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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)
Tuesday, February 2, 7pm
Surfing the Gnarl
with author Rudy Rucker, introduced by Terry Bisson
The original “Mad Professor” of Cyberpunk, Rudy Rucker (along with fellow outlaws William Gibson and Bruce Sterling) transformed modern science fiction, tethering the “gnarly” speculations of quantum physics to the noir sensibilities of a skeptical and disenchanted generation.
In his new anthology Surfing the Gnarl, Dr. Rucker infiltrates fundamentalist Virginia to witness the apocalyptic clash between Bible-thumpers and Saucer Demons at a country club barbecue; undresses in orbit to explore the future of foreplay in freefall; and dons the robe of a Transreal Lifestyle Adviser with how-to tips on how you can manipulate the Fourth Dimension to master everyday tasks like finding an apartment, dispatching a tiresome lover, organizing closets and iPods, and remaking Reality.
Thursday, February 16, 7pm
John Van der Zee talks about his book
San Francisco Childhood:
Memories of a Great City Seen Through the Eyes of Its Children
John van der Zee, author of Canyon-about the small village in the East Bay Hills--and the bestseller The Gate, has gathered together a delightful collection of stories by San Francisco natives, both luminaries and just plain folks. The tales range from poignant to wry to charmingly funny, demonstrating the idiosyncratic nature that seems to be every San Franciscan. Included are works featuring: Robert Frost, Jerry Garcia, Isadora Duncan, Joe DiMaggio, Ansel Adams, Margaret Cho, Carl Nolte, Maya Angelou, and Carol Channing.
“John van der Zee has collected magic memories of some of the lucky children of San Francisco.” Herb Gold
Wednesday, February 22, 7:30pm
Stephen Vincent and Hilton Oberzinger
Poet and artist Stephen Vincent reads from his book After Language/Letters to Jack Spicer.
"After Language is a meditation on interpretive migration, on the troubled paths of poetic inheritance, and on the tangled, fraught (and yes, magical) ways that poetry survives it makers." George Albon
Hilton Obenzinger writes fiction, poetry, history and criticism. He has most recently published the autobiographical novel Busy Dying, in which he tells the story of the Occupation at Columbia University in 1968.
Saturday, February 25, 7:30 pm
Against Architecture
Release Party
Cover art by Gent Sturgeon
Join author Franco La Cecla as The Green Arcade celebrates its newest publication, Against Architecture. Translated from the Italian by San Franciscan Mairin O’Mahony.
Against Architecture is a passionate and erudite charge against the celebrities of the current architectural world, the “archistars.” According to Franco La Cecla, architecture has lost its way and its true function, as the archistars use the cityscape to build their brand, putting their stamp on the built environment with little for the public good.
Entertainment by Lars Mars with Durand Begault, piano, and Mic Gendreau, percussion.
Saturday, March 3, 7pm
Children’s Book Press
Good-Bye Party
The Green Arcade and Children’s Book Press (CBP) founder Harriet Rohmer host a party
featuring notable CBP authors, artists, poets, editors & designers (circa 1975-2011) in person! Historic CBP children's bilingual picture books for sale at the 1977 price! Good wishes by and for everybody--and lots of food and drink! Harriet has moved on but the Press continues! More info on special guests forthcoming….
Wednesday, March 7, 7pm
William Torphy talks about his new biography
A Brush with History:
Eda Kavin & The San Francisco Century
Eda Kavin was one of the great unpainted ladies of San Francisco. She was a native, born here to Russian immigrants, who sold their Petaluma farm eggs at Fisherman's Wharf. She was a calligrapher and book binder who fought back McCarthyism and proudly bound the banned books of Henry Miller. A draftsperson for the City for 27 years she created proclamations and even designed our first street parking permits. At 75 she picked up a Chinese paint brush for the first time and in short order started creating exquisite paintings. She studied only with San Francisco City College’s Ming Ren, and for ten years his students would travel to her house to meet this lady who kept insisting “If I can do it, you can too.” In May, 2004 when she was no longer able to paint or lunch with her friends, with gratitude she declared her life was over and died happily one month later.
Friday, March 16, 7:30 pm
The Poetry Center at the Green Arcade presents:
Dodie Bellamy and Alan Gilbert
DODIE BELLAMY’s most recent books include the buddhist (Publication Studio) and the chapbook Whistle While You Dixie (Summer BF Press). Time Out New York named her chapbook Barf Manifesto (Ugly Duckling) “Best Book Under 30 Pages” for 2009.
A novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor, known for her non-traditional use of sexuality, politics, and narrative experimentation, Dodie Bellamy is one of the originators in the New Narrative literary movement, which attempts to use the tools of experimental fiction and critical theory and apply them to narrative storytelling. She lives in San Francisco with writer Kevin Killian and three cats, and teaches at the California College of Arts and in SFSU's MFA in Creative Writing Program.
ALAN GILBERT is the author of the poetry book, Late in the Antenna Fields (Futurepoem, 2011), and a collection of essays and articles entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight (Wesleyan University Press, 2006). His poems have appeared in BOMB, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, jubilat, and The Nation, among other places. His writings on poetry and art have appeared in a variety of publications, including Artforum, The Believer, Bookforum, Cabinet, Modern Painters, Parkett, and the Village Voice. He lives in Brooklyn.
Tuesday, March 27, 7:30pm
Love & Struggle:
My Life in the SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond
Join editor Terry Bisson and friends for a talk on David Gilbert’s new book Love and Struggle. David Gilbert is one of America’s most celebrated political prisoners since his appearance in the Academy Award nominated film, The Weather Underground.
A nice Jewish boy from suburban Boston, an Eagle Scout—David Gilbert arrived at Columbia University just in time for the explosive Sixties. From the early anti-Vietnam War protests to the founding of SDS, from the Columbia Strike to the tragedy of the Townhouse, Gilbert was on the scene: as organizer, theoretician, and above all, activist. He was among the first militants who went underground to build the clandestine resistance to war and racism known as “Weatherman.”
In this extraordinary memoir, written from the maximum-security prison where he has lived for almost thirty years, David Gilbert tells the intensely personal story of his own Long March from liberal to radical to revolutionary.
He can be reached at NY’s Auburn Correctional Facility as 83-A-6158.
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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