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…Continue reading Travels with My Aunt
Category: Found at Green Apple
Books I’ve come across by accident at my neighborhood bookstore, Green Apple on Clement Street in San Frnacisco.
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…Continue reading
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…Continue reading Art Fete, & Astronaut Life for the Rest of Us
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…Continue reading richmond in the richmond: everything you need to read next year
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…Continue reading in the queue