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SUMMARY:The Racket #11: SILENCE w/ Shawn Wen
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, September 25th at 7:00PM\, The Racket #11: SILENCE will touch down at Adobe Books. We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Bay Area writer Shawn Wen\, the author of A Twenty Minute Silence\, Then Applause (Sarabande Books). She’ll be reading from her poetic essay on super mime Marcel Marceau\, answering questions and signing books. \nPreceding her will be Theresa Padden\, Janey Skinner\, Gary Singh andAndrew O. Dugas\, all reading on the subject of SILENCE. \nYou should be there. \nWe certainly will.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-11-silence-w-shawn-wen/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Noah B. Sanders":MAILTO:sanders.noah@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Dave Holt
DESCRIPTION:Dave Holt\, relocated to the Bay Area from Toronto\, Canada\, his place of birth\, to follow his dream of becoming a successful songwriter. He is English/Irish and Anishinaabe/Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indian from his mother’s side and he volunteered to serve the American Indian community in California for several years. Dave graduated from S.F. State University’s Creative Writing program (M.A.\, 1995). He is a winner of several poetry prizes including the Thomas Merton Foundation’s Poetry of the Sacred prize and a Literary/Cultural Arts award for his book Voyages to Ancestral Islands. In 2016\, he was published in Red Indian Road West\, an anthology of Native American Poetry from California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-holt/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Narrative Grace: Elizabeth Rosner w/ Nicole Krauss
DESCRIPTION:Goodbye\, Portnoy. \nNicole Krauss has been called many things over her career. A “New Yiddishist\,” dubbed by Vanity Fair in 2009\, might be the most peculiar. No matter what she is labeled\, though\, her work continues to project an unmistakable grace and a profound ability to capture the human experience. \nOne thing we do know is that Krauss will not be mistaken for the Roths and Malamuds of your father’s bookcase. In her most recent work\, Forest Dark\, Krauss takes us from the cozy streets of Brooklyn and the Upper East Side to the bustling sidewalks of Tel Aviv\, all in an effort to stare down the question of what it truly means to be Jewish-American. The startling result of her journey back to the homeland\, which never quite feels like home\, turns the traditional novel inside out and stands alone as one of Krauss’s best novels yet. \nJoin her live on-stage at Kepler’s as she sits down with one of the Bay Area’s brightest Jewish-American voices\, Elizabeth Rosner\, for a conversation on the contemporary Jewish novel\, the importance of literature\, and how the past informs the present. \nRosner’s first work of nonfiction\, Survivor Cafe: the Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory\, also forthcoming this September describes the traumas of war and dislocation. Rosner\, who is the acclaimed author of three previous novels\, uses her new work as springboard to speak to the immense weight of history that Forest Dark and Krauss herself write toward. \nBe a part of the conversation!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/narrative-grace/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Karl Geary
DESCRIPTION:Karl Geary discusses his new novel\, Montpelier Parade with Ethel Rohan. \n\nPraise for Montpelier Parade \n“Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how\, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me.” —Sunjeev Sahota\, Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Year of the Runaways \n\n“Geary — who has previously worked as an actor and scriptwriter — is a genuine talent. The sense of intimacy created by the second-person narrative is brilliantly sustained and the dialogue throughout is pitch perfect\, seeming almost audibly to slice the always pregnant\, often suffocatingly toxic atmosphere.” —Daily Mail (UK) \n\n“The work of a deft\, fearless writer … evoking the subtly dark comedy of Patrick McCabe\, and the delicious lyricism of Peter Murphy\, Geary has a keen recollection of the folly and hunger of youth. Add in a gut-spinning plot twist\, and it’s safe to describe Montpelier Parade as one of the first significant releases of 2017.” —Irish Independent \n\nAbout Montpelier Parade \nMontpelier Parade is just across town\, but to Sonny it might as well be a different world. Working with his father in the garden of one of its handsome homes one Saturday\, he sees a back door easing open and a beautiful woman coming down the path toward him. This is Vera\, the sort of person who seems destined to remain forever out of his reach. \n  \nHoping to cast off his loneliness and a restless sense of not belonging―at high school\, in his part-time job at the butcher shop\, and in the increasingly suffocating company of his own family―Sonny drifts into dreams of a different kind of life. A series of intoxicating encounters with Vera lead him to feel he has fallen in love for the first time\, but why does her past seem as unknowable as her future? \n  \nUnfolding over a bright\, rain-soaked Dublin spring\, Montpelier Parade is a rich\, devastating debut novel about desire\, grief\, ambition\, art\, and the choices we must make alone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karl-geary/
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:Claire Messud
DESCRIPTION:Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children\, was a New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, and Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Her first novel\, When the World Was Steady\, and her book of novellas\, The Hunters\, were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and her second novel\, The Last Life\, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Editor’s Choice at The Village Voice. All four books were named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Messud has been awarded Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her forthcoming novel\, The Burning Girl\, is a bracing\, hypnotic\, coming of age story about the bond of best friends.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-messud/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #49
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-49/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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