Dear Animal, by MK Chavez (Nomadic Press)
Bay Area
Image from Lyrics & Dirges Facebook page
Well, this looks exciting! Excellent line up, excellent hosts. See you there?!
Beast Crawl 2016
If you live in or are visiting the Bay Area on July 16th, don’t miss the fifth year of Oakland’s Beast Crawl, a literary festival with a ton of local flavor. Hang with rad writers, editors, and presses in some of the best Oakland hangouts. The hardest challenge of the night will be choosing just one reading in each of the three legs (*biting nails).
Here’s a suggested lineup:
Leg 1: Lyrics and Dirges at Casa Cubana, curated by MK Chavez
Leg 2: Nomadic Press at Awaken Cafe
Leg 3: Mixer 2.0 at the Stork Club, curated by Sean Labrador y Manzano and co-curated by Jeff Von Ward and Nick Johnson
But there are many other excellent combinations! Plan your night by visiting the Beast Crawl website. And don’t forget to crawl to the after party at The Telegraph and The Legionnaire Saloon if you don’t get enough mingling along the way.
Mark your calendars because this is gonna be fun. Don’t forget to visit the Lacuna! Chris Carosi over at City Lights has the deets, some deals, and links:
http://www.blogcitylights.com/2016/05/25/city-lights-at-the-bay-area-book-festival/
Music for Mussolini by Nick Johnson (Nomadic Press)
Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day
Photo from indiebookstoreday.com
Show your gratitude for the indie bookstores that add magic to your town and reading list this Saturday, April 30th. Four hundred participating bookstores will be offering a host of goodies including giveaways, discounts, and parties. You can find participating stores at IBD’s official website. But even if your favorite bookstore isn’t participating, this is still a great opportunity to stop in and say thank you to those hardworking booksellers.
It’s a little old, but Seung Y. Lee put together a list of the top 20 Bay Area independent bookstores for SFGate (sadly, Black Oak Books and Valhalla Books have closed). Add to this list Laurel Book Store, Diesel, and E.M. Wolfman in Oakland, Pegasus Books in Berkeley, and Wilmot’s Books in Alameda. Zooming way, way out, The Guardian put together a list of the top 10 indie bookstores in the world.
What bookstores would be on your list?
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