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Books • Ideas • Goods
Specializing in books on the environment, politics, sustainability,
food and farming, select art and literature, urban planning,
nature, and children's books.
Voted SF Weekly Best of Award 2010
BEST NEW BOOKSTORE!
UPCOMING EVENTS
(All events are free unless otherwise noted)
Wednesday, May 16, 7:30pm
Gayle Rubin talks about her book
Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader
Gayle Rubin is an American feminist anthropologist whose seminal essays The Traffic in Women (1975) and Thinking Sex (1984) changed the way we think about sex and gender. This book brings together a canonical collection of her writing, but it is more than a reader: she rewrites the genealogy of sexuality studies, giving us a precise intellectual history of sexuality studies that recognizes the pivotal role played by academic homosexuals.
Published by Duke University Press.
Friday, May 18, Doors open at 7:30pm
David Talbot’s The Season of the Witch
Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
Big party at the McRoskey Mattress factory! Right across from The Green Arcade. Come join us as San Francisco celebrates the publication of the new book The Season of the Witch. David, one of the co-founders of Salon.com and author of the bestselling Brothers recounts the gripping story of the civil strife and tragedies that beset San Francisco between 1967 and 1982—and led to our City’s ultimate rebirth and triumph.
Special guests and more details TBA. Free with purchase of the book from The Green Arcade.
Published by Simon & Schuster.
Wednesday, May 23, 7:30pm
Yes on Prop B Party
Let’s Protect Coit Tower
Coit Tower is a special place. But Lillie Hitchcock Coit’s generous gift to San Francisco is in serious trouble due to neglect, decay, and lax oversight by the city. Coit Tower needs our help. Let’s Protect Coit Tower.
Wednesday, June 6, 7pm
Inside/Out
A Book Party Celebrating the Poetry and Life of Marilyn Buck:
Political Prisoner, Writer
Throughout her years in prison, Marilyn remained a steadfast supporter of fellow political prisoners and an advocate for the women with whom she was imprisoned. On Tuesday, August 3, 2010, Marilyn Buck, 62, passed peacefully at her home in Brooklyn, New York. A few short weeks earlier, on July 15th, Marilyn had been released from the federal Bureau of Prisons medical facility in Carswell, Texas and paroled to New York City. Thanks to the efforts of her long-time friend and lawyer Jill Soffiyah Elijah, her release came several weeks before the date originally set for her release on parole, August 8th. Marilyn served a total of 33 years of an 80-year prison sentence for politically motivated actions undertaken in support of self-determination and national liberation.
Co-sponsored by The Friends of Marilyn Buck
Readers to include Sin Soracco, author of Low Bite, and the forthcoming Edge City.
City Lights Publishers has just released Inside/Out Selected Poems of Marilyn Buck.
Thursday, June 7, 7pm
Terry Bisson, author of the novel
Any Day Now
In the words of Terry: “My new novel Any Day Now is not exactly science fiction; and not exactly not. It's a sort of an alternate history of 1968, and (not to brag, but) John Crowley was kind enough to say, "If you were there then, this is where you were." Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review and made it a Pick of the Week. Who knows, perhaps I shall be released."
Released from what, Terry? A great writer and activist, to boot.
Published by Overlook.
ONGOING:
The SF Public Press
Latest Print Edition is One Dollar.
SF Public Press website
California Northern: A New Regionalism
California Northern Magazine is a biannual publication exploring the region's cultures, environments, histories, and identities. It provides a rare California-based forum for exceptional essays, long-form journalism, literature, and photography. $6.95
NOW at The Green Arcade:
The Green Arcade Pinocchio T-Shirt
designed by Gent Sturgeon, worn by Magisaurus
A mere $18 dollars!
Pinocchio
The Green Arcade
by Gent Sturgeon
Xavier Viramontes
Boycott Grapes silk screen printed and signed by the artist
Unframed $150.00
This poster, which was originally produced in the 1970s, played an important part in the Grape Boycott taking place at the time. It is now part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is the first time it has been reproduced since that time.
Sandy Florian
Cover art by Gent Sturgeon, creator of The Green Arcade's logo.
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Open Mon - Sat, 12-8
Sunday 12-7
We can Special Order most titles.
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