The audience will get a sneak peek at the origins of the Underground Comix scene of the 1960s-70s, and how it stimulated the Latino comics movement.
Proceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
Event is FREE and open to the public. Bring friends, bring something to drink and/or nosh on, and get ready for an epic evening of live performances by local artists.
Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street on Thursday, May 12th at 7:00 p.m. as we host C. Dale Young and Rick Barot, who will be reading from their collections of poetry Halo and Chord, respectively.
Free Reading!
Martin Seay will talk about The Mirror Thief (Melville House), one of the most talked-about debut novels of 2016, with Robin Sloan.
Noah Warren reads from his first collection, The Destroyer in the Glass, winner of the 110th Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize.
Launch party with plenty of readings!
A lively reception with book signing follows, all free and open to the public.
Listen to Bay Area writers Miah Jeffra, Anna Pulley, Hannah Wehr and comedian Emily Van Dyke perform material inspired by musical guest Angelina Moysov's song "You're So Wrong for Me."
Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Reading.
As part of our QUEERING THE CASTRO program we're bringing a conversation with three Bay Area artists about the intersections of blackness, queerness and art.
Ken Kalfus and Rachel Monroe are current Writers in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts.
Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists.
Mark Binelli, author of Green Apple staff favorite Detroit City is the Place to Be, reads from his new novel, Screamin' Jay Hawkins' All-Time Greatest Hits.
Before the Wind is a grand and idiosyncratic family saga.
Toby Gleason in conversation with Al Young celebrating the release of MUSIC IN THE AIR: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason + CONVERSATIONS IN JAZZ: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews.
Townsend Walker draws inspiration from cemeteries, foreign places, violence and strong women. A novella in noir, La Ronde, was published by Truth Serum Press in June 2015.
Paul Madonna’s First Solo Show in Five Years Comes to The Dryansky Gallery in San Francisco in the Form of an Exhibition & Book Launch.
Kimberly Grey, Rachel Richardson, and Tess Taylor read poems from their new collections.
Join RADAR Productions on our signature series, Hella Close, part of our year-long Queering the Castro program!
Four writers read their own work for five minutes or less, and are then judged by three all-star judges.
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
LUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word, música, song, and story.
Portland-based writer and musician Alicia Jo Rabins weaves together poetry, violin, a loop pedal, and feminist Bible scholarship to create performances of unique and captivating beauty.
Desert Boys follows the life of Daley Kushner, growing up, coming out, and grappling with the remnants of his childhood in California’s Mojave Desert.
The Pharos Gate rejoices in the book as physical object, weaving together word and image in beautifully illustrated postcards and removable letters that reveal a sensual and metaphysical romance, one full of mystery and intrigue.
Litquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of Adam Haslett's newest novel Imagine Me Gone. Haslett will be in conversation with Jane Ciabattari. Book sales and signing to follow.
part of On Art & Politics series.
Jennifer Dwight has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area's legal community, the setting for her upcoming suspense novel, for more than 30 years.