Green Apple Books on the Park
@booksonthepark.bsky.social
A branch of the legendary Green Apple Books in San Francisco's Inner Sunset. Est. 2014. Events happen here!
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NEXT WEEK! Free to attend, RSVP here: thethirdplace.is/event/annale...
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
October 2, 2026 at 6:14 PM
NEXT WEEK! Free to attend, RSVP here: thethirdplace.is/event/annale...
Thanks to
@richmondsunsetnews.com.web.brid.gy for covering our event with Maria Lenhart last month! Here for all the SF history enthusiasts.
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@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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August 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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...
@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...
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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
🗓️ Sep 23 | 7:00 PM
📍Calvary Presbyterian Church, SF
@sfcalpres.bsky.social @greenapplebooks.bsky.social
@wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social
August 18, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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
🗓️ 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!
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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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August 6, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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!
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localnewsmatters.org/2026/07/31/b...
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...
July 23, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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."
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"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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July 21, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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-...
"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-...
"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...
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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July 14, 2026 at 8:13 PM
"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...
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...
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
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‘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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July 13, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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-...
www.orartswatch.org/antikoni-an-...
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."
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"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."
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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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July 10, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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-...
"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-...
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...
July 6, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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...
Video: Nick Martino: Scrap Book
In this Green Apple Books event, Nick Martino reads from his debut poetry collection, Scrap Book (Alice James Books, 2026), and discusses how he used different types of archival documents to explore h...
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June 30, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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!
June 30, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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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June 29, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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...
Thank you to @pw.org for sharing our event with @stpfau.bsky.social and @brendanpmchugh.bsky.social! www.pw.org/content/stev...
Video: Steven Pfau: Say Nephew
In this Green Apple Books event moderated by Brendan McHugh, Steven Pfau reads from his debut book, Say Nephew: On Boyhood, Unclehood, and Queer Mentorship (Catapult, 2026), and discusses his desire t...
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June 18, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Thank you to @pw.org for sharing our event with @stpfau.bsky.social and @brendanpmchugh.bsky.social! www.pw.org/content/stev...
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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.
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#poetry #poetryreading #authorevent #booklaunch #indiebookstores
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#poetry #poetryreading #authorevent #booklaunch #indiebookstores
June 17, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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
@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.
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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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June 16, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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.
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lithub.com/grief-rage-a...
@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:
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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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June 15, 2026 at 7:38 PM
@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-...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/deb-...
Tomorrow, 6/9! RSVP and details: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...
June 8, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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!
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Brian Goldstone: There Is No Place for Us with Alexis Madrigal
YouTube video by GreenAppleBooks
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May 19, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcPQ...
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Tomorrow night at @booksonthepark.bsky.social!
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
SF: May 20 at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social, with Tonya M. Foster
NYC: May 27 at P&T Knitwear, with Charles H. Lynch
9th Ave: Wesley Brown with Tonya M. Foster
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May 19, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Tomorrow night at @booksonthepark.bsky.social!
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@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!
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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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May 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
@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...
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
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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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May 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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...
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...
Come celebrate the launch of I'm the Undertow tonight! Details at this link: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...
May 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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...
Come celebrate the launch of I'm the Undertow tonight! Details at this link: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...
Thanks to Claire Kirch for writing about our Indie Bookstore Day karaoke party benefiting Books Not Bans in @publisherswkly.bsky.social!
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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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May 2, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Thanks to Claire Kirch for writing about our Indie Bookstore Day karaoke party benefiting Books Not Bans in @publisherswkly.bsky.social!
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www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
We cannot WAIT to host Christian John Wikane for A Night at the Disco on Monday, 5/4! Details in the thread
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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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May 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
We cannot WAIT to host Christian John Wikane for A Night at the Disco on Monday, 5/4! Details in the thread
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