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…

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

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…

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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…

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

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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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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...

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

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

In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.

Even locals’ expertise will be challenged by SF authors’ in-depth guide.

Berne designed the “Berkeley Bowl Cookbook” and played banjo at music festivals around the West Coast.

Kathleen Boland’s “Scavengers” is a madcap adventure probing questions of reinvention, the wilderness, and the stories we tell ourselves

Karl Ove Knausgaard celebrates the release of The School of Night with Rachel Kushner at Calvary Presbyterian Church.

Pacific Catch is enhancing its Tiki Terrace with new tropical décor and putting the finishing touches on a seasonal fall menu. Inspired by flavors of the Pacific, the restaurant focuses on sustaina…