Pegasus Books Downtown

July News, Events and Holiday Hours - https://mailchi.mp/pegasusbookstore/april092020news-17979474

Next Monday, July 1st at 7pm at Pegasus Books Downtown! We're so excited to welcome prisoners' rights movement leader Dorsey Nunn for a reading & conversation with Lee Romney, celebrating his incredible new memoir from Heyday Books 📚

"What Kind of Bird Can't Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection", featuring a Foreword by Michelle Alexander, traces how Nunn's time spent in prison became a catalyst for the nationwide movement he nurtured to restore dignity and justice to the currently and formerly incarcerated. Nunn is the codirector of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC), and co-founder of All of Us or None (AOUON).

"So much of what I’ve come to know and understand over the years about the second-class status imposed upon people labeled 'criminals' or 'felons' I’ve learned from Dorsey and the people who comprise All of Us or None, an organization he cofounded...there’s never been a time in our friendship in which he hasn’t been schooling me—not so much in theory, but in practice."
From the foreword by Michelle Alexander

Tonight at the shop - come on out for a special music & reading collab! Alan Bern, accompanied by cellist Gael Alcock.

We'll be treated to solo cello music filling the bookstore at 6:30, followed by reading & musical accompaniment at 7 of "In the Pace of the Path", Alan Bern's new hybrid memoir (working across prose, poetry, and photography).

A poet and short story writer, Bern is also a a former Berkeley Public Librarian and co-founder of San Francisco-based fine arts press Lines & Faces. His new memoir is a local gem, and an essential Berkeley story. See you tonight!

Pegasus Books Downtown
2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

Next Thursday, June 27th! Join us for for an evening of cross-genre lit, storytelling, and music with Berkeley-based author of "IN THE PACE OF THE PATH" Alan Bern! Bern is a retired Berkeley Public librarian, and co-founder of Bay Area fine arts press Lines & Faces.

The reading will be accompanied by music from cellist Gael Alcock. For a special treat, come early for Gael's solo music as you shop and get settled from 6:30-7, and then enjoy the reading and collaborative performance at 7pm.

📍Pegasus Books Downtown 📚
2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

"I have learned from Bern’s clarity in poetry and prose to walk the edges of my homeland and step out into the unknown, while carrying the life I have lived within me. This is such an important work to read now and reread as we move through our lives.

—Rusty Morrison, Co-Publisher of Omnidawn

“Whoever wants to assuage their doubts that radical change is possible—from the level of the individual to that of law, culture, and society—should make time to read Dorsey Nunn’s extraordinary memoir.” —ANGELA Y. DAVIS

On Monday, July 1st at 7pm, we're honored to have prisoners' rights movement leader Dorsey Nunn at Pegasus Books Downtown! We'll be celebrating his must-read new memoir from Heyday Books, "What Kind of Bird Can't Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection" together with co-writer and LA Times reporter Lee Romney.

"What Kind of Bird Can't Fly", featuring a Foreword by Michelle Alexander, traces how Nunn's time spent in prison became a catalyst for the nationwide movement he nurtured to restore dignity and justice to the currently and formerly incarcerated.
Monday, July 1st at 7pm
📍Pegasus Books Downtown 📚
2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

Next Thursday, June 27th! Join us for for an evening of cross-genre lit, storytelling, and music with Berkeley-based author of "IN THE PACE OF THE PATH" Alan Bern! Bern is a retired Berkeley Public librarian, and co-founder of Bay Area fine arts press Lines & Faces.

The reading will be accompanied by music from cellist Gael Alcock. For a special treat, come early for Gael's solo music as you shop and get settled from 6:30-7, and then enjoy the reading and collaborative performance at 7pm.

📍Pegasus Books Downtown 📚
2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

"I have learned from Bern’s clarity in poetry and prose to walk the edges of my homeland and step out into the unknown, while carrying the life I have lived within me. This is such an important work to read now and reread as we move through our lives.

—Rusty Morrison, Co-Publisher of Omnidawn

This Monday, 6/15 at 7pm! Don't miss Bay Area poet Sarah Ghazal Ali's incredible debut collection, "Theophanies" (Alice James Books, 2024), which Ocean Vuong calls "one of the most sure-footed debuts I've had the pleasure to encounter in many years."

Sarah will be joined by fellow beloved northern California poets aracelis girmay and Danusha Lameris for reading, talking all things poetics, and celebration. See you there!
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“Sarah Ghazal Ali’s debut collection, Theophanies, pulses with life—angels, cranes, and a woman’s own fierce potential, the miraculous and terrifying possibilities she holds within her heart, womb, and mind. Through sinuous lyric and religious persona, Ali delves unblinkingly into the depths of faith, family, and womanhood. These poems are bold, insistent reckonings that reach across time and geography, a chorus of female voices demanding to be heard.”
—Leila Chatti

So excited for this sneak peek of "The Joy of Snacking" by graphic memoirist and The New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Campbell! Tonight at the shop - 7pm at Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

Come on out for comics, conversation, and first looks at next projects from Hilary along with Julia Wertz, Rita Sapunor, and Briana Loewinsohn!

Tonight I’ll be sharing sneak peek pages at my newest book The Joy of Snacking at alongside some of my favorite ladies — 7 pm!! Seating is first come first served!!!!

Tonight, Thursday 6/13 at 7pm! 📝🎨 We’re thrilled to have beloved cartoonists and graphic novelists Julia Wertz (“Impossible People”, "The Infinite Wait"), Hilary Campbell (“Murder Book” & New Yorker cartoons!), Rita Sapunor (“She the People”) and Briana Loewinsohn (“Ephemera”) at the shop to show & tell us about what they’re currently working on!🪄

Rumor has it there'll be sneak peeks at upcoming releases from Fantagraphics, plus zines from Rita and Briana (and of course, each of their books for signing) . Come on for all things comics with this fabulous crew!

Pegasus Books Downtown 📚
2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

is coming to Downtown Berkeley with an abundance of FREE programming, including this illuminating panel discussion with R.O. Kwon, Brontez Purnell, and Sam Sax.

Join us for a captivating panel moderated by author Lucy Jane Bledsoe (author of Tell the Rest and No Stopping Us Now) and featuring these three acclaimed writers as they delve into the rich and complex terrain of sexuality, desire, and q***rness in literature. From candid reflections on personal experiences to incisive analyses of societal norms and cultural representations, this conversation promises to be both inviting and thought-provoking.

R.O. Kwon, author of the bestselling novel The Incendiaries, has recently published Exhibit, an exploration of art, racism, feminism, and desire. Brontez Purnell, author of Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt, brings his unique blend of humor, wit, and raw honesty to this conversation. Sam Sax, acclaimed poet and author of Madness, offers insights from his exploration of desire and mental health in his poetry, and the power of language to articulate the complexities of desire and q***rness.

All of these authors’ work illuminate the ways in which literature can serve as a vehicle for grappling with questions of desire, longing, and belonging. Don’t miss this chance to engage with writers whose commitment to storytelling makes room for anyone who desires, loves, or lives outside of the heteronormative binary.

SESSION INFO: https://www.baybookfest.org/session/my-body-my-desire-sexuality-desire-and-q***rness-in-literature/

Join us at Civic Center Park in Downtown Berkeley on Sunday, June 2 for this FREE event!

Climate fiction is a unique way to approach the climate crisis through both real and imagined endings and beginnings. This panel, moderated by author and activist Keya Chatterjee, explores why writers are drawn to climate fiction (Cli-Fi), and what they hope to achieve through the genre.

Charlie Jane Anders has been writing climate novels for nearly a decade. She is the international bestselling Cli-Fi author of the fantasy YA novel, Promises Stronger Than Darkness. Award-winning author Aya de León writes CliFi in the form of thrillers, heists, spy novels, and dramas set in the contemporary real world of the African Diaspora. New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse is an Indigenous novelist reshaping North American science fiction. Her most recent book, Mirrored Heavens, is the conclusion to her critically acclaimed epic fantasy trilogy. Sim Kern’s new book, The Free People’s Village, is a YA sci-fi/CliFi alternate history of our time.

Come find out how each of these author’s journeys into the climate crisis in fiction can help us chart our path out of it in reality.

SESSION INFO: https://loom.ly/pq7NPHQ

This captivating discussion featuring two dynamic and boundary-pushing authors, Myriam Gurba and Ingrid Rojas Contreras, delves into the multifaceted realms of intersectional Latinx identities, the expansive landscape of creative nonfiction, and the crucial task of confronting oppression and abuse of power.

Gurba is a writer, artist, and activist, and author of the iconic true crime memoir, Mean, and the recent essay collection, Creep, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award in criticism.

Rojas Contreras’s dazzling memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, explores her Colombian identity and reckons with the bounds of reality through an oral history that challenges Western notions of history and memory.

The two authors will be in conversation, speaking to the urgency of writing our stories as we need to tell them, why there’s more space within creative nonfiction than Western traditions will have us believe, and why confronting oppression in our writing and in our lived experience is essential.

SESSION INFO: https://www.baybookfest.org/session/creative-nonfiction-as-reclamation-and-confrontation/

Moderated by thriller author Heather Young (The Distant Dead), this panel brings together novelists whose books center elements of crime, whether they’re shelved in mystery or literary fiction.

Writer and firefighter Jason Powell’s debut novel, No Man’s Ghost, explores the psyches of those who fight fires and those who set them. Nancy Jooyoun Kim’s What We Kept To Ourselves is a historical novel about a Korean immigrant family grappling with the mystery of the mother’s disappearance, only to find a dead body in their yard somehow connected to her. An Edgar Award Finalist for Best First Novel, Ritu Mukerji’s Murder by Degrees is a historical mystery set in 19th-century Philadelphia, following a pioneering woman doctor as she investigates the disappearance of a young patient who is presumed dead.

This panel brings to its audience an expansive celebration of crime fiction from exciting writers whose page-turning stories model why readers love these tales.

SESSION INFO: https://www.baybookfest.org/session/lurking-in-plain-sight-crime-fiction-beyond-genre-borders/

Join these three brilliant authors as they consider the throughlines of Black women’s lives—past, present, and future—through the multidisciplinary lenses of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Moderated by screenwriter, poet, and educator Shia Shabazz Smith.

SESSION INFO: https://www.baybookfest.org/session/black-women-reclaiming-our-legacies-and-futures/

Come hear poetic visions of hope and resistance from a diverse, intergenerational lineup of dynamic authors, educators, and organizers. Established poets such as Forrest Gander and Jane Hirshfield will be joined by a squad of teen and young adult climate poets, including Julia Segrè, the current Youth Poet Laureate of Berkeley.

SESSION INFO: https://www.baybookfest.org/session/climate-poetry-across-generations-an-inspirational-reading/

See you at the Bay Area Book Festival tomorrow! Just a few blocks away from Pegasus Books Downtown at the Martin Luther King Jr Civic Center Park...we can't wait!

We're so excited to be hosting author signings for each panel taking place at the MLK Stage and Fountain Stage. Check out the full incredible lineup at: https://www.baybookfest.org/june/schedule/?_sfm_event_day=Sunday%2C%20June%202stop

2151 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Find a copy of Werner Herzog's favorite book, The Peregrine, ON SALE ON OUR SALES TABLES, along with dozens of other superb NYRBs, mostly $7.99 or $8.99, while supplies last.

BookMarks: Werner Herzog on "The Peregrine" by J.A. Baker Originally aired: http://www.ttbook.org/book/bookmark-werner-herzog-peregrine

Sale's going strong today and tomorrow! Come on by to stock up on your reading list and your local bookseller.

This weekend! 20% off all used books at each Pegasus location from Friday, May 24th to Monday, May 27 ✨ Come on out for those indie bookstore finds 📚

20% Off Used Books, this Friday through Monday - https://mailchi.mp/pegasusbookstore/april092020news-17972414

This weekend! 20% off all used books at each Pegasus location from Friday, May 24th to Monday, May 27 ✨ Come on out for those indie bookstore finds 📚

Tonight! Come on down to the shop to celebrate these beautiful new poetry collections with us - 7pm at our downtown Berkeley shop.

Next Monday, May 20th at 7pm, join us for a special poetry reading & release celebration with brilliant East Bay poets (and friends of Pegasus/ Lyrics and Dirges poetry series) Tureeda Mikell and Susana Praver-Pérez! And, MC'ed by Avotcja!

We're so thrilled to have these incredible voices at the shop and to celebrate the release of their new collections from Black Lawrence Press. See you there!

Pegasus Books Downtown
2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

Tonight's the night! We're thrilled to welcome poet, writer, and translator Lena Khalaf Tuffaha in conversation with Solmaz Sharif! 7pm at Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley.

We’ll be celebrating the launch of Khalaf Tuffaha’a new collection, “Something about Living”. The book explores Palestinian life through the lens of American language, revealing a legacy of obfuscation and erasure.

The translator and curator of Baffler’s 2022 “Poems for Palestine” series, Khalaf Tuffaha‘s previous collections include “Water & Salt” (Red Hen, 2018) and “Kaan & Her Sisters” (Trio House Press, 2023)

We’re so looking forward to this evening with these two incredible poets and writers. See you there! ✨

Stunning new alert! Join us at Pegasus Books Downtown on Thursday, May 30th at 7pm to celebrate the release of acclaimed journalist Carvell Wallace's debut, "Another Word for Love: A Memoir", which Kaveh Akbar recently called "one of the most beautiful memoirs I’ve ever read".

Pegasus is thrilled to welcome Wallace for a reading and conversation with fellow Oakland writer and editor Nina Renata Aron. Read more about the book below, and see you on the 30th!
Released this May from MCD Books/FSG, "Another Word for Love" is a transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing. Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and q***r in America. Check out more about Wallace and the memoir here: https://www.pegasusbookstore.com/wallace

Next Monday, May 20th at 7pm, join us for a special poetry reading & release celebration with brilliant East Bay poets (and friends of Pegasus/ Lyrics and Dirges poetry series) Tureeda Mikell and Susana Praver-Pérez! And, MC'ed by Avotcja!

We're so thrilled to have these incredible voices at the shop and to celebrate the release of their new collections from Black Lawrence Press. See you there!

Pegasus Books Downtown
2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

News, Events and Sales in May - https://mailchi.mp/pegasusbookstore/april092020news-17969653

Pegasus Books Downtown is thrilled to welcome writer and poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on Tuesday, May 14 at 7pm to celebrate the Bay Area launch of her incredible third poetry collection, "Something about Living", which explores Palestinian life through the lens of American language, revealing a legacy of obfuscation and erasure.

Khalaf Tuffaha will be joined for reading and conversation with Bay Area poet, writer, and UC Berkeley Asst. Professor of English Solmaz Sharif, author of the 2022 collection "Customs" and 2016's "Look" (both Graywolf Press).

This afternoon’s Bookstore & Chocolate Crawl itinerary! Stop by Pegasus as well as our all our book selling and chocolatier friends along the route for good reads & sweet treats 🍫

Welcome Spring! 10% Off In-Store Purchases, March 17 - 23 - https://mailchi.mp/pegasusbookstore/april092020news-17965870

Tomorrow night! Join us to celebrate the launch of Tessa Hulls’ fabulous new graphic memoir, “Feeding Ghosts”, from FSG. The book is absolutely beautiful, and she’ll be joined in conversation by Jenny Odell!

We’re excited to talk memoir, cartooning, and so much more with Tessa and Jenny. This is one not to miss! 7pm here at Pegasus Downtown.