The Booksmith
1644 Haight Street (map)
415.863.8688
Hours: Mon-Sat 10am-10pm Sunday 10am-8pm
Independent bookstore located in San Francisco’s historic Haight-Ashbury
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MARGOT LEITMAN, Gawky: Tales of an Extra Long Awkward Phase
Sat. 05/18 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
"If Judy Blume, Lucille Ball, and Chelsea Handler had a three-way and a love child was born, it would be this book." -- Rachel Dratch You probably know her as a regular sketch performer on L…more»
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Joe Hill, Nos4 Atu
Wed. 05/15 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
Victoria McQueen is a very special girl. On her blue Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she can travel anywhere she likes and retrieve anything lost by simply crossing a rickety, bat-filled covered bri…more»
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GARY GREENBERG, The Book of Woe: The Making of the DSM and the Unmaking of Psychia...
Tue. 05/14 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
An explosive critique of the psychiatric profession’s Bible, the DSM, arrives from Gary Greenberg, a noted author and critic of American psychiatry. Like Too Big to Fail’s look at Wall Street,…more»
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"No Kidding Day for NonMoms" -- Andrea Carla Michaels, Maureen Langan, Bernadette ...
Mon. 05/13 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
ANDREA CARLA MICHAELS, MAUREEN LANGAN, BERNADETTE LUCKETT, and VANDA MIKOLOSKI celebrate NO KIDDING: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood edited by Henriette Mantel In No Kidding, comedy w…more»
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LITERARY CLOWN FOOLERY: Bay to Breakers
Fri. 05/10 | 8:00PM @ The Booksmith (map)
NEIL GAIMAN 6.28.13 San Francisco NEWS: JUST A HANDFUL OF TICKETS REMAIN! :: All The Details :: Strap on your kicks, pin on your bib, and come watch Gretchen get ready for San Francisco's…more»
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JAMES KELMAN, Mo Said She Was Quirky
Thu. 05/09 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
A Literary Superstar Visits from Scotland “What is remarkable about Mo said she was quirky is its gentleness, its compassion, its desire to understand, its art. This is not stream of consciou…more»
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DAVID HENRY STERRY & Friends, Johns, Marks, Tricks, and Chickenhawks: Professional...
Wed. 05/08 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
Ex-teen manchild rent boy David Henry Sterry, and ex-junky/pimp/jailbird RJ Martin will ride herd over a cavalcade of seamy, steamy stories with an all-star lineup of the finest sex working wr…more»
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DAVID HENRY STERRY & Friends, Johns, Marks, Tricks, and Chickenhawks: Professional...
Tue. 05/07 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
Ex-teen manchild rent boy David Henry Sterry, and ex-junky/pimp/jailbird RJ Martin will ride herd over a cavalcade of seamy, steamy stories with an all-star lineup of the finest sex working wr…more»
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WORD, PLAY: Parlor Games with a Literary Twist
Tue. 05/07 | 7:00PM @ The Booksmith (map)
NEIL GAIMAN 6.28.13 San Francisco :: All The Details :: Rowdy, interactive, inappropriate. $15 for pizza, open bar, and 2 hours of putting your BA in English to good use. Word/Play: Know …more»
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MICHAEL POLLAN, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Mon. 05/06 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
Booksmith moves to First Unitarian Universalist SF: Fire, water, air earth -- our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education. In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores t…more»
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SJON, An Evening with the Icelandic Author
Fri. 05/03 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
First things first: Sjón is pronounced “She own,” but as one syllable. It’s OK if you need to take a moment to practice—it’s not every day American readers are tested in the pronunciation of t…more»
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HELENE WECKER, The Golem and the Jinni
Thu. 04/25 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
A GORGEOUS DEBUT: An immigrant tale that combines elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology, Helene Wecker’s sparkling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who arrive se…more»
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OWEN EGERTON, Everyone Says That at the End of the World
Wed. 04/24 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
Earth is the mental asylum of the universe and humans are the incurable inmates. Now the asylum is being shut down Owen Egerton’s new book is a darkly hilarious meditation on the last days of…more»
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REVEREND BILLY, The End of the World
Mon. 04/22 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
Reverend Billy returns to The Booksmith! Children: hurricanes swamp our coasts! Fracking poisons our drinking water! Mountain tops are bulldozed into streams! The end of the world is nigh! I…more»
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Mother Daughter Creative Writing Adventure!
Sun. 04/21 | 2:00PM @ The Booksmith (map)
MOTHER-DAUGHTER CREATIVE WRITING ADVENTURE! (or aunts and their nieces, grandmothers and their granddaughters...) We have just the panacea for the hustle and bustle of a busy week - spend …more»
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FIONA MAAZEL, Woke Up Lonely
Thu. 04/18 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
Fans of Sam Lipsyte, Jennifer Egan, Lauren Groff, and Karen Russell will find much to love in Woke Up Lonely, which is by turns comic, lacerating, heartbreaking, and wholly unpredictable. The…more»
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ELIZABETH SCARBORO, My Foreign Cities -- San Francisco Launch Event!
Wed. 04/17 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
In a much discussed Modern Love piece for The New York Times three years ago, Liz Scarboro eloquently and without regret addressed being a new bride while facing the specter of young widowhood…more»
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KIDS, TRANSLATING POETRY? You bet!
Sun. 04/14 | 11:00AM @ The Booksmith (map)
KIDS, TRANSLATING POETRY? You bet! A Fun, Interactive Workshop It’s true: kids who are engaged in school are more likely to succeed in their academic lives and beyond, and arts education has…more»
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STEPHEN BEACHY + ALVIN LU, A Literary Double-header
Thu. 04/11 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
Stephen Beachy reads from and discusses SOME PHANTOM / NO TIME FLAT, two novellas now available in one volume. The unrooted characters of these lyrical and haunting novellas find themselves i…more»
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RACHEL KUSHNER, The Flamethrowers
Wed. 04/10 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
The author of the terrific Telex from Cuba returns with an incendiary new novel. Set in part in the untrammeled New York art world of the 1970s, The Flamethrowers is the story of a young woma…more»
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BOOKSMITH BOOKSWAP: Home Edition
Fri. 04/05 | 6:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
Go ahead, click your heels together three times. There's no place like home! There's no place like home! There's no place like home! Home. Where is it? What does it mean? Is it the place y…more»
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LALEH KHADIVI, The Walking
Thu. 04/04 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
Within borders, across them, from rural to urban centers, humans are more mobile, and displaced, than they have ever been. As a twenty-first-century migrant, Laleh Khadivi has spent a great de…more»
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JEN LARSEN, Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed ...
Thu. 03/28 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
"For all the noise our culture makes about fat and thin and health and perfect bodies, Jen Larsen's voice rises above the clamor, disarming and funny but unflinching, too. Combining stark hone…more»
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ELLEN SUSSMAN, The Paradise Guest House
Wed. 03/27 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
It starts as a trip to paradise. Sent on assignment to Bali, Jamie, an American adventure guide, imagines spending weeks exploring the island’s lush jungles and pristine white sand beaches. Ye…more»
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JOELLE FRASER, The Forest House: A Year’s Journey into the Landscape of Love, Loss...
Tue. 03/26 | 7:30PM @ The Booksmith (map)
“We were moving to a beautiful but slightly dangerous place, a tiny one-bedroom house on ninety-seven wooded acres at the end of Diamond Fall Road, at the county line, just before the pavement…more»
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