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SUMMARY:Manga Club
DESCRIPTION:Manga lovers unite!  Bring your favorite book or just come to chat with other manga maniacs.  Delicious snacks included (or bring some to share) \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/manga-club/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Northern California Book Awards: Judy Grahn
DESCRIPTION:36th Annual Northern California Book Awards \nNorthern California authors are honored in Fiction\, General Nonfiction\, Creative Nonfiction\, Poetry\, Translation\, and Children’s Literature with brief readings and remarks \npresentation of the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award to poet\, activist\, and cultural theorist Judy Grahn; NCBR Recognition Award to Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers\, by Bobby Seale and Stephen Shames; master of ceremonies Oscar Villalon\, ZYZZYVA Managing Editor\, presented by the Northern California Book Reviewers\, Poetry Flash\, San Francisco Public Library and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library\, PEN West\, Women’s National Book Association-SF Chapter\, and Mechanics’ Institute Library\, Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Public Library\, 100 Larkin\, enter at Grove\, SF\, free\, 5:30\, book signing reception follows (510/525-5476\, NCBR@poetryflash.org\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/northern-california-book-awards-judy-grahn/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Patti Trimble + Toshi Washizu
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patti-trimble-toshi-washizu/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T190000
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Paul Madonna’s popular comic\, All Over Coffee had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District\, ground-zero in the “tech wars” transforming the city. Suddenly finding himself yet another victim of San Francisco’s overheated boomtown housing market\, with its soaring prices and rampant evictions\, Madonna decided to use his comic as a cathartic public platform to explore the experience\, and to capture the complex\, highly charged atmosphere of a city—and a life—being forced through a painful transition. \nIn a series of drawings and stories\, On the Next Dream evokes the sense of vertigo induced by being forced from Madonna’s home\, and the roil of emotions that ensue as he enters into the city’s brutal competition for a place to live. The line between reality and surreality begins to blur almost immediately\, in real life and in his comic. Absurd\, maddening\, and all-too-poignant\, these drawings and stories capture the spirit of not just San Francisco\, but a cultural epidemic that has now spread to cities around the world. \nPaul Madonna is a San Francisco-based artist and writer. He is the creator of the comic series All Over Coffee and the author of two books\, All Over Coffee and Everything is Its Own Reward. His drawings and stories have appeared in numerous books and journals as well as galleries and museums\, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Oakland Museum of California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-4/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Camille T. Dungy
DESCRIPTION:An award-winning African American poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race\, motherhood\, and history. \nAs a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel\, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant\, then toddler\, intensely aware of how they are seen\, not just as mother and child\, but as black women. With a poet’s eye\, she celebrates her daughter’s acquisition of language and discoveries of the natural and human world around her. At the same time history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco of settlers’ and investors’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana; from snow-white Maine to a festive\, yet threatening\, bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods. \nWith exceptional candor and grace\, Dungy explores our inner and outer worlds―the intimate and vulnerable experiences of raising a child\, living with illness\, conversing with strangers\, and counting on others’ goodwill. Across the nation\, she finds fear and trauma\, and also mercy\, kindness\, and community. Penetrating and generous\, Guidebook to Relative Strangers is an essential guide for a troubled land.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/camille-t-dungy/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170627T213000
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SUMMARY:Gabe Habash + Julie Buntin
DESCRIPTION:Gabe Habash and Julie Buntin discuss their new novels Stephen Florida and Marlena. \nGABE HABASH:\nFoxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding\, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season\, when every practice\, every match\, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane\, manic\, and tipping into the uncanny\, it’s a story of loneliness\, obsession\, and the drive to leave a mark. \n“Stephen Florida is an unforgettable addition to the canon of great literary eccentrics. At once a chronicle of obsession\, a philosophical treatise\, and a deeply affecting love story\, this singular novel is perhaps most profoundly an anatomy of American loneliness. Gabe Habash is a writer of powerful gifts\, and this is a wonderful book.”—Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \nJULIE BUNTIN:\nAn electric debut novel about love\, addiction\, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life\, and define the other’s for decades. \n“Julie Buntin captures that unique moment at the precipice of adulthood with emotional honesty and insight. She writes the kind of piercing\, revelatory sentences you have to read to whomever is near\, sentences you find yourself remembering years later.”–Jonathan Safran Foer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabe-habash-julie-buntin/
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:Roxane Gay
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Roxane Gay for her new memoir Hunger. \nPlease note: this event will be held at the African American Art & Culture Complex\, 762 Fulton St. in San Francisco. \nTickets are available now—click here. \n“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big\, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her\, but she is still there\, somewhere.… I was trapped in my body\, one that I barely recognized or understood\, but at least I was safe.” \n New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies\, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure\, consumption\, appearance\, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined\,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial\, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger\, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood\, teens\, and twenties—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers into the present and the realities\, pains\, and joys of her daily life. \nWith the bracing candor\, vulnerability\, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation\, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are\, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers\, and tells a story that hasn’t yet been told but needs to be. \nTickets to this event must be purchased in advance. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of Hunger\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxane-gay/
LOCATION:African American Art & Culture Complex\, 762 Fulton St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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