Author and editor Jordan Rosenfeld (Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time) pays tribute to San Francisco’s “literary hot spots” in this article for Writer’s Digest. Jordan mentions the historic Caffe Trieste (this is the place that local writer Junvenal Acosta, among others, sometimes refers to as his office), the [...]
Green Apple Books is practically giving away books, people. Actually, the ongoing Warehouse Clearance Sale is coming to an end. All used books are now $2.98 or less. That’s a dollar less than a gallon of gas. A more on-point comparison: $2.98 is just a few cents over half of the five dollar penalty for [...]
Ryszard Kapuscinski on Herodotus as the first journalist, in Travels with Herodotus.
His task is complex: on the one hand, he knows that the most precious and almost the only source of knowledge is the memory of those he meets; on the other hand, he is aware that this memory is a fragile thing, volatile and [...]
At five p.m. on December 16, my mother called me into her study. I waited until she said my name twice, so I didn’t appear too eager.
There is something quietly heartbreaking in these words, spoken by the narrator of Vendela Vida’s lovely second novel, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name. Some years before the [...]
Again, in honor of EWN’s short story month: 43 Fictions, by Steve Katz. Published by Sun & Moon Press, 1992. I picked this up at Green Apple a couple of years ago. This snappy compilation contains very short stories from several of Katz’s previous published collections. A sampling from the story “Parcel of Wrists:”
In this [...]
Not too long ago, I picked up a used copy of Graham Greene’s Travels with my Aunt at Green Apple. Just started reading it last night. The book is narrated by a retired bank manager who meets his aunt for the first time at his mother’s funeral. A taste from paragraph one:
Everyone thought me lucky, [...]
Just received my copies of Brad Vice’s The Bear Bryant Funeral Train from editor Jim Gilbert at River City Publishing. Interesting new cover featuring a film reel gives nod to the subject of the title story. This version of the book that caused such a stir (read my essay about it here in Oxford American) [...]
From this month’s Green Apple newsletter:
Here are seven of the books we’re most excited about, including a foggy local novel, sustainable economies, scary mercenaries, SF postcards, heartbreaking short stories, a new food lover’s guide, and The Raw Shark Texts.
Thanks to Pete for including my “foggy local novel” among this month’s picks. Also in [...]
I gave a reading yesterday at ArtFete, a fundraising event for ArtSFest, which celebrates and showcases a wide range of arts in the Bay Area. Also reading was Jeff Greenwald, author of several books about travel. Greenwald read a wonderful piece about dawn-diving off Australia
from The Size of the World. You can read an excerpt [...]
Stock up on books for 2007 at the Green Apple Warehouse Clearance Sale, Dec. 26, San Francisco:
On December 26, we will open the Apple Seed, our Warehouse Clearance Sale. We’ve rented a storefront just two blocks away from Green Apple in the old Busvan for Bargains building (248 Clement at 4th Avenue). We’re stuffing it [...]
