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About Face
by Donna Leon“Leon . . . is so generous with the humanizing details that make this series special. There are long walks in Brunetti’s warm company and lively talks with his clever…
Uniform Justice
by Donna Leon“Leon is probably the best mystery writer you’ve never heard of. . . . She uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexual…
Cities
by John ReaderDeclared “the most enjoyable book ever written about the matter of the city” (The Times, London), this is a magisterial exploration of these defining artifacts of civilization….
Grove at Home: April 25-May 1
…his friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s legendary San Francisco shop, City Lights Books, reading the poem he wrote about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvq9iP_i_8U Thursday, April 29 It’s Henry Miller time! Because there is…
Grove at Home: February 21-27
…ever printed, A Coney Island of the Mind; opened America’s first-ever all-paperback bookstore, San Francisco’s City Lights, today, nearly seventy years later, a temple to independent reading, writing, publishing, and…
Grove at Home: November 8-14
…entitlement to things, years and passions missed. It was the spring of 1967. He went to San Francisco.” Continue reading… Wednesday, November 11 Happy birthday, Howard Fast! Today would…
Grove at Home: July 12—18
…San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club back in 2011, shortly after the publication of Worm, his account of 2008’s astonishing Conficker computer worm — which proliferated across systems with a speed that…
Grove at Home: May 3—9
…which McClure described as taking place “between Billy the Kid and Jean Harlow as they confront each other in a blue velvet eternity.” The premier run in San Francisco was…
Authors to Read During Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
…this tragedy.”—Independent Pyre by Perumal Murugan Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan’s…
The Evolution of Charles Darwin
by Diana PrestonFrom the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin’s journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the revolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the…
