My Undying Love for Green Apple Books

On celebrating the great San Francisco bookstore we’ve all come to adore

Steve Kettmann
The Bold Italic
Published in
5 min readSep 21, 2021

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Photo: Courtesy of Flickr via Lynn Friedman

Like any aspiring writer in San Francisco, I used to limit my pilgrimages to Green Apple Books on Clement Street.

It wasn’t just that, like many aspiring writers, I was often totally broke, living on top ramen and peanut butter and the occasional slice of…

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