San Francisco, baby! I’m really looking forward to this. Colin’s work has been a big inspiration for me.

Tonight at 7, we welcome Peter Mountford to celebrate the release of his new story collection DETONATOR, with friends Jon Hickey and Vanessa Hua. Join us! booksmith.com/event/2025-0...

thrilled to say our website is back up and running! pardon our dust for a few days while we get it reconfigured, but in the meantime, place orders to your heart's content. as always, questions? orders at booksmith dot com

btw this is still in progress! thank you for your patience/sorry for the inconvenience, do not be afraid to call or email! xx

FRIENDS, we are in the process of updating our website. this means you won't be able to place orders on our website until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. in the meantime, please call us (415 863 8688) or email (orders at booksmith dot com) and we will be happy to get you sorted. ✨

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November 6: @booksmith.bsky.social with @rokwon.bsky.social

wonderful time in SAN FRANCISCO last night with @booksmith.bsky.social and @archive.org what an incredible space to fill with love. TONIGHT IS LOS ANGELES final show of tour with @skylightbooks.bsky.social at dynasty typewriter. still some tickets left get them here www.squadup.com/events/chuck...

The Chuck Tingle #booktalk is sold out! Still want a signed copy of his chilling new novel LUCKY DAY? Order online with @Booksmith.bsky.social in San Francisco. In-store pick-up & shipping available. Orders must be submitted by Aug 31. 📖 Get it here ➡️ www.booksmith.com/book/9781250...

Great news, San Francisco peeps! There are now signed/doodled copies of Lessons in Magic and Disaster in @booksmith.bsky.social , Fabulosa Books, @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social , Dog Eared Books, @citylightsbooks.bsky.social and of course @greenapplebooks.bsky.social 💘✨⭐🎉😻

tonight we will READ QUIETLY. please join us!

hello you can preorder Patricia Lockwood's gorgeous and hilarious new novel RIGHT AT THIS LINK HERE to receive this COOL RAINBOW CAT PIN www.booksmith.com/book/9780593...

hello you can preorder Patricia Lockwood's gorgeous and hilarious new novel RIGHT AT THIS LINK HERE to receive this COOL RAINBOW CAT PIN www.booksmith.com/book/9780593...

today we deleted our account on x the everything app. this was bittersweet but long overdue. we'd been parked on the handle for a while, hoping to wait out the nazi barrage and AI deluge—but the JKR story tipped us over.

tonight! please join us

Come on out this Saturday! Get a portrait! Support real artists and have a nice time in a cool bookshop! 2-6, free, no rsvp required, tips encouraged ✨

Angela Davis! Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor! Howard Zinn! Leanne Betasamosake Simpson! And oh yeah, lots of books by me!

Come on out this Saturday! Get a portrait! Support real artists and have a nice time in a cool bookshop! 2-6, free, no rsvp required, tips encouraged ✨

LUCKY DAY IS OUT NOW. existence is absurd, and within the chaos it can be hard to spot moments of love. we all hunt for that familiar heart shape but the thing is: love doesnt need shape or sense or order. its right there in the absurdity. always was. ENJOY BUCKAROOS us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

For your reading pleasure: our magazine buyer just trawled the world for a fresh selection of imports, rarities, and printed delight. Swing by the rack and see what's up!

or u could bring ur Precocious Reader to the bookstore or library and look at SciFi books with them and learn what gets them excited : ) we are open 11-7 btw : )

next week! can't wait for this one:

San Francisco! Believer contributor @jenkabat.bsky.social and Editor Daniel Gumbiner will be at @booksmith.bsky.social on August 19 to celebrate the release of Jennifer's new book, "Nightshining." Register for the event here: app.gopassage.com/events/night...

🎲 What if luck was real…and deadly? 📖 Join @Booksmith.bsky.social in welcoming CHUCK TINGLE to San Francisco for a live #booktalk on his new novel LUCKY DAY, where probability breaks & chaos rules. 🎲 📅 Tues Sept 2 🕡 6:30 PM check-in 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ app.gopassage.com/events/lucky...

the LUCKY DAY CHUCK TINGLE LIVE book tour is just DAYS AWAY from trottin to theaters across the country on a mission to prove love. here are the posters for each stop so share the poster for where youre headed. almost all tickets come with copy of lucky day DANG www.chucktingle.com/tour.html

Tonight! Please join us!

it was a big weekend for our little neighborhood. photo from Jim Marshall's new photo book, THE GRATEFUL DEAD. we've got signed copies while supplies last—at the shop, or online here: www.booksmith.com/book/9781797...

August events time! As always, seats are limited but can be reserved with advance book purchase. YAY ✨📚👇

☀️ 📚 Need summer book recommendations? We talked w/ SF booksellers (@karjohnson.bsky.social, @greenapplebooks.bsky.social & Camden Avery, @booksmith.bsky.social) and author @thebestjasmine.bsky.social about what they've read recently and what they recommend. Watch the full interview now on YouTube.

Chuck Tingle is coming to SF. Yes, THAT Chuck Tingle! Join the @booksmith.bsky.social for a #booktalk on LUCKY DAY, Tingle's new novel, where luck turns lethal. 📅 Sept 2 🕡 6:30 PM check-in 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ blog.archive.org/event/book-t...

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we once spent a very long and intense day with ozzy osbourne and the thousands of mortals who waited hours for a signed book. he was kind to every last person. rip to a real one.

Bookstore drag show @booksmith.bsky.social! Nothing could delight me more than book-themed drag at the store where I used to work 🤩 (We stood in the children's section, natch.) It's going to be a regular thing, so come out come out!

On Thursday, July 17, at 7:30PM, it's books, it's drag, it's a book drag show featuring local artists! Tickets/info: app.gopassage.com/events/readm...

tonight! please join us ✨

Bay Area writers! 📢 IALA advisory board member Lory Bedikian will be reading her work alongside other incredible poets such as William Archila, Leticia Hernández-Linares, and Dorianne Laux, at @booksmith.bsky.social on July 15th! 💬 ✨ Learn more: bit.ly/44Cp5Yh

tonight! please join us!!

What started as a search for some of my first publications has led me to reading through the San Diego Reader of the early 1990s. It is, overall, astonishingly good. But then, there were alt-weeklies like it across the U.S. Almost all gone or hollowed out. Nothing has replaced them.

friends! we will be closed at 4PM today. normal hours resume tomorrow. xo

against all odds, it is July. How about some July events? ✨👇📚✨

Hell yeah The Booksmith www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2025/06/san-...

🎧 Listen to the podcast! @thebestjasmine.bsky.social, Camden Avery from @booksmith.bsky.social and @karjohnson.bsky.social from @greenapplebooks.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the latest book trends and their recommendations for summer reads. #booksky 🔗: buff.ly/gKSVaK0

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking with @thebestjasmine.bsky.social, Camden Avery from @booksmith.bsky.social and @karjohnson.bsky.social from @greenapplebooks.bsky.social about what to read this summer. #booksky 📚 What are you reading this summer? 📻 Listen to Forum:

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Literally no one gives a shit if you read the actual books. They’re at the library, they’re at used bookstores, flea markets, knock yourself out. NO ONE IS BANNING THEM. Booksmith is just saying “we refuse to help increase the wealth of a person who is harming vulnerable people & crowing about it.”

dispatch from the back room. we love you guys, keep ‘em coming, be patient with us if confirmation emails are a bit slower than usual ✨💛🎉📚

was most recently at @booksmith.bsky.social earlier in june to moderate a book event with the brilliant susan choi you can find their events schedule below, next up they have a book launch with the mighty @maris.bsky.social www.booksmith.com/event/2025-07