By Katie Sue Ambellan Here in San Francisco, we have all kinds of literary events.   We’ve got in-store author events,  readings at branch libraries almost every night of the week, Literary Death Matches, Writers with Drinks and the monthly storytelling series Porchlight, to name a few. Hip literary events are happening all over these days [...]

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Losers–my kind of superhero! Daily Treats are sweet finds from our Treat Avenue Donation Center. Hungry for more collectibles?  Find us at Amazon and AbeBooks.

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By Marcia Schneider The Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Chapter (SPJ) held a forum on the state of journalism in the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Main Library last week. The topic was Your Views on Local News and members and guests were treated to an amazingly diverse and stellar panel, including journalists, [...]

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By Oscar Villalon With having one of the country’s most vibrant, thriving literary communities, in a state that is overall teeming with fantastic writers and respected authors of every genre and style, comes the opportunity to celebrate that fact. The Northern California Book Awards, which will be announced April 18 at the San Francisco Public [...]

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By Mary Ellen Hannibal This has been a good week for Christopher Moore’s many fans.  Bite Me, volume 3 in his San Francisco vampire trilogy, was published, and people have been waiting for this.  His most recent book before today is Fool, a re-telling of Shakespeare’s great tragedy, in, uh, rather a different tone.  Fool [...]

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By Oscar Villalon Ron Charles, the deputy editor at the Washington Post Book World, had some interesting things to say at the Virginia Book Festival over the weekend. Actually, he always has interesting things to say (check out his Tweets), but in this clip he talks about how the sausage gets made at the Post’s [...]

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The Camper’s Bible by Bill Riviere Daily Treats are sweet finds from our Treat Avenue Donation Center. Hungry for more collectibles?  Find us at Amazon and AbeBooks.

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By Anne Wintroub Today, the AP and many more reported on a study by the Gates Foundation and the University of Washington Information School that found that: Nearly one-third of Americans age 14 or older – roughly 77 million people – used a public library computer or wireless network to access the Internet in the [...]

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Every week, we bring you the best sellers from coast to coast. From the New York Times: Fiction: 1.  House Rules, by Jodi Picoult 2.  The Help, by Kathryn Stockett 3.  The Silent Sea, by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul 4.  Backlash, by Aaron Allston 5.  Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, by Seth Grahame-Smith Nonfiction: [...]

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Keeping Your Child Normal by Bernard Sachs Another parental-anxiety classic. Daily Treats are sweet finds from our Treat Avenue Donation Center. Hungry for more collectibles?  Find us at Amazon and AbeBooks.

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