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SUMMARY:Moshin Hamid
DESCRIPTION:Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Time Magazine\, the New York Times\, Washington Post and the Huffington Post \nFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist\, a love story that unfolds across the rapidly changing face of a volatile world. \nIn a country teetering on the brink of civil war\, two young people meet sensual\, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle\, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair\, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes\, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts\, they begin to hear whispers about doors doors that can whisk people far away\, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates\, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind\, they find a door and step through. . . . \nExit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future\, struggling to hold on to each other\, to their past\, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive\, it tells an unforgettable story of love\, loyalty\, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time. \nMohsin Hamidis the internationally bestselling author of Moth Smoke\, The Reluctant Fundamentalist\, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia\, and Discontent and its Civilizations. His award-winning novels have been adapted for the cinema\, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize\, and translated into more than thirty languages. His essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and the New Yorker\, among many other publications. Hamid now resides in Lahore\, his birthplace\, after living for a number of years in New York and London.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moshin-hamid/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Deepak Unnikrishnan
DESCRIPTION:Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing \nIn the United Arab Emirates\, foreign nationals constitute over 80% of the population. Brought in to construct the towering monuments to wealth that bristle the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai\, this labor force works without the rights of citizenship\, endures miserable living conditions\, and is eventually required to leave the country. Until now\, the humanitarian crisis of the so-called “guest workers” of the Gulf has barely been addressed in fiction. With his stunning\, mind-altering book Temporary People\, debut author Deepak Unnikrishnan delves into their histories\, myths\, struggles\, and triumphs\, and illuminates the ways in which temporary status affects psyches\, families\, memories\, stories\, and languages. \nCombining the irrepressible linguistic invention of Salman Rushdie and the darkly funny satirical vision of George Saunders\, Deepak Unnikrishnan presents twenty-eight linked stories that careen from construction workers who shapeshift into luggage and escape a labor camp\, to a woman who stitches back together the bodies of those who’ve fallen from buildings in progress\, to a man who grows ideal workers designed to live twelve years and then perish—until they don’t\, and found a rebel community in the desert. In this polyphony of voices\, Unnikrishnan brilliantly maps a new\, unruly global English\, and in giving substance and identity to the anonymous workers of the Gulf\, he highlights the disturbing ways in which “progress” on a global scale is bound up with dehumanization. \nDeepak Unnikrishnan is a writer and taleteller from Abu Dhabi (and now\, Chicago). He has lived on the East Coast and in the Midwest\, reciting and mining his myths in Teaneck\, New Jersey\, Brooklyn\, New York\, and Chicago’s North and South sides. He has studied and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and presently teaches at New York University Abu Dhabi. Temporary People\, his first book\, was the inaugural winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deepak-unnikrishnan/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a concert and reading in celebration of the Shuffle Boil Special Issue of AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review\, guest edited by David Meltzer and Steve Dickison. The evening will feature live music by outstanding Bay Area musicians David Boyce\, Hafez Modirzadeh\, and Marshall R. Trammell — all of whom\, as writers\, are contributors to the current issue of the journal. Participating poets and writers tba. This event is free and open to the public. \nDavid Boyce is a tenor saxophonist\, music educator\, and founding member of the renowned postmodern jazz trio Broun Fellinis. He’s toured Japan and Europe and performs regularly in the Bay Area with a variety of musical ensembles playing everything from straight ahead jazz to RnB/Soul to experimental improv. Much more at brounsoun \nHafez Modirzadeh has performed internationally over the last 20 years with such musicians as Ornette Coleman\, Don Cherry\, Zakir Hussein\, Steve Lacy\, Oliver Lake\, George Lewis\, Peter Apfelbaum\, William Lowe\, James Newton\, Wadada Leo Smith\, Omar Sosa\, Royal Hartigan\, and many Asian and Asian American musical artists such as Fred Ho\, Miya Masaoka\, Liu Chi Chao\, Danongan Kalanduyan\, Mark Izu\, Anthony Brown\, Akira Tana\, and Kenny Endo. His recorded output as a leader includes three recent recordings on Pi Records: In Convergence Liberation\, Post-Chromodal Out!\, and\, with trumpeter Amir ElSaffar\, Radif Suite. He is currently professor of World Culture in Music at San Francisco State University where he directs the World Music and Dance Program. \nMarshall Trammell is the Chief Investigator at Music Research Strategies\, his platform for creative inquiry and social engagement. He is a Bay Area-based percussionist who has collaborated with Pauline Oliveros\, Marco Eneidi\, Suzanne Thorpe\, Dohee Lee\, Hong-Kai Wang (Taiwan)\, Genny Lim\, Saul Williams\, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten\, Leon Sun\, Francis Wong\, Jon Jang\, Chris Cogburn\, Donald Robinson\, William Winant\, India Cooke.  Mr. Trammell performs in the electro-acoustic duo Black Spirituals\, who tour extensively in Europe and the USA\, and have performed in special locations like Issue Project Room (NYC)\, the Exploratorium Resonance Series (SF) and Heritage Hall in Guelph\, Canada. \nBecause We Come from Everywhere: Poetry and Migration\nMarch 2017 Poetry Center programming appears under the sign of this line by Juan Felipe Herrera\, in conjunction with 20+ member organizations from across the country constituting the newly formed Poetry Coalition
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amerarcana-a-bird-beckett-review/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Melissa Febos
DESCRIPTION:Melissa Febos talks about Abandon Me\, her new memoir\, with Mallory Ortberg. \n\nPraise for Abandon Me: \n\n“A powerful\, poignant meditation on not only the pain of loss but also the maddening\, intoxicating\, confusing and exhilarating effects of true human closeness.” –  Meghan Daum\, author of THE UNSPEAKABLE \n\n“Abandon Me is a voluptuous book about the relationship between sex and surrender\, desire and addiction\, vulnerability and power. Febos unfolds her dark romance with erotic charge and sensuous poetry.” –  Sarah Hepola\, author of BLACKOUT \n\n“It’s rare to read a book as generous as it is genius. Febos intimately explores addiction\, pain\, pleasure\, the uncontrollable character and the strangely joyful and terrifying nuances of abandonment. I don’t know that I’ve ever felt more thankful to read a book. Abandon Me found me when I most needed it.” –  Kiese Laymon\, author of HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF AND OTHERS IN AMERICA \n\n“An intricately constructed and emotionally devastating book about the appearance and disappearance of love. Febos is a strikingly talented writer who pushes at the boundaries of her form and shows us just how amazing and expansive it can be.” –  Jenny Offill\, author of DEPT. OF SPECULATION \n\nAbout Abandon Me: \n\nIn her critically acclaimed memoir\, Whip Smart\, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix\, turning an honest examination of her life into a lyrical study of power\, desire\, and fulfillment.\nIn her dazzling Abandon Me\, 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.
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LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me\, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced\, misogynistic violence\, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon\, the gender binary\, the recent history of rape jokes\, and much more. In characteristic style\, Solnit mixes humor\, keen analysis\, and sharp insight in The Mother of All Questions: Further Reports from the Feminist Revolutions. \nJoining her in conversation is Jeff Chang\, author of the recent must-read collection We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation — a wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. \nPlease join us for an unforgettable night of provocative thought and conversation! \nWriter\, historian\, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of sixteen books about environment\, landscape\, community\, art\, politics\, hope\, and memory\, including the national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me\, Hope in the Dark\, The Faraway Nearby\, A Paradise Built in Hell\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, Wanderlust: A History of Walking\, and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim\, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she is a contributing editor to Harper’s. \nJeff Chang has written extensively on culture\, politics\, and the arts. His second critically-acclaimed book was re-released in paperback earlier this year under the title Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America. He co-founded Culture Str/ke and ColorLines and serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. He has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and a winner of the North Star News Prize. Chang was named by The Utne Reader one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and\, in 2016\, YBCA named him as one of its 100 list of those “shaping the future of American culture.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:John Murillo + Javier Zamora
DESCRIPTION:John Murillo is the author of the poetry collection\, Up Jump the Boogie\, finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Pen Open Book Award. His honors include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, Cave Canem Foundation\, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He teaches at Hampshire College and New York University. \nJavier Jose Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. The recipient of the 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writer’s Award\, his poems appear or are forthcoming in APR\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, The New Republic\, and elsewhere. His first poetry collection is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press Fall 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-murillo-javier-zamora/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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