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SUMMARY:Heather Bourbeau + James Tracy
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays 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/heather-bourbeau-james-tracy/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Wayne + Rick's Big Castro Publication Party!
DESCRIPTION:Wayne Goodman and Rick May celebrate the publication of their new books Tuesday\, August 1\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, with friends Lori Ostlund and Anne Raeff. Goodman’s new novel Better Angels is a retelling for modern readers of the first known American Gay novel\, Joseph and His Friend by Bayard Taylor\, which was published in 1869. May is celebrating the paperback edition of his short-story collection Inhuman Beings: Monsters\, Myths\, & Science Fiction. Ostlund reads from her novel After the Parade\, and Raeff reads from her short-story collection The Jungle Around Us. Champagne and chocolates\, party favors\, and door prizes! Signing by all four authors follows the readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wayne-ricks-big-castro-publication-party/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rob Reid
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is excited to host Rob Reid as he discusses his new novel\, Forever On. Join us! \nMeet Phluttr—a diabolically addictive new social network and a villainess\, heroine\, enemy\, and/or bestie to millions. Phluttr has ingested every fact and message ever sent to\, from\, or about her innumerable users. Her capabilities astound her makers—and they don’t even know the tenth of it.\nBut what’s the purpose of this stunning creation? Is it a front for something even darker and more powerful than the NSA? A bid to create a trillion-dollar market by becoming “The UberX of Sex”? Or a reckless experiment that could spawn the digital equivalent of a middle-school mean girl with enough charisma\, dirt\, and cunning to bend the entire planet to her will? \nPhluttr has it in her to become the greatest gossip\, flirt\, or matchmaker in history. Or she could cure cancer\, bring back Seinfeld\, then start a nuclear war. Whatever she does\, it’s not up to us. But a motley band of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs\, venture capitalists\, and engineers might be able to influence her. Forever On achieves the literary singularity—fusing speculative satire and astonishing reality into a sharp-witted\, ferociously believable\, IMAX-wide view of our digital age. \nRob Reid is the founder of Listen.com\, which launched the streaming music service Rhapsody\, creating the subscription model since adopted by Apple and Spotify. He is the author of the New York Timesbestseller Year Zero\, a work of fiction; Year One\, a memoir about student life at Harvard Business School; and Architects of the Web\, the first true business history of the Internet. He lives in New York City with his wife\, Morgan\, and Ashby the Dog.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rob-reid/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eugene Lim w/ Mauro Javier Cardenas
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Dear Cyborgs \n“Eugene Lim’s Dear Cyborgs is a mad badass fan letter to comicdom and a chastening reminder of how America’s greatest fantasy doesn’t involve superheroes with superpowers but the prospect of a fair and honest political life. Go read it in the streets.” ―Joshua Cohen\, author of Book of Numbers \n“Eugene Lim’s Dear Cyborgs is a secret tunnel fresh with cool\, strange storms. What is it to be super? What is it to be beyond? Dear Cyborgs is ripe with mysteries\, heroes\, even heartache.” ―Samantha Hunt\, author of Mr. Splitfoot \n“Eugene Lim tells his sly superhero tales in a kind of hard-boiled deadpan―a voice at once incongruously comic and playfully soulful. Beneath the dry wit there’s an ache of loneliness\, an echo of every comic-book reader’s yearning for the camaraderie of the super team\, the intimate enmity of the nemesis.” ―Peter Ho Davies\, author of The Fortunes \n\nAbout Dear Cyborgs \nIn a small Midwestern town\, two Asian American boys bond over their outcast status and a mutual love of comic books. Meanwhile\, in an alternative or perhaps future universe\, a team of superheroes ponder modern society during their time off. Between black-ops missions and rescuing hostages\, they swap stories of artistic malaise and muse on the seemingly inescapable grip of market economics. \n  \nGleefully toying with the conventions of the novel\, Dear Cyborgs weaves together the story of a friendship’s dissolution with a provocative and timely meditation on protest. Through a series of linked monologues\, a lively cast of characters explores narratives of resistance―protest art\, eco-terrorists\, Occupy squatters\, pyromaniacal militants―and the extent to which any of these can truly withstand and influence the cold demands of contemporary capitalism. All the while\, a mysterious cybernetic book of clairvoyance beckons\, and trusted allies start to disappear. \n  \nEntwining comic-book villains with cultural critiques\, Eugene Lim’s Dear Cyborgs is a fleet-footed literary exploration of power\, friendship\, and creativity. Ambitious and knowing\, it combines detective pulps\, subversive philosophy\, and Hollywood chase scenes\, unfolding like the composites and revelations of a dream.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eugene-lim-w-mauro-javier-cardenas/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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