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SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T200000
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SUMMARY:Madison Smartt Bell
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Madison Smartt Bell to the store to discuss and sign his novel\, Behind the Moon\, on Tuesday\, May 23rd at 7:00 pm. \nWhen Julie skips school and sets off with her best friend and some local boys for a camping trip in the desert\, she finds herself the target of unwanted\, drug-fueled sexual attention. Running away in fear\, she takes a dangerous fall down the shaft of a vast underground cave\, and it takes two days for her to be rescued. Lying unconscious in her hospital bed\, Julie hovers between life and death as she travels in a seductive parallel universe inspired by remarkable cave paintings left behind by prehistoric humans.\nMarko\, her attacker\, tries to cover his tracks\, menacing those who know what happened in the desert that night. Jamal\, the youngest son in a family of Iraqi refugees living in Julie’s small town\, is one of his prime targets. He defies Marko\, keeping him away from Julie’s bedside and refusing to fall prey to his threats of violence.\nMeanwhile\, Marissa\, who gave Julie up for adoption fifteen years earlier when she became pregnant as an adolescent\, is following an instinct that leads her back to the daughter she once abandoned. With the aid of Jamal and a local Native American hitman/shaman\, she attempts to draw Julie back to consciousness. \nMadison Smartt Bell is an American novelist best known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution\, including All Souls’ Rising\, which was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award. It also won the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best book of the year dealing with matters of race. Bell is a Professor of English at Goucher College in Towson\, Maryland\, where he was Director of the Creative Writing Program from 1998 to 2004. In addition to many books of fiction and non-fiction\, he has published essays and reviews in Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Book Review\, and The Village Voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/madison-smartt-bell/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T200000
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SUMMARY:6 Years in Gay Conversion Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Peter Gajdics is the author of The Inheritance of Shame\, just published by Brown Paper Press\, which tells the harrowingly true story of his six years in Gay conversion therapy. \nGarrard Conley\, author of Boy Erased\, says the Gajdics memoir is “a necessary\, incredibly nuanced portrait of a survivor. The Inheritance of Shame will change lives.” Gajdics\, from Canada\, appears with Bay Area author Anne Raeff Tuesday\, May 23\, 7-8 p.m. at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Raeff will interview Gajdics\, and both authors will read from their work. Raeff’s short-story collection The Jungle Around Us is a finalist for the California Book Award and won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. \nFree admission and free refreshments. A book signing follows the discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/6-years-in-gay-conversion-therapy-2/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223608
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SUMMARY:China Miéville
DESCRIPTION:Discussing the subject of his new book: October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. \nAward-winning author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down \nChina Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here\, on the centenary of the revolution\, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. \nIn February 1917\, in the midst of bloody war\, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later\, it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country\, swept up in a desperately unpopular war\, rocked by not one but two revolutions? \nThis is the story of the extraordinary months between those upheavals\, in February and October\, of the forces and individuals who made 1917 so epochal a year\, of their intrigues\, negotiations\, conflicts and catastrophes. From familiar names like Lenin and Trotsky to their opponents Kornilov and Kerensky; from the byzantine squabbles of urban activists to the remotest villages of a sprawling empire; from the revolutionary railroad Sublime to the ciphers and static of coup by telegram; from grand sweep to forgotten detail. \nHistorians have debated the revolution for a hundred years\, its portents and possibilities: the mass of literature can be daunting. But here is a book for those new to the events\, told not only in their historical import but in all their passion and drama and strangeness. Because as well as a political event of profound and ongoing consequence\, Miéville reveals the Russian Revolution as a breathtaking story. \nChina Miéville is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction includes The City and the City\, Embassytown and This Census-Taker\, and has won the Hugo\, World Fantasy and Arthur C. Clarke awards; his non-fiction includes the photo-illustrated essay London’s Overthrow and Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law. He has written for various publications\, including the New York Times\, Guardian\, Conjunctions and Granta and he is a founding editor of the quarterly Salvage.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/china-mieville/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T223608
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Gettleman
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Gettleman\, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist\, will discuss his memoir about finding love and finding a calling in one of the most violent and yet most beautiful places in the world\, Love\, Africa: A Memoir of Romance\, War\, and Survival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-gettleman/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T213000
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SUMMARY:Mary Gordon
DESCRIPTION:Mary Gordon reads from her new novel\, There Your Heart Lies\, a deeply moving novel about an American woman’s experiences during the Spanish Civil War\, the lessons she learned\, and how her story will shape her granddaughter’s path. \n“An emotionally and historically rich work with a strong character portrait holding together its disparate parts.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 23\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nMarian cut herself off from her wealthy\, conservative Irish Catholic family when she volunteered during the Spanish Civil War–an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties\, she shares her Rhode Island cottage with her granddaughter Amelia\, a young woman of good heart but only a vague notion of life’s purpose. Their daily existence is intertwined with Marian’s secret past: the blow to her youthful idealism when she witnessed the brutalities on both sides of Franco’s war and the romance that left her trapped in Spain in perilous circumstances for nearly a decade. When Marian is diagnosed with cancer\, she finally speaks about what happened to her during those years–personal and ethical challenges nearly unthinkable to Amelia’s millennial generation\, as well as the unexpected gifts of true love and true friendship. \nMarian’s story compels Amelia to make her own journey to Spain\, to reconcile her grandmother’s past with her own uncertain future. With their exquisite female bond at its core\, this novel\, which explores how character is forged in a particular moment in history and passed down through the generations\, is especially relevant in our own time. Its call to arms–a call to speak honestly about evil when it is before us\, and equally about goodness–will linger long with its readers. \nMary Gordon is the author of seven novels\, including Final Payments\, Pearl\, and The Love of My Youth; six works of nonfiction\, including the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and three collections of short fiction\, including The Stories of Mary Gordon\, which was awarded the Story Prize. She has received many other honors\, including a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-gordon/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T213000
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SUMMARY:Mat Callahan
DESCRIPTION:As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music\, political movements\, “flower power\,” “acid rock\,” and “hippies”; The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco\, 1965-1975 offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Author\, musician\, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone\, the United Farm Workers and Santana\, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe\, and the New Left and the counterculture. \nCallahan’s meticulous\, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings with which it is associated. Using dozens of original interviews\, primary sources\, and personal experiences\, the author shows how the intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco\, briefly\, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge. \nA must-read for any musician\, historian\, or person who “was there” (or longed to have been)\, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams is substantive and provocative\, inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist. \nMat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco\, where he founded Komotion International. He is the author of three books\, Sex\, Death & the Angry Young Man\, Testimony\, and The Trouble with Music as well as the editor of Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook. He currently resides in Bern\, Switzerland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mat-callahan/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T210000
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SUMMARY:Find Yourself Reading
DESCRIPTION:Find Yourself is an art exhibit that ponders the parallels between a revealing phrase in story-telling and a common occurrence while reading: “one finds oneself…” Artist/author Chris Kerr combines endpapers\, sentences by various writers\, and playful\, austere sculptures (using books he unwittingly found himself purchasing a second time) in order to guide viewers in contemplation of how we use statements like “I found myself [doing this]” or “she finds herself [thinking that].” The opening party on June 9 (7:00-9:30 PM) includes a find-myself-themed poetry reading at 8:00 PM by Genine Lentine\, Cedar Sigo\, and Stephanie Young!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/find-yourself-reading/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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