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October Events @ Green Apple Books
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Greetings!
What a month to be in San Francisco, huh? Fleet Week, America's Cup, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Litquake, and sunshine!
We hope you'll join us in our dark, cool cave for one of fine author events this month. Read on!
And as always, if you can't attend an event but want to get an inscribed copy of a certain book, just give us a call, pay by phone, and we'll make it happen. 415-387-2272.
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TONIGHT! ANTOINE WILSON, AUTHOR OF
PANORAMA CITY
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We'll be hosting LA-based author Antoine Wilson for a reading  from his new novel, Panorama City, on Tuesday, October 2nd at 7PM in our Granny Smith Room.
Likened to A Confederacy of Dunces, Panorama City is a wildly entertaining and surreptitiously moving novel about a self-described "slow absorber" named Oppen Porter, who records everything he thinks his unborn son will find useful in becoming a man of the world. The result, of course, is funny, touching, and wise. Wilson is also the author of the novel The Interloper, and a contributing editor of A Public Space (where, among other things, you can read an interview with him.) We're very much looking to having him at Green Apple -- see you here!
506 Clement Street
San Francisco, California 94118
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ROLLER DERBY AT GREEN APPLE!
(A BOOK ABOUT ROLLER DERBY, THAT IS.)
| Lace up your skates and get your most intimidating derby names ready -- Jerry Seltzer, the man who brought Roller Derby to the Bay Area, will be appearing at Green Apple Books on Friday, October 5th at 7PM to discuss his new co-authored history  of the local sport. The book, which is part of the Arcadia Publishing Images of America series, is full of interesting history and fantastic pictures, detailing the rise of the sport here in the Bay Area and the leagues it spurred across the country. Don't miss this fun slice of Bay Area history and a chance to meet the man who saw it all happen.
506 Clement Street San Francisco, California 94118 |
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Chris Cleave (at the JCC)
| One of Green Apple's favorite authors will be appearing at a event at the JCC on W ednesday, October 10. More info and tickets here.
Chris Cleave (Little Bee) has a talent for launching readers directly into the hearts and minds of his characters. His new book, Gold, traces the journey of speed cyclists aiming for Olympic gold. This adrenaline-inducing novel examines friendship, ambition, tragedy and redemption with Cleave's trademark humor, insight and compassion.
3200 California Street
San Francisco
(415) 292-1200
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RACHEL NEUMAN, AUTHOR OF NOT QUITE NIRVANA
| Rachel Neuman will be appearing in the store on October 17th at 7PM to discuss her new book, Not Quite Nirvana: A Skeptic's Journey to Mindfulness. Not Quite Nirvana is a  memoir recounting how Neuman, a skeptical, fast-talking New Yorker, became Thich Nhat Hanh's editor, turned forty, and slowly and reluctantly started to absorb mindfulness practice and "grow up." With honest and vivid stories about dealing with difficult relationships, death, illness, vanity, exhaustion, and joy, Neuman explores and offers guidance for mindfulness practices. Jack Kornfeld, author of A Path With Heart, says "This is down to earth Dharma, from a life story that is honest, practical, charming, and helpful."
506 Clement Street San Francisco, California 94118 |
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POET JIM MILLER,
AUTHOR OF GOING OFF THE PAYMENT
| Local poet Jim Miller will be at Green Apple to read from his latest collection, Going Off the Pavement, a collection of poems and photographs that together recount his personal  growth. Author Michael Fox says of the collection, "This book speaks to the deep longings and journeys that men take as they navigate their soul adventures. It speaks to the pain and rage and grief, but also to the beauty and joy and power of compassion that is in us all. Great poems, great pictures, great wisdom from an elder to any men open to listening and still in love with life." Check out Miller's reading on Thursday, October 18th at 7PM in the Granny Smith Room.
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A READING WITH SUZANNE SCANLON
(PROMISING YOUNG WOMEN) &
PAMELA LU (AMBIENT PARKING LOT)
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We're delighted to host authors Suzanne Scanlon and Pamela Lu for a reading from their latest works of fiction on Friday, October 19th at 7PM. Both authors' latest books examine corners of society into which we seldom take such a focused and honest glimpse: a psychiatric institution specializing in troubled girls and the parking structures of suburbia. Both settings make for novels filled with humor, lyricism and insight, all of which will be in abundance as Scanlon and Lu read in the Granny Smith Room. 
About the books:
In Promising Young Women (the latest from Dorothy, A Publishing Project), a series of fragmentary tales tells the story of Lizzie, a young woman who, in her early twenties, unexpectedly embarks on a journey through psychiatric institutions, a journey that will end up lasting many years. With echoes of Sylvia Plath, and against a cultural backdrop that includes Shakespeare, Woody Allen, and Heathers, Suzanne Scanlon's first novel is both a deeply moving account of a life of crisis and a brilliantly original work of art.
Part fiction, part earnest mockumentary, Pamela Lu's Ambient Parking Lot follows a band of musicians as they wander the parking structures of urban downtown and greater suburbia in quest of the ultimate ambient noise-one that promises to embody their historical moment and deliver them up to the heights of their self-important artistry. Along the way, they make sporadic forays into lyric while contending with doubts, delusions, miscalculations, mutinies, and minor triumphs. This saga peers into the wreckage of a post-9/11 landscape and embraces the comedy and poignancy of failed utopia.
506 Clement Street
San Francisco, California 94118
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Thanks for reading!
--Pete/Green Apple Books
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