Join us in the latest installment of our Side Room Series as we welcome Lauren Weber.  She'll be on hand to read from, discuss, and sign her new book In Cheap We Trust.  It's a work that sheds the word "cheap" of its negative connotations and explores "today's recession-driven enthusiasm for frugal living" through humor, personal tales, and historical fact.

Lauren Weber will be in the Side Room on the second floor at Green Apple Books, here in the good ol' (cheap) Richmond District.

Hey, Malcom Gladwell fans: can't wait for your next fix? Well, NurtureShock is the answer to your dilemma. Bronson and Merryman have dug through the research papers, scientific journals, and academic studies, and what they've found will surprise, entertain and enlighten you. Take these, for instance: telling your kids they're smart might just sabotage them academically; why those entrance exams they give at private schools don't do a good job of picking out the smartest kids; how letting high schoolers sleep in can turn B students into A students. And so much more. This is a book that, if you are a parent, will quite literally change your life and maybe that of your children.

Po Bronson, business writer and journalist extraordinaire, will be the Katherine Delmar Burke School discussing NurtureShock.  Please note the 9 a.m. start.  And the FREE factor.

 

 

 

What could be more appealing to readers than Writers With Drinks?  Join us for this monthly event at the Make-Out Room.  $3-$5.

Here's the line-up this month:

• Anthony Swofford (Jarhead)
• Roz Savage (Rowing The Atlantic)
• Doug Dorst (Alive In Necropolis)
• Linda Watanabe McFerrin (The Impossibility Of Redemption Is Something We Hadn't Figured On)
• Joe Loya (The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell)
• Irina Slutsky (Geek Entertainment TV)

: Sea Cucumber

 

Thanks to the good folks at the Boxcar Theater, S.B. Parks is coming this Sunday to perform parts of her latest puppet show: Edward Wonderful.

Edward Wonderful is an original puppet show by S.B. Parks.  The table-top string puppets are created and performed by Ms. Parks, who has been creating and performing puppet shows for children and families for four years.  Her first show, The Magic Flute, was performed in libraries across Colorado in 2005.  In 2006 she created Rikki Tikki Tavi, based on the story from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.  S.B.  teaches puppetry workshops and residencies for children and adults.

About Edward Wonderful:  From the moment he meets her, Edward Wonderful knows Myrtle doesn't believe in magic.  He knows he must prove her wrong.  With a little help from Mother Nature and a contrary grasshopper, the garden she grows is undeniably magical.  Inspired by The Secret Garden and Hayao Miazaki's My Neighbor Totoro.

More info on her show here. 

Help the San Francisco Public Library f�te this year's One City One Book pick: Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst. It's only fitting that we'll be celebrating this can't-put-down supernatural thriller with custom "Necropolis" cocktails, free Tarot card readings, and a live reading from Dorst himself. The Page Bar inspired a bar on the pages of Alive in Necropolis - have you spotted it yet?

Dorst's thriller, set in the city of San Francisco and the cemeteries of Colma, is one part crime novel, one part ghost story, tinged with humor and heart. Among many colorful characters, the book features a rookie Colma cop navigating a world of both the dead and alive, and a San Francisco teen, struggling with his own version of reality.

 

Litquake and Porchlight Storytelling collaborate for true tales of punk-rock anarchy and excess, launching the new book Gimme Something Better by Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor.  The subtitle says it all: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead         Kennedys to Green Day.

Storytellers include Lynn Breedlove, Anna Joy Springer, Bucky Sinister, Oran Canfield, Rozz Rezabek, Jesse Luscious, John Geek, Chicken John, Kareim McKnight, Johnny Strike, and Hank Rank. Live music by the Avengers' Penelope Houston and her band.

Book sales and signing to follow. Hosted by Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte.

Tickets HERE.

 

Litquake's annual women's night features some famous and vociferous femmes. Hotel Monaco, 501 Geary. $5-10.

 
Writers appearing include:

• Christine Comaford
• Kim Addonizio
  
• Kim Wong Keltner
• Terry McMillan
• Wendy Merrill
• April Sinclair
• Jane Smiley
• Jane Ganahl