PAWA presents: Birds of a Feather

Sunday, Sept. 23 – 2 p.m. Rabih Alameddine, Laura Goode, Barbara Jane Reyes, hosted by G. Justin Hulog Rabih Alameddine is the author of three novels, The Hakawati, I, the Divine, and Koolaids, as well as The Perv, a book of short stories. He lives in San Francisco and Beirut. Laura Goode is a novelist,…

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Litquake @ B&B: RADICALS

Sunday, Oct. 7 – 2 p.m. Elaine Elinson, Hilton Obenzinger, Jonah Raskin, Nina Serrano, Barry Willdorf Elaine Elinson, coauthor of the award-winning Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California, worked with the UFW and reported from the Philippines during the Marcos regime. Hilton Obenzinger reads,…

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POETS! Rebecca Farivar & Ben Mirov, plus open mic

Monday, Oct. 1 – 7 p.m. Featured poets plus an open mic 1st & 3rd Monday of each month hosted by Jerry Ferraz. Rebecca Farivar is the author of Correct Animal (Octopus Books, 2011) and chapbook American Lit (Dancing Girl Press, 2011). She holds an MFA in poetry from St. Mary’s College of California and…

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8 day forecast

Literature with a chance of pulp fiction coming up, a little stormy political commentary, some gentle philosophical breezes out of the west.  Between now and Thursday, we’re selling books.  Open 11 a.m. every day, closing at 7 p.m… except when we’re here late for an event… and this week the fun begins on Thursday… Thursday…

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Books at Bird & Beckett!

Pity the Billionaire, Thomas Frank’s latest salvo in the struggle to scrape away the scales from the eyes of Americans conned by the rhetoric of wealth and righteousness, arrives in stock Tuesday (paperback, $16).  Also in that shipment, Good Girls Revolt by Lynn Povich, about the uprising of women on staff at Newsweek magazine in…

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Bird & Beckett Book Club

Thursday, Sept. 6th at 7 pm: The Bird & Beckett Book Club discusses Chad Harbach’s debut novel, The Art of Fielding.  Harbach’s novel has been acclaimed for its rich, character-laden narrative, and likened to the best work of John Irving, Michael Chabon, Larry McMurtry and other masters of the contemporary American novel. The Bird &…

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