Arts & Entertainment Chronicle Books Summer Warehouse Sale, 8/4-6 Clear your schedule later this week so you can get first dibs at Chronicle Books' Summer Warehouse Sale, which runs this Thursday through Saturday. Hundreds of sweet titles by the beloved SF-based publisher
Arts & Entertainment "Tenderloin USA": Astounding, Black-and-White Look at the 'Loin Over the last year, photographer Travis Jensen and fellow All-City photographer Brad Evans worked on a remarkable photo documentary book about San Francisco's Tenderloin called Tenderloin USA. Their work takes a black-and-white look
Arts & Entertainment Litquake 2011 Lineup Announced Jeffrey Eugenides, Susan Orlean, James Ellroy, Mary Roach, Ishmael Reed, Adam Mansbach, Jane Smiley, Chris Adrian, Thomas McGuane, Christopher Moore, Daniel Woodrell, Deepak Chopra, Cyra McFadden, and Guillermo Gomez-Peña are just a few
SF News Peninsula BART Riders Get Reading Material Dispensers The last time we heard about BART teaming up with local libraries to dispense reading material through vending machines was three years ago. Back then, the world was an entirely different place. George
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: SFO Terminal 2, Anarchist Book Fair, Green Festival, Cesar Chavez Festival, And Sunday Streets/Free Wall SFO Terminal 2 Community Open House: BART on over to SFO and take a gander at the swanky new, state-of-the-art Terminal 2, featuring five new art commissions as well as the reinstallation of
SF News A Different Light, Modern Times Books Closing Sad news for book lovers in San Francisco. According to reports, independently-owned A Different Light (489 Castro) in the Castro and Modern Times (888 Valencia) in the Mission will close their doors this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: Drink cocktails served by actual robots and expect a "snarky" electronic bartender at the fourth annual BarBot 2011, a celebration of cocktail culture and man-machine interface. Drink up! 9 p.m. // pariSoma
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Amy Chua, "Tiger Mother," At Booksmith Anyone with internet access has surely heard about author Amy Chua. Her memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, was recently excerpted in the Wall Street Journal and paired with a rather baiting
SF News Tim Lincecum, Now in Coffee Table Book Form If there's one form of print publishing we support - other than the occasional Wintourian rag - it's the coffee table book. So we're more than thrilled to announce that, according to SF
SF News Proceeds of George W. Bush's <em>Decision Points</em> Going to S.F. Veteran's Hospital Upon hearing that, many moons ago, former First Lady Barbara Bush presented a young George W. Bush with a horrifying fetus-in-a-jar lesson about abortion, both Babs and Dubya instantly turned into the most
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Author Michael Cunningham on <em>Forum</em> Today on KQED's Forum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham (The Hours, Specimen Days, At Home at the End of the World) talked with Michael Krasny about his new novel, By Nightfall, which tells
Arts & Entertainment Banned Book Week: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' 50th Anniversary, Teen Blog Challenge As part of the annual Banned Books Week, San Francisco Public Library will celebrate the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird on Tuesday night. The classic Harper Lee novel is on the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Speaking With Isabel Wilkerson About <em>The Warmth of Other Suns</em> Isabel Wilkerson's new book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story Of America’s Great Migration (Random House) tells the story of the African-American migration from the South to the North and
Arts & Entertainment Now Through Sunday: The Biggest Big Book Sale Yet All you major bookworms out there are probably already in the know about the 46th Annual Big Book Sale at Fort Mason Center's Festival Pavilion, which opened its doors to the public this
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Green Apple's Book of the Month This week we bring you a delightful double-dose of Green Apple Books. Check out the bookstore's latest cute and quirky commercial featuring their "Courageous Commando Cuties" advertising Green Apple's September Book of the
SF News Modern Times Books Needs Your Help Modern Times Books, the Valencia Street bookstore that carries a wide variety of new and used books on "globalization, politics and media, as well as an array of graphic novels, fiction, and criticism"
Arts & Entertainment Adobe Books Art Installation Proves Point Contrary to what Adobe Books' owner Andrew McKinley told SFist Jay a couple of weeks back, Mission Mission reports that Adobe Books is not closing any time soon. Apparently, the "Everything Must Go"
SF News Danielle Steel’s Bookkeeper Sentenced to Prison for Fraud, Tax Evasion You've got to love local author Danielle Steel. Her daughters look nothing short of delightful, she successfully extracted herself out of the inner SF society sect, and her house looks like this. Which
Arts & Entertainment Kids' Pajama Party Tonight at Cover to Cover Booksellers This is a cute idea! In honor of Noe Valley Celebrates the Book Week, Cover to Cover Booksellers (1307 Castro St) is hosting an hour-long Pajama Party geared toward 3- to 8-year-olds this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Addendum: Karl Soehnlein Book Reading, Launch Party Local scribe Karl Soehnlein's third novel, Robin and Ruby, a sequel to the award-winning The World of Normal Boys, was thrust upon the world today. You can watch the book trailer (!?) here. What's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Southern Exposure presents An Evening of Bollywood and Tabla with Robin Sukhadia, which includes a lecture focusing on RD Burman, the renowned film composer of Sholay, followed by a classical tabla performance
SF News Avatar: the Book by Amy Crocker In case you missed the message of conservation and peace in theaters, James Cameron confirmed that he will write an Avatar novel. The novel will closely follow the plot of
misc SFist Out and About How much is that doggie in the window (who's inadvertently superimposed with the reflection of this contributor)? Spotted at Kayo Books on Post near Leavenworth, purveyors of paperbacks from the 1940s to 1970s,
