THE BOOKSMITH

1644 Haight Street

San Francisco, California 94117

TELEPHONE:

415.863.8688

800.493.7323 (tollfree in USA)

415.863.2540 (fax)

HOURS:

Monday-Saturday 10am-10pm

Sunday 10am-8pm

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Berkeley Arts & Letters is a project bringing writers and thinkers together with readers for inspiration, provocation, education, and sharing conversations. Produced by Melissa Mytinger and Praveen Madan, we welcome everyone who's interested in civil discourse, curiosity...and the pleasure of words.

News

January, 15, 2009

Bay Area indie bookstores beat the odds

C. W. Nevius of The San Francisco Chronicle interviews Christin and Praveen and weighs in on the future of independent bookstores in the Bay Area

January 9, 2009

In San Francisco, Where Flower Power Still Blooms
New York Times published a travelogue piece about Haight-Ashbury, The Booksmith is mentioned in a paragraph towards the end of the article!

December 19, 2008

Booksmith wins Neighborhood Treasure Award
Haight Ashbury Improvement Association (HAIA), Mayor Gavin Newsom, and San Francisco's Board of Supervisors recognize Booksmith's efforts to build community.

August 2008

Alumni Spotlight
Christin and Praveen are interviewed for the A.T. Kearney Alumni Matters newsletter.

June 20, 2008

The Agony Column
Booksmith owner, Praveen Madan, was recently interviewed by Rick Kleffel.

May 28, 2008

Zyzzyva Speaks
Booksmith staffer (and talented writer) Kiara Brinkman got blogged on Zyzzyva!

May, 2008

SFWeekly.com
The Booksmith wins the "Best Author Appearances" category from the SF Weekly newspaper.

April, 2008

LitMinds blog
Read all about Christin and Praveen's recent trip to London as part of the American delegation of booksellers at the London Book Fair. They spent 8 days learning about British bookselling and meeting booksellers from around the US and UK.

April, 2008

QUILLS TV
Carrie Evans, Booksmith staff-member was on NBC11's Quills TV to talk about books.

December 20, 2007

Holiday Greetings from The Booksmith
A special Holiday message from Christin and Praveen and the staff of The Booksmith.

October 23, 2007

Acquisition of The Booksmith Complete
Literary Entrepreneurs Aim to Create the Independent Bookstore for the 21^st Century

September 26, 2007

Far Out: New Booksmith Owners Add MBA Ideas
Christin and Praveen along with The Booksmith are featured in Shelf Awareness

August 17, 2007

Duo seeks to turn bookstore decline into fiction
Christin and Praveen and The Booksmith featured in the San Francisco Business Times

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Authors, Discussions, and Bookish Events @ The Booksmith

STORYTIME with Lauren O: DANCE!(2 days)
JOHN JODZIO / If You Lived Here You'd Already Be Home, with CHELSEA MARTIN / The Really Funny Thing About Apathy(5 days)
The Rumpus Book Club In-Person Discussion: Tao Lin's Richard Yates(6 days)
WILLIAM GIBSON / Zero History(7 days)
MARKOS (Daily Kos) MOULITSAS / American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right(8 days)
STORYTIME with Lauren O: TERRIBLE(9 days)
MELISSA STEIN / Rough Honey(10 days)
HAIGHT ASHBURY GUIDE & MAP CELEBRATION!(12 days)
MARK HASKELL SMITH / Baked(13 days)
DR. DAVID SMITH / Unchain Your Brain(14 days)
STORYTIME with Lauren O: STRANGE SCHOOL!(16 days)
SKIP HORACK / The Eden Hunter(19 days)
RACHEL SAUNDERS / The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook (Jam Tasting and Jam Talk!)(20 days)
GARIN HOVANNISIAN / Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream(22 days)
STORYTIME with Lauren O: FUNKY FAIRY TALES!(23 days)
DANIEL KEHLMANN / Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes(23 days)
The Rumpus Book Club In-Person Discussion: Lan Samantha Chang's All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost(25 days)
FOUND IN TRANSLATION Book Group / Michal Ajvaz' The Golden Age(26 days)
An Evening with GUILLERMO DEL TORO and THE FALL(26 days)
MONA SIMPSON / My Hollywood(27 days)
FERYAL ALI GAUHAR / No Space for Further Burials(28 days)
TAO LIN / Richard Yates(32 days)
NYT Bits Blogger NICK BILTON / I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works(33 days)
BOOKSMITH BOOKSWAP, LITQUAKE Edition!(35 days)
STEVEN JOHNSON / Where Good Ideas Come From(39 days)
BILL BARICH / Long Way Home: On the Trail of Steinbeck's America(41 days)
DINAW MENGESTU / How to Read the Air(44 days)
ANDREW LAM / East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres(46 days)
MICHAEL KRASNY / Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest(47 days)
JOEL SELVIN, former SF Chron pop music critic / Smartass: The Music Journalism (48 days)
STEPHEN O'CONNOR / Here Comes Another Lesson(49 days)
HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA with LISA BROWN and Vampire Boy's Good Night: Save the Date!(51 days)
The Rumpus Book Club In-Person Discussion: Adam Levin's The Instructions(53 days)
FOUND IN TRANSLATION BOOK GROUP / Alain Mabanckou's Broken Glass(54 days)
KATE BERNHEIMER / My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales(55 days)

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