Archive for September 2012
New Monsters
Jazz live in the store
Sunday, September 23rd – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series. no cover – but your donations are crucial to help us pay the musicians. What to make of this booking? Bird & Beckett invites you to come down to the shop and find out this Sunday. Call it jazz, but bargain…
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Between Heaven and Here
by Susan Straight
What I’m reading now… an occasional post by the proprietor… Susan Straight has long been on the short list of English-language fiction writers dear to my heart– along with Michael Ondaatje, Jayne Anne Phillips, Breece D’J Pancake, Denis Johnson– admittedly, the writers I stumbled on back in the 1980s and ’90s, mostly from browsing the…
Read MoreDavid Solbach Trio
Sunday, September 16 – 4:30-6:30 p.m. “which way west” Sunday afternoon concert series. All ages welcome. Never a cover charge, but your generous donations help us pay the musicians. David Solbach, jazz clarinet player & composer, brings in two of the musicians with whom he recorded his recent CD of original tunes, “Dinosaur Dreams” —…
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Sunday Poets:
Jennifer Arin & Meg Schoerke
Sunday, September 16 – 2 p.m. A special reading by two SFSU English Dept. professors and poets. Jennifer Arin has just published a new collection entitled Ways We Hold, while Meg Schoerke has won wide acclaim for her book, Anatomical Venus. Arin brings an awareness of time’s ineluctable passage and poetry’s power to stop it,…
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POETS!
Virginia Barrett & Bobby Coleman
+ open mic
Monday, Sept. 17 — 7 p.m. Featured poets plus an open mic 1st & 3rd Monday of each month hosted by Jerry Ferraz. Virginia Barrett is a poet inspired by her surroundings, her writing tied to her eye as a visual artist as well as the sense of spirit she gathers from a place. While…
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live jazz at Bird & Beckett…
Happy birthday, Dorothy!
Friday, Sept. 14, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., it’s drummer Jimmy Ryan’s quintet swinging through another bop-drenched session of our weekly “jazz in the bookshop” series… and Sunday, Sept. 16, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., clarinetist/composer David Solbach brings in a trio with Jason Martineau on piano/vocals and Aaron Germain on bass in our weekly “which…
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