Think I'll be stopping by one of my favorite slightly musty book nooks in Hayes Valley today, Bibliohead Bookstore!
They sling new, used, rare, and "uncommon" tomes, packed on wall-to-wall shelves with cardboard Sharpie-markered placards poking out to guide you on your way through the fiction, philosophy, food, arts, occult, poetry, and children's sections. I am always in the back left corner looking for old hardcover editions featuring my favorite young adult fictive heroes like Nancy Drew and Horatio Alger. I also look forward to the DOLLAR BIN of books always parked outside of Bibliohead's Gough Street storefront. Past pulls from this "last chance" cart have been some gently worn classics like George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, a selection of George Bernard Shaw's plays and The New Connoisseur's Handbook of California Wines (the still vastly relevant 1993 edition).
The environment of this idependent bookstore envelops a reader like a rainy day, a windowseat, and a pageturner. And taking into consideration the loss of several small-time booksellers within the City over the past few years (RIP A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Books and Cody's in Downtown SF), Bibliohead needs our patronage! Here is what Bibliohead's owner Melissa Richmond has to say about keeping the faith versus Barnes and Noble and Borders.
Browse on a third Thursday evening of the month and stick around for Bibliohead's Poetry Series. Each evening features a reader or two and the opportunity for bystanders to get behind the mic! The spoken word event begins at 7:15pm and the next poetry event will feature Giancarlo Campagna, an active member of the SF theater community and a writer featured in small town magazine, a publication out of the Tenderloin.
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