The Booksmith
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Let's be book pals. Question? orders at booksmith dot com. ✨📚🍸 Open for browsing from 11-7 daily at 1727 Haight.
Haight Ashbury, San Francisco
Joined July 2008
to those of us who are upset we are hosting noami klein for her book about how she gets conflated with naomi wolf because they think we are hosting naomi wolf . boy have we got a book for you.
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TONIGHT!! We are so excited to host a virtual event with RuPaul's Drag Race legends Trixie and Katya for their new book, TRIXIE AND KATYA'S GUIDE TO MODERN WOMANHOOD! Please join us! Details, links, et cetera:
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Regarding Simon & Schuster, Milo Y., and Booksmith: here's what we're doing. Thanks for reading.
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We're out of free copies of 1984, but we have The Handmaid's Tale and In the Garden of Beasts up for grabs. #resist #thanksmysterybenefactor
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Hi, friends: for the time being, we'll continue to ask staff and shoppers to join us fully masked. We're a community space that needs to remain accessible for all, including kids and the immunocompromised.
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Our new Alembic parklet was visited by some graffiti fairies last night, and while we are scrubbing it off at present (needs must!) we thought we'd post it here and say, in the least pithy and most sincere way possible: we absolutely agree with you.
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Last night, we locked up 1644 for the last time! So strange to do it with no fanfare, no hugs, no party.
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Hey friends, big news today. We're moving house! This spring, we can't wait to welcome you to 1727 Haight, our new home just one block away, formerly The Bindery and right next to The Alembic. See the full press release:
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Tomorrow (Saturday) at 4PST: Sadhguru presents his new book KARMA, in conversation with Kunal Nayyar and co-presented with the Isha Foundation. Please join us!
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Hi book pals! San Francisco isn't providing adequate PPE to its teachers, who are required to teach in person. Two friends and local educators have organized a community-based drive to get masks into the hands of teachers and families who need them most. (1/3)
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i’ll run the bookshop twitter she said, it will be fun she said.
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Tonight at 6PST, we welcome back Meg Bashwiner & Joseph Fink to discuss their new book THE FIRST TEN YEARS, in conversation with Mara Wilson. Free with RSVP—please join us!
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TUESDAY 8/16, 7:30PM: Congressman Adam Schiff discusses #1 NYT bestseller MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON, at Internet Archive. Tickets are flying—please join us!
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Hello! We have @mametown at @PublicWorksSF tonight at 7PM. There will be door tickets available! Come laugh, and pick up some delightful secret swag. 🥂
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The next shop's gonna be a blast and we can't wait for you to see us. But also please always remember us like this.
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Next week in Berkeley: Former National Security Advisor to President Obama @AmbassadorRice joins us to talk about her new memoir TOUGH LOVE with @miguelmbustos. Tickets are on sale now!
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#shipwreckNY presents THE PRINCESS BRIDE with guest reader @MaraWilson goes down NEXT FRIDAY, y'all.
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psst. hey. hey you. wanna see some pictures of the new space?
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Hey, #shipwrecksf comes back in June with Dracula, just to feel something anything. If you wanna vote, buy a ticket! Featuring: @RaxKingIsDead, @CourteousFlush, @seananmcguire, @DominiqueGel, Dylan McKeever, & returning champ @JoeWadlington.
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Friends, we will be OPEN today, 12-6, for limited browsing at 1727 Haight. We can't wait to see you.
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what's even more amazing that the covers are the spines #harrypotter @scholastic
http://t.co/RjnNGWMwk5.
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homeless people are your neighbors too, is basically all we were trying to say. 👀.
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absolutely loving the accusation that we *checks notes* graffitied our own property so that we could *double checks notes* pay our own employee to scrub it off, simply to do one (1) post about supporting fair housing in SF.
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We'll be donating a whole mess of books to the #ferguson library. It's not much, it's what we have, and what we know. http://t.co/zCO93AkupN.
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Hey @jonnysun fans: we've got 4 signed posters to give away. Email contest at booksmith dot com, subject line JONNY SUN to enter.
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Happening Tuesday, March 1 at 6PST: Warsan Shire launches her first full-length poetry collection, BLESS THE DAUGHTER RAISED BY A VOICE IN HER HEAD, in conversation with Tracy Clayton. Free with RSVP—join us!.
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hi. the person who runs this account is a bookstore employee. not a policy maker or legislator or anybody with influence of any kind! they sell books and do tweets about the store. that is simply all!.
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HI WE HAVE BEEN LOCKED OUT OF OUR ACCOUNT FOR SEVEN TERRIBLE DAYS BUT WE RETURN TRIUMPHANT, AS THE PROPHECY FORETOLD.
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we never claimed to be tolerant! you're thinking of someone else. have a great day!.
Now "tolerant" liberal people want to ban books from Pence and Goetz. Nobody in the country is more dangerous than people attempting to censure books.
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Our new front table display was inspired by the prison strike. Read some books, or, head over to @BostonReview to see a curated reading list for context on what's happening.
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We've updated our website essentially to provide a virtual front of store for your book browsing needs. check out all the sections you usually wander though, with pictures and everything. We miss you. The books miss you.
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We had some great window displays, didn't we? Thanks to our artists over the years: Sean, Lauren, Jes, Anah, Maddie
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AIRING OF GRIEVANCE: every year our bestselling title is the alchemist, guys, we’re begging you to buy literally ANY OTHER BOOK #festivus #AiringofGrievances.
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Handmaid's Tale and In the Garden of Beasts are back in stock, and we've got more giveaway copies. ✨
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It's been a rough year to be a small business but it's been a rougher year to be experiencing homelessness. We're doing our best to be kind and hope you are too, because everyone needs it. Have a lovely day.
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it's only on special days that the internet calls you both "unamerican" and "a hero to the resistance.".
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We are THRILLED to announce: WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE LIVE at @Booksmith Wednesday 9/25 at 8pm. Ticket info to come. #WelcomeToNightVale.
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Time for an eerily normal post! BALLISTIC KISS, the newest book in the Sandman Slim series from our BFF Richard Kadrey, comes out this August. Pre-order to get your signed copy!
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if you’re wondering how we are transporting books, the answer is shrink-wrapped library carts (so the books don’t fall off, very high tech)
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everybody say GOOD JOB NGAIO.
A queen retires: today is Ngaio’s last day as a bookstore cat. We’ve all loved spending the last 10+ years with her, and we’re thankful for every time we got trapped because she fell asleep on our lap.
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hi good morning booksmith yes we're open 10-8 today hi good morning booksmith yes we're open 10-8 today hi good morning booksmith yes we're open 10-8 today hi good morning booksmith we're open 10-8 today yes yes yes hi good morning booksmothyes we're open 10-8 today hi good morni.
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hi! we're planning a zoom #shipwrecksf to raise bucks for the shop. it's gonna be on the 17th, free to stream with donations suggested. it'll be called Homewreck, and we're gonna do Emma.
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Hey Dr. Ford: We're just a sentient bookstore but WE BELIEVE YOU.
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hi we are a hillary clinton bookstore now, we sell only hillary clinton's book and nothing else.
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just impossible to describe how much fun we had inside those walls, you guys
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Reminder that we are OPEN for limited-capacity browsing at 1727 Haight, 12PM-6PM daily. Come on down, say hi, read books, take photos (don't forget to tag us), have a lovely day. Thanks for your patience during the transition!
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we'd love to know how the city's vision for small business is served by providing a platform for a company with a flawless track record for abusing its workers, extinguishing competition, and ruining its vendors with extortionary business practices.
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tfw a customer turns in a crisp and perfect book club credit from *double checks* the year TWO THOUSAND TWO like it’s no big 😮😮😮
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to be clear--free general admission is sold out, but you can get book+seat tickets right here, kittens:
DANG posted about san francisco book tour at @booksmith with @charliejane this morning and already sold out. BUCKAROOS ARE RILED UP. looks like there are a few spots left if you get the BOOK PREORDER AND EVENT TICKET COMBO so if thats your way dont wait
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The message is important, even if we have to remove it, so might as well talk about it here! We support housing rights. We support @cart_sf and we hope you know about them. Here's more about what they do:
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Thrilled to annouce that @DrIbram will join us in Berkeley on Friday, June 24 for HOW TO RAISE AN ANTIRACIST. Get tickets before they're gone at this link:
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bad faith bullshit debating gets instablocked. we're a bookstore. we sell books. good day!.
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Need a bit of good news? Our donation to the @ACLU for January's @simonschuster profits totaled $2209. More updates:
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dearests: tomorrow (Saturday) we go back to curbside only. our first priority, always, is to keep our staff and customers to be safe. as always, stay tuned for updates. ✨
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By far the most fired up town hall we've ever attended. LET'S GO FORTH AND FUCK SHIT UP, BOOKSELLERS. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #wi12.
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Sorry turns out we have to also say: WE ARE NOT CLOSING, we're just moving down the block.
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We've come a long way, too. Here are some 2007-ish snaps we borrowed from Steve Rhodes. More of his amazing work here:
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New #shipwreckSF podcasts (including the NYCC episode with @MaraWilson) for your ear holes. Enjoy, citizens!
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if there was a booksmith sweatshirt what would you want on it (don't say dildos).
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a literary erotic fanfiction competition with @CecilBaldwinIII. Is it May 28th yet? http://t.co/4H6LHMVsrf
#shipwrecksf #ShipwreckNY.
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Here are some helpful and important tips about how to be a good neighbor to people experiencing homelessness from our friends at @TheCoalitionSF. Donate to them! They do great work!
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Join us next Friday for the first-ever Homewreck as we take on EMMA. Tickets optional, but proceeds benefit the writers and the shop. Tech details to come.
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yes we were vandalized no we didn’t “stage it” no the parklet is not ours it belongs to the bar yes we do think being kind to homeless people is the correct and good thing to do even when they get mad and tag our store.
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Tomorrow at 6 PST: @jonnysun returns to chat with @minjinlee11 about GOODBYE, AGAIN. Free with RSVP! First 100 books ordered will be signed. Details and RSVP here:
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