Showing posts with label partners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label partners. Show all posts

Friday, October 2, 2009

"Ask the Book Guy" Giveaway - 10/6 at 8am

What: 30 copies of Alive in Necropolis up for grabs

Where:
Dynamo Donuts, 2760 24th St

When:
Tuesday, October 6 starting at 8am, till the books are gone

How:
Oscar Villalon, former SF Chronicle book editor and current publisher of McSweeney's will be outside of Dynamo with the books. Ask him a question about books and/or football and receive a thoughtful answer, a free book + a very informative and super-exciting program guide and bookmark.

Also:
Dynamo will be selling the "Colma Copper" donut on 10/6, a custom blueberry cornmeal treat made especially for One City One Book.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Spooky! Send in your photos today!


The Curiosity Shoppe is asking you to send your very best, most "spooky-iest" picture to smartsandcrafts@gmail.com. They'll pick the one that gives us the biggest chills and that lucky person will get a free copy of the book, courtesy of the SF Public Library.

Deadline is today! Here are complete details.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Attention Coffee Drinkers!


Order Sumatra Gayo/Supreme Necropolis from Blue Bottle Coffee, San Francisco's best coffee!

In 2008, Doug Dorst added another layer to the already-rich canon of San Francisco-area detective fiction with Alive in Necropolis. This year’s selection for One City One Book, “Alive,” is less about the formulaic search for who did it, and more about the ones doing it, and the ghosts watching. Yes, ghosts.

But what does it have to do with Sumatra? Sumatra, as a coffee origin, is like the proverbial detective novel. Many people drink it because they associate it with certain known qualities: “Rich” and “bold,” as if the coffee was a dashing oil magnate tooling around town in his new convertible. To be fair, the Gayo Supreme is big-bodied and blunt-nosed. But just as Chandler really wrote about why people would kill more than the fact that they did, this particular Sumatran coffee is really more about nuance. Raisins, port, and the sweet earthiness of the candy cap mushroom all ooze out of this coffee. For the full experience, we urge you to try it with the blueberry cornmeal donut that Dynamo Donuts is baking for One City One Book. $1 from every pound sold will be donated to the One City One Book program, so drink up!

Sumatra FTO Gayo Supreme
Location: Takengon, Aceh Tengah, Indonesia
Altitude: 1300-1900 meters
Varietal: 80% Hybrido da Timor, 20% Typica
Processing Method: Wet-Hulled Process/ Semi-Washed
Certifications: FairTrade, Organic
*Cooperative: Koperasi Baitul Giradh Baburrayyan
*Number of growers:6,700 farmer members

Order some right now!