Here are some ways you can celebrate with Diesel, A Bookstore:
Check out Diesel, A Bookstore's YouTube channel for videos of
staff and friends of the bookstore reading some of our favorite poems over the years.
Stop by the bookstore on April 29th for National Poem in Your Pocket Day and share your favorite poem with our staff.
Our selection for April will be The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. Next meeting will be Tuesday, April 12th at 2 pm.
Click the cover image to get the book from DIESEL!
The New Classics Book Club will meet once a month on Tuesdays at 2pm outside in the courtyard. This month the Book Group will take place on April 12th.
To be added to the list, please email newclassics@dieselbookstore.com. Please note that group size will be limited to 20.
NEW BRENTWOOD BOOK CLUB ALERT
We're excited to announce our new Classics/Modern book club. We'll meet once a month, alternating every month between a classic work and a modern work. We'll talk about the intersection of ideas and the breadth of writerly influence across literary, historical, philosophical, and political spectra. Sign up for profound conversation and a chance to read those books that have been on your list forever (or experience books you know and love in an entirely new way).
We'll meet once a month on Tuesdays at 2pm outside in the courtyard.* To be added to the list, please email newclassics@dieselbookstore.com. Please note that group size will be limited to 20.
*if this time doesn't work for you but you are still interested, feel free to add your name in case of time changes
Thanks for all of your support this year and this Holiday Season!
It has been a great pleasure providing you with the books
you want and need, for yourselves and as gifts to others.
We will be closed on Christmas Day and also on Boxing Day --
and will be resting, reading and recovering.
See you on Monday December 27th!
-- John, Alison & all Dieselfolk
We're currently out of signed copies of Call Us What We Carry, but they can be preordered here.
Preordered signed copies will not be available until after Christmas.
From City Lights Bookstore:
"We are saddened by the loss of our friend, the poet Jack Hirschman. He passed away on August, 22, 2021 at the age of 87. To remember him, we’re sharing this incredible poem by Diane di Prima with a lovely story behind it.
We held an 80th birthday party for Jack at the bookstore back in 2013. Diane was sitting in the audience waiting for her turn to speak. As she sat in the crowd, she began to write in her notebook as the event unfolded. Then, when it was her turn, she got up and read this.
RIP Jack, we love you."
Read the poem here: "Jack Hirschman Birthday Poem" by Diane di Prima | City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
From the San Diego Union-Tribune's Festival of Books, "Through one of the most distinguished voices in American letters, learn about the preservation of Native American culture through oral tradition. In conversation with John Evans of DIESEL, A Bookstore."
