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MONICA FERRELL Tuesday, July 8 // 7:00 pm
reading & booksigning
Monica Ferrell’s exuberant new novel - described as a pyrotechnic debut whose prose recalls Tom Robbins - is The Answer Is Always Yes (hardback, $24.00). By turns a fierce, funny coming-of-age story and a teasing work of literary suspense this just published work traces the precipitous rise and fall of a teenage impresario at the zenith of the recent New York club scene. Will social outcast Magic Matt the Jay Gatsby of his set achieve his ambition to be accepted?
Monica Ferrell’s poems have appeared in the New York Review of Books, Paris Review, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn and is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
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KATIE HAFNER Wednesday, July 9 // 7:00 pm
reading & booksigning
Glenn Gould was one of the most brilliant artists of the twentieth century as well as a musician famous for his many eccentric habits. A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano (hardback, $24.99) tells the story of the Gould’s greatest obsession of all, a Steinway concert grand known as CD 318. Katie Hafner’s fascinating and detailed new book is a must-read for classical music buffs, armchair musicologists, Gould fanatics, and even those rare few who never heard a note Gould played.
Katie Hafner is a correspondent for the New York Times and the author or coauthor of four books, including Where Wizards Stay Up Late, Cyberpunk, The Well, and The House at the Bridge. She lives in the Bay Area.
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Bits
& Pieces :
Booksmith owner, Praveen Madan, was recently interviewed about bookselling, and the future of the book business. Audio link
The Booksmith wins "Best Author Appearances" category from the SF Weekly.
"The events at the independent store, which changed owners last year, are still under the firm hand of coordinator Tom Gladysz, who has organized more than 900 events over the past decade, drawing local authors, touring hotshots, and award winners — along with Daniel Handler in each of his various guises."
The full story is on the SF Weekly website.
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Starting Sunday, July 6th!
Children's Story Hour with Miss Martha and Miss Janine. click here for more details
Booksmith staffer Kiara Brinkman got blogged on Zyzzyva! Read all about it!
The Booksmith was at the 2008 Haight Street Fair
The Booksmith's 2nd Annual Kid's Bookmark Contest begins!
The
winning submissions from our last poetry contest are posted in The
Booksmith Reader.
The
Booksmith is San Francisco's leading independent bookstore. We're
more than just a virtual business - we're a real, full service bookstore
with a knowledgeable, friendly and experienced staff.
Located in San Francisco's historic Haight Ashbury, The Booksmith has
been in business since 1976!
The
Booksmith is a proud
member of the NCIBA,
SFLOMA,
and Booksense!
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Carrie Evans of The Booksmith
staff was on NBC11's Quills TV recently to chat about books.
You can see the video and the books she chose to speak about
here.
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