Welcome to the Point Reyes Books, an independent book store for 5 years. We are a customer-friendly, community gathering place committed to fostering the literary passions of West Marin residents and visitors, serving as a forum for West Marin's creative forces including authors, poets & photographers, and supporting local literacy, arts and environmental activities.

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Point Reyes Books will be joining a panoply of food lovers, farmers, chefs, activists, educators and policymakers gathering in San Francisco on Labor Day weekend for Slow Food Nation. We are excited to be the event's booksellers, selected because of our commitment to the slow food movement and to agriculture in West Marin. We are thrilled to be a part of this celebration of food in America, the largest ever to take place. Some details here, all details at www.slowfoodnation.org.

A limited edition letterpress broadside will be available, published by the bookstore to commemorate Slow Food Nation. "An Eater's Manifesto" is comprised of sayings from Michael Pollan's new book, In the Defense of Food. The image is by David Goines, an artist who designed the Chez Panisse cookbooks and anniversary posters. The broadside will be available at all three-event bookstore sites for $40.00 and also at Point Reyes Books after the weekend.  You can view the broadside here.

Literary renaissance of national import in tiny Point Reyes
Paul Liberatore - Marin IJ
07/27/2008

Where can you perch on a bale of hay in a feed barn and listen to a reading by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry?

It's the same place, redolent of straw and rope and leather, where the Zen poet Gary Snyder, another Pulitzer Prize winner, told a sellout crowd, "This place smells so good."

On another night, Michael Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient," read from his new novel, "Divisadero," with its Marin references to Rancho Nicasio, the Druid's Hall and party dresses from San Rafael.

All of these events and other major literary gatherings, such as talks by Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma," and Robert Reich, secretary of labor under Bill Clinton, happened recently in West Marin - specifically in Point Reyes Station, often at Toby's Feed Barn, a quaint combination farm store, art gallery, tourist stop and literary salon.

A literary renaissance has quietly evolved over the past decade in this unlikely rural setting. It might be the most exciting cultural development in West Marin since the hippie Diaspora of the late '60s and early '70s. [Read the full article here]