Mutanabbi Street Memorial Reading:

The Mutanabbi Street Coalition will host a Mutanabbi Street Memorial Reading at the San Francisco Public Library, on August 26, at 2pm. Please help spread the word by downloading and distributing our General Flier, Call to Booksellers, or Call to Printers (all pdf documents available on our website).

Additionally, on Friday, September 28, the San Francisco Center for the Book will host an evening dedicated to Mutanabbi Street and specially-printed broadsides. The event will include readings, and we will print a broadside on the Center’s Vandercook.

For further information, or to organize a reading where you live, please contact Beau Beausoleil, at 415-664-0126 or overlandbooks at earthlink dot net.

For those who may not remember, Mutanabbi Street (a winding road in Baghdad with stores full of every kind of book for sale) was the site of a bombing in March in which dozens of people died. The proceeds from the Mutanabbi Street Memorial Reading will go to Doctors Without Borders.