A16 cookbook!
Each month, I review a cooking or food-related book for Tablehopper, a lively weekly email column about all things food and drink in San Francisco. This month's is from the talented people at the local Italian restaurant A16. Read the blurb here.
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We gave 3,900 kids some credit
To celebrate our 40th anniversary, Green Apple donated a $10 store credit to every 3rd grader in San Francisco's public schools. You, our customers, were very generous with your cash and trade donations. While the program just ended, we just received a very generous donation from the folks at the Fraenkel Gallery. We hereby thank them and every one of you customers who helped support this effort to introduce the joys of reading to the next generation of San Franciscans. |
Litquake
Litquake,
the San Francisco Literary Festival that's now the region's largest
literary event of the year, will rumble throughout the Bay Area this
October 3-11.
More than 10,000 are expected to attend readings and performances by
some of the biggest local and national literary stars, including Dave
Eggers, Daniel "Lemony Snicket" Handler, Ann Packer, Curtis Sittenfeld,
Dennis Lehane, Neil Gaiman, U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, Raj Patel,
Beth Lisick, and actress and poet Amber Tamblyn.
Events include a tribute to Tobias Wolff, winner of this year's Litquake Barbary Coast Award for lifetime achievement.
Litquake will also spotlight emerging writers at its Barely Published
showcase. And for the first time there will be an outdoor "speakers'
corner" open mic during the festival's famous Lit Crawl, a lively
evening of readings and pub crawls through the city's Mission district.
During the weeklong festival more than 350 authors will appear at
dozens of different venues scattered throughout San Francisco and as
far away as Palo Alto.
This is the ninth year for Litquake, a festival run by volunteers, with
generous support from donors, education and arts organizations,
authors, booksellers, publishers and the literary community.
For the complete festival schedule, go HERE.
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Please call us if we can help you with anything, and help spread the word about Green Apple by forwarding this to any friends who may enjoy it. Thanks again for reading.
415-387-2272 |
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Greetings!
With kids back in school and the European tourists thinning out, summer's over, right? Well it sure feels like summer in the Richmond. At last,  a few fog-free days of sundresses, shorts, and an appreciation for the lack of windows in our store (a few customers have noted the efficiency of our "air conditioner"). The store is transitioning, too, as we shift things around a bit to make room for calendars (our unparalleled selection of over 1,000 designs will be out mid-month). But mostly, it's business as usual, and here's what we're pitching herein today: newly published books, our September Book of the Month, the city-wide book club (One City, One Book), an Irvine Welsh event, freshly arrived remainders, a brief review of a hot (and local) new cookbook, and an update on our Give a Kid Some Credit program. Oh, and the full line-up for Litquake, the city's lively celebration of the written word, has just been announced for early October, so clear your calendar. If you need a book to bring to the beach while playing hooky, or need used copies of assigned reading for school, or if you just want to get away from your computer or house, we hope to see you soon. Thanks for reading. |
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September's Book of the Month!
On an almost monthly basis, we present to you a brand-new book that we're excited about. Really excited about: we guarantee it 100% or your money back. Here's our eighth of 2008, Kevin H. explains: "In Alive in Necropolis, first-time novelist Doug Dorst
thwarts convention by turning our notions of ghostly yarns and police
procedurals on their respective ears by weaving both into, of all
things, a quirky love story. This tale, reminiscent of Christopher
Moore or the movie Office Space, is set with dazzling clarity within our own 7x7
miles, but mostly just south of here along the 101, in The City's
storage locker of the dead, Colma. "Ah, Colma . . . not quite as epic as San Bruno, to be sure,
but at least they have their own police force. And when a big-wig film
director's son turns up face-down in a vandalized crypt, rookie cop
Michael Mercer takes on the ghosts of California's past, the
gutter-punks of today, and South City traffic in his efforts to spin
logic from this web of life and death in the 'burbs. "Spooky and funny, hard-boiled yet tender, Alice in
Necropolis shows us our world through not only the eyes of those who
'protect and serve', but also through the wraith like perspective of
those who have seen it all before, are are doomed to see it all again
and again and again." --Kevin H. Click here to buy the book or pick it up on your next visit. |
New Book Releases!
Each month, we receive about 1,000 newly published books. And we have to pick just ten or so to tempt you with? I have to admit, it's one of the fun parts of working in a bookstore. . . . Here's this month's attempt: a whimsical tour of London's Natural History Museum, the tale of tuna, a provocative inquiry into drug use in the formation of Western civilization, new novels from Irvine Welsh and Paul Auster, the paperback release of Proust was a Neuroscientist, a book on the early artworks of Tintin creator Herge, an edgy tech book, a tome on 60s rock stars and their involvement in (or against) the cultural revolution, and, pictured above, a second volume of beautifully restored Little Nemo strips in a gorgeous oversized coffee table book. View our blurbs HERE. |
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Fresh sale books
 Fresh remainders just keep coming, and they're often our best deals: as-new books that cost even less than used copies. Here are a few new arrivals: a Pixar "kit" for kids, this book on Green Architecture, a classic young adult mystery, a recent Paul Auster novel in hardcover, and a Phillip K. Dick novel of American Realism. See them all HERE. |
SF's Citywide Book Group
One City, One Book: San Francisco Reads is an annual citywide literary event that encourages San Franciscans to read the same book at the same time and then discuss it in book groups and at events throughout the city. By building bridges between communities and generations through the reading of--and, most importantly, the discussion of--one book, the goal is to help make reading a lifelong pursuit and to build a more literate society.
This year's One City book is West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamin Ansary. In West of Kabul, we travel at Ansary's side, as he gives us rare access to Afghan culture-from the time of "old Afghanistan," through Soviet rule, and later the Taliban. After the attacks of 9/11/01, Afghanistan once again found itself upon the world's stage and in direct conflict with the United States-and yet, the country was as obscure to the West as ever. Tamim Ansary, who has lived in both American and Afghan society, is uniquely capable of reaching across both cultures, and through his experiences, he begins to inspire the empathy necessary to transcend differences. His stirring memoir offers much to discuss.
Tamin Ansary will be at Green Apple on Sat. Sept. 6 from 3-3:30 pm. Come by to say hi, shake his hand, ask him any questions you might have, and get a book signed at the same time.
Pick up a copy of the book at your local library or HERE at Green Apple, and CLICK HERE for event listings, a discussion guide and more.
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Irvine Welsh event
Join us in welcoming Irvine Welsh at our favorite literary pub, the Edinburgh Castle. His new novel is Crime. In the wake of a nasty child-murder case, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox of the Edinburgh PD has suffered a full-scale breakdown. He's been placed on leave for mental re-tuning and takes off for a few days of sun in Miami. From there, Crime becomes an unmistakably Welshian blend of the macabre and the psychologically astute, as Lennox faces a dwindling supply of antidepressants, a bridal-magazine-toting fianc�e who wants him to think seriously about floral arrangements, and some coke-happy locals who lead him back into old habits. Is he really in the right shape to be playing knight-errant to a terrified ten-year-old girl? Will his best instincts and worst judgments get them both killed, or find him the redemption he seeks? Irvine Welsh at the Edinburgh CastleSaturday, September 20 at 9:00 p.m.
FREE, but 21+ only
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