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Apparently they love us in Norway
The story says we, along with City Lights and Modern Times bookstores, are the heart of the San Francisco. How nice of them to notice!
List-Mania!
This is guess-work, but we strongly suspect these are the 21 hottest Fiction works of the 21st century at Dog Eared Books:
1- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2 - Valencia by Michelle Tea
3 - No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
4 - Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami
5 - Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
6 - Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaņo
7 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
8 - Adverbs by Daniel Handler
9 - Here They Come by Yanick Murphy
10 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
11 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenidies
12 - Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
13 - Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott
14 - Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
15 - Sarah by "J.T. LeRoy"
16 - In America by Susan Sontag
17 - White Teeth by Zadie Smith
18 - The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
19 - Wild Things by Dave Eggers
20 - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
21 - Oblivion by David Foster . . .
historical note
This amazing photo of the corner of Valencia and 20th is from 1920. You can see the store front now occupied by Dog Eared right there on the left. Kinda gives you the shivers to see such history, doesn't it.
Thursday, August 26 - 8:00PM
San Francisco Art & Politics Magazine Release Function
The new and not boring, not pedantic, not self-righteous, but fun and socially/locally relevant San Francisco Art & Politics Magazine presents an event, that may or may not include many of its contributors, an illustrious crew, including: Rebecca Solnit, Pam Pierce, Chris Carlsson, Erick Lyle, and Emory Douglas.
Wednesday, August 4 - 8:00PM
Further Lessons in Adventureneering
Two years in our popular monthly variety extravaganza is still going strong! Bringing you the very best in Music, literature, comedy, science, and the ever elusive other. This month we'll be featuring Tony DuShane (author of Confessions of a Jesus Jerk), special musical guests, and an official funeral for the beloved triceratops. Guaranteed to be filled with the most joyous joy.
Alvin's Pick
Who Will Run The Frog Hospital
This novel follows a woman looking back at a brief and tumultuous friendship from her baby boomer youth is full of wry wit, psychological insight, sociological analysis, deft characterizations, and prose so thought provoking and gorgeous and surprising it takes your breath away.
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