Welcome to Dog Eared Books!
The San Francisco Bookstore (and chocolate) Crawl
February 5, 2012, 4:57 pm
Coming up February 26th, Dog Eared Books couldn't be more thrilled to be apart of the first ever San Francisco Bookstore (and chocolate) Crawl. Run by local author/superstar Charlie Jane Anders, the crawl will start over in the Richmond district at Green Apple Books and make its way along all the way to Modern Times Books at 24th and Florida. Dog Eared loves being part of San Francisco's vibrant independent bookstore community, and we can't imagine a better way to celebrate it. For more info check out http://www.facebook.com/events/200529393378320/
New Sister Store!!!
January 20, 2012, 7:41 pm
The Dog Eared-Phoenix-Red Hill Books family is thrilled to announce a new addition: Alley Cat Books! Located at 3036 -24th Street near Treat, it's open 10 - 7 Sundays through Thursdays and 10 - 8 on Fridays & Saturdays. Like it's older sisters, Alley Cat has an eclectic collection of new, used, and remaindered books, as well as magazines, journals, cards, posters, and original art. Unlike the others, it also sells tee shirts and hoodies by famous Mission artist, Michael Roman. And yes, Alley Cat does buy as well as sell. So the next time you're going for a stroll on delightful, delicious lower 24th Street, come on down and pay a visit!
Viva Modern Times!
October 17, 2011, 1:46 pm
We are super happy that our neighbors at Modern Times have found a new locale. They will be opening June 1st at 2919 - 24th St. between Florida and Alabama Streets. Go visit!
Lookit! Lookit! The New York Times covers S.F.'s thriving Lit scene.
December 1, 2010, 1:44 pm 
New York Times article.
Apparently they love us in Norway
July 13, 2010, 10:07 pm


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!

historical note
November 26, 2009, 10:12 pm


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.

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BYONYRB. The Dog Eared Books NYRB Salon, March edition1
Sunday, March 4, 2012 - 8:00pm
Meeting the first Sunday of every month and hosted by local author Peter Orner, the NYRB Salon convenes to read and discuss titles published as part of the NYRB Classics line. This month we'll be discussing Hungarian medical classic, A Journey Around My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy.
Jan
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BYONYRB
Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 8:00pm
The BYONYRB Book Club is a monthly discussion group focusing on titles from the New York Review of Books Classics Series. It's led by super-amazing author, Peter Orner, whose own novel Love And Shame And Love is rocking the literary landscape these days (and which you can pick up on sale at Dog Eared for a limited time only.) This month the club discusses The World As I Found It by Brucy Duffy and Pinnochio by Carlo Collodi, a dense, epic saga about Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Cambridge Philosophers and a disturbingly un-saccharine Italian children's book from old Italy. And here's the thing, you don't even have had to read all of both books to attend! Just drop on in and join the chat with whatever you chose to bring to it. There will be free wine and cookies, too, so everybody wins.
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Book Release Party for Why Aren't You Smiling?
Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 8:00pm
Dog Eared is thrilled to host an evening with three fantastically funny queer authors: Alvin Orloff, Ali Liebegott, and Lary-Bob Roberts.

The cause for celebration is the release of Orloff's latest novel, Why Aren’t You Smiling? a slightly dyspeptic romp through the queer fringes of the spiritual chaos of 1970s California, featuring misguided teenage stoners, irritating Jesus Freaks, snarky academics, well-meaning but ineffectual parents, and a cameo from renowned avian guru, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

 

Alvin Orloff began writing as a teenager in the 1977 as the lyricist for his friend's now utterly forgotten punk rock band, The Blowdryers. He's written some books, got some degrees, blah, blah, blah, the interesting thing is that he's the guy you've been seeing behind the counter of Dog Eared since he started working there in 1999. My how time flies!

 

Oct
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Lit Crawl
Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 8:45am

Dog Eared is thrilled to have four confirmed readers for the premier literary event of the season, Lit Quake's Lit Crawl. Jennifer Blowdryer lives in NYC.. She’s working on The Bitchez Guide to the Lower East Side and has big plans for her 86ed project – more at blog.jenniferblowdryer.com. Bucky Sinister (Bio to come shortly) Erika Lopez, author of The Girl Must Die and They Call Me Mad Dog! has joined up with a gang of people in Monster Girl Media, poised to take over the world. Look away at your peril. Alvin Orloff began writing in the 1970s, a decade from which he has yet to recover. His latest novel, Why Aren't You Smiling? explores the misadventures of a young man journey through the world of Jesus Freaks, Stoners, Buddhism, and Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Aug
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Reading
Sunday, August 7, 2011 - 8:00am

David Young is Emeritus Longman Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oberlin College in Ohio, where he helps edit FIELD and the books at Oberlin College Press. His most recent collection of poetry is Field of Light and Shadow: Selected and New Poems, (Knopf, 2010). He is also active as a translator, which means he gets to hang around with great poets like Rilke, Petrarch, Du Fu, and Paul Celan. Margaret Young is the daughter of David Young. She has published two poetry collections, Willow from the Willow (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2002) and Almond Town (Bright Hill Press, 2011). She teaches at Endicott College and lives in Beverly, Massachusetts with her husband and son.

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Exciting New Events at Dog Eared Books!
Sunday, May 8, 2011 - 8:00am

Starting in May Dog Eared Books is proud to announce we'll be featuring even more exciting events here in our store every Sunday night from 8-10. Does this mean we will be open an extra two hours a week? yes this is what it means. Festivities kick off May 8th with the return of our popular variety series and continuing the following with an exciting reading and in store beer tasting from author/brewer Jeremy Cowan. Be sure to swing by and say hello!

IN PHAROAH'S ARMY by Tobias Wolff
October 17, 2011, 8:21 pm

 Tobias Wolff's Vietnam memoirs, written as a series of always entertaining vignettes. One of the very best books on the subject (or any many others for that matter).

WHO WILL RUN THE FROG HOSPITAL
October 17, 2011, 6:42 pm
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.
Choir Boy by Charlie Anders
September 8, 2008, 11:00 pm

A quirky tale of teenage transgenderism that alternately charms and challenges without ever getting preachy, campy, or heavy. A great read!

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks
January 21, 2008, 12:00 am

a customer just came into the store and sold us a copy of this. i said, "i just read that! it's really good! alvin, if you buy it for the store, i'll make it a staff pick!"

i love bell hooks because she is all about love (... and i didn't even think of her book title by that name when i first started typing that) and its transformative possibilities. i was reading it over the election and when all of those people started blaming the passage of prop 8 on people of color, i had some amazing bell hooks quotes to back me up on how that is just racist and wrong. hurray!

Sleeping Father by Matthew Sharpe
January 21, 2008, 12:00 am
This isn't just another quirky, witty book about a dysfunctional family (and yes, I realize that term is probably redundant), this is a tour de force dissection of several psychological types prominent in our hyper-neurotic age. Sharpe is finely attuned to the secret machinations of the human mind and can write about them with an economical lucidity that makes one want to stand up and cheer: Lets hear it for articulateness! Sharpe has enough psychological insight that I'd hire him as my analyst in a heartbeat. (Unfortunately, he's not available as he's busy teaching creative writing in the Bronx.) But here's the thing: when he wants to be (which is about every thirty pages or so) Sharpe is way funnier than my current shrink... or just about anyone writing in the English language today. He's laugh-out-loud hysterically hilarious - and never in a tasteless or a contrived way, either. His humor is always compassionate and wise. And though the plot meanders a bit, it never bogs because the believable, lovable characters keep the reader so deeply engaged. If you're looking for comparisons, I'd say he's a bit like J.D. Salinger or Dave Eggers and the equal of either. High praise? You bet, but I'll stand by it!