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Events, Meet Your Bookseller, & more
April 16, 2013
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Greetings!
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With taxes paid, spring break over, and months to go before summer reading, what better time to stop in for a new book? We're ready for you at the store and open 24 hours a day online. 
To tempt you in soon, we present below:
- the fabulous Book of the Month;
- several April/May author events in-store;
- a special Anne Lamott event; and
- the latest installment of Meet Your Bookseller;
And remember: you can read digitally AND shop locally. Our partnership with Kobo allows you to read
eBooks on any device (except Kindle). Sign up here and Green Apple will forever get a cut of your eBook purchases.
Oh, and if you're up for a chuckle, here's a glimpse of what it's like to work at Green Apple.
Read on!
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April's Book of the Month
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The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
Our April Book of the Month, guaranteed to please, is the novel The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner. Here's our "shelf-talker" by Green Appler Louisa.
 Rachel Kushner, of Telex from Cuba (2008) fame, reaffirms her remarkable ability to capture readers with The Flamethrowers, a novel about a young female artist newly arrived in New York City. Upon her arrival from the Midwest, Reno (a reference to her place of birth) finds herself stuck on the fringe of the artistic culture of SoHo and the East Village. An affair with Sandro Valera, an artist and heir to a fortune built upon motorcycles, draws her deeper into his world and ultimately to his family's estate in Italy. After learning of her lover's true nature, Reno leaves the protection that Sandro's wealth affords her and becomes caught up in the socio-political revolution engulfing Italy at the time. This atmosphere of violence and poverty allows Kushner's vivid examination of gender, culture and class to speak simultaneously about the 1970s and today. -- Louisa Buy the book or $12.99 eBook from Green Apple today! We have a few signed copies, so call or come into get one before they're gone.
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Upcoming Author Events
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TONIGHT! 
April 16: Matthew Specktor & Glen David Gold @ the Lone Palm
Celebrating the launch of American Dream Machine, the new novel from Matthew Specktor, writer and Senior Fiction Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Specktor will be in conversation with author Glen David Gold. Book sales and signing to follow. A Litquake Epicenter event. More here.
at The Lone Palm (3394 22nd St. @ Guerrero) $5-10 suggested donation
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April 23: Moses Gates, author of Hidden Cities 
In Hidden Cities, Gates contemplates why he and other urban explorers are so instinctively drawn to unknown and sometimes forbidden places--even (and for some, especially) when the stakes are high. Hidden Cities will inspire readers to think about the potential for urban exploration available for anyone, anywhere--if they have only the curiosity (and nerve!) to dig below the surface to discover the hidden corners of this world.
Tuesday, April 23 here at Green Apple at 6:30pm
- - - - - - - - - - May 2: Kim Wong Keltner, author of Tiger Babies Strike Back  Our old friend and neighbor Kim Wong Keltner is coming back for a visit, and we hope you'll help us welcome her warmly. Her latest book is Tiger Babies Strike Back: How I Was Raised by a Tiger Mom But Could Not Be Turned To The Dark Side (Morrow). Traversing the choppy seas of American and Chinese traditions, Keltner dives into the difficulties facing women today--Chinese American and otherwise. At once deeply relevant and playfully honest, Tiger Babies Strike Back combines personal anecdotes and tough love advice for a humorous, provocative look at how our families shape--and sometimes shake--our personal foundations.
Thursday, May 2 here at Green Apple at 7:00 pm. |
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Meet Your Bookseller!
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Curious about the booksellers behind all those handwritten recommendations? "Three Short Questions for a Green Apple Bookseller" will introduce you to our staff.
1. What do you do at the store?
Nothing glamorous I'm afraid. Getting the new books from the back of the store, to their proper tables or sections. Stocking and arranging the newly released hardcover and paperback non fiction display. Also, curating and populating the various history sections (ancient, classical, American, Asian, Middle Eastern, world, and military). I also take care of the mystery and science fiction sections in the same way.
2. What's your favorite section?
Either science fiction, or history, depending on my mood.
3. What are you reading now?
London: A Biography by Peter Ackroyd, Southern Cross the Dog by Bill Cheng and The Absolute Sandman by Neil Gaiman. I recently finished The Son by Philipp Meyer, which I put on the same shelf as Lonesome Dove as one of the great novels of the American West. For me, nothing else comes close.
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Thanks for reading.
Sincerely,
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Pete et al
Green Apple Books and Music
415-387-2272
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