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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)
Wednesday, April 24 7:30 PM
OWEN EGERTON / EVERYONE SAYS THAT AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Actor and screenwriter Owen Egerton returns with a darkly hilarious meditation on the last days of life on earth, a meditation in which we follow the adventures of a slacker couple expecting thier first child, a shockingly arrogant television actor seeking redemption, and a prophetic hermit crab on a cross-country quest. As massive underwater volcanoes erupt, turning the oceans into fish soup, and trees burst into flames like giant birthday candles, inter-dimensional time travelers, Jesus clones, and prosthetic limbs also play a role in the events leading to the planet’s demise. And unlike those other books and movies about the apolalypse, this time, the world really does end! Read more: http://www.booksmith.com/event/owen-egerton-everyone-says-end-world
Thursday, April 25 7:30 PM
HELENE WECKER / THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI
An immigrant tale that combines elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology, Helene Wecker’s goregous debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who arrive separately in New York in 1899. The woman is a golem created out of clay in Poland by an aged dabbler in the dark Kabbalistic arts to be the wife of a man who then dies at sea, leaving her unmoored and adrift as the ship comes into New York harbor; the man is a jinni, a being of fire, who is trapped by a Bedouin wizard in a copper flask and released accidentally by a Syrian tinsmith in Lower Manhattan. Read more: http://www.booksmith.com/event/helene-wecker-golem-and-jinni
Monday, May 6 7:30 PM
MICHAEL POLLAN / COOKED: A Natural History of Transformation
Fire, water, air, earth -- our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education.
The Booksmith at 1st Unitarian Universalist Center SF. Tickets required. Read more: www.booksmith.com/event/michael-pollan-cooked-natural-history-transformation
Thursday, October 24 6:30 PM
WOODKID signs copies of The Golden Age
Woodkid is better known as Yoann Lemoine, the critically renowned French musician, director and producer behind acclaimed videos for Lana Del Rey’s Blue Jeans and Born To Die, Drake & Rihanna’sTake Care and Katy Perry‘s Teenage Dream. He has stepped out from behind the camera with the release of his debut album The Golden Age.
Tonight, he plays The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco -- but he'll be at The Booksmith before that gigto sign copies of a special edition of The Golden Age: a gorgeous black canvas production, gilded and embossed, containing the 14-track album and a 132-page book
Read more: http://booksmith.com/event/woodkid-golden-age-signing-only
Friday, November 1 7:00 PMWORD / PLAY: Illustrators versus Authors Showdown!
For November's Word/Play, we're inviting the literary world's arch nemeses to determine once and for all who's better at vaguely book-themed parlor games. That's right: Illustrators versus Authors in a fight to the metaphorical death for arbitrarily awarded points in an epic battle of wit and whimsy.
IN THE WRITERS CORNER: Mac Barnett, Marcus Ewert, & LeUyen PhamIN THE ILLUSTRATORS CORNER: Lisa Brown, Yasmine Surovec, & Christian Robinson
$10, open bar, shenaniganery of the highest brow. Advance tickets available in the store or online at Brown Paper Tickets or 800-838-3006Read more: http://booksmith.com/event/booksmith-bookswap-illustrators-versus-authors-showdown
Monday, November 4 7:30 PMYASMINE SUROVEC / CATS VS. HUMANS: Another Dose of Catnip
Eighty-six million cats share a home with humans who sacrifice their legs as scratching posts, constantly rid their clothes of cat hair, receive dead mice as presents, and forfeit sleeping space to cuddle with their feline friends, among other things. Cat vs Human creator Yasmine Surovec explores these cat antics and more with hilarious, true-to-life detail in her second collection Cat vs Human: Another Dose of Catnip.
Read more: http://booksmith.com/event/yasmine-surovec-cats-vs-humans-another-dose-catnip
Wednesday, November 6 7:00 PMSFSU's 14 Hills' Michael Rubin Award Reading and Celebration
Read more: http://booksmith.com/event/14-hills-michael-rubin-book-award-winner-sarah-heady-niagara-transnational
Wednesday, November 6An Evening with Steely Dan's DONALD FAGEN
in conversation with BEN FONG-TORRES about EMINENT HIPSTERS
Donald Fagen -- musician, songwriter, and co-founder of Steely Dan -- presents an autobiographical portrait that reveals the cultural figures and currents that shaped his artistic sensibility.
7:30 PM at the Swedish American Hall (2174 Market Street, above Cafe du Nord, San Francisco)
Tickets required ($20-$40) available at Brown Paper Tickets online or 800-838-3006Read more: http://booksmith.com/event/fagen
Thursday, November 7 7:30 PMBILL AYERS
PUBLIC ENEMY: Confessions of an American Dissident
In this sequel to Fugitive Days, Ayers charts his life after the Weather Underground, when he becomes the GOP’s flaunted “domestic terrorist,” a “public enemy.”
Read more: http://booksmith.com/event/bill-ayers-public-enemyconfessions-american-dissident
Tuesday, November 12 7:30 PM
WARREN LEHRER
A LIFE IN BOOKS: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley
Artist Warren Lehrer has made an extraordinarily original exploration of one man’s use of books as a means of understanding himself, the people around him, and a half-century of American/global events. It not only celebrates the mysteries and contradictions of the creative process, it grapples with the future of the book as a medium, and the lines that separate truth, myth, and fiction.
Read more: http://booksmith.com/event/warren-lehrer-life-books-rise-and-fall-bleu-mobley
LAUNCH PARTY!Wednesday, November 13 7:30 PM
BEN FONG-TORRES
WILLIN': The Story of Little Feat
Little Feat’s saga is made up of countless stories, and Ben Fong-Torres has collected hours of exclusive interviews with every surviving key player to write WILLIN’, a definitive biography of this rock n’ roll cornerstone.
Read more: http://booksmith.com/event/ben-fong-torres-willin-story-little-feat-launch-party
Thursday, November 14 7:30 PMDANIEL ALARCÓN
AT NIGHT WE WALK IN CIRCLES
The breakout book from a prizewinning young writer: a breathtaking, suspenseful story of one man’s obsessive search to find the truth of another man’s downfall.
Read more: http://booksmith.com/event/daniel-alarcon-night-we-walk-circles
Friday, November 15 8:00 PMLITERARY CLOWN FOOLERY: Bicycles and Burlesque
In November , we'll welcome Chris Carlsson and LisaRuth Elliott, editors of SHIFT HAPPENS! Critical Mass at 20. Performers will take on bicycles, cultural paradigm shifts and the future of San Francisco. $10, tickets in the store or at Brown Paper Tickets online
Tuesday, November 19 7:30 PMREBECCA WALKER
ADE - A Love Story
Known for her brilliant, frank memoirs, Rebecca Walker returns with a poetic, lushly written debut exploring the themes of memory, longing, passion, and loss, Walker gives us the story of two lovers in a volatile world where time and place mean everything.
Read more: http://booksmith.com/event/rebecca-walker-ade-love-story