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SUMMARY:Kirill Medvedev
DESCRIPTION:Kirill Medvedev is one of the most exciting\, unpredictable voices on the Russian literary scene today. Widely published and acclaimed as a poet\, Medvedev is also an activist for labor and a member of the Russian Socialist movement “Vepered” [Forward]. His small press\, The Free Marxist Publishing House [SMI] has recently released his translations of Pasolini\, Eagleton\, and Goddard\, as well as numerous books at the intersection of literature\, art and politics. It’s No Good\, Medvedev’s first collection of work in English translation\, was released in spring 2016 by Ugly Duckling Presse
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kirill-medvedev/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Megan Marshall
DESCRIPTION:From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast\, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired American poets \nSince her death in 1979\, Elizabeth Bishop\, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime\, has become one of America’s most revered poets. And yet—painfully shy and living out of public view in far-flung locations like Key West and Brazil—she has never been seen so fully as a woman and artist. Megan Marshall makes incisive and moving use of a newly discovered cache of Bishop’s letters—to her psychiatrist and to three of her lovers—to reveal a much darker childhood than has been known\, a secret affair\, and the last chapter of her passionate romance with Brazilian modernist designer Lota de Macedo Soares. \nThese elements of Bishop’s life\, along with her friendships with fellow poets Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell\, both important champions of her work\, are brought to life with novelistic intensity. And by alternating the narrative line of biography with brief passages of memoir\, Megan Marshall\, who studied with Bishop in her storied 1970s poetry workshop at Harvard\, offers the reader an original and compelling glimpse of the ways poetry and biography\, subject and biographer\, are entwined. \nMegan Marshall is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller\, and the author of The Peabody Sisters\, which won the Francis Parkman Prize\, the Mark Lynton History Prize\, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor and teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-marshall/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life \npublished by Random House \nIn her first nonfiction book\, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li explores a question we ask ourselves: How does one make life livable? \nStartlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom\, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression\, Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. \nYiyun Li grew up in China and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist\, an author\, a mother\, a daughter—and through it all she has been sustained by a profound connection with the writers and books she loves. From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Søren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin\, Dear Friend is a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together. \nInterweaving personal experiences with a wide-ranging homage to her most cherished literary influences\, Yiyun Li confronts the two most essential questions of her identity: Why write? And why live? Dear Friend is a beautiful\, interior exploration of selfhood and a journey of recovery through literature: a long letter from a writer to like-minded readers. \nYiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. She has received fellowships and awards from Lannan Foundation and Whiting Foundation. Her debut collection\, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award\, PEN/Hemingway Award\, Guardian First Book Award\, and California Book Award for first fiction. Her novel\, The Vagrants\, won the gold medal of California Book Award for fiction\, and was shortlisted for Dublin IMPAC Award. Gold Boy\, Emerald Girl\, her second collection\, was a finalist of Story Prize and shortlisted for Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35\, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. MacArthur Foundation named her a 2010 fellow. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine\, \nAdvance praise for Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life \n“In this exquisite\, intimate\, lyrical memoir\, Yiyun Li reveals her life in flashes appended to an arrestingly coherent philosophy of time\, self\, and place. Uniting the discipline of a scientist with the empathy of a novelist\, she scatters profound and often difficult truths through these generous\, wise\, challenging pages.”—Andrew Solomon\, author of Far from the Tree \n“Yiyun Li has written a remarkable account of her literary life\, begun in her youth in China with the books that first engaged her in the great conversations of literature. In her own emergence as an important and gifted writer in English she has brought a new voice to that great world. She has also been\, in the deepest sense\, sustained by it. Her new book is a meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”—Marilynne Robinson\, author of Gilead \n“Literature\, national identity versus the individual self\, the clash of public and private\, the mysterious nature of relationship\, indeed\, human nature itself—these subjects and more are explored with remarkable subtlety and rare\, limpid mental beauty. A must-read for anyone trying to stay sane in a world that might be perceived as insane.”—Mary Gaitskill\, author of The Mare \n“This extraordinary book is the story of a writer being made and making herself. It is the story of depression coming in waves and being beaten back through love and stubbornness. And also it is one of our finest writers scrutinizing the books that have mattered most to her.”—Akhil Sharma\, author of Family Life \n“Reading Yiyun Li feels like being inside a mind—a quietly forceful\, unrelenting mind. Within the limits of language\, which she all but touches\, she unfolds an argument with the self. She is suspicious of the very concept of the self\, but she does not\, ultimately\, refuse its possibilities. ‘What a long way it is from one life to another\,’ she writes\, while closing that space.”—Eula Biss\, author of On Immunity
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yiyun-li-3/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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