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SUMMARY:Ron Currie
DESCRIPTION:Ron Currie’s three previous works of fiction have dazzled readers and critics alike with their originality\, audacity\, and psychological insight. A writer of unique vision and huge imagination\, Currie excels at creating complex\, troubled\, yet endearing characters\, and his work has won comparison to everyone from Kurt Vonnegut to George Saunders. \nK.\, the intriguing narrator of Currie’s new novel\, The One-Eyed Man\, joins the ranks of other great American literary creations who show us something new about ourselves. Like Jack Gladney from White Noise\, K. is possessed of a hyper-articulate exasperation with the world\, and like Ignatius J. Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces\, he is a doomed truth teller whom everyone misunderstands. After his wife Sarah dies\, K. loses his metaphorical capacity\, becoming so wedded to the notion of clarity that he infuriates everyone\, friends and strangers alike. When he intervenes in an armed robbery\, K. finds himself both an inadvertent hero and the star of a new reality television program. Together with Claire\, a grocery store clerk with a sharp tongue and a yen for celebrity\, he travels the country\, ruffling feathers and gaining fame at the intersection of American politics and entertainment. But soon\, through a conflagration of biblical proportions\, he discovers that the world will fight viciously to preserve its delusions about itself. \nK.’s quixotic effort to fully understand the world he lives in makes for a singular and entertaining novel\, one which further establishes Ron Currie’s position as one of today’s rising stars in fiction. \nRon Currie is the author of the novels Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles and Everything Matters! and the short story collection God is Dead\, which was the winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. In 2009\, he received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Portland\, Maine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ron-currie/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Melissa Febos
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Melissa Febos to the store to discuss and sign her memoir Abandon Me\, on Wednesday\, March 15th at 7:00 pm. \nIn this dazzling new work\, Melissa Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection — with family\, lovers\, and oneself. First\, her birth father\, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood\, its meaning a mystery. As Febos tentatively reconnects\, she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own life\, marked by compulsion and an instinct for self-erasure. Meanwhile\, she remains closely tied to the sea captain who raised her\, his parenting ardent but intermittent as his work took him away for months at a time. Woven throughout is the hypnotic story of an all-consuming\, long-distance love affair with a woman\, marked equally by worship and withdrawal. In visceral\, erotic prose\, Febos captures their mutual abandonment to passion and obsession — and the terror and exhilaration of losing herself in another.\nAt once a fearlessly vulnerable memoir and an incisive investigation of art\, love\, and identity\, Abandon Me draws on childhood stories\, religion\, psychology\, mythology\, popular culture\, and the intimacies of one writer’s life to reveal intellectual and emotional truths that feel startlingly universal. \nMelissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart. Portions from Abandon Me have won prizes from Prairie Schooner\, Story Quarterly\, and the Center for Women Writers\, and twice earned notice in the 2015 Best American Essays anthology. Febos serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts\, and is an assistant professor of creative writing at Monmouth University and on the M.F.A. faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melissa-febos/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Logic Magazine
DESCRIPTION:Logic Magazine wants to tell the story of technology with its founding editors: Ben Tarnoff\, Moira Weigel\, Jim Fingal\, Christa Hartsock and Logic contributors Tim Hwang\, Miriam Posner\, and Conrad Amenta. \nLogic is a new magazine devoted to technology and society. Please join us for a celebration of their debut issue\, “Intelligence\,” which explores how technology works—and whom it works for. Hear thier editors read from our founding manifesto\, and listen to contributors tackle topics as varied as: coding’s gender crisis\, the failure of collective intelligence in the Age of Trump\, and the industrialization of medicine through software. \nLearn more about the magazine\, and read their manifesto\, at logicmag.io. \nBen Tarnoff writes about technology and politics for The Guardian and Jacobin. His most recent book is The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature. \nMoira Weigel writes about gender and technology for The New York Times\, The Guardian\, and The New Republic. She is the author of Labor Love: The Invention of Dating. \nJim Fingal is a software developer and the Head of Product Engineering at Amino. He is the co-author\, with John D’Agata\, of The Lifespan of a Fact. \nChrista Hartsock is a software developer and a 2017 Code for America Fellow. \nTim Hwang is a Fellow at Data & Society and has worked with the Berkman Center\, Creative Commons\, the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, and the Institute for the Future. \nMiriam Posner teaches in the Digital Humanities program at the University of California\, Los Angeles. \nConrad Amenta writes about video games and culture for Kill Screen and works as a healthcare researcher in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/logic-magazine/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joan Frank
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is excited to host the San Francisco launch party for Joan Frank‘s fourth novel and winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction\, All The News I Need. Joan will be in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell. Join us! \n  \nFrances Ferguson is a lonely\, sharp-tongued widow who lives in the wine country. Oliver Gaffney is a painfully shy gay man who guards a secret and lives out equally lonely days in San Francisco. Friends by default\, Fran and Ollie nurse the deep anomie of loss and the creeping\, animal betrayal of aging. Each loves routine but is anxious that life might be passing by. To crack open this stalemate\, Fran insists the two travel together to Paris. The aftermath of their funny\, bittersweet journey suggests those small changes\, within our reach\, that may help us save ourselves—somewhere toward the end. \n  \n“I was in thrall to these sentences\, their music\, their compassion and truth and disarming humility.” — Sam Michel\, Juniper Prize for Fiction judge and author of Strange Cowboy\n“Joan Frank is a human insight machine.” — Carolyn Cooke\, author of Amor and Psycho: Stories\n“Joan Frank is a writer of sublime power who reveals the lives of her characters with such care\, insight\, and elegance\, that deeply buried feelings of victory and loss become inextricably bound up with our own.” — Simon Van Booy\, author ofFather’s Day
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joan-frank/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul La Farge w/ Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler talks with Paul La Farge about his latest novel\, The Night Ocean. \nPraise for The Night Ocean: \n“Magnificent. The Night Ocean is an impossible\, irresistible novel\, a love letter to the unloveable that speaks the unspeakable.” – Lev Grossman\, author of the Magicians trilogy \n“A whole damned hustling heart-broken double-talking meaning-haunted world it is a privilege to enter.” – Peter Straub \n“Paul La Farge has crafted the perfect novel – a work that constantly twists into unexpected realms\, that illuminates the nature of love and deception\, and that is as funny as it is profound. The Night Ocean is a gift to readers.” – David Grann\, author of The Lost City of Z \n\n“The Night Ocean is straight up brilliant. That’s no surprise since it’s written by Paul La Farge\, one of the smartest\, wildest literary talents in the game today….A sly\, witty\, but still loving send-up of H.P. Lovecraft and some of the grand anxieties of the American 20th century.” — Victor LaValle\, author of The Ballad of Black Tom \n\n“It has been years since I read a novel with so much joy\, impatience and awe. The Night Ocean overflows with difficult love\, not least of all that of our narrator\, Marina\, who indirectly reminds us of how we are pushed around by dreams\, ghosts\, chance\, and history. I have long been a tremendous admirer of all of La Farge’s work; this novel is my favorite.” – Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n\nAbout The Night Ocean: \nFrom the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor\, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals\, psychiatry and pulp fiction\, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle.\nMarina Willett\, M.D.\, has a problem. Her husband\, Charlie\, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft\, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer’s life: In the summer of 1934\, the “old gent” lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow\, at Barlow’s family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends–or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he’s solved the puzzle\, a new scandal erupts\, and he disappears. The police say it’s suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist\, and she doesn’t believe them.\nA tour-de-force of storytelling\, The Night Ocean follows the lives of some extraordinary people: Lovecraft\, the most influential American horror writer of the 20th century\, whose stories continue to win new acolytes\, even as his racist views provoke new critics; Barlow\, a seminal scholar of Mexican culture who killed himself after being blackmailed for his homosexuality (and who collaborated with Lovecraft on the beautiful story “The Night Ocean”); his student\, future Beat writer William S. Burroughs; and L.C. Spinks\, a kindly Canadian appliance salesman and science-fiction fan — the only person who knows the origins of The Erotonomicon\, purported to be the intimate diary of Lovecraft himself.\nAs a heartbroken Marina follows her missing husband’s trail in an attempt to learn the truth\, the novel moves across the decades and along the length of the continent\, from a remote Ontario town\, through New York and Florida to Mexico City. The Night Ocean is about love and deception — about the way that stories earn our trust\, and betray it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-la-farge-w-daniel-handler/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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