer of Love. She has worked as a nurse on psych emergency units and oncology wards, and as a librarian in San Francisco's Public Libraries. She was part of a commune that thrived for twenty years in the Haight Ashbury.
Unique and commonplace, wise and funny, wild and cultivated, the poems in LENS, by Grace Marie Grafton, invite readers to explore with her the faces, places, history and mythic imagination of artists of California from 1853-2010.
I have long admired Kathleen McClung's sonnet crowns. How happy I was, then, to be surprised by her skill with the sestina, one that she writes with a traditionalist's sense of meter and a contemporary poet's sense of the conversational. I was also delighted by her boldness in including several sestinas in her volume, along with her crowns.
Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 7:00pm
