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Friends,
below are some great events coming up at the Book Smith at 1644 Haight St. between Clayton & Cole (863-8688)
GILES MILTON
talk & booksigning for Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922
Wednesday, October 1 at 7:30 pmFollowing WWI, Smyrna was a prosperous, cosmopolitan port on Turkey's Aegean coast where Greeks, Turks, Armenians, Jews and others lived in harmony. Then, the unthinkable happened. Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922 is historian Giles Milton's searingly vivid account of the city's destruction a nearly forgotten war in which a great modern city burned for four days, 100,000 people were killed, and millions more left homeless.
Giles Milton is a journalist, historian and best-selling author of five previous works of nonfiction including White Gold, The Riddle and the Knight, Big Chief Elizabeth, and Nathaniel's Nutmeg. He lives in London.
PAMELA DES BARRES
talk & booksigning for Take Another Little Piece of My Heart
Thursday, October 2 at 7:30 pmIn I'm with the Band, Pamela Des Barres chronicled her lustful liaisons with such rock legends as Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page and Keith Moon. Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up is it's candid sequel. Updated to include escapades covering the last 16 years, this rollicking and sometimes heartbreaking follow-up documents Des Barres' struggles with marriage and motherhood and encounters with the likes of Bob Dylan and Sylvester Stallone. Please welcome Pamela back to the Booksmith!
Pamela Des Barres has been described as "Queen of the groupies." As a member of Frank Zappa's performance art / groupie-group The GTO's, Des Barres and her flamboyant sisters released the 1969 cult-classic album, Permanent Damage. Today, she is an Internet columnist, television personality, and the author of a handful of books. And yes, she still loves music of all kinds.
NEIL GAIMAN
reading for The Graveyard Book
Sunday, October 5 at 3:00 pmPlease join us for what promises to be the author event of the season as The Booksmith hosts bestselling author NEIL GAIMAN for a reading and talk to celebrate the release of his brand NEW BOOK for younger readers, "The Graveyard Book." And, as an added bonus at our event, we have been promised a screening of the trailer to "Coraline" - the forthcoming animated film based on Gaiman's earlier book for teens. You won't want to miss this exclusive San Francisco event!
"The Graveyard Book" is Neil Gaiman's first full-length novel for young adults since the universally acclaimed "Coraline." And like "Coraline," this book is sure to enchant and surprise. "The Graveyard Book" tells the story of an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, this special boy learns the antiquated customs of his guardians, as well as their timely ghostly teachings - like the ability to fade!
This special event - one of only a few around the country - will take place at the Sundance Kabuki Theater (1881 Post Street) in San Francisco. Tickets are on sale at The Booksmith. Further information follows:
Neil Gaiman - reading and talk
Sunday, October 5th
3:00 pm - 4:45 pm (doors open at 2:15 pm)
Sundance Kabuki Theatre (1881 Post Street at Fillmore, in San Francisco)Ticket price includes admission to the event and a signed 1st edition copy of "The Graveyard Book,"). Tickets are available only at The Booksmith, in person, or by phone at 415-863-8688 or 800-493-7323.
* Due to time constraints, Neil Gaiman will not be signing at the event.
* The event starts promptly at 3 pm.
*Additional signed copies of "The Graveyard Book," as well as signed copies of a limited number of his earlier titles will be on sale at the event.
*Japantown has two parking lots; One on Fillmore @ Post, the other is on Post @ Webster. Free secure bicycle parking in both lots. Some of the Japantown businesses will validate parking: Validated parking is $2.75 for the first 3 hours.
*Several MUNI lines serve the theater, including the 3 Jackson, 22 Fillmore and 38 Geary.
If you cannot attend the event and want a signed book, please email us at read@booksmith.com (sorry, we can't handle ticket sales via email) or phone us at 415-863-8688 or 800-493-7323. For additional details, please see
www.booksmith.com/gaiman.html
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?TheBooksmith/9d1a8c180c/ac4f52cc97/dc5862100a]Neil Gaiman is the author of the New York Times bestselling children's book "Coraline" and of the picture books "The Wolves in the Walls" and " The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish". He wrote the script for the film "MirrorMask," "Beowulf," and "Stardust" (based on his own novel), and is also the author of critically acclaimed and award-winning novels and short stories for adults (including "Neverwhere" and "American Gods"), as well as the Sandman series of graphic novels. Among his many awards are the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Bram Stoker Award. Originally from England, Gaiman now lives in the United States. This event marks his third appearance at The Booksmith.
Fans of Neil Gaiman won't want to miss our October 20th event with the widely acclaimed author, Jonathan Carroll. Neil Gaiman has written: " Jonathan Carroll has the magic. He'll lend you his eyes, and you'll never see the world in quite the same way ever again." Join us at The Bookmsith on October 20 at 7:30 pm as Carroll reads from his new novel, "The Ghost in Love."
Stephen King has said that "Jonathan Carroll is as scary as Hitchcock, when he isn't being as funny as Jim Carrey." Jonathan Lethem sees Carroll as the "master of sunlit surrealism." However one regards this beguiling original, two facts are indisputable: It's tough being a ghost on an empty stomach. And "The Ghost in Love" is a triumph.
KINKY FRIEDMAN
reading & booksigning for What Would Kinky Do?
Monday, October 6 at 8:00 pmHailed as the "Frank Zappa of country music," Kinky Friedman's larger-than-life persona is impossible to categorize. Friedman has been a best-selling crime fiction author, an entrepreneur and an independent 2006 gubernatorial candidate in Texas "" where he polled good numbers with the campaign slogan, "Kinky Friedman for Governor: How Hard Can It Be?" Get ready to laugh as Friedman plays his uniquely Kinky songs and dishes about politics. Reserve early "" this event will sell out!
WILL DURST
talk & booksigning for The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing
Tuesday, October 7 at 7:30 pmWith the sacred cows of American politics practically begging for someone to puncture their pomposity, Will Durst hits them in the funniest places. In The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing, this equal-opportunity offender swats both parties' political piatas. Claiming to represent only those 60 percent of Americans in the middle, Durst attacks the fringe for its lack of common sense and semantic corruption. The result is side-splittingly funny.
Will Durst is a five-time Emmy nominee. He has also co-hosted a morning radio show with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, and recently completed a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run of "The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing."? He has been fired by both PBS and the San Francisco Examiner, and has written for the New York Times, Esquire, San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.