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20% Off All Used Books This Labor Day Weekend

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:08:08 -0400

Start: 3 September 2010 - 9:00am

End: 6 September 2010 - 10:00pm

The bridge will NOT be closed this year, but likely will be jammed with traffic. Why not stay home and read?

Creating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:42:31 -0400

Start: 6 September 2010 - 7:30pm

End: 6 September 2010 - 7:30pm

Daniel Burton-Rose and Bo (rita d) Brown discuss their new account of the near-forgotten George Jackson Brigade, a radical anti-capitalist movement of the 1970's. All are welcome.

John Brandon reads from Citrus County

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:47:35 -0400

Start: 9 September 2010 - 7:30pm

End: 9 September 2010 - 7:30pm

Pegasus Downtown is pleased to welcome John Brandon, who will read from his new novel, Citrus County (McSweeney's 2010). Brandon, author of Arkansas (McSweeneys 2008), finds shards of redemption in the swampy backwaters of Florida in Citrus County, his funny and horrifying second novel.

Tuen Voeten discusses his new book, Tunnel People

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:20:26 -0400

Start: 12 September 2010 - 7:30pm

End: 12 September 2010 - 7:30pm

Acclaimed war photographer and cultural anthropologist Teun Voeten gained unprecedented access to a Manhattan netherworld of tunnel people, a group of homeless people in Manhattan who created a life literally underground. Voeten will discuss his book documenting the fascinating lives in this invisible society.

Lyrics and Dirges: A New Monthly Reading Series

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:18:52 -0400

Start: 15 September 2010 - 7:30pm

End: 15 September 2010 - 7:30pm

Alena Hairston, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Cyrus Armajani, Linda King, and Roger Porter reading as a part of Lyrics and Dirges: a Monthly Reading Series.

Pegasus Downtown is pleased to introduce Lyrics and Dirges, a new reading series that will happen on the Third Wednesday of every month. This series will feature a mix of prominent, emerging and beginning writers each month. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community that lives in the Bay Area.

Poets Diane K. Martin, Lisa G. Stonestreet, and Melissa Stein

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:05:31 -0400

Start: 18 September 2010 - 7:30pm

End: 18 September 2010 - 7:30pm

Join us at our Downtown store for an evening of poetry with acclaimed poets Diane K. Martin, Lisa G. Stonestreet, and Melissa Stein. All are welcome.

Diane K. Martin’s work has appeared in New England Review, Field, Poetry Daily, Zyzzyva, and Third Coast, among others. She was awarded second place in the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize competition in 2004. She was nominated for and included in Best New Poets 2005. In 2006, she was semifinalist in the “Discovery”/ The Nation competition. She has received a Pushcart Special Mention and won the Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace. She lives in San Francisco and is an unemployed technical writer and editor. Her book, Conjugated Visits, was published May 2010 by Dream Horse Press.

Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet’s Tulips, Water, Ash was selected for the Morse Poetry Prize and published by UPNE in 2009. After working as a technical editor, arts magazine publisher, gift wrapper, film studio gofer, and cocktail waitress, Lisa now makes her living as a freelance editor. Her poems have been awarded a Javits fellowship and a Phelan Award, and have appeared in journals such as Quarterly West, Blackbird, The Iowa Review, and Third Coast. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son.

Melissa Stein's poetry collection Rough Honey won the 2010 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, New England Review, Best New Poets 2009, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received artist residency fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Djerassi Foundation, and her work has won awards from Spoon River Poetry Review and Literal Latté among others. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of California at Davis, and is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco

FIRST PERSON SINGULAR: Voices in Character

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:38:05 -0400

Start: 22 September 2010 - 7:30pm

End: 22 September 2010 - 7:30pm

Join us at Pegasus Solano for the second installment of our dramatic reading series, First Person Singular. The great characters of literature will come to life as local actors (and other dramatic types) perform stories, novel excerpts, and narrative non-fiction in a series of themed evenings designed to keep you riveted. This month features a back-to-school theme--details to be announced.

Don't miss it: We'll be serving refreshments, offering special sales, and delivering some great art.

*Shown above: Local actor Theresa Kelly reading Eudora Welty's Why I Live at the P.O.

Cal Winslow reads and discusses Labor’s Civil War in California: The NUHW Healthcare Workers’ Rebellion

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:18:24 -0400

Start: 23 September 2010 - 7:30pm

End: 23 September 2010 - 7:30pm

Historian Cal Winslow examines the recent labor conflict between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW) and the emergence of the National United Healthcare Workers Union (NUHW) and shows how this battle points to larger issues in the labor movement. Join us for a fascinating evening.

This book examines one of the most important labor conflicts in the United States today. In 2006 and 2007, disputes developed concerning the practice and direction of the 150,000 member healthcare workers union in California, United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW), with its “parent” organization, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). This California conflict—SEIU vs. NUHW—is no local brawl; it is not about personalities, it is not about West Coast eccentricities. Its significance is not confined to the fortunes of just one particular union. SEIU's attack, however regrettable, is not the first such—nor will it be the last. The truth is that labor has always been divided, comprised of many currents. The truth is also that there are rights and wrongs in labor, as elsewhere, and that these can expose fundamental divides—in this case two contesting souls in the workers' movement. These are sharply on display today in this dispute—the one soul authoritarian, top-down, collaborationist, the other bottom-up, rank-and-file, class conscious.

Cal Winslow, PhD, is author of Labor’s Civil War in California: The NUHW Healthcare Workers’ Rebellion (PM Press, 2010) and an active supporter of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), believing that “an injury to one is an injury for all.” He is an historian trained at Antioch College and Warwick University. He is a fellow in Environmental Politics at UC Berkeley and is Director of the Mendocino Institute. He is a founding member of Mendocino Parents for Peace and is associated with the Bay Area collective Retort. He lives with his family near Caspar on the Mendocino Coast.

"The civil war inside the SEIU is a tragic story, yet as Cal Winslow emphasizes in this urgent and dramatic account, it may contain the seeds of authentic renewal in the American labor movement."
--Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz

The Pegasus Books All-You-Can-Read Warehouse Book Sale

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:39:03 -0400

Start: 25 September 2010 - 10:00am

End: 26 September 2010 - 4:00pm

Saturday, September 25th

10 am-4 pm

Sunday, September 26th

10 am -3 pm

Hardbacks: $1 Paperbacks: 50¢

*Proceeds benefit Round Belly Theatre

Translator Laura Ruberto reads from Such is Life: A Memoir

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:50:47 -0400

Start: 30 September 2010 - 7:30pm

End: 30 September 2010 - 7:30pm

Laura Ruberto reads from her grandmother’s memoir. Such is Life is an immigrant woman's moving account of what one gains, but also what one loses, when emigrating to the U.S. from a village in rural Campania, Italy.