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SUMMARY:Victor Lodato
DESCRIPTION:Eight-year-old Edgar Fini remembers nothing of the accident people still whisper about. He only knows that his father is gone\, his mother has a limp\, and his grandmother believes in ghosts. When Edgar meets a man with his own tragic story\, the boy begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear—not even the line between the living and the dead. In order to save her son\, Lucy has no choice but to confront the demons of her past. \nProfound\, shocking\, and beautiful\, Edgar and Lucy is a thrilling adventure and the unlikeliest of love stories. \nVictor Lodato is a playwright and the author of the novel Mathilda Savitch\, winner of the PEN Center USA Award for fiction. His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Granta\, and Best American Short Stories. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Victor was born and raised in New Jersey and currently divides his time between Ashland\, Oregon\, and Tucson\, Arizona.
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LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Margaret Randall
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Randall returns to The Poetry Center after a hiatus of fifty years — she appeared here\, reading her poetry\, in December 1966\, sharing the stage with Mexican poet Sergio Mondragon\, with whom she was at the time co-editing and producing the truly singular\, internationally renowned literary journal El Corno Emplumado\, out of Mexico City. This visit\, she will be presenting the most substantial anthology of modern and contemporary Cuban poetry ever to appear for English language readers\, and conversing with her audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nFeaturing the work of more than fifty poets writing across the last eight decades\, Only the Road / Solo el Camino (Duke University Press\, 2016) is the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership. It is distinguished by its stylistic breadth and the diversity of its contributors\, who come from throughout Cuba and its diaspora and include luminaries\, lesser-known voices\, and several Afro-Cuban and LGBTQ poets. Nearly half of the poets in the collection are women. Only the Road paints a full and dynamic picture of modern Cuban life and poetry\, highlighting their unique features and idiosyncrasies\, the changes across generations\, and the ebbs and flows between repression and freedom following the Revolution. Randall\, who translated each poem\, contributes extensive biographical notes for each poet and a historical introduction to twentieth-century Cuban poetry. \nMargaret Randall (New York\, 1936) is a poet\, essayist\, oral historian\, translator\, photographer and social activist. She lived in Latin America for 23 years (in Mexico\, Cuba\, and Nicaragua). From 1962 to 1969 she and Mexican poet Sergio Mondragón co-edited El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn\, a bilingual literary quarterly that published some of the best new work of the sixties. When she came home in 1984\, the government ordered her deported because it found some of her writing to be “against the good order and happiness of the United States.” With the support of many writers and others\, she won her case in 1989. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s\, she taught at several universities\, most often Trinity College in Hartford\, Connecticut. Randall’s most recent poetry titles include As If the Empty Chair / Como si la silla vacia\, The Rhizome As a Field of Broken Bones\, About Little Charlie Lindbergh\, and She Becomes Time (all from Wings Press). Che On My Mind\, a feminist poet’s reminiscence of Che Guevara (Duke University Press)\, and More Than Things (essays\, University of Nebraska Press) are other recent titles. Haydee Santamaria\, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression was released by Duke in 2015. Exporting Revolution: Cuba’s Global Solidarity will be published by Duke in Spring 2017. Randall has also devoted herself to translation\, producing When Rains Become Floods by Lurgio Galván Sánchez as well as Only the Road/Solo el Camino. Red Mountain Press in Santa Fe will publish her translations of two individual collections by Cuban poets\, and The Operating System will do two more. Randall lives in New Mexico with her partner (now wife) of almost 30 years\, the painter Barbara Byers\, and travels extensively to read\, lecture and teach. \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 \nAlso please note: Margaret Randall will be reading from Only the Road ⁄ Solo el Camino on Friday MAR 31\, 4:30pm @ Writers Studio\, California College of the Arts\, 195 De Haro (at 15th Street)\, San Francisco\, free admission.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-randall-2/
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:Lauren Grodstein
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday\, March 30th at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Lauren Grodstein\, reading from and discussing her book Our Short History. \nKaren Neulander\, a successful New York political consultant\, has always been fiercely protective of her son\, Jacob\, now six. She’s had to be: when Jacob’s father\, Dave\, found out Karen was pregnant and made it clear that fatherhood wasn’t in his plans\, Karen walked out of the relationship\, never telling Dave her intention was to raise their child alone. \nBut now Jake is asking to meet his dad\, and with good reason: Karen is dying. When she finally calls her ex\, she’s shocked to find Dave ecstatic about the son he never knew he had. First\, he can’t meet Jake fast enough\, and then\, he can’t seem to leave him alone. \nWith just a few more months to live\, Karen resists allowing Dave to insinuate himself into Jake’s life. As she tries to play out her last days in the “right” way\, Karen wrestles with the truth that the only thing she cannot bring herself to do for her son–let his father become a permanent part of his life–is the thing he needs from her the most. With heart-wrenching poignancy\, unexpected wit\, and mordant humor\, Lauren Grodstein has created an unforgettable story about parenthood\, sacrifice\, and life itself. \n“In Our Short History\, Lauren grodstein breaks your heart\, then miraculously pieces it back together so it’s bigger–and stronger–than before. This novel will leave you appreciating both the messiness of life and the immense depths of love.” —Celeste Ng\, author of Everything I Never Told You.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lauren-grodstein-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Subterranean SF Reading Series: Bradley Spinelli
DESCRIPTION:The Subterranean SF Reading Series celebrates the release of \nThe Painted Gun \nBy Bradley Spinelli \nfrom Akashic Books \n(taking place at numerous undisclosed locations. Scroll down to learn more about venues and invitation availability) \nA washed-up ex-journalist looking for a missing girl in San Francisco is framed by a Guatemalan hit man for a series of murders. \nIt’s 1997 at the dawn of the digital age in San Francisco. Ex-journalist and struggling alcoholic David “Itchy” Crane’s fledgling “information consultancy” business is getting slowly buried by bad luck\, bad decisions\, and the growing presence of the Internet. Before Itchy can completely self-destruct\, a crooked private investigator offers him fifty grand to find a missing girl named Ashley. Crane takes the job because the money’s right and because the only clue to her disappearance is a dead-on oil portrait of Crane himself painted by the mysterious missing girl—whom he has never met. \nAs Crane’s search for Ashley rapidly becomes an obsession\, he stumbles upon a series of murders\, gets slapped around by thugs and intimidated by cops\, and begins to suspect he’s being framed for the murders by a psychotic Guatemalan hit man. Left with no avenue but survival\, Crane goes on the offensive\, fighting to clear his name\, solve the murders\, and find the beguiling portrait artist Ashley\, who may have a few surprises of her own. \nThis event shall take place at numerous undisclosed locations. \nAdmission is free\, but only on a first come\, first serve basis. \nAttendance is limited and by invitation only. \nNo reservations shall be accepted. \nInvitiations become available on Monday\, March 20\, 2017 and may be picked up in-person at the front counter of City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA. Ask for the black envelope at the front counter. It will contain a map and navigation instructions. Each invite admits one. Two invite maximum per person. \nCall City Lights to determine ticket availability (tel. 415-362-8193 x24) \nBRADLEY SPINELLI is the author of the novel Killing Williamsburg\, and the writer/director of the film #AnnieHall\, which the Village Voice called “fascinating.” He contributes regularly to Bedford + Bowery and lives in Brooklyn. The Painted Gun is his latest novel. Visit his website at 13spinelli.com.
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Loria Mendoza
DESCRIPTION:Fourteen Hills is happy to announce that the winner of the 2016 Michael Rubin Book Award is recent graduate Loria Mendoza for her story collection Life’s Too Short. The winner was chosen by judge Iris Smyles\, author of Dating Tips for the Unemployed and Iris Has Free Time. \nSmyles on her selection: “Loria Mendoza writes with fire and guts. There is an urgent and searching quality to the stories in Life’s Too Short\, and her prose imparts that urgency to her reader. Her words are alive and remind us with each syllable\, so are we.” \nBOOK Release:\nMarch 30th\, 7:00pm\nAlley Cat Books\n3036 24th St.\nSan Francisco\, CA 94110 \nLight refreshments provided
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LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hannah Lillith Assadi
DESCRIPTION:Hannah Lillith Assadi in conversation with Shawn Wen about her debut novel\, Sonora. \nPraise for Sonora \n“Sonora is the most eerie and unusual coming of age story I’ve ever encountered—not a tale of innocence lost\, but of innocence never had. In a story steeped in sorcery and curses\, Assadi looks to the heavens\, wild-eyed and bewildered.”—Catherine Lacey\, author of Nobody is Ever Missing \n“With penetrating grace\, Hannah Lillith Assadi details the intoxicating precarity of being young and alive and desperate to change. Sonora is unforgettable and deeply felt\, the type of book that brings you close\, infiltrates you\, and leaves you with the sense that you’ve just lived an entire life.”—Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine \n“In Sonora\, Hannah Lillith Assadi documents\, with lyric ferocity\, the agony\, love\, and bafflement of belonging to a family. A scorching story of youth and the losses and sorrows of growing up estranged.”—Ben Marcus. author of The Flame Alphabet \nAbout Sonora \nAhlam\, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife\, grows up in the arid lands of desert suburbia outside of Phoenix. In a stark landscape where coyotes prowl and mysterious lights occasionally pass through the nighttime sky\, Ahlam’s imagination reigns. She battles chronic fever dreams and isolation. When she meets her tempestuous counterpart Laura\, the two fall into infatuated partnership\, experimenting with drugs and sex\, and watching helplessly as a series of mysterious deaths claim high school classmates. \nThe girls flee their pasts for New York City\, but as their emotional bond heightens\, the intensity of their lives becomes unbearable. In search of love\, ecstasy\, oblivion\, and belonging\, Ahlam and Laura’s drive to outrun the ghosts of home threatens to undo them altogether.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hannah-lillith-assadi/
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:Poetry Flash: Katherine Hastings + G.P. Kratz
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Hastings’s new book of poems is Shakespeare & Stein Walk Into a Bar. Annie Finch says\, “Katherine Hastings’ poems play with consciousness on many levels. Nature\, literature\, and human experience catch memorably within the threads of their dense and startling webs.” Her two previous full-length collections are Nighthawks and Cloud Fire. A former poet laureate of Sonoma County\, she is the curator of WordTemple Poetry Series and host of WordTemple on NPR affiliate KRCB FM. \nG. P. Skratz’s new book of poems is Sundae Missile: the Mass of the Church of the Center that will not Hold\, a homophonic translation of the “pre-Vatican Council Latin version” of the Roman Catholic Mass. Andrei Codrescu says\, “Until they ever improve the wine and put some jam in the wafers\, Catholics will have to be content with GP Skratz’ sound translation of the Mass. It doesn’t beat Bach but it would work for Sinatra.” His previous publications are The Gates of Disappearance and Fun\, and Everything Else\, co-authored with the late poet Darrell Gray\, with drawings by Dave Morice and photographs by Shelly Vogel. With a long history as a poet-performer\, he is probably most noted for his production of “The Actualist Conventions” with Darrell Gray\, Jim Nisbet\, and David Schein. He currently performs poetry and music with Arundo and “twisted roots” music with Smooth Toad.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-katherine-hastings-g-p-kratz/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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