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SUMMARY:Forrest Gander
DESCRIPTION:Forrest Gander is a writer and translator of international renown whose most recent titles include the novel\, The Trace\, the translations Alice Iris Red Horse: Poems of Gozo\, and Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda. His poetry collection Core Samples from the World was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry and is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, and Whiting Foundations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-gander/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170202T190000
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SUMMARY:Patricia Minger
DESCRIPTION:Local author Patricia Minger shares her dazzling debut novel\, The Magic Flute. Patricia spent over 25 years singing with the Lamplighters Music Theater of San Francisco and other Bay Area musical groups\, and her artistic flair translates beautifully in The Magic Flute\, an intimate exploration of the world of grand opera.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patricia-minger/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lisa Wade
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Wade\, PhD discusses her revelatory work\, American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus. Lisa will be in conversation with Peggy Orenstein\, author of the bestselling book Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. \nThe hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing\, Lisa Wade offers the definitive account of this new sexual culture and demonstrates that the truth is both more heartening and more harrowing than we thought. \nOffering invaluable insights for parents\, educators\, and students\, Wade situates hookup culture within the history of sexuality\, the evolution of higher education\, and the unfinished feminist revolution. Using new research\, she maps out a punishing emotional landscape marked by unequal pleasures\, competition for status\, and sexual violence. She discovers that the most privileged students tend to like hookup culture the most\, and she considers its effects on racial and sexual minorities\, students who opt out\, and those who participate ambivalently. \nAccessible and open-minded\, compassionate and brutally honest\, American Hookup explains where we are and how we got here\, asking not How do we go back? but Where do we go from here?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-wade/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust:  Janis Cooke Newman\, Jess Silber + Blane Bachelor
DESCRIPTION:Happy New Year Wanderlusters! \nWith San Francisco’s exhilarating and well-attended Women’s March swirling in our recent memory\, we can’t think of a better time to introduce you to three fantastic women writers: Janis Cooke Newman\, Jess Silber and Blane Bachelor. Their bios will soon be on our Facebook page. Come give them a warm WW welcome. \nReadings start promptly at 7pm but you know we’ll be in the Library Bar at 6pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-janis-cooke-newman-jess-silber-blane-bachelor/
LOCATION:Weekday Wanderlust\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Charles Alexander + Susan Thackrey
DESCRIPTION:Poets Charles Alexander and Susan Thackrey read new work and converse with the audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nCharles Alexander is a poet\, bookmaker\, and founder/director of Chax Press\, author of 5 full-length books of poetry and 11 chapbooks\, editor of one critical work on the state of the book arts in America\, author of multiple essays\, articles\, and reviews. His most recent books of poetry are Pushing Water\, published by Cuneiform Press\, and the chapbooks Some Sentences Look for Some Periods\, a chapbook\, and Two Pushing Waters\, both from Little Red Leaves Textile Series. He has taught literature and writing at Naropa University\, University of Arizona\, and elsewhere\, and currently is Poet & Designer in Residence at the University of Houston-Victoria\, where he directs the MFA Creative Writing Program and manages the UHV Center for the Arts. He is a past recipient of the Arizona Arts Award\, and has participated in the TAMAAS Poetry Translation Project in Paris. In January 2016 served as a faculty member for US Poets in Mexico. He lives in Victoria\, Texas\, with his partner\, the painter Cynthia Miller. \nSusan Thackrey\, a poet who lives and works in San Francisco\, began to compose poetry at the age of three. She was an inaugurating student in the Poetics Program at New College in San Francisco in 1980\, and studied with Robert Duncan and Diane di Prima over a number of years.Thackrey has given invitational lectures on Charles Olson\, Robert Duncan\, and George Oppen\, including as a keynote speaker at the George Oppen Conference in Buffalo\, and most recently on Duncan’s The H.D. Book for The Poetry Center. Since reading Homer In Greek over a five year period with Robert Duncan and some of her poet contemporaries\, an important and lively part of her life in poetry has included variously focused and long-lived reading groups with other poets. She has earned her livelihood in various ways\, including as co-founder and co-director of the art gallery Thackrey and Robertson in San Francisco\, and for a number of years as a Jungian analyst in the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. There she has taught\, spoken and published\, focusing especially on art\, recently publishing a talk and essay on Jung’s paintings for The Red Book: Reflections on C.G. Jung’s Liber Novus (Routledge). Her poems have appeared in a number of journals\, and her books include Andalusia (Chax)\, Empty Gate (Listening Chamber)\, and George Oppen: A Radical Practice (O Books and The San Francisco Poetry Center).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charles-alexander-susan-thackrey/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
DESCRIPTION:Love\, love will tear us apart\, again. \nFeatured writers: January’s winner TBA\, plus Ivan Hernandez\, Lily Miller\, Vivenne Pustell\, Amanda Rosenberg\, & Michael Wellstein. \n$10 advance\, $12 door\, open bar for 21+. \n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco.\n\nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \nShipwreck tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-emily-brontes-wuthering-heights/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Thompson + Hunter
DESCRIPTION:Interweaving poetry and fiction\, words and silence\, poet Ruth Thompson and fiction writer Sandra Hunter perform in the Poetry Flash series at Moe’s Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-thompson-hunter/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170202T213000
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SUMMARY:Viet Thanh Nguyen w/ Judson True
DESCRIPTION:Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and came to the United States as a refugee in 1975. “My memories of becoming a refugee are fragments of a dream\,” he writes\, “hallucinatory and unreliable. Soldiers bouncing me on their knees\, a tank rumbling through the streets\, a crowded barge of desperate people fleeing Vietnam.”  In his work\, including the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel The Sympathizer and his forthcoming collection of short stories\, The Refugees\, Nguyen examines the far-reaching effects of war and gives voice to life lived between two worlds\, the adopted homeland\, and the country of birth. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. \nJudson True received a Master of Journalism from UC Berkeley before working in San Francisco government. A former spokesman for Muni\, he now serves as chief of staff for California Assemblymember David Chiu. His previous City Arts & Lectures interviews include Joan Didion\, David Remnick\, Gene Wilder\, Jill Lepore\, and Barney Frank.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/viet-thanh-nguyen-w-judson-true/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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