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About Me

The Booksmith is San Francisco's leading independent bookstore. We're located in the historic Haight Ashbury district (just a block and a half from the corner of Haight and Ashbury). We've been in business since 1976.
The Booksmith has an eclectic author events program. To find out who will be appearing at our store, please visit our current EVENTS PAGE .
[ Some of the authors and artists who have appeared at our store in the past include: Allen Ginsberg - Patti Smith - Dave Eggers - Ray Bradbury - Lemony Snicket - David Sedaris - Art Spiegelman - Barry Paris - Harlan Ellison - Hunter S. Thompson - Neil Gaiman - Wes Craven - China Mieville - George Takei - Phillip Pullman - Robert Jordan - Grace Slick - Joel-Peter Witkin - Lynda Barry - Marianne Faithfull - Nick Hornby - Timothy Leary - Annie Leibovitz - Ralph Steadman - Irvine Welsh - Margaret Cho - Tom Robbins - Camille Paglia - Sen. George McGovern - Czeslaw Milosz - Robert Bly - Paul Auster - Michael Ondaatje - Sarah Waters - Jeffrey Eugenides - Neal Stephenson - Jeanette Winterson - Harvey Pekar - Neil Young - Chuck Palahniuk - Daniel Clowes - David Bryne - Hilary Knight - Sarah Smith - Jim Harrison - S.T. Joshi - Terry Pratchett - James Ellroy - Walter Mosley - Forrest J. Ackerman - Sen. Gary Hart - Richard Avedon - William Gibson - Baby Peggy - Richard Ford - Isabel Allende - Matt Groening - Gary Larson - Amy Tan - Peter Coyote - Armistead Maupin - Maya Angelou - Marion Zimmer Bradley - William T. Vollmann - Khaled Hosseini - Tom Hayden - Ralph Steadman - Michael Chabon - Chuck Barris - Peter Sis - Richie Unterberger - and hundreds of others ]

My Interests

fiction, poetry, essays, lit crit, history, biography, memoirs, art, photography, film, music, science fiction, fantasy, weird fiction, horror, local history, travel, political science, religion, mythology, cookbooks, kids books, new releases, computer books, signed books, silent film

I'd like to meet:

Thomas Pynchon, J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Leonard Cohen, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ali Smith, Alice Munro, Jerzy Ficowski, Richard Sala, Oscar Levant, Cole Porter, Paul Robeson, Frederick Douglass, Angela Davis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Cardinal Richelieu,

Music:

White Stripes, Billie Holiday, Louis Jordan, REM, Tommy Dorsey, Marshall Crenshaw, The Smiths, Neil Young, Erik Satie, Nat King Cole, 10000 Maniacs, Sibelius, Beethoven, Bartok, Stravinsky, Rudy Vallee, John Lee Hooker, Edith Piaf, Bob Dylan, Beatles, The Cure, OMD, Let's Talk About Girls, Bruce Springsteen, The Clash, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Hanka Ordonowna

Movies:

Amelie, Tin Drum, Blue Angel, Ghost World, Dr Zhivago, Pandora's Box, Farhenheit 451, Inherit the Wind, Moby Dick, Somewhere in Time, Journey to the Center of the Earth, A Hard Day's Night, V for Vendetta, Of Human Bondage, My Man Godfrey, Incredible Mr. Limpet, Slaughterhouse Five, Day of the Triffids, Sound of Music, Virgin Suicides, Robinson Caruso on Mars, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Sunset Boulevard, Lost In Translation, Dead Man, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, This is Spinal Tap, Baraka, Best in Show, Hedwig, Basquiat, and anything with: Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Louise Brooks, Erich von Stroheim, John Waters

Television:

Have Gun Will Travel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, Dr Who, Sherlock Holmes, The Simpsons, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Jeeves and Wooster, Xena, Lost, X Files, Space Above and Beyond, Survivors, Smallville, Deadwood, Blake's 7,

Books:

The Vanished Child, Tipping The Velvet, Virgin Suicides, Lulu in Hollywood, Labyrinths, Invention of Morel, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Ignorance, The Three Musketeers,

Heroes:

Eleanor Roosevelt, Aimee Bender, Barry Paris, Sarah Smith, China Mieville, S.T. Joshi, Allen Ginsberg, Czeslaw Milosz, Richie Unterberger, Kevin Brownlow, Kurt Vonnegut, Kevin Brownlow, Jorge Luis Borges, Sarah Waters, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stuart Dybek, Julie Orringer, Ryan Harty, Harlan Ellison, Emil Petaja, Hannes Bok, Daniel Handler, Louise Brooks, Ernest Hemingway, Salman Rushdie, Noam Chomsky, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Margaret Cho, Ziggy Stardust, Joe Strummer, Johnny Cash, Patti Smith, Andy Warhol

My Blog

June author events

Welcome to The Booksmith calendar of author events. Our readings/booksignings are a great opportunity to meet an author, hear them read from their work, or purchase an autographed copy of their latest...
Posted by The Booksmith on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:48:00 PST

Booksmith named "Best Author Events"

The Booksmith just won the "Best Author Appearances" category from the SF Weekly in their annual "Best of the Bay" issue. Here is the linkhttp://www.sfweekly.com/bestof/2008/award/best-author-ap peara...
Posted by The Booksmith on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:29:00 PST

May author events

MAY AUTHOR EVENTS Welcome to The Booksmith calendar of author events. Our readings / booksignings are a great opportunity to meet an author, hear them read from their work, or purchase an autographed...
Posted by The Booksmith on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:17:00 PST

April author events

APRIL AUTHOR EVENTS Welcome to The Booksmith calendar of author events. Our readings / booksignings are a great opportunity to meet an author, hear them read from their work, or purchase an autogra...
Posted by The Booksmith on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:09:00 PST

March author events

MARCH AUTHOR EVENT Welcome to The Booksmith calendar of author events. Our readings / booksignings are a great opportunity to meet an author, hear them read from their work, or purchase an autographed...
Posted by The Booksmith on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:39:00 PST

Feb author events

FEBRUARY AUTHOR EVENTS Welcome to The Booksmith calendar of author events. Our readings/booksignings are a great opportunity to meet an author, hear them read from their work, or purchase an autogr...
Posted by The Booksmith on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:15:00 PST

January author events

Welcome to The Booksmith calendar of author events. Our readings/booksignings are a great opportunity to meet an author, hear them read from their work, or purchase an autographed copy of their lates...
Posted by The Booksmith on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:32:00 PST

November author events

..> ..> Welcome to The Booksmith calendar of author events. Our readings/booksignings are a great opportunity to meet an author, hear them read from their work, or purchase an autographed ...
Posted by The Booksmith on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:23:00 PST

OCTOBER AUTHOR EVENTS

OCTOBER AUTHOR EVENTS at THE BOOKSMITHWelcome to The Booksmith calendar of author events. Our readings/booksignings are a great opportunity to meet an author, hear them read from their work, or purch...
Posted by The Booksmith on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:57:00 PST

Sept author events @ Booksmith

SEPTEMBER AUTHOR EVENTS Welcome to The Booksmith calendar of author events. Our readings/booksignings are a great opportunity to meet an author, hear them read from their work, or purchase an autograp...
Posted by The Booksmith on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:03:00 PST