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First\, The Rumpus announced its’ version of a book club –
one whose members receive a hand-chosen book\, for a thrilling insider’s early
(before publication) look at what’s likely to be a very hot book. Club members are then invited to an online
discussion with the author and with one another. (Read all about The Rumpus Book Club here.)
What could be added to the mix? Why\, a get-together to meet and talk with other
club members in person!

We’re delighted to host these monthly gatherings this fall.
Local book club members\, come on in\; if you’re a member from outside the Bay
Area\, but planning to be in our neighborhood\, you come on in\, too! Curious
about The Rumpus and its book club? You\, too!

Tonight\: a discussion about Tao Lin’s new novel Richard Yates.
(Please note that Tao Lin will himself be talking at The Booksmith on October
4.)

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Since his 1984 debut novel Neuromancer\, in which he coined
the term “cyberspace” and envisioned the Internet before it was a pervasive
reality\, William Gibson has gained a reputation as a trend-spotter with a unique
ability to anticipate cultural and technological movements. In his two most
recent novels\, Pattern Recognition and
Spook Country\, Gibson trained those
sensibilities on our contemporary\, post-9/11 age. And the present\, it seems\, is
only growing more astonishing in Gibson’s latest novel\, Zero History. It’s a time defined by frenzied change\, a world in
which everything is growing faster and more connected at an exponential rate. If
we were in Gibson’s 1996 novel Idoru\, we might call it a “nodal point” – a key
point in history after which everything will be different.

Zero History
returns to the adventures of Hubertus Bigend\, the twisted financial genius from
Pattern Recognition and Spook Country. Bigend’s newest obsession
is with the military culture that is trickling down to the streets. Military
contracting is recession-proof\, and Bigend wants in. But it seems that someone
is one step ahead of him\, and Bigend must uncover who that is if he’s to come
out on top. His plan involves Hollis Henry\, former rocker from the cult 90s
band The Curfew\, and Milgrim\, a Russian translator\, finally sober after a stint
in rehab. It’s not long before Hollis and Milgrim find themselves entangled in
a mesh of postmodern marketing and corrupt American military contracting that
threatens to topple Bigend’s massive empire.

Gibson’s talent has always been his ability to spot our
cultural trajectory – to locate what Bigend calls “the edge”. It’s that barest
glimpse of the future at the far reach of the horizon\, the cutting-edge that
will soon become the norm. In Zero
History\, the edge is a place where boundaries between on- and offline have
become blurred\, where the parent-child relationship has migrated to twitter\,
and where brands generate attention not by marketing themselves but by
eschewing marketing altogether.

Preferred seating with the purchase of Zero History at
The Booksmith. Zero History is on-sale beginning September 7\; you may pre-order now and receive a preferred seating card. Seating cards will be
distributed at the time of purchase until supply is gone. Standing room and
limited floor seating will be available as well. Please note that we’ll be at
maximum capacity this evening\; if you need special accommodations\, please send
a request to events@booksmith.com.

Please note that Mr. Gibson will sign copies of his
previous books provided that a copy of Zero History is purchased from The
Booksmith. Photographs of those attending with Mr. Gibson will be possible.

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Markos Moulitsas is the founder and publisher of Daily Kos\, America’s largest online political
community. His publications include the acclaimed Crashing the Gate\: Netroots\, Grassroots\, and the Rise of People-Powered
Politics and Taking on the System\:
Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era. He is a frequent guest on cable
news and shows like Meet the Press and Real Time with Bill Maher\, a weekly
columnist for The Hill\, and a former Newsweek contributing columnist.

America’s
main international enemy -- Islamic radicalism -- favors theocracy\, curtails
civil liberties\, embraces torture\, represses women\, reviles homosexuality\,
subverts science and education\, and reveres force over diplomacy. In American Taliban\, Markos Moulitsas
shows how the American right shares those very same traits. He argues that our
domestic jihadists are a greater threat to American democracy than any Islamic
terrorist.

“I can’t remember a
time in my life when anti-intellectualism and intolerance has been more
pervasive. From America’s
prejudice against evolutionary science to its reactionary condemnation of a
scholarly African American president\, the time has never been more ripe for a
book such as this\, which reminds us that fanaticism isn’t always an import.” -- Brett Gurewitz\, Bad Religion

“It isn’t possible to
understand American politics now without understanding the worldview and
arguments of Markos Moulitsas. If you still believe the beltway caricature of
the squishy\, compromising\, conciliatory American left\, American Taliban should
disabuse you of that notion.” -- Rachel
Maddow\, The Rachel Maddow Show

“Markos writes with a
conscience and armed with facts to let you know\: no\, you’re not crazy. What you
suspected all along was true—America’s
right wing lives on a myth of self-constructed lies about the Other\, with a
juvenile disregard for reality\, and Obama’s presidency has further radicalized
an already radical conservative movement.”
-- Janeane Garofalo\, comic and actor

“Moulitsas alerts us
to a clear and present danger in America\: radical zealots who disregard our
Constitution and our freedoms\, and who disguise themselves as patriots.” --
Roger Ebert\, film critic

“A thorough compendium
of right-wing hypocrisy and selective memory that is either hilarious or
tragic\, depending on your mood. And it’s all lovingly couched in outrage and
profanity.” -- David Cross\, I Drink for a Reason

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Today\, we'll read Children Make Terrible Pets by Peter Brown\, and

A Pig Parade is a Terrible Idea by Michael Ian Black\, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes.

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Rough Honey is
suffused with a dark tenderness. These poems speak of fragility and power\, the
contradictions of pleasure\, the bruises we bear. With remarkable range\, they
carry us from a whitewater rafting calamity to the “torrents of wheat” on a
family farm\; from a bathysphere’s color-starved depths to a butcher’s blood-soaked
counter\; from a peepshow’s “manageable storm of boredom and sex” to a
passionate fall from grace in an orchard. By turns buoyant and forlorn\, Rough Honey’s characters both long for
and abandon hope of true connection\, of home\, in a world where “everything is
rented.” But their struggles are rendered in language so radiant\, so mellifluous\,
it can’t help but hint at the possibility of transcendence\, the sheer sweetness
in being alive.

“Rough Honey is a
miracle of a first collection. Melissa Stein’s sensuous articulation of the
world from the inside out puts her poems into a kind of freefall—back into a
pulsing\, primal language. Her electric apprehensions throb with this nearly
preverbal knowing . . . Above all\, they define and redefine the lyric poem\,
giving it myriad protean identities. Stein is a new poet of the first order.”

-- Molly Peacock

“Openness—of form\, and
of the receptive and longing body—is Rough Honey’s central subject\, and its
oxymoronic title suggests the sweet and fierce character of desire\, that
compelling and dangerous sustenance . . . Stein’s poems are lit by a restless
and flashing verbal intelligence . . . Her sentences are beautifully choreographed\; they
start and stop the motion of her poems with a nearly invisible\, effortless
authority.” -- Mark Doty\, from the Introduction

Melissa Stein has
published poems in The Southern Review\, New England Review\, Best New Poets 2009\, Harvard Review\,
North American Review\, and many other journals and anthologies. She has
received residency fellowships from Yaddo\, the MacDowell Colony\, and the
Djerassi Foundation.

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For several years\, our Haight Ashbury neighbors and
long-time residents Jack and Gay Reineck (Rufus Graphics) have been
working on a project to design and publish a new\, concise but thorough\, history
and guide to the Haight Ashbury. The project stemmed from a local discussion
about a Haight Ashbury Museum\;
in lieu of a museum\, not possible at this time\, they’ve created a nifty little
“paper museum” that tells the story of the Haight from before the 1906 earthquake
through the 60s (including sex\, drugs\, and rock 'n' roll) and to today.
With a fascinating text\, and a detailed Haight Ashbury map\, accompanying
over 100 photographs\, many of them historical\, and some from contemporary
photographers including Lisa Law and Herbie Green\, this is a terrific book for
visitors and residents alike.

Tonight we celebrate our neighborhood’s history with Jack
and Gay!

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Mark Haskell Smith\, who “writes like Carl Hiassen’s
oversexed cousin” (Booklist)\, is back
with Baked\, a charming comic
suspense novel that is a hybrid cross-breed of The Big Lebowski and Half
Baked with The Orchid Thief and Weeds thrown in.

With marijuana well on its way to being legalized in California\, Smith takes
on the subject of cannabis with typically oddball results. Meet Miro Basinas\,
an experimental botanist\, a gentleman farmer who sells his rarefied product to
an educated clientele. Only he’s not growing heirloom tomatoes or making
organic wine – he’s growing weed. His greatest creation\, a blend called
Elephant Crush that tastes like mangoes\, has his loyal customers\, who need
medical marijuana for their anxiety disorders and restless leg syndrome\,
clamoring for more. Months earlier\, Miro had entered Elephant Crush in Amsterdam’s prestigious Cannabis Cup and won\, but upon his
return to Los Angeles\,
he is shot and his weed is taken\, in a brutal blow to ganjaficionados
everywhere.

Baked\, complete
with a typically Smith-ian cast of lovably quirky characters\, takes readers on
a truly hilarious ride through LA\, the world of medical marijuana and
competitive pot-growing\, all while trying to solve the mystery of who shot Miro
and trying to recover the fabled Elephant Crush.

Mark Haskell Smith is an award-winning screenwriter and
author of three prior novels\, Moist\,
Delicious\, and Salty. He covered
the real Cannabis Cup for the Los Angeles
Times last fall\, and as California speeds towards the ballot initiative to
legalize marijuana\, he has fashioned himself into a kind of expert on the
state’s number one crop. He lives in Los
Angeles\, close to the Rambo taco truck.

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Dr. David Smith\, the founder of the Haight Ashbury Free
Medical Clinic\, asks\, along with his co-author Dr. Daniel Amen\, “Are you
chained to your addiction to smoking? Drinking? Sugar? Drugs? Good?
Prescription painkillers? Caffeine? Internet porn? Gambling? Sex?” – and
answers everyone who says “Yes”\: with tools to optimize one’s brain.

Smith says brain dysfunction is the number-one reason why
people fall victim to addiction\, why they can’t break the chains of addiction\,
and why they relapse. He and Amen offer strategies to find lasting motivation
to changes\, ways to lock up the craving monster\, tips for eating right\,
thinking right\, and healing from an addiction\, and ways to prevent relapse
(including brain science). They offer 7 steps parents can take now to help
prevent addictions for their children\; 10 daily behaviors that will enhance
brain function\; 15 strategies for dealing with the people who try to sabotage
recovery\; 5 natural supplements that can soothe the brain and reduce craving\; 4
areas of life one needs to address to prevent relapse\; and 1 decision that will
change one’s life.

Join the discussion about rediscovering the pleasure of
developing satisfying relationships with family and friends\, regaining health\,
finding greater energy\, and exploring the amazing world in which we live.

As if founding the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic wasn’t
enough\, Dr. Smith is a Fellow and Past President of the American Society for
Addiction Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy
of Clinical Toxicology. He is an inaugural Diplomate of the American Board of
Addiction medicine\, and serves as Chair of Adolescent Addiction Treatment at Newport Academy\, Medical Director of Center
Point\, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at UCSF. He has authored and
co-authored over 350 professional articles and over tow dozen books\, including Drugfree\: A Unique\, Positive Approach to
Staying Off Alcohol and Other Drugs\, It’s
So Good\, Don’t Even Try It Once\: Heroin in Perspective\, The Physician’s Guide to Psychoactive Drugs\,
and Clinician’s Guide to Substance Abuse.
He is the founder and publisher of The
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.

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Today\, we'll read Mostly Monsterly by Tammi Sauer\, illustrated by Scott Magoon\,

Which Way to Witch School by Scott Santoro\, and

Disappearing Desmond by Anna Alter.

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