…at Elixir, says SF Foodie. It’s Bastille Day! And also a book launch party for Matt Stewart’s novel The French Revolution, which he first published on Twitter last year. Now, New York-based Soft Skull Press has put out a print edition. And so: party, readings, guillotine.
Elixir’s Bastille Day Book Launch Extravaganza
Wed., July 14, 8 p.m.
3200 16th St. (at Guerrero), 552-1633
Free; take cash for drinks and a copy of Stewart’s book
Alternate Bastille Day celebration idea: Do everything stereotypically French that you can think of at once. Perhaps put on a very nice outfit, load up on pastries at Tartine and pantomime the storming of the Bastille and the impending end of serfdom (that wasn’t outlawed until August 4, but still, freedom was in the wind).
Drinking wine is approved, so long as it isn’t one of those overblown, aggressively-oaked hedonistic fruit bombs from Napa.
If possible, ride a scooter while looking attractive.