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Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, CA (2026)

10/15/2026

One week from today! We welcome Nicholas Russell for the release of his debut novel, OBSERVER, at 9th Ave! Russell will be in-conversation with writer and managing editor of The Believer, Ginger Greene.

Perfect read for the season of frights and specters. Free to attend, please RSVP at the link in our bio or at greenapplebooks.com/events. See you then!

🌖About Observer🌔
A disquieting, atmospheric debut horror novel about a young woman investigating her mother’s disappearance at an abandoned Nevada observatory, for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and Mariana Enriquez.

On a scorched summer day, Renata Scarborough comes home to find the contents of her estranged mother Corinne’s life on her doorstep. Her aunt and cousin seem eager to conclude that the troublesome Corinne is dead. Renata isn’t convinced and begins poring over her mother’s journals for answers. Among descriptions of Corinne’s work at the McNairy Observatory, Renata unearths a hidden obsession with an early twentieth-century surveyor whose encounters with a mysterious entity bear a startling resemblance to her mother’s reports. Compelled beyond reason, Renata journeys to that now-abandoned outpost in the Nevada wilderness to search for the truth.

But in McNairy, a thorny, decades-long clash between science and the desert only complicates Renata’s questions. The town’s scarred and suspicious residents refuse to discuss the observatory’s closure, leaving Renata to wonder if Corinne’s version of events reflects reality. As she ascends the peak that looms over McNairy, Renata witnesses unnerving phenomena she can’t explain and feels a creeping dread that what is waiting for her isn’t her mother at all.
[ID: Graphic reads “Nicholas Russell joined in-conversation by Ginger Greene celebrating the release of Observer. Thursday, Oct. 22. 7pm. 1231 9th Ave (Inner Sunset). Free to Attend, Please RSVP. Green Apple Books” The graphic features an author photo of Russell and the cover of his novel, a dark starry sky and low orange moon with a dark plant with hand-like buds holding the moon afloat.]

10/13/2026

Next Monday, October 19! We welcome Kawai Strong Washburn for the release of his latest novel, THE NAMES OF THE NEW WORLD! Washburn will be joined in-conversation by the Bay’s own, Tommy Orange. This event is presented in partnership with the Bureau of Linguistic Reality.

Free to attend, please RSVP at the link in our bio or at greenapplebooks.com/events. See you in the Inner Sunset!

🔸About The Names of the New World🔸
The highly anticipated second novel from the award-winning author Kawai Strong Washburn: an extraordinary saga of resilience and ambition in the face of a chaotic world.

A ferocious superstorm strikes Minneapolis, obliterating swaths of the city in minutes. In its wake, three people forge an unlikely bond that will shape their lives for the next twenty-five years: Naomi, a lawyer and an amateur MMA fighter, is a Pacific Islander transplanted to the Midwest for her less-than-satisfying career; Amaré, an investment banker, has grand designs for all the money he’s about to make; and Raheem, a diesel mechanic, is nearly paralyzed by the storm and struggles to save his business.

When Naomi recognizes that energy companies are responsible for the climate-induced superstorm—and the many more to come, potentially dooming her island homeland—she initiates a bitter legal battle, one that culminates in her appointment to a powerful political office in DC with the potential to prevent future tragedies. Yet her rise risks a burgeoning romance with Amaré, whose own ambitions test Naomi’s ethical limits, while Raheem’s fate as a small business owner depends on the couple’s growing power.
[ID: Graphic reads “Kawai Strong Washburn, in-conversation with Tommy Orange, presented in partnership with the Bureau of Linguistic Reality. Monday, October 19. 7pm. 1231 9th Ave (Inner Sunset). Free to Attend, Please RSVP. Green Apple Books” The graphic features an author photo of Washburn and the cover of his novel, which features a black sun setting over a blue ocean with orange rays.]

10/10/2026

Thank you to author May-lee Chai for stopping by to sign copies of her most recent book, MY HUNGRY GHOSTS: ESSAY & INCANTATIONS! You can catch Chai this coming Tuesday, Oct. 13 as part of Litquake at Page St Co-Working for the panel NBCC: The Author/Critic Dilemma. Details at the link in our bio or at greenapplebooks.com/events.

Thank you, May-lee!

🌘About My Hungry Ghosts🌒
Drawing upon the traditional Chinese Daoist and Buddhist concept of hungry ghosts, May-lee Chai writes about personal hauntings, the people, histories, ancestors, and family members who continue to touch her life. Hungry ghosts are spirits that are caught between realms forgotten by their descendants and separated from their ancestors. Yet the Chinese traditional celebration of the Hungry Ghost Festival in the 7th lunar month shows a path forward and a way to heal, when the living can still feed even the hungriest of the wandering spirits in this most egalitarian of holidays. This spiritual practice serves as inspiration in Chai’s writing.

In these 12 reflections and incantations, both new and previously published award-winning works, Chai explores Chinese spiritual traditions, the lunar almanac, exile and the diaspora born of war; weaves family stories with our society at large; examines the legacies of the “women of Nanjing” who were enslaved there by the Japanese military in World War II; and examines the racist fearmongering about Chinese men and white women and how that impacted her own multiracial family. Other topics of this wide-ranging collection include Western European-dominated beauty standards, the rise of authoritarianism in Hong Kong leading to mass migration, the extinction of the Yangzi River dolphin due to climate change, and Chai’s complex relationship with her white mother.
[ID: Author May-lee Chai stands in front of our new nonfiction display holding a copy of My Hungry Ghosts. She is wearing a bright orange scarf, black puffer jacket, and face mask, looking to the camera. The cover of her book is black with lines of moon phases in a pale yellow running down the book’s center.]

10/08/2026

One week from today! We welcome Benjamin Gucciardi to celebrate the release of his latest poetry collection, ARGUMENTS, out now from Persea Books. Gucciardi will be joined by fellow poet Cintia Santana, with special readings by students from the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts.

Free to attend, RSVP appreciated. Do so at the link in our bio or at greenapplebooks.com/events. See you then!

🟠About Arguments🟠
Winner of the 2025 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, Arguments is an innovative collection that explores inner conflict, ethical action and the eroding ties between self, family, community and the land.

In “Anima Hominis,” Yeats writes, “We make out of our quarrels with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” Arguments by Benjamin Gucciardi takes that inner quarrel as its starting point. Written in a time of environmental collapse and social unrest, these poems confront the contradictions that shape contemporary life: how to make a self, a family and an ethical life within exploitative systems that demand complicity. Moving through domestic spaces, a climate activist camp, and landscapes of the American West, the collection blends lyric and formal poems to ask urgent questions: What responsibilities to we bear to one another? How are we entangled in the systems we seek to dismantle? What place does violent resistance hold? How do we sustain an inner life in a material-driven world—and how, in the face of grief, do we balance private mourning with collective obligation? Arguments turns to language as a practice of care, tending the fragile links between self and community, human and non-human, the living and the dead.
[ID: Graphic reads “Ben Gucciardi featuring Cintia Santana, and poetry by students from the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts. Thursday, Oct. 15. 7pm. 1231 9th Ave (Inner Sunset). Free to Attend, Please RSVP. Green Apple Books” The graphic features author photos of Gucciardi and Santana, as well as the cover of Arguments, an abstract watercolor with yellow, orange, and cerulean.]

09/08/2026

Next Monday! We welcome back Nina Schuyler for the release of her acclaimed latest novel, OPEN THE FLOODGATES! Schuyler will be in-conversation with the inimitable Lewis Buzbee. Join us here in-person in the Inner Sunset. Free, please RSVP at the link in our bio or at greenapplebooks.com/events. See you then!

🔵About Open the Floodgates🔵
We are in the midst of a profound legal shift: from New Zealand to India to Ecuador, real-world laws have granted personhood to rivers. With a mix of magic and pathos, Open the Floodgates imagines this new reality with a new configuration of the human and other-than-human relationship.

In an unnamed California town, the River is granted personhood and has the right—and urgent need—to argue in court for its existence. But powerful, well-funded enemies are determined to keep the River exactly as it is: gunk-filled, toxic, a convenient dumping ground for waste. The story moves like water, entering the minds of the town’s people, pigeons, deer, dogs, cats, the trees, the River’s home, and the River itself. When the River moves, the text winds its way along the page, mimicking water. When the River is ultimately jailed, the town faces a reckoning: what do we owe the River? And the River must answer in turn: what, if anything, does it owe humans?
[ID: Graphic reads “Nina Schuyler joined in-conversation by Lewis Buzbee, Monday, Sep. 14. 7pm. 1231 9th Ave. Pre-publication book event. Free, Please RSVP at the Link in our Bio. Presented by Green Apple Books” and features author photos of Schuyler and Buzbee along with the cover of Open the Floodgates, a deep blue and gold illustration of rolling waves.]

09/07/2026

New season, new chalkboard art. Thanks to BOTP’s own Peyton for another cozy masterpiece. The dog days of summer are followed by the fox days of fall, evidently. 📚🍏
[ID: Our a-frame chalkboard reads “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading.”—Jane Austen, and features a chalk drawing of a fox wearing a blue scarf sitting under a weeping willow and reading a book, with little flowers and tall sunflowers around him.]

08/20/2026

One week from today! We welcome Valerie Hsiung to celebrate her latest book, The pedestrian, at 9th Ave. Joined by fellow poets Jennifer S. Cheng, Jennifer Elise Foerster, and Samantha Giles. This is our kind of book and we can’t wait to be immersed in it.
Free to attend, please RSVP at the link in our bio or at greenapplebooks.com/events. See you then!

⚪️About The pedestrian⚪️
A poet’s novel, a body, a house, where childhood ungrieved meets the horror of displacement.
Emerging from the dark ecology between lullaby and ghost story, The pedestrian meanders down a labyrinth of divinatory time where crimes demand a more defective detective. To conjure the source of this text’s trauma, the poet becomes a ritual detective, tracing the wound by its shadow. Meaning emerges through distortion and echo—courting what cannot be seen head-on to create a haunted grammar of grief. An ill pastoral of displacement, The pedestrian turns domestic spaces into underworlds, the body of the exiled child into a prophetic threshold—it listens as much as it speaks, attuned to forces beyond itself.
[ID: Graphic reads “Valerie Hsiung, celebrating the release of The pedestrian, featuring Jennifer S. Cheng, Jennifer Elise Foerster, and Samantha Giles. Thursday, August 27/ 7pm/ 1231 9th Ave (Inner Sunset). Free, RSVP at the link in our bio. Green Apple Books” The graphic is gray with light leaks from a camera on the top and bottom.]

08/10/2026

We have freshly signed copies of Reuben Gelley Newman’s debut full-length collection, DEAR DEAR! Out now from Trio House Press. Thank you to Reuben for coming to sign copies of this work that speaks to us. We think it will speak to you too.

Signed copies available here at 9th Ave! Come in or call 415-742-5833 for up to date availability.

About Dear Dear
Winner of the 2025 Louise Bogan Award, selected by Randall Mann, Reuben Gelley Newman’s Dear Dear renders q***r love through the lens of music, art, nature, and politics. Drawing on artists from Bach to Mitski, Gelley Newman flirts with nostalgia but refuses to dwell in the past, asking how remembering our ancestors can reinvigorate our present struggles. In these poems, sound becomes the language of desire and self-expression: “I want to do better / I want to be the husband of the song.” Combining playful sonnets and earnest narratives, Dear Dear searches for belonging in our grief-stricken world.
[ID slide 1: Newman stands in holding a copy of Dear Dear–a red cover with a cello f-hole in its center–and smiles with our poetry shelves behind them.

ID slide 2: Newman signs copies of Dear Dear at our front counter, stacks in front of them, and display tables in the distance.]

07/10/2026

Two events next week!

First, July 15, Jake Skeets and Beth Piatote celebrate their latest poetry collections, Horses and Distant Water, both out now from Milkweed Editions. Skeets, Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation, and Piatote poet, author, and professor of Indigenous Studies at UC Berkeley, will read from their work followed by a conversation. https://greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-07-15/9th-ave-jake-skeets-beth-piatote

Then on Friday, 7/17, the legendary Gary Phillips joins us for his latest novel, The Haul, publishing next week from Soho Press. This event is presented in Alta Journal, and Phillips will be in conversation with Alta's executive director Blaise Zerega. A perfect book for the summer.
https://greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-07-17/9th-ave-gary-phillips

Both events are free to attend, RSVP encouraged. Click the links above to RSVP and find more details.

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