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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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SUMMARY:Folio Night\, LIVE!: Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Our third community open mic night with featured reader\, Bay Area poet Tongo Eisen-Martin\, and host Wayne Goodman. Contact us a week in advance if you’re planning to read and you have a book to consign\, or bring a few extra copies to sell if we already have your book in stock. Max eight readers\, first come first signed up. Five minute time limit per reader (strictly enforced).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folio-night-live-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Teague
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Teague reads from her new novel\, The Principles Behind Flotation. \nThe Principles Behind Flotation (Skyhorse Press\, 2017) is the first novel from Alexandra Teague\, a former NEA Fellow\, Stegner Fellow\, and City College of San Francisco instructor\, currently an associate professor at University of Idaho. \nShe has previously published two poetry books—The Wise and Foolish Builders (Persea 2015) and Mortal Geography (Persea 2010)\, winner of the 2010 California Book Award. \nEchoing novels like Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! and Carol Rifka Brunt’s Tell the Wolves I’m Home\, Alexandra Teague’s lighthearted coming-of-age debut is perfect for anyone who’s navigated the strange seas of adolescence—and lived to tell the tale. \nA.Z. McKinney is on the shores of greatness. Now all she needs is a boat. \nWhen the Sea of Santiago appeared overnight in a cow pasture in Arkansas\, it seemed\, to some\, a religious miracle. But to high school sophomore A.Z. McKinney\, it’s marked her chance to make history—as its first oceanographer. All she needs is to get out on the water. \nHer plan is easier said than done\, considering the Sea’s eccentric owner is only interested in its use as a tourist destination for beachgoers and devout pilgrims. Still\, A.Z. is determined to uncover the secrets of the Sea—even if it means smuggling saline samples in her bathing suit. \nYet when a cute\, conceptual artist named Kristoff moves to town\, A.Z. realizes she may have found a first mate. Together\, they make a plan to build a boat and study the Sea in secret. But from fighting with her best friend to searching for a tourist-terrorizing alligator (that may or may not be a crocodile)\, distractions are everywhere. Soon\, A.Z.’s dreams are in danger of being dashed upon the shore of Mud Beach. \nWith her self-determined oceanic destiny on the line\, A.Z. finds herself at odds with everything she thought she knew about life\, love\, and the Sea. To get what she wants\, she’ll have to decide whether to sink or float . . . But which one comes first?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-teague/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170530T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170530T213000
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SUMMARY:Cornelia Nixon
DESCRIPTION:Cornelia Nixon reads from her new novel\, The Use of Fame. \n“Rarely has a marriage so come alive in a work of fiction. This novel has the power of intensely lived life and the authority of absolute authenticity. The sympathetic presentations of both wife and husband are beautifully drawn. So intense\, beautifully written\, shining with ‘felt life\,’ it is truly gripping–riveting.”–Joyce Carol Oates \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 30\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAbigail McCormick and Ray Stark are both poets\, married nearly twenty-five years in what has always been a passionate relationship despite deep class differences. Ray is the son of West Virginia coal miners and was abused as a child–but now he is a distinguished poet with a part-time position at Brown. Abby grew up in San Francisco’s posh Pacific Heights and\, having abandoned poetry\, she spends her energy on a new teaching position at UC Berkeley. Abby’s decision to accept the post sets the stage for Ray to stray\, especially as he struggles with a heart condition. \nHe’s tortured by his affair with the graduate student he’s fallen in love with\, but is determined to stay married–he fights to get over Tory for years. A despairing Abby finds solace in her return to riding horses and writing poems\, but as she suffers privately\, she becomes dependent on sleeping pills and alcohol. As Ray’s health worsens\, another cross-country move threatens to push them further apart. Alternating seamlessly between Ray’s and Abby’s perspectives\, The Use of Fame is a gripping exploration of how closeness and despair can warp a lover’s perception. \nCornelia Nixon is the author of three other novels\, Angels Go Naked\, Now You See It\, and Jarrettsville\, as well as a book of literary criticism. She has won two O. Henry Awards\, two Pushcart Prizes\, a Nelson Algren Prize\, and the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. She lives half the year in Berkeley\, and half on an island in Puget Sound.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cornelia-nixon/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Martha Grover
DESCRIPTION:In her new memoir\, Martha Grover goes undercover. Whether cleaning houses or looking for love\, she peels back the surfaces of ordinary moments and reveals a life both hilarious and traumatic. The End of My Career sees Grover living with her parents again as she enters her late thirties\, reconciling the pleasures and perils of being female\, chronically ill\, and subsisting on menial labor at the edge of an increasingly unaffordable city. Desperate for stable work\, she gets hired as a state-sanctioned private investigator looking into shady workers’ comp claims—even while she herself fights in court for her own disability settlement. Angry and heartbroken\, brimming with the outrageous contradictions of the modern world\, The End of My Career embodies the comic nightmare of our times. \nMartha Grover is a 2017 Oregon Book Award finalist in creative nonfiction. She is also the author of One More for the People(Perfect Day\, 2011). She has been publishing her zine Somnambulistsince 2003\, and lives in Portland\, Oregon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martha-grover/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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