Green Apple Books Events

April 2015

 

Spring has made its comeback, and with it come the returning-champion Giants! Help celebrate the beginning of the 2015 season at the Richmond Republic Draught house with KNBR's Brian Murphy. We've also got Atticus Lish, Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Gerard, and more, before this month is out! Check our calendar for more information and details, or keep an eye on your inbox for our newsletter. 

 

 

Below you'll find our events for the second half of April. We hope to see you at Green Apple (on Clement or 9th Ave.) in person!

 

 

 

 

 

 

BRIAN MURPHY
and BRAD MANGIN
Richmond Republic Draught House | 642 Clement St.
Friday, April 10
7:00 p.m.

KNBR's Brian Murphy and photographer Brad Mangin celebrate the release their book on the 2014 World Series Champion Giants while watching the game on the big screens with beers in hand!
     
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ANGEL RAMSEY
Green Apple Books | Clement 
Saturday, April 11th
2:00 p.m.

Angel Ramsey reads from her debut YA novel, Personified.
     
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Center for the Art of Translation presents
YURI HERRERA
in conversation with
Daniel Alarcon
Books on the Park | 9th Ave.
Monday, April 13th
7:30 p.m.

"Yuri Herrera is Mexico's greatest novelist. His spare, poetic narratives and incomparable prose read like epics compacted into a single perfect punch - they ring your bell, your being, your soul." - Francisco Goldman
     
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HELEN MACDONALD
in conversation with
Marie Mockett
Books on the Park | 9th Ave.
Tuesday, April 14th
7:30 p.m.

"Breathtaking . . . Helen Macdonald renders an indelible impression of a raptor's fierce essence-and her own-with words that mimic feathers, so impossibly pretty we don't notice their astonishing engineering." - Vicki Constantine Croke, New York Times Book Review
 

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ATTICUS LISH
in conversation with
Daniel Handler
Books on the Park | 9th Ave.
Thursday, April 16th
7:30 p.m.

 "Perhaps the finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade." - The New York Times 

 
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner prize!
 

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KAREN JOY FOWLER
Green Apple Books | Clement
Monday, April 20th
7:00 p.m.

Set in the days of Darwin, "The Science of Herself" is a marvelous hybrid of SF and historical fiction.

Fowler's novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. 








SARAH GERARD
in conversation with
Ottessa Moshfegh
Books on the Park | 9th Ave.
Tuesday, April 21th
7:30 p.m.

"Sarah Gerard writes about love and loneliness in a new and brilliantly visceral way." - Jenny Offill 




CATE DICHARRY
in conversation with
Rebecca Rubenstein
Books on the Park | 9th Ave.
Wednesday, April 22nd
7:30 p.m.

"The title of this book will not lead you astray: fucking up happens here, in spectacular, delightfully, absurdly over-the-top fashion." - Elizabeth Crane







A NIGHT OF POETRY:
DANIEL WOLFF, DEAN RADER, and BRIAN DEMPSTER
Green Apple Books | Clement
Saturday, April 25th
7:00 p.m.


BRIAN CATLING
Books on the Park | 9th Ave.
Monday, April 27th
7:30 p.m.

"It's peculiar, wildly imaginative, unafraid to transgress and get lost, and is unlike anything I've ever read." - Jeff VanderMeer







ANNELIES ZIJDERVELD
Green Apple Books | Clement
Monday, April 27th
7:00 p.m.

Annelies Zijderveld will talk about how to select, brew, and cook with tea. Sample will be provided (yum!).




BRUCE BARCOTT
in conversation with
Daniel Duane
Viracocha | 998 Valencia St.
Tuesday, April 28th
7:30 p.m.

Litquake presents journalist and cannabis industry expert Bruce Barcott, who chronicles how marijuana is changing from a demonized drug to a medicine and mild intoxicant. 




CAREY PERLOFF
Green Apple Books | Clement St
Thursday, April 30th
7:30 p.m.

"Carey Perloff's lively, outspoken memoir of adventures in running and directing theatre will be a key document in the story of playmaking in America."-Tom Stoppard
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