Green Apple is proud to host the graduate students of the San Francisco State University Writing Program as they read excerpts from their works. The reading workshop is open to the public, and snacks and drinks will be provided. Don't miss the opportunity to hear the work of our future authors! The reading will take place at 7:00pm in our Granny Smith Room. 

Tuesday, May 13: Kaui Hart Hemmings and Michelle Richmond

Litquake and Green Apple Books are proud to host the San Francisco launch of Kaui Hart Hemmings' highly anticipated new novel The Possibilities, at the Hotel Rex on Tuesday, May 13th at 7 p.m. She will be in conversation with Michelle Richmond, author of the new novel Golden State. Book sales and signings by both authors to follow.  More details.

Wednesday, May 14:  Nathan Deuel's Friday Was the Bomb 

Join us here at 7 p.m. as we host Nathan Deuel.  He'll read from and sign his new book, Friday Was The Bomb: Five Years in the Middle East. In 2008, Nathan Deuel, a former editor at Rolling Stone and The Village Voice, and his wife, a National Public Radio foreign correspondent, moved to the deeply Islamic Kingdom of  Saudi Arabia to see for themselves what was happening in the Middle East. There they had a daughter, and later, while his wife filed reports from Baghdad and Syria, car bombs erupted and one night a firefight raged outside the family's apartment in Beirut. Their marriage strained, and they struggled with the decision to stay or go home. More about the book and author here.  

Thursday, May 15: Colson Whitehead on The Noble Hustle

In another partnership between Litquake and Green Apple, we're thrilled to host the San Francisco launch of Colson Whitehead's latest, The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death, a hilarious satire of the author's adventures into the 2011 World Series of Poker. Mr. Whitehead will be in conversation with T. Geronimo Johnson at the Hotel Rex at 7pm.  More here.   

Sunday, May 18: Rebecca Gordon on Mainstreaming Torture 

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in America had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Within days, some began to suggest that, in these new circumstances, the new answer was "yes." Rebecca Gordon argues that September 11 did not, as some have said, "change everything," and that institutionalized state torture remains as wrong today as it was on the day before those terrible attacks. Furthermore, U.S. practices during the "war on terror" are rooted in a history that began long before September 11, a history that includes both support for torture regimes abroad and the use of torture in American jails and prisons. Join us for an intense and thoughtful discussion.

NOTE: This event is at St. James (4620 California St at 8th Ave) at 11:30 am.

Wednesday, May 21 at the Make-Out Room: Stacey D'Erasmo and Sylvie Simmons

Gear up for a rockin' night at the Make Out Room, as Green Apple hosts the release party for author Stacey D'Erasmo's novel, Wonderland, on Wednesday, May 21 at 7:00pm.  She'll be in conversation with music writer Sylvie Simmons (her latest book was I'm Your Man: a Life of Leonard Cohen).

About Wonderland:  Anna Brundage is a rock star. She is tall and sexy, with a powerhouse voice and an unforgettable mane of red hair. She came out of nowhere, an immediate indie sensation. And then, life happened.  Anna went down as fast as she went up, and then walked off the scene for seven years. Without a record deal or clamoring fans, she sells a piece of her famous father's art to finance just one more album and a European comeback tour.  A riveting look at the life of a musician, Wonderland is a moving inquiry into the life of a woman on an unconventional path, wondering what happens next and what her passions might have cost her, seeking a version of herself she might recognize. It takes us deep into a world many of us have spent hours imagining and wishing ourselves into--now we have a bit of that wish come true.  

 

NOTE: This event is at 7pm at the Make Out Room (3225 22nd Street).