Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father and Me (nonfiction/memoir – hardbound) by AdaCalhoun
If you like Frank O’Hara, New York, and queer history, this book is for you. This is a groundbreaking memoir that weaves compelling literary history with a tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond.
One Last Stop (fiction- paperback) by Casey McQuiston
A smart and fun romp from the author who brought us The Proposal and Party of Two. One Last Stop is about a woman named August Landry, a cynical pseudo detective, who finds love in a woman she meets on a subway named Jane Su, a punk lesbian from the 1970s who has been misplaced in time and is trapped on the subway.
Bodies on the Line (nonfiction- hardbound) by Lauren Rankin
Incisive, eye-opening and uplifting, Bodies on the Line makes a clear case for the right to an abortion as a fundamental part of human dignity and the stakes facing us all if it ends.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, August 16 @ 5:30 pm (free online event) Dur e Aziz Amna, author of American Fever,and Jamil Jan Kochai, author or The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
American Fever is a compelling and laugh-out-loud funny novel about adolescence, family, otherness, religion, and the push-and-pull of home. It marks the entrance on the international literary scene of the brilliant fresh voice of Dur e Aziz Amna.
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories is a moving exploration of characters grappling with the ghosts of war and displacement—and one that speaks to the immediate political landscape we reckon with today.
Thursday, August 18 @ 5:30 pm (free live online event) Colson Whitehead author of Harlem Shuffle
From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself — a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first century America. All This Could Be Different is a wise, tender, and riveting group portrait of young people forging love and community amidst struggle, and a moving story of one immigrant’s journey to make her home in the world.
Sunday, August 21 @ 2 pm (free in store, Ferry Building) Mike Trigg, author of Bit Flip, in conversation with Mehran Sahami
Combining the corporate intrigue of Joseph Finder, the satirical cultural critique of Dave Eggers, and the domestic drama of Laura Dave, Bit Flip is a fast-paced contemporary thriller that delivers an authentic insider’s view of the corrupting influences of greed, entitlement, and vanity in technology start-ups.
Published on August 11, 2022
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