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Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 6d ago

A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out next week, 10/6! Join me on book tour, starting in San Francisco with a banger of an event at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social with @olivasthewriter.bsky.social. Next: Chicago, NYC, Boston, Burlington VT, and Ottawa! See you soon! #booksky #scifi #books

Thanks to @richmondsunsetnews.com.web.brid.gy for covering our event with Maria Lenhart last month! Here for all the SF history enthusiasts. richmondsunsetnews.com/2026/08/14/r...

Richmond Author’s New Book Highlights a Forgotten San Francisco

Last month, Green Apple Books on the Park celebrated Maria Lenhart, an acclaimed journalist and writer who has authored more than 100 publications. The event celebrated her latest book, “Lost Treas…

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LittyQ & Co. are obsessed with the cover for R.F. Kuang's new book, Taipei Story☁️ Tickets for the release event are running low! Snag them at buff.ly/8oeLlEv 🗓️ Sep 23 | 7:00 PM 📍Calvary Presbyterian Church, SF @sfcalpres.bsky.social @greenapplebooks.bsky.social @wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social

Thanks @localnewsmatters.bsky.social for the round up shouting out @jillbronfman.bsky.social and Chang-rae Lee! Hope to see you at Bronfman's event on 8/12 and Lee's on 8/20! localnewsmatters.org/2026/07/31/b...

Bay City Books: New books by California authors July-August 2026 - Local News Matters

These are among the new titles with local themes or released by local writers, listed in alphabetical order by author names:    Jude Berman (Courtesy She

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Fútbol fever ain't over here! Come see Nick Greene tonight to celebrate HOW TO WATCH SOCCER LIKE A GENIUS with Ben Gucciardi. Proceeds benefit Soccer Without Borders. RSVP and details at the link: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...

Happy Pub Day to Claire Vaye Watkins' Yellow Pine! Watkins joins us tomorrow, 7/22. RSVP and details in the thread. "In my fiction I try to say (as beautifully as I can) what I see. I try to see the land as it sees me. Maybe I write to show myself what I believe in." lithub.com/claire-vaye-...

Claire Vaye Watkins on Writing a Love Letter to the Mojave Desert

The Mojave Desert is in Claire Vaye Watkins’s DNA. She was born in Bishop, four hours away from Tecopa, the town in Death Valley where her parents lived, which had no hospital, raised in Tecopa and…

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"To borrow from John Lee Hooker: It’s in ’em, and it’s got to come out." Gary Phillips joins us on Friday, 7/17 to celebrate his book, THE HAUL (@sohopress.bsky.social) in partnership with @altajournal.bsky.social. www.altaonline.com/california-b...

Why I Write: Let Me See About Getting the Words Right

Gary Phillips’s Violent Spring is the California Book Club’s November 2024 selection.

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Beth Piatote is a multi-hyphenate artist. We have the pleasure of hosting her on Wednesday for her poetry collection, distant water, but we couldn't help but share about a recent production of her Antigone adaptation, Antikoni www.orartswatch.org/antikoni-an-...

‘Antikoni’: An ancient Greek tragedy transported to a current Nez Perce drama • Oregon ArtsWatch

Beth Piatote's adaptation of "Antigone," a co-production of Native Performing Arts Network and Bag&Baggage, frames the revised tale around the conflicts over preservation of Native history and ancient...

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Jake Skeets, Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation, joins us 7/15 "I cannot separate the land from the body because the way we treat the land is the way we treat the body. And historically, especially for Native people or Indigenous people, that's sort of a lived reality." www.kosu.org/jake-skeets-...

Jake Skeets' new poetry book offers world of hope amid changing climate

Jake Skeets’s new poetry book, Horses, examines the implications of climate change inside his tribal community and the relationship between the land and the body. While apocalyptic at times, Horses le...

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Tomorrow! Looking forward to talking SF nostalgia with Maria Lenhart. Rumor has it she has some interesting facts about our location, which housed the beloved Le Video until 2015. RSVP and details: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...

Thank you to @pw.org for sharing the recording of our event with Nick Martino and @briantierney.bsky.social celebrating Scrap Book (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social). You can check it out for yourself here: www.pw.org/content/nick...

Happy publication day to @drkatiegaddini.bsky.social's Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right. We will be hosting Dr. Gaddini alongside @moiradonegan.bsky.social next week, July 9, in partnership with The Ruby. Details in the thread!

Loved this review of @jsweber.bsky.social's City on the Edge in @altajournal.bsky.social by Robert Ito. We'll be hosting Weber along with Quentin Hardy on July 1. Details in the thread! www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...

City by the Bay

Jonathan Weber’s nonfiction work City on the Edge tells the story of how technology and politics altered San Francisco over the past 40 years.

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Thank you to @pw.org for sharing our event with @stpfau.bsky.social and @brendanpmchugh.bsky.social! www.pw.org/content/stev...

Don't miss Christian Bancroft at upcoming readings on Monday, June 22 in Berkeley, CA and Tuesday, June 23 in San Francisco, CA. Visit ueplit.short.gy/events for details. @pegasusbooks.bsky.social @booksonthepark.bsky.social #poetry #poetryreading #authorevent #booklaunch #indiebookstores

Zinzi Clemmons joins us here tomorrow! We love this interview with her and @lesbrains.bsky.social for @literaryhub.bsky.social. Event details in the thread. lithub.com/grief-rage-a...

Grief, Rage, and Restraint: Zinzi Clemmons on Telling Her Own Story

Being invited to interview a writer that one admires is so rewarding, and I’m thrilled that I got the chance to speak with Zinzi Clemmons about her new book Freedom: Essays. We need Clemmons’s voic…

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@debolinunferth.bsky.social joins us tomorrow, 6/16! We love this interview with her and Kyle Francis Williams in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Event details in the thread: lareviewofbooks.org/article/deb-...

Is There Such a Thing as Death? | Los Angeles Review of Books

Deb Olin Unferth’s new novel counts down to the end of humanity.

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Tomorrow, 6/9! RSVP and details: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...

A belated congratulations to @brian-goldstone.bsky.social for his Pulitzer win for his book, THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US. We were fortunate to host Goldstone alongside @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social last year to discuss this singularly important book. Congrats, Brian! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcPQ...

Brian Goldstone: There Is No Place for Us with Alexis Madrigal

YouTube video by GreenAppleBooks

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Tomorrow night at @booksonthepark.bsky.social!

The Believer@thebeliever.net · 5mo ago

Come celebrate Wesley Brown’s "Looking for Frank Wills," a new novel that reimagines the life of the man without whom there would be no Watergate. SF: May 20 at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social, with Tonya M. Foster NYC: May 27 at P&T Knitwear, with Charles H. Lynch

@tracyclarkflory.bsky.social on @kqedforum.bsky.social with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social this morning! Can't wait to host her at @booksonthepark.bsky.social next week. Event details in the thread. Hope to see you there! www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

Tracy Clark-Flory’s “My Mother’s Daughter” Tells the Story of Finding Her Long-Lost Sister | KQED

We talk to Clark-Flory about finding her long-lost sister and learning about why her mother could not keep her child.

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Wesley Brown's Looking for Frank Wills (@mcsweeneys.net) pubbed this week! We can't wait to celebrate at @booksonthepark.bsky.social. See what Electric Literature had to say about this fictionalized version of the Watergate figure and find event info in 🧵 electricliterature.com/15-must-read...

15 Must-Read Small Press Books of Spring 2026 - Electric Literature

Celebrate the warmer weather with these hot new indie titles

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How satisfying is it to see a big stack of preorders for a local author's debut? SO satisfying! Thanks to everyone who supported, it makes a big difference. Come celebrate the launch of I'm the Undertow tonight! Details at this link: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...

Eric Scot Tryon@ericscottryon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Signed all my pre-orders yesterday at my favorite bookstore!!! @booksonthepark.bsky.social Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered!! 🙏🏼💙

Thanks to Claire Kirch for writing about our Indie Bookstore Day karaoke party benefiting Books Not Bans in @publisherswkly.bsky.social! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Indie Bookstore Day 2026: A Cause for Celebration

Despite economic uncertainty, independent booksellers across the country saw sales soar this past weekend thanks to special events and promotions that have become bigger, more creative, and more elabo...

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We cannot WAIT to host Christian John Wikane for A Night at the Disco on Monday, 5/4! Details in the thread sf.gazetteer.co/a-disco-hist...

A disco historian’s fabulous disco playlist

Ahead of his appearance at Green Apple Books Books on the Park, ‘A Night at the Disco’ author Christian John Wikane’s tunes for your own Good Times

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@tracyclarkflory.bsky.social is on Modern Love discussing her latest book, My Mother's Daughter. We can't wait to host her on May 14 with Savala Nolan. Event details in thread.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 5mo ago

As a teen, my mother gave up a kid in circumstances very much like those of the mother in this discussion, and I went the first twelve years of my life not knowing I had an older brother. So this discussion feels familiar. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/p...

Our friend, author Lewis Buzbee, wrote about the relief of being uncool. With shoutouts to Books on the Park booksellers Andrew and Nick LB! www.litstack.com/books-i-was-...

Books I Was Once Too Cool To Read | A LitStack Review

Lewis Buzbee calls us out with Books I Was Once To Cool To Read. Maybe there was a time when you thought you were too cool to read certain books, but now you

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Happy Pub Day to @patrickcottrell.bsky.social's Afternoon Hours of a Hermit (@eccobooks.bsky.social)! Cottrell joins us next month with Rita Bullwinkel and R.O. Kwon. RSVP here: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...

9th Ave: Patrick Cottrell with Rita Bullwinkel and R.O. Kwon

Welcome to our new website! We're excited to see you. *** RETURNING USERS WILL NEED TO RESET THEIR PASSWORD FOR THIS NEW SITE. CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD.***

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Book launch!! I'm so excited to announce that I will be celebrating the launch of my debut novel, I'M THE UNDERTOW, at my favorite San Francisco bookstore!! 🍏 AND in conversation with the wonderful Kim Magowan! @booksonthepark.bsky.social @kimmagowan.bsky.social

Next Monday! @matsthepoet.bsky.social celebrates his award-winning English-language debut, ESKATOS & THE STRETCHED NECKS OF STILLNESS, in conversation with Forrest Gander at @booksonthepark.bsky.social in San Francisco. Register here: buff.ly/6J7KbtD