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• Louise Aronson
  Author of "A History of the Present Illness" Louise Aronson, MD, MFA presents her new book "Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life." Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, she cares for diverse, frail older patients and directs the Pathways to Discovery Program, the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center and UCSF Medical […]
• Undocumented Consequences: Life on Both Sides of t
  City Lights presents scholars Beth C. Caldwell ("Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico," Duke University Press) and Ana Raquel Minian ("Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration," Harvard University Press) in discussion about their new books; they explore the history of undocumented migration from Mexico to the U.S. and the consequences of the […]
• Shipwreck returns to Booksmith: Mary Poppins Editi
  The popular, competitive erotic fanfiction series that ran monthly at Booksmith for 5+ years returns for a special one-off event, with co-creator Amy Stephenson returning from New York to host. This show's theme is P. L. Travers' "Mary Poppins." Featuring previous champions Joe Wadlington and Maggie Tokuda-Hall alongside Kirstie Haruta, Alan Leggitt, Amanda Rosenberg, Molly […]
• Ocean Vuong with Rebecca Solnit
  Recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lily and Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship, a 2016 Whiting Award and the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize for his poetry ("Night Sky With Exit Wounds"), Ocean Vuong reads from his widely anticipated debut novel, "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous," which is composed as a letter from a son to a mother […]