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 the newsletter this month, Julie Orringer on “Why I Read” and Green Apple’s Book of the Month, Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead.
Found at Green Apple
Books I’ve come across by accident at my neighborhood bookstore, Green Apple on Clement Street in San Frnacisco.
Art Fete, & Astronaut Life for the Rest of Us
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 from The Size of the World here. Greenwald did a fetching impression of a moray eel, described the ethereal, cocoon-encased slumber of the parrot fish, and quoted something Arthur C. Clarke said to him in a private conversation a long time ago, when...
richmond in the richmond: everything you need to read next year
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 with as many books as we can, and we’re starting prices at 50-75% off the already low used or sale price! Books will be from all subject areas…Once open, we will continually restock, as we have more books (100,000+) than will fit in...
in the queue
A quick trip to Green Apple yesterday en route to my new doctor (glory be! now that I’ve finally, at long last, abandoned Kaiser as my HMO, which, despite all those television ads so seductively narrated by Allison Janney, is absolutely incompetent, I have discovered that it is actually possible to call one’s physician’s office and speak with someone in the office, rather than being redirected to a secretary in Sacramento, and, furthermore, it is also possible to get an appointment with one’s own physician, and to do all of this without having to recite your phone number, social...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
