Arts & Entertainment 5 SF Bookstores to Hit Up on (and After) Independent Bookstore Day Independent bookstores are one of the vertebrae that make up the backbone of society. Today, April 30th is the national holiday —Independent Bookstore Day (IBD) — started to celebrate, support, and honor these bastions for all things literature.
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: Shipwreck At The Booksmith As literary events go, we're not sure you can do better than "competitive erotic fanfiction." Tonight, The Booksmith hosts Shipwreck, a contest billed as "fun for the literary pervert" wherein six writers square
SF News "Concept-Based" Bookstore Babylon Falling Closes Nascent San Francisco bookstore Babylon Falling is closing its doors, according to SF Weekly. "After two short years in business," says BF's site, "Babylon Falling will be closing its doors for good at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Hyper-Sensitive Poverty of Imagination This letter was found in 2004 by SFist reader smallerdemon. It was posted near a window of a downtown bookstore that had books by black authors on display. Some Thoughts Is it my
