Thursday, September 10, 2026, 2:00 AM - 5:00 AM ยท Booksmith, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco
Katie Benn joins Allison Filice at Booksmith for a discussion of her book The Art of Melancholy, part of a packed September author lineup at the shop.
Hand-lettered staff pick cards on every shelf, floor-to-ceiling books arranged with genuine curatorial touch, and a reading calendar thick enough to fill most weeknights. The fiction section cuts deep into small-press and literary territory, and author events draw the kind of crowd that stays for the Q&A.