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Books, Veggies, Ginsberg, oh my!
June 6, 2013
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Summer reading time has arrived, and the store is full--as always--of new releases, old gems, your neighbors, friendly bibliophiles and a little dust.  OK, a lot of dust.

In today's newsletter we offer:
  • the epic Book of the Month;
  • June author events;
  • news of a Clement Street farmer's market
  • a teaser for LARB; and  
  • 2 for 1 admission to the Ginsberg photo exhibit.
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Read on!
June's Book of the Month 
The Son by Philipp Meyer (Ecco)  

 

Our June Book of the Month, guaranteed to please, is The Son, the kind of sweeping novel you'll get lost in for weeks   Several Green Applers are nuts about this book. Here's co-owner Kevin Ryan's "shelf talker."

 

    The Son

All of the (rave) reviews you will read about The Son will call it a "western" and make comparisons to the works of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy.  These comparisons are right, but The Son is also much more than that; it is nothing less than a micro-history of the settlement of the North American continent, as told through the bloody, rapacious story of five generations of one Texas family.  Beginning with the butchering of patriarch Eli McCullough's family by Comanches in 1849, and ending with oil Baroness Jeanne Anne's story in 2012, we follow the family as it grows in wealth and power, sometimes honestly, but more usually not.  There aren't many 576 page novels that you wish were longer, but as I neared the end of this epic tome, I began to grow nostalgic for it even as the remaining pages were counting down.  The Son is a great book.    --Kevin P Ryan 

 

Buy the book or $15.99 eBook from Green Apple today!  
June Events at Green Apple
Story Time
We have a bunch of events coming up in June, from in-store live music performances to a weekly Saturday morning story time for the little ones. 

We also have local authors Joe Clifford and Tom Pitts pairing up (with drinks!) in our Granny Smith Room on June 19.

On June 21, join us at Sweeties Bar in North Beach as we celebrate the release of Ed Hardy's new book Wear Your Dreams: My Life in Tattoos.

And we're cooking up a July 5 event at Sports Basement (Presidio) for The Billionaire and the Mechanic including members of the Oracle racing team.  Save the date.

We'll send out more details soon, or bookmark our calendar and check back often.  We'd love to see you soon.
Farmer's Market starts June 23
farmer's market

Clement Street is only one step away from hosting a Sunday morning farmer's market
; including many organic food vendors, some fine prepared food, kid-friendly attractions, live music, and more. 

If you support this, email Peter in Supervisor Mar's office in as many or as few words as you like.

And stay in touch with us via Facebook or Twitter to hear more in coming days, or just show up any Sunday between 9am and 1pm on Clement between 2nd and 4th Avenues.
Get LARB!
LARB
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Ginsberg Photo Exhibit--Two for One!
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg

May 23-Sep 8, 2013

 

http://www.thecjm.org/
 
Through over seventy photographs by renowned poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997),
Beat Memories tenderly captures the young writers and rebels that would define the Beat Generation. Ginsberg's photographs are a vital record of his close companions--William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, and Jack Kerouac--and they reveal a commitment to capturing the extraordinary beauty of the everyday.

 

 

Just mention Green Apple and receive two admission for the price of one. Valid June 2013.

Contemporary Jewish Museum 

736 Mission Street |San Francisco, CA 94103 
Thanks for reading.
 
Sincerely,
 
Pete et al
Green Apple Books and Music
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