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SUMMARY:Literary Luncheon: Nicole Krauss
DESCRIPTION:Jules Epstein\, a man whose drive\, avidity\, and outsized personality have\, for sixty-eight years\, been a force to be reckoned with\, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents’ deaths\, his divorce from his wife of more than thirty years\, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner\, he’s felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions\, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the last of his wealth\, he travels to Israel\, with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv\, he is sidetracked by a charismatic American rabbi planning a reunion for the descendants of King David who insists that Epstein is part of that storied dynastic line. He also meets the rabbi’s beautiful daughter who convinces Epstein to become involved in her own project—a film about the life of David being shot in the desert—with life-changing consequences. \nBut Epstein isn’t the only seeker embarking on a metaphysical journey that dissolves his sense of self\, place\, and history. Leaving her family in Brooklyn\, a young\, well-known novelist arrives at the Tel Aviv Hilton where she has stayed every year since birth. Troubled by writer’s block and a failing marriage\, she hopes that the hotel can unlock a dimension of reality—and her own perception of life—that has been closed off to her. But when she meets a retired literature professor who proposes a project she can’t turn down\, she’s drawn into a mystery that alters her life in ways she could never have imagined. \nBursting with life and humor\, Forest Dark is a profound\, mesmerizing novel of metamorphosis and self-realization—of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite. \nNicole Krauss is the author of Great House\, a finalist for the National Book Award; the New York Times bestseller The History of Love; and Man Walks into a Room. She was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 2007 and named to The New Yorker’s “Twenty Under Forty” list in 2010. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, Esquire\, and Best American Short Stories\, and her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-luncheon-nicole-krauss/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Kristina Brown + Stephen Kessler
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/kristina-brown-stephen-kessler/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Oscar Villalon (executive editor Zyzzyva Magazine) \ncelebrating the release of \nWhy Poetry \nfrom Ecco Press \n\n\nAn impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers\, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder \nIn Why Poetry\, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively\, lilting prose\, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. \nZapruder explores what poems are\, and how we can read them\, so that we can\, as Whitman wrote\, “possess the origin of all poems\,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important\, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. \nAnchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form\, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational\, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement\, metaphor\, and negative capability\, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read\, and enjoyed\, by anyone. \nMatthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry\, American Linden\, The Pajamaist\, and Come On All You Ghosts. The Pajamaist was selected as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006. Come On All You Ghosts was a New York Times Notable Book of the year\, and was also selected as the 2010 BooklistEditors’ Choice for poetry\, as well as the Northern California Independent Booksellers poetry book of the year.  Zapruder has been a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa\, Texas\, and a recipient of a May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship\, Zapruder lives in San Francisco\, where he is an editor at Wave Books. \nVisit: http://matthewzapruder.wordpress.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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