books

Travel Books You Want to Read This Fall: Part 2
Now I know you’ve been waiting desperately for the final ten books on my Travel Books List. Thinking about them kept you up nights this week, eh? Well today is the big reveal! 11. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Some books you finish and you sit processing

WTF! People Still Read Books?
Here is a FREE event for all of you Literati Gangsters out there. And it happens monthly. So feel free to sport your Literati colors and do this, well, every month. Babble-On Thursday marks the monthly Babble-On literary reading at Dog Eared Books in San Francisco, where you might hear

The 2025 SF Beer Passport is Here!
Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 28 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 28 of the finest locally

The Public Library: Perks and Pitfalls
I love me an overstuffed bookshelf but let’s face it, books are pricey (especially new ones) and storage space lacking. So, the library it is. Don’t get me wrong, I really love the library: its musty smell, its quiet’”it’s a core-of-society kind of place’”plus remember what a rite of passage

Travel Books You Want to Read This Fall: Part 1
Being a Broke-Ass means so much more than not having a lot of money. For you, it might mean spending less in order to live it up more. For others, it means working less in order to simply enjoy life more. And others choose to take on six different part-time

Bookish Events This Week!
Some people are made for the club scene. They enjoy the dressing up, taking shots at home, traveling with friends to an underground spot, and then dancing and sweating it out for the rest of the evening, letting go of all inhibitions while teasing and attracting other wild and sexy

5 Best Broke-Ass Bookstores
Find the City’s best selection of cheap classics—you know, all the books written before even your great-grandmother was gobbling on Moby Dick—and newer books too. For cheap.

Broke-Ass of the Week: Mike Force
Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit…probably not.

Fart Party Book Release Party at Needles & Pens
Julia Wertz is a favorite of ours over here at Broke-Ass HQ. Her books and zines are fantastic and both Monica and I check FartParty.org often. If you remember a bit back Julia was Broke-Ass of the Week. In fact it’s been our second most read post, just behind the