Books
Ten Years That Shook the City
Sunday, July 10th, 2:00 pm TEN YEARS THAT SHOOK THE CITY: SAN FRANCISCO, 1968-1978 A reading by editor Chris Carlsson and contributors Pam Peirce, Andrew Lam and Mary Jean Robertson Though the starting and ending dates of this anthology may be mere signposts in a much more extended, impossible to define continuum, the period of…
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Sunday, July 10th, 2:00 pm TEN YEARS THAT SHOOK THE CITY: SAN FRANCISCO, 1968-1978 A reading by editor Chris Carlsson and contributors Pam Peirce, Andrew Lam and Mary Jean Robertson Appropriate that ten days following our reading with poet Neeli Cherkovski, we present a conclave of contributors to this newly published anthology of essays on…
Read Moreruth weiss
an original beat… ruth weiss w/trio at bird & beckett friday night may 6th at 8:30 pm poetry and jazz… a book release celebration! can’t stop the beat: the life and words of a beat poet ruth weiss was born in germany as the nazis came to power; her family fled to austria in 1933. …
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Jazz bookends the weekend The Chuck Peterson Quintet on Friday, 4/22, 5:30 to 8:00 pm Also known as the “230 Jones Street Local 6 Literary Jazz Band,†Chuck’s quintet plays a whole lot of beautiful straight-ahead jazz, in a classic West Coast mode. Dorothy Lefkovits joins the band for a few tunes on every set……
Read MoreLiving to spite the devil
here on the roof of hell… Thursday, April 14th, 7:00 pm Bird & Beckett Political Book Discussion Group This Month’s subject of discussion: All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis Have a yen to hash out the cynical and self-serving machinations of the powerful? C’mon down! In its monthly meeting,…
Read MoreBooks for sale
The pleasures of the page Nothing is really like a book, though only a very few of them are really important as books… still, many would lay down their lives if it would save the book from obliteration, for many fine and very important personal reasons. Fortunately, it will never come to that. So let’s…
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