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SUMMARY:Danzy Senna
DESCRIPTION:As the twentieth century draws to a close\, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil\, her college sweetheart\, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple\, “King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom.” Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn\, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation\, on the Jonestown massacre. They’ve even landed a starring role in a documentary about “new people” like them\, who are blurring the old boundaries as a brave new era dawns. Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her—yet she can’t stop daydreaming about another man\, a poet she barely knows. As fantasy escalates to fixation\, it dredges up secrets from the past and threatens to unravel not only Maria’s perfect new life but her very persona. \nHeartbreaking and darkly comic\, New People is a bold and unfettered page-turner that challenges our every assumption about how we define one another\, and ourselves. \nDanzy Senna’s first novel\, the bestselling Caucasia\, won the Stephen Crane Award for Best New Fiction and the American Library Association’s Alex Award\, was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, and was translated into close to a dozen languages. A recipient of the Whiting Writers Award\, Senna is also the author of the novel Symptomatic\, the memoir Where Did You Sleep Last Night?\, and the story collection You Are Free. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband\, the novelist Percival Everett\, and their sons.
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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:Eastridge Open Mic w/ Lorenz Dumuk
DESCRIPTION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\n2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\nNearest cross streets are Tully and E. Capitol Expressway\nFree and open to the public \nNorm Mattox is a native Bronx\, New Yorker. He has been living on the ‘left’ coast for over thirty years. Norm is a bilingual educator in the San Francisco Unified School District for over 25 years. He is a mentor and math coach for middle school math teachers in the Math Department. Norm has been writing in journals\, notebooks\, on the backs of envelopes and on color coded\, post-it notes for decades. Norm crossed out of his comfort zone\, from writing in silence to speaking his peace on the Open Mic\, in 2015. His muse is inspired by the dance he does with students in the public education system\, by a tribal response to persistent aggressions in today’s society\, by family and by love. He recently published his first chapbook\, Get Home Safe! Poems for Crossing the Community Grid. One of his poems is included in El Tecolote’s Anthology\, Poetry in Flight/Poesia en Vuelo.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastridge-open-mic-w-lorenz-demuk-2/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\, 2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\, CA\, 95122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Mahnaz Badihian + Jorge Molina
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/mahnaz-badihian-jorge-molina/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Margaret Wilkerson Sexton to the store to discuss and sign\, A Kind of Freedom\, on Tuesday\, August 15th\, at 7:00pm. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend. \nEvelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society\, and when she falls for no-account Renard\, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves.\nIn 1982\, Evelyn’s daughter\, Jackie\, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband’s drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family\, he returns\, ready to resume their old life. Jackie must decide if the promise of her husband is worth the near certainty he’ll leave again.\nJackie’s son\, T.C.\, loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina\, but the New Orleans he knew didn’t survive the storm. Fresh out of a four-month stint for drug charges\, T.C. decides to start over–until an old friend convinces him to stake his new beginning on one last deal.\nFor Evelyn\, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality\, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants. A Kind of Freedom is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history. \nMargaret Wilkerson Sexton was born and raised in New Orleans and studied creative writing at Dartmouth and law at UC Berkeley. A recipient of the Lombard fellowship\, she spent a year in the Dominican Republic working for a civil rights organization and writing her first manuscript\, A Kind of Freedom\, which received an honorable mention in the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest. Her stories have been published or are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, Limestone Journal\, and Broad! Magazine\, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-wilkerson-sexton/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #27
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only NO ‘HARE (Isobel O’Hareand Christine No.) \nFeatured lineup of writers include: and more TBA! \nMusical Guest: \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and coffee by our good friends next door\, Red Bay Coffee. \nDonations will be kindly requested\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present.
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LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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