The Bindery is delighted to host Joel Selvin and Pamela Turley for Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip. Please join us! The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed away suddenly in August of 1995, the remaining band members experienced full crises of confidence and identity. So long defined by Garcia's vision for the group, the surviving "Core Four," as they…

Glen David Gold in conversation with Oscar Villalon Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco discussing Glen David Gold's new memoir I Will Be Complete from Alfred Knopf This event is co-sponsored by Zyzzyva From the best-selling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother. Glen David Gold was raised rich, briefly, in southern California…

Please join us on Tuesday, June 26th at 7:00 p.m. when we welcome editor Margot Kahn and award-winning author Pam Houston as they celebrate their new book This is the Place. Praise for This is the Place: "...an honest portrait of the U.S., pieced together like an imperfect American quilt. We need more books like this." — BUST "This collection, encompassing a spectrum of races, ethnicities, religions, sexualities, political beliefs and classes, could not be timelier....open this book, hear its chorus of voices and remember that we…

Please join us for a lively discussion about “Milena o el femur mas bello del Mundo” by Jorge Cepeda Patterson To join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com

Neeli Cherkovski is the author of many books of poetry, including his most recent collection, Elegy for My Beat Generation (Lithic Press). He was the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). He has lived in San Francisco since 1974. Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, experimental poet and jazz musician Clark Coolidge has been connected to…

Who Will Speak For America? Wednesday, June 27, 2018, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco with Veronica Scott Esposito, Charlie Jane Anders, and Craig Santos Perez Drawing on the success of Writers Resist, a national day of literary protest, Who Will Speak for America? presents the best contemporary writing on American identity, justice, and dissent, and asserts a constructive vision of American society. Coedited by Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin. Including essays, poetry, stories, photography, speeches, and cartoons from: Samira Ahmed, Charlie Jane Anders, Cynthia…

Booksmith hosts an evening with the author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion, Porochista Khakpour for her new book Sick: A Memoir. Porochista will be in conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang (The Border of Paradise). Please join us!   For as long as writer Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn't know why. All of her trips to the ER and her daily pain and lethargy only ever resulted in one question: How could any one person be this sick? Several drug addictions, three…

appearing with Jack Hirschman and Jessica Loos Works honors the longtime Long Shot magazine, credo of “Writing from the Real World.” This collection of poems traverses a course from the swamps of New Jersey to the endless possibilities of the open road, with rest stops along the way to visit with family ghosts, highlight striking moments encountered during a 30-plus year career as a New York City public high school teacher, and report upon the twilight years of the Beat Generation. Shot’s engaging…

Local author Yang Huang’s new novel My Old Faithful, a Juniper Prize winner, depict the lives of one family over thirty years in China and the United States. Richly textured narratives from the mother, the father, the son, and the daughters paint a nuanced portrait of family life, full of pain, surprises, and subtle acts of courage. Join us to hear about the inspirations for My Old Faithful as a family navigates the children’s adolescent years amidst vast social and economic change. The…

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