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Sunday, Jan. 29th- 4pm
Eric Orner author of Smahtguy: The Life & Times of Barney Frank "Smahtguy isn't just a great story, it's an enveloping visual experience crafted by a terrific artist with an amazing line . . . This book--like Frank's life--is so epic, people will doubtless be finding new aspects to appreciate for years to come."
--NPR Eric Orner is a former Congressional aide to Barney Frank, one of the first out gay members of congress, and the acclaimed author of The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, one of the country's most popular and longest-running gay comic strips. A feature film of the same title appeared in 2005, the same year that Orner retired the comic strip. Orner has also published comic strips and illustrations in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New Republic. His cartoon story "Weekends Abroad" was included in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Comics 2011. Orner lives in New York and Smahtguy is his first graphic novel.
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Thursday, Feb. 2nd - 7pm
Michael Alenyikov author of Sorrow's Drive: A Quartet From a UN Peacekeeper searching for meaning in East Timor, to a lonely boy in San Francisco bonding with his dying bohemian grandmother as she recounts her last trip to Italy, to a middle aged man from Boston looking back on his first trip to pre-AIDS San Francisco, to a retired history professor in San Francisco driving cross country to the Boston of his youth, remembering his early struggles with being gay, while a star baseball player in high school and college in the 40s and 50s’s, these novellas sweep across continents, decades, and memories, capturing the aftermath of the loss of innocence.
“These four stunning novellas have an almost magical effect as Alenyikov masterfully weaves together disparate lives and universal themes into something approaching the sublime. He evokes the common goodness of people, as well as the common heartbreaking challenge that we all face and feel compelled to understand.” —Trebor Healey, two time winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award, author of A Horse Named Sorrow. “...a remarkable achievement. Grief-struck and yet so full of life and love on every page." —Peter Orner, author of Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin |
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Tuesday, Feb. 7 @7pm
Aaron Shurin author of Unbound: A Book of AIDS Unbound is a poet's intimate account of life in San Francisco in the 80s and 90s during the apex of the AIDS epidemic. In his search for meaning, Shurin dives down into the broken-hearted, revelatory core of the social landscape and the lives of friends who both succumbed to and transcended the disease. Twenty-five years after its initial publication, Unbound continues the search, resonating inescapably with the perils of our new pandemic. Shurin brings to life a familiar world tensed on the threshold of living, balanced precariously on the edges of love and friendship, family and community, rapture and mourning.
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POSTPONED UNTIL FEB. 26
The Any Book of the Month Club
The Any Book of the Month Club
This will be the first meeting of a literary salon and facilitated discussion where YOU get to come and converse with other book-lovers about WHATEVER BOOK YOU CHOOSE!
It can be a book you love or a book you thought you should like better; in either case, this is your chance to tell everyone all about it.
Limit of 25 people. No reservations.
Fourth Saturdays of each month.
Donations appreciated, no one turned away for lack of funds
It can be a book you love or a book you thought you should like better; in either case, this is your chance to tell everyone all about it.
- Meet new friends. You already have something in common with everyone who attends!
- Discover new favorite books!
- Have tea and cookies !
Limit of 25 people. No reservations.
Fourth Saturdays of each month.
Donations appreciated, no one turned away for lack of funds
If you want to schedule a reading or book release party, email or call the store and ask for Alvin or Becka. Please note: we concentrate on LGBTQ+ titles, but do make exceptions. All events must be scheduled at least 6 weeks in advance, should last no longer than 1 hour, and we don't do events on weekends or Wednesdays.