Green Apple Books on the Park

Trust usyour mom will love it Pick up a copy of Kristin Hersh’s latest book, Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood for your Mommie Dearest, and don’t forget to tune in this coming Friday when Hersh is joined by Pixies frontman Black Francis for an in-depth conversation! Link in our bio. See you then

In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we would like to highlight some books written by AAPI authors. Swipe left for our reading list of titles to start with. Listed from top to bottom, we have: FICTION Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu... How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang The Son of Good Fortune by Lysley Tenorio Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri NON-FICTION Disability Visibility by Alice Wong Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Northern Light by Kazim Ali Family in Six Tones by Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao Eat A Peach by David Chang Chinatown Pretty by Andria Lo and Valerie Luu CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT PICKS Front Desk by Kelly Yang Butterfly Yellow by Thanhhá Lai Anna K: A Love Story by Jenny Lee The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee We Are Not Free by Traci Chee Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Ho'onani: Hula Warrior by Heather Gale Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho

Mark your calendars! Carlo Rovelliworld-renowned quantum physicist and author of the bestseller, The Order of Timejoins us to discuss his latest book, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution on Thursday, May 27. Presented by Green Apple Books. This evening will include a conversation between Rovelli and a special guest and will be followed by an audience Q+A. Tickets include event access and a signed copy of Helgoland! Click the link in our bio to grab your ticke...ts! Limited free, event-only spots available. Please note this is a ticketed event. This is going to be stellar!

From the man himself! Click the link in our bio to grab your seat+signed copy+awesome site access. Your ticket also gives you the chance to win VanderMeerian merch! First tier tickets officially sold out. This is going to be epic! Repost @jeff_vandermeer123 YES! Epic event with the amazing Maria Dahvana Headley. Who is still in the grips of the phenomenal success of her Beowulf translation, so it's very kind of her to join me for this weird hummingbird tour.

Wednesday! Join us for an evening of poetry as we celebrate the latest collections of Peter Filkins and Rosanna WarrenWater/Music and So Forth. Click the link in our bio to find event login and pick up a copy of one or both of these beautiful collections See you then! About Water/Music Exploring the space between nature and culture, the poems of Water / Music anchor themselves in the timely and the timeless. Rich and diverse in their formal intricacy, they move with ease ...from narrative to meditation, from close physical observation to the haunts of memory, and from lyric sorrow to the pleasure of living in the world. Water / Music embraces and celebrates life's mystery and the soul's repose amid "talismans at twilight, the whir of birds." About So Forth A lyrical new volume from a poet beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets (Harold Bloom). With irony, in mourning tinged with eros, one of our most extraordinary poets blends the personal and the political to meditate on damage, aging, and injustice. The poems in So Forth surge back in memory, pondering guilt and forgiveness. Consciousness flows from singular to plural; identity in these poems does a round dance with other personae, with formidable women artists of the past in the powerful sequence Legende of Good Women, with pre-Socratic philosophers, and with lovers, children, and strangersthe strangest of whom is the face in the mirror. In response to griefs both historical and contemporary, So Forth contemplates the quest for the holy and traditions of the sacred.

From our friends at @librofm! Another reason to join us (in-store and online) for Independent Bookstore Day festivities on Saturday, April 24!

Exquisitely well-written, Things We Lost to the Water is a tender, haunting story of loss, love, family and survival. A moving and powerful debut.Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown MONDAY! Eric Nguyen joins us to discuss his debut novel, Things We Lost to the Water, with Green Apple favorite Lydia Kiesling. We can’t wait to hear these two in conversation. Copies with signed bookplate available! Click the link in our bio to grab your copy and login info

Our May 2021 Book of the Month is Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart https://www.greenapplebooks.com/book/9780525657743

Melissa Febos is joined by R.O. Kwon next Wednesday, April 14 to discuss her latest book, Girlhood. We’re delighted to have the opportunity to host them and can’t wait for you to check out this book. We still have limited signed copies available, so grab yours while you can. See you then About Girlhood A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self and our society. ... In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she’d been told about herself and the habits and defenses she’d developed over years of trying to meet others’ expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny. Written with Febos’ characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.

It's that time again! Our favorite book-ish (unofficial) holiday is on the way - Independent Bookstore Day! Stop by all of our locations on Saturday, April 24th for a different flavor of fun. Here at Books on the Park (9th Ave.) we'll have blind date books, hourly raffles for free books and Green Apple goodies, free books from the future, and some special IBD exclusives - including signed books, merch and more! And if you want even more festivities, don't forget to check out ...@Green Apple Books and Music and @Browser Books on April 24th for their special Independent Bookstore Day activities. We hope you're as excited as we are! See you soon!

If we haven’t expressed how much we like Rebecca Handler’s debut novel, Edie Richter is Not Alone, here’s another reminder. Thanks to Litquake for featuring us in their newsletter

Big announcement In partnership with Bay Area Book Festival. Join us on Sunday, May 2 at 1pm PT, when Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his latest novel, Klara and the Sun, with fellow literary superstar Yaa Gyasi. Please note this is a ticketed event. Tickets are available with a signed copy of the book while supplies last. For more information or to purchase a ticket, visit greenapplebooks.com/event or baybookfest.org

Monday, Feb. 8 at 6pm PT. Mark Wunderlich reads from and discusses his latest collection, God of Nothingness, with Diane Seuss. We’re so excited to be hosting two stellar contemporary poets. Mark’s book is available now in-store and online, and you can preorder Diane’s collection, Frank, from us as well. Zoom login available at greenapplebooks.com/event Mark Wunderlich’s poems are alarmingly wise, lyrically charged, and built out of an almost otherworldly clarity. Traversing the hard artifacts of familial memory and the loss and cruelty of this earthly plane, Wunderlich makes an argument not for beauty but for a clear-eyed resilience. God of Nothingness is a book that is as devastating as it is life-affirming, a weapon that both wounds and saves.Ada Limón

On February 17th, we're partnering with Kink.com to bring you a night of readings, demonstrations, and conversations in celebration of the anthology KINK. Featuring R.O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell, Vanessa Clark, and panelists Nika Cherrelle, Dr. Liz Powell, Dusty, Mia Little, and more TBA. Tickets can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kink-on-and-off-the-page-ticke

Friday! Join us at 6pm PT when Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell discuss their latest book, Aftershock, with Faith Salie! The second book in their Jessie Teska series, this will not be one to miss. Signed books available while supplies last. Zoom login information is available on our website at greenapplebooks.com/event. See you then!

Our February Book of the Month is Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler! You can catch our virtual event with her and Anna Wiener on Monday, February 22 at 6pm. More about Fake Accounts here: A darkly funny take on the residue from the Trump era, including the pleasures of lying and the comfort found in conspiracy theories. After our narrator learns her boyfriend has a secret life as an online right-wing crank, she decamps for Berlin where she tries on new personalities of her own among strangers. For fans of Ottessa Moshfegh and Zadie Smith, and those in doomed relationships with their phones. Oyler is the best literary critic of her generation and now one of its best novelists, too.Benjy

Happy Halloween! From 2-5pm today! Thank you to @localtake for inviting us to participate in touchless trick-or-treating this year along with our other Inner Sunset neighbors. Check out this sweet view and swipe to see our guidelines

Thanks to the New York Times for adding our event with Anna North and Esmé Weijun Wang to their At Home calendar for this week! See you on Wednesday when North and Wang discuss Outlawed. Zoom login available on our website or at the link here. https://www.nytimes.com//at-ho/things-to-do-this-week.html

So many new zines! Many from our friends at @microcosm_pub. Some of our favorite Frontier comics as well. It is worth it to Zoom in on every title.

Hello boos We are happy to be participating in this year’s Touchless Trick-or-Treating in the Inner Sunset! Bring the kids by on Saturday between 2-5pm to show off their costumes and collect some candy from us. Our treats will be outside in individual, spread out bags for easy access. We just ask that the kiddos pick the treat with their eyes before touching with their hands to avoid unnecessary contact. Hand sanitizer will of course be provided. This is a strange Halloween, but we’re thankful to @localtake for organizing this with our fellow neighbors! Plus we can’t wait to see how everyone has incorporated their masks into their costumes! Happy Halloween

Hello friends! We are happy to be participating in this year's Touchless Trick-or-Treating in the Inner Sunset! Bring the kids by on Saturday from 2-5pm to collect some candy from us. Our treats will be outside in individual, spread out bags for easy access. We just ask that the kiddos pick the treat they want with their eyes before touching with their hands to avoid unnecessary contact. Hand sanitizer will be provided, of course. This is a strange Halloween, but we're thankful to Local Take for organizing this with our fellow neighbors! We can't wait to see how everyone has incorporated their masks into their costumes!

Warm up for the holidays in our long sleeve T's! https://www.bonfire.com/green-apple-books-holiday/

Very exciting announcement! Local author and friend of the store Rebecca Handler’s debut novel, Edie Richter is Not Alone, is available for preorder! Signed and personalized copies available! Just be sure to write specify in your order comment who you would like the book made out to. Happy to be collaborating with @unnamedpress on this. Publication date is March 9, 2021. Congrats Rebecca! Repost @unnamedpress COVER REVEALWe are thrilled to share that @onewomanparty’s... debut novel #EdieRichterIsNotAlone will be out in March 2021. Matter-of-fact Edie Richter is not afraid to speak her mind. She is cutting and funny, and her direct manner belies her lack of direction. As she moves with her husband from San Francisco to Perth, Australia, she must contend with her complex emotions surrounding her father's recent death, and the life she could have led. @asgreer calls it "Hilariously heartbreakingly honest... a perfect book." and @vendelavida says "Handler’s writing is spare and sharp and brings to mind the work of Mary Robison and Lorrie Moore." October is the new December: pre-order signed copies from @booksonthepark at the link in bio! #bookstagram #igreads #coverreveal #debut #debutnovel #bookish #bookworm #newbook #newbookalert

Tune in on Tuesday, Oct. 27th at 7pm PDT for a chat with David Lazar in conversation with Joanna Eleftheriou on his new book, Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age. In this essay collection, David Lazar looks to our intimate relationships with characters, both well-known and lesser known, from Hollywood's Golden Age. Zoom info at www.greenapplebooks.com/event.

The perfect shelftalker doesn’t exi c/o of bookseller Devin at @greenapplebooks

More reads for the Halloween season! If you’re not so keen on reading about ghosts and goblins, we offer you these equally terrifying yet far more realistic reads to give yourself chills, fiction and non-fiction alike. Climate anxiety! The carceral state! The internet’s racial bias! Election season! Existential dread! Read on, listed by row: The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa Weather, Jenny Offill Severance, Ling Ma Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s... Most Dangerous Man, Mary L. Trump 1984, George Orwell Seasonal Associate, Heike Geissler Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Kate Manne Anti-Social: Online Extremists, Techno-utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, Andrew Marantz The Complete Stories, Franz Kafka Red Pill, Hari Kunzru The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace-Wells Carceral Capitalism, Jackie Wang See more

Just a few sPoOoky reads for the season What are some of your spine-tingling books? Clockwise: Murder Maps: Crime Scenes Revisited. Phrenology to Fingerprint, Dr. Drew Gray Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Hell House, Richard Matheson The Aosawa Murders, Riku Onda... My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara Meddling Kids, Edgar Cantero The Perfect Nanny, Leila Slimani Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff See more

TOMORROWValerie Luu and Andria Lo of @chinatownpretty are joined by Bonnie Tsui to talk about their smash hit book of Chinatown’s most stylish seniors. Join us tomorrow, Wed. 10/21 at 7pm. Zoom login at greenapplebooks.com/event. We have a limited number of signed copies available! Get them while you can in-store or online. If ordering online, be sure to write signed in the order comments. See you tomorrow!

Happy 20th birthday to our neighbors at Arizmendi! Can’t imagine the neighborhood without them. Pick up a treat and tell them how much you love them.

Your Local Bookstore Wants You to Know That It’s Struggling https://www.nytimes.com//independent-bookstores-economy.ht

TOMORROW! Bett Williams and Juli Delgado Lopera join us for a reading and discussion celebrating Williams’ book, The Wild Kindess: A Psilocybin Odyssey. We’re excited Join us at 7pm PDT. Zoom login info available at greenapplebooks.com/event. This event is free and open to the public. Books available in-store and on our website. See you then