Events:
Wednesday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.
University of San Francisco
Lone Mountain Readings
Xavier Room in Fromm Hall
Thursday, April 15, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Noe Valley Celebrates the Book
Phoenix Books
Friday, April 16, 7:30 pm
Friends of the San Francisco Public Library
Literary Laureates Dinner
SFPL Main Library
100 Larkin St. (at Grove)
San Francisco
Saturday, April 17, 11 a.m.– 3 p.m.
American Association of University Women
Authors Luncheon & Silent Auction
AAUW Funds (Education Foundation) Benefit
Past Events:
October 2, 7:00 PM:
Cover to Cover
1307 Castro St.,
San Francisco, CA
October 3, 7:00 PM:
Copperfield's Books
104 Matheson Street,
Healdsburg
October 6, 7:30 PM:
Books Inc.
301 Castro St., Mountain View, CA
October 9, 6:00 PM: Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Author Reception
Monday, October 12
Litquake: Being Discovered: First-Time Authors Reveal All
5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Foundation Center, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco
Saturday, October 17
Litquake: San Francisco Writers' Grotto
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. at Casanova (21+) 527 Valencia Street, San Francisco
October 23:
Ken Sanders Rare Books
268 South 200 East,
Salt Lake City, UT
October 24, 3:00 PM:
Utah Humanities Book Festival
Salt Lake City, UT
October 27:
San Francisco Public Library
Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street,
San Francisco, CA
November 11:
Marin Country Day School Book Fair
November 15, 1:00 PM
Boston Antiquarian Book Fair
Hynes Auditorium, Boston, MA
November 19, 7:00 PM
Clayton Books
5433 D Clayton Road, Clayton, CA
November 20, 7:00 PM:
Rakestraw Books
Danville, CA
January 11, 7 p.m:
The Rumpus reading
at the Makeout Room
22nd Street, San Francisco
January 23:
BookMania!
Martin County, Florida |
Media:
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For the Love of Books |
| The thingness of books is a sensual experience of sight, smell and feel. That’s why people obsess over old books, and why they steal them. In The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, Allison Hoover Bartlett profiles John Gilkey, a man for whom books were building blocks for a whole new identity. |
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Minnesota Public Radio |
| A journalist tracks the mind and motivation of a notorious book thief who regularly eludes capture, one of many thieves making rare books the art form most sought after by criminals. |
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Utah Now: "Obsessed" |
| This episode on Utah NOW explores the obsession to possess and collect rare and valuable books. A lot of people have this fixation and some take it to extremes. We'll tell the story of a book thief but also the bookseller who helped catch him who happens to be Utah's own Ken Sanders. |
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Book Talk |
| This week Alan Farley talks with authors about their work and their lives, with their latest book as the starting point. |
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Bob Edwards |
| I’ve probably driven by Ken Sanders Rare Books more times that I can count, but I’m ashamed to say that I have never once stopped in. As a student at the University of Utah, I knew every used book store in the Salt Lake Valley (my personal favorite was Experienced Books, these days long out of business), but I was intimidated by the word “rare” on Sanders’ shop front. |
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Studio Tulsa |
| On this edition of our show, we speak with the Bay Area-based journalist and writer Allsion Hoover Bartlett, whose new book is "The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession." The thief at the heart of this book --- a man named John Gilkey, who's both seriously obsessed and entirely unrepentant --- was originally profiled by Bartlett in a piece that appeared in The Best American Crime Writing 2007. |
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